MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT
A Theological View and *(The Fallacy of Islam) *[editor's note]
By Sister Sharon M. Carnes,
Associate Pastor, Trinity Gospel Temple -- Canton, Ohio
tgtmail@trinitybrotherdave.org
2 Chronicles: 7:16:
“ For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.”
The current conflict in the Holy Land is a very old one. To understand the reality of what is occurring in our times, we must go all the way back to the fall of Satan. Isaiah 14:12-14 describes the desires of Satan’s heart. According to this passage, Satan’s main goal is to unseat God and sit on His throne. Isaiah records Lucifer (Satan) as saying,
“I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north.”
In this statement lies the heart of the conflict that we are experiencing today. The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is God’s throne on earth. In 2 Chronicles 7:16 God said to Solomon,
“. . .I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.”
If one does not understand the significance of this thirty acre plot of ground, he can never truly comprehend the nature of the conflict going on in the nation of Israel. It is not a political struggle; it is a spiritual war.
Islam will never make peace with Israel. The evidence for this statement is in the following summary of Islamic theology. Mohammed taught that God made the Jews His chosen people. However, they failed to live up to their obligations, so He changed His mind and made the Christians His chosen people. Because the Christians also failed to live up to their calling, God supposedly sent Gabriel (remember that Satan can transform himself into an angel of light) to Mohammed. Mohammed was the final prophet, and the Moslems are the final chosen people. All the promises that God gave to the Jews and Christians now belong to Moslems. One of these promises is the Land Covenant.
History seemed to prove Mohammed’s theory. First the Holy Land was controlled by the Jews, then they were exiled from the land in what is called The Diaspora. Next the Christians controlled the Holy Land. This was followed by Moslem control of the Holy Land. Mosques were built over Christian Holy sites.
However, in the late 1800s Jews began coming back to the land. By the turn of the century, they were coming back in even stronger numbers. Following W.W.I., the British were given a mandate to supervise the area of Palestine.
(Note: There has never been a nation of Palestine. It has only been a province- a province of Rome, of the Byzantine Empire, of several Moslem empires, and of Great Britain.)
The Ottomans of Turkey lost their hold on the Holy Land. Islam was no longer the dominant power and influence in the Holy Land. The Moslems were worried. Could their theological belief system be wrong?
In 1948, when the Jewish nation of Israel was established, the Moslem world went into disarray. The reason for their hysteria is simple to understand.
In the Bible God spoke 94 times about the Jews returning to Israel from the countries in which they were scattered.
Israel truly belongs to the Jews, proven by their current habitation of the land today.
If God brought them back to the land, and obviously He did, then Mohammed was wrong.
The Jews are still God’s chosen people. They, and not the Moslems, still have the promises of God. If Mohammed was wrong about that fundamental theory of Islam, he is a false prophet and Islam is a false religion. The present existence of the state of Israel in their ancient land proves Islam to be a false religion.
January, 2004
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