Jesus Christ is God Incarnate

"...they shall call his name EMMANUEL, which being interpreted is, GOD WITH US."

--MATTHEW 1:23

Proofs from the word of God,
The Authorized King James Bible of 1611

God	Jesus
God never changes.Malachi 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.	Jesus never changes.Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
God is the only Saviour."I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour." Isaiah 43:11 To the only wise God our Saviour... Jude 1:12 God our Saviour. Titus 2:10 ...we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour. I Timothy 4:10 God my Saviour. Luke 1:47	Jesus is the only Saviour....the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. 1 John 4:14 ...our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. II Peter 3:18 ...God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. II Peter 1:1 ...the Christ, the Saviour of the world. John 4:42 ...the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. Titus 1:4 a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. Luke 2:11 Neither is there salvation in any other (than Jesus): for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. --Acts 4:12 ...salvation... is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. --2 Timothy 2:10 ...captain of their salvation [Jesus] perfect through sufferings. -- Heb 2:10 [Jesus]...author of eternal salvation... -- Heb 5:9
God	Jesus
God created the universe and earth by Himself.I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself. Isaiah 44:24 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1	Jesus Christ created the universe and the earth.[U]nto the Son he saith...Thou, LORD, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands. Hebrews 1:10 [B]y him [Jesus] were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth...all things were created by him, and for him. Colossians 1:16 All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. John 1:3
God	Jesus
God is the Word.In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God John 1:1	Jesus is the Word....the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us...John 1:14
God	Jesus
God is the first and the last. I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he. Isaiah 41:4	Jesus is the first and the last. Jesus said, "Fear not; I am the first and the last:" Revelation 1:17

God	Jesus
God forgives sins.[T]he Lord..forgiveth all thine iniquities... Psalm 103:2-3 "[W]ho can forgive sins but God only?" Mark 2:7	Jesus forgives sins.Jesus...said..."Son, thy sins be forgiven thee." Mark 2:5
God	Jesus
God is our redeemer.[T]hou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer.. Isaiah 63:16	Jesus redeemed us.[T]he great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ...gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity.. Titus 2:13-14
God	Jesus
God is one. Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD. Deuteronomy 6:4	Jesus and God are one. I and my Father are one. John 10:30 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...All things were made by him...He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not...And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us John 1:1, 3, 10, 14 Jesus saith...he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? John 14:9 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 1 John 5:7
God has a Son. [T]he LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Psalms 2:7	Jesus is God's Son. ... [Jesus] said also that God was his Father... John 5:18

God	Jesus
God is the Holy OnePsalms 71:22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth,O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel. Psalms 78:41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. Psalms 89:18 For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king. Isaiah 10:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. Psalms 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. (Messianic Psalm)	Jesus is the Holy One.Acts 2:27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 3:13-14 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hathglorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; 13:34-35 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
God	Jesus
Only God is worshipped.... Then saith Jesus unto him... Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Matthew 4:10	Jesus is worshipped.While [Jesus] spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him... Matthew 9:18 And again, when [God] bringeth in the firstbegotten [Jesus] into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. Hebrews 1:6 And Thomas answered and said unto [Jesus], My Lord and my God. John 20:28
God	Jesus
God is Messiah....unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder...and his name shall be called... The mighty God, The everlasting Father... Isaiah 9:6	Jesus is Messiah.The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he. John 4:25-26
God	Jesus
God is from everlasting. The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. Thy throne is established of old:thou art from everlasting. Psalms 93:1-2	Jesus is from everlasting. But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah...out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be rulerin Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. Micah 5:2

God	Jesus
Only God is glorified.I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another... Isaiah 42:8	God glorified Jesus.And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. John 17:5 [A]ll men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. John 5:23 But unto the Son he [God] saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Hebrews 1:8
God	Jesus
God is 'I am'.And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. Exodus 3:14	Jesus is 'I am'.Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. John 8:58
God heals all diseases.Bless the LORD...who healeth all thy diseases. Psalms 103:2	Jesus healed all manner of sickness and disease.[Jesus] healed all that were sick. Matthew 8:16 Matthew 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. Matthew 4:24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them. Matthew 8:16 When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: Matthew 9:35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. Matthew 12:15 But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all; Matthew 12:22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. Matthew 14:14 And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick. Matthew 15:30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: Matthew 19:2 And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there. Matthew 21:14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. Mark 3:10 For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues. Luke 4:40 Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. Luke 5:15 But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities. Luke 6:17 And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases; Luke 6:18 And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed. Luke 6:19 And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
God is the Judge of the whole earth.O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself. Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. Psalms 94:1-2 [Abraham to God]...Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? Genesis 18:25	Jesus is the Judge of the whole earth.[T]he Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: John 5:22
God has life in Himself.[T]he Father hath life in himself; John 5:26	Jesus has life in Himself.so hath [God] given to the Son to have life in himself; In [Jesus] was life; and the life was the light of men. John 1:4
God raises the dead.[T]he Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; John 5:21	Jesus raises the dead.[T]he Son quickeneth whom he will. John 5:21

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Conclusion...

Jesus Christ is God The scriptures bear abundant testimony that Jesus Christ is God. Some liberal preacher will say to me, "You take the Bible literally. It's just myths." I answer, "Yes, I believe the Bible 100%. It is the word of God. If you don't believe it, Jesus is of no effect to you, ye are yet in your sins."

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Additional Verses:

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"And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: GOD was manifest in the FLESH, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, BELIEVED ON in the world,RECEIVED UP into glory."
--1 Timothy 3:16

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"But unto the SON he saith, 'Thy throne, O GOD, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom'...And, 'Thou, LORD, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands.'"
-- Hebrews 1:8, 10

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"I and my Father are ONE."

--Jesus Christ, John 10:30

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"...CHRIST JESUS...being in the FORM OF GOD, thought it not robbery to be EQUAL WITH GOD: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."

--Philippians 2:5-8

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"For there are three that bear record in heaven, the FATHER, THE WORD, AND THE HOLY GHOST: and THESE THREE ARE ONE."

--1 John 5:7

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"... feed the church of GOD, which he hath purchased with his OWN BLOOD."

--Acts 20:28

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"Hereby perceive we the love of GOD, because he LAID DOWN HIS LIFE for us...

--1 John 3:16

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"And they stoned Stephen, calling upon GOD, and saying, LORD JESUS, receive my spirit."

--Acts 7:59

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"For unto us A CHILD IS BORN, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, THE MIGHTY GOD, THE EVERLASTING FATHER, The Prince of Peace."

--Isaiah 9:6

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"And Thomas answered and said unto him [JESUS], My Lord and MY GOD."

--John 20:28

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"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and THE WORD WAS GOD. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH, AND DWELT AMONG US, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."

--John 1:1-4, 14

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"Philip saith unto him, 'Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.' Jesus saith unto him, 'Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me Philip? HE THAT HATH SEEN ME HATH SEEN THE FATHER; and how sayest thou then, 'Shew us the Father?''"

-- John 14:8-9

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"...CHRIST, who is the IMAGE OF GOD..."

--II Corinthians 4:4

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"...glory of GOD in the FACE OF JESUS CHRIST."

--II Corinthians 4:6

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"GOD...hath in these last days spoken unto us by his SON...who being the brightness of his glory, and the EXPRESS IMAGE OF HIS PERSON..."

--Hebrews 1:1-3

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Colossians 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
1:15 WHO IS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD, the firstborn* of every creature:
1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
1:19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
*firstborn: pre-eminence in rank as opposed to priority in time. Firstborn here refers to his pre-eminence above every creature.. This definition can be seen in passages where the term "firstborn" is used of the pre-eminent son who was not the eldest, e.g. Psalm 89:27, where David is called "firstborn" although he was actually the youngest son. 

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"For in him [Jesus] dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily."

-- Colossians 2:9

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"...they shall call his name EMMANUEL, which being interpreted is, GOD WITH US."

--Matthew 1:23

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"The voice of him [John the Baptist] that crieth in the wilderness, PREPARE ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway FOR OUR GOD."

-- Isaiah 40:3

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BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED.

VIDEO PRESENTATION OF VERSES
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God Bless You

Rey Anthony Gatela

http://www.cesreygatela.blogspot.com

Islam Koran 666

Let us See......

YouTube of this subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq9kvfhMWmo

The following links to Islamic sites connect the Quran and it's Messenger, to the number 666.  Here's an example - and another.  Or try a Search - quran 666 or kuran 666.

On the Zola Levitt program, Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist now Christian evangelist, said that when he saw the Greek symbol that is translated in the Bible as 666, he immediately read it as the Arabic character “Bismillah” (some spell Bismilla) which means "in the name of Allah."

Here's a seven minute video of Walid Shoebat on 666 at a different venue:

Below (left) are photos of Greek symbols translated in the Bible as 666, from Free Jesus.net:  The gold symbol (bottom and right) is Arabic for "Allah" when turned and mirrored.  Additionally,crossed swords are a symbol for Islam.  So in 666 we may find both "Islam" and "Allah".

If Shoebat's account seems a stretch, even though Arabic was his first language and Islam the religion he was indoctrinated into, consider how this Arabic character is stylized into many different artistic forms.  Consider also how some look for this character in trees, clouds and such, as this search link attests - even in a fish!

For English speaking people on whom the above may be a little lost:

YouTube from another author - note the feedback from former Muslims.  

SUBMISSION

There are 6,666 verses in the Koran.  There is at least one sect of Islam (Bahattin Uzunkaya) that considers the number 666 as well as the number 19, to demonstrate the perfection of the Quran and the proof that Mohammed is the prophet of Allah.

In the Muslim's words:  

"The number 666 is highly publicized all over the world and it is associated with evil and danger.

However, it is not what it seems. It was a Satanic trick.

The trick was to prevent the people approaching the 666.

Satan knew that the 666 is the book of GOD and the people should be kept away from it.

According to his plan, he placed a bad image to the number 666."

"The truth is that This Quran is the 666 , The Book from The Lord of the Universe."

"The First Sura in the Quran, 666, is Praise. This sura is the gift of GOD to us to establish Contact with Him through our daily Contact Prayers. "

"GOD made His Messenger a witness with the letter Qaf and the number 666."

This one may make the hair stand up on the back of your neck.

You can search - quran 666 - or try - sura 1 to sura 36 is 666 - How about an Islamic greeting card that has 666 displayed 666 times?

Here is an interesting link.

This 666 connection is, however, just one component of Bible prophecy pointing to the Middle Eastern Islamic empire as being, geographically, the leopard-bear-lion beast of Revelation 13.  The seat of Islam today occupies the same geographical region as the seats of Daniel's successive lion, bear, and leopard kingdom "beasts".

Revelation 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: [Islamic Empire] for it is the number of a man; [the prophet Mohammed] and his number [is] Six hundred threescore [and] six. [666]

"... the number of the beast for it is the number of a man ..."

"GOD made His Messenger a witness with the letter Qaf and the number 666."

Sura 19:88 They say: "(Allah) Most Gracious has begotten a son!" 89 Indeed ye have put forth a thing most monstrous!

 Is this Islamic 666 "miracle" then a warning from God to Christians, Jews, and Muslims, as yet another fulfillment of the related prophecy in the Book of Revelation, now that we find ourselves in this "time of the end"?i

Following is a brief YouTube related to this subject:

Bible: Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Koran (Sura 2:223) your wives are as tilth (farmland) unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will.

Bible: Matthew 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Koran (Sura 8:12) I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them  

John 3:16  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

"The Jews call 'Uzair a son of God, and the Christians call Christ the Son of God. That is a saying from their mouth; (In this) they but imitate what the Unbelievers of old used to say. God's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth! (Surah 9.30)

2 Thessalonians 2:6   And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 [Even him], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:  12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 13  But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: 14Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle. 16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given [us] everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, 17  Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work

God Bless You

Rey Anthony Gatela

http://www.cesreygatela.blogspot.com

THE NAME ALLAH

Let Us Examine!

Is "Allah" the name of the God of the Bible? Some Muslims point out that because Arabic speaking Jews and Christians use the word "Allah" as a name for the God of the Bible, that must be God's name, even though Arabic speaking people are about the only ones that use it.

However, the name "Allah" preceded Mohammed's religion in Arabia, which makes it a chameleon. Before Mohammed, his tribe the Quraish invoked it as the name of their most powerful deity the moon god, which was represented by their most important black stone idol. Indeed the exclamation "Allah Akbar" indicated Allah is the greatER or greatEST, among the rest of the planets and stars.

Mohammed even cited the rest of "Allah's" family in the Quran in what were later dubbed the "satanic verses". "Lat" (Al-Lat) - the sun - being the moon god Allah's wife, and "Uzza" and "Manat" which were planets that were venerated in Arabian star family worship as Allah's daughters.

Sura 53.19 Have ye seen Lat. and 'Uzza, 20 And another, the third (goddess), Manat?

And of course Abdullah or "slave of allah" was a popular name among those pagans that preceded Mohammed. I don't imagine even any Muslim would suggest that the idol and jinn-demon worshiping pagans before Mohammed, that invoked the name "Allah", could be described as being "slaves" of other than Satan. Yet Muslims prostrate themselves five times a day to the same black stone idol that Mohammed's tribe the Quraish venerated.

Quoting Dr. Rafat Amari from "Islam: In Light of History" on the etymology of the name "Allah".

"We know that the term "Allah," as the god of the moon, was derived from the Thamud god of the moon. His name was Hilal, or Hlal, which means "crescent." Later, the name "Hilal" became Hilah, as we see in many inscriptions which were found in Arabia. In the Thamud inscriptions he is found as H-ilah, Ha-ilah and H-alah. We see the same development for "Hilah," the moon deity in Yemen, where Almaqah is called "Halal,' or "Hilal, the Crescent."

Safaitic tribes were nomads wandering in many parts of Arabia, especially in the north. The god of the moon was found in their inscriptions as "H-lah." in the Safaitic inscriptions, the letter "H" pronounced as "Ha" is the definite article, "the." It corresponds to the Arabic, "Al." This led the Arabians to call him "Al-lah.""

Thus the Arabic name "Allah" is more of a term that means "the God". "Allah" WILL NEVER be the NAME of the God of the Bible because YHWH Himself declared His name to mankind and that's why it occurs nearly 7,000 times in scripture. It is confirmed in Paleo-Hebrew inscriptions from at least as early as 840 BC. Please Google the tetragrammaton YHWH for more.

Translated into English "YHWH" means "I AM", which is certainly a wonderfully descriptive NAME for an omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent God.

Exd 3:13...and they shall say to me, What [is] his name?what shall I say unto them? 14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

Sadly, a much later doctrine crept into Judaism in which they decided YHWH was too sacred of a NAME to say or write, so they replaced it in their later scriptures with descriptive terms and titles for God like Elohim, that is used for the God as well as for a god. Google the term for more.

Thus "Allah" will never be the name of the God of the Jews and Christians, yet will remain as the name of pagan deities of the Arabian desert, as Arabian archaeology confirms. Just as prophesied of the "beast".

Revelation 13:6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

Blaspheming YHWH by substituting the name "Allah" of pagan Arabian deities, His tabernacle by declaring the Quraish's Kaaba god's tabernacle as directly opposed to the Body of Christ, and blaspheming Jesus Christ Himself by railing against the blood that He shed to save all mankind.

I am fully confident that as we continue on into this information age that Arabic speaking Jews and Christians will become increasingly aware of, and convicted by, their error and perhaps correct it - if they aren't forced to first. In Malaysia Muslims want to ban Christian use of the name "Allah" and churches have been firebombed over the issue.

The Arabic spoken today is the language of Mohammed's Yemeni tribe of the Quraish, that supplanted the prior Arabic as Islam conquered nearly the whole known world, during the Islamic first jihad. While Mohammed claimed the Quran is pure Arabic, scholars understand there are at least 100 words in the Quran that are not Arabic, like the Syriac word "injeel".

When difficult questions regarding inconsistencies and contradictions in the Quran are pointed out to Mohammed's followers they often obfuscate by suggesting that one needs to read the Quran in Arabic to understand. Some Muslim "converts" even set out to learn the language of the Quraish in that effort. But it would save them a lot of time if they learned a little more about the textual history and integrity of the Quran first. According to Gerd Puin (Google the name), the world's leading specialist in Arabic calligraphy and Qur'anic paleography, regarding his study of the oldest manuscripts...

"The Qur'an claims for itself that it is 'mubeen,' or clear, but if you just look at it, you will see that every fifth sentence or so simply doesn't make sense. Many Muslims will tell you otherwise, but the fact is that a fifth of the Qur'an is just incomprehensible. This is what has caused the traditional anxiety regarding translation. If the Qur'an is not comprehensible, if it can't even be understood in Arabic, then it's not translatable into any language. That is why Muslims are afraid."

Islam also fails in the light of scripture, history, archaeology and geography as revealed in some of the other videos on this channel.

The Hebrew name of the Messiah, "Yahshua" or "Yeshua", means "YHWH saves" rescues, or delivers. So what does the Messiah deliver His sheep from?

When we die in sin we are separated from God forever so what would we need rescue from more than our own sin?

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

So how did the Messiah save us from sin?

Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

That is the whole subject of the Gospel. The same Gospel of the 1st century, Mohammed's 7th century, today, and forever. YHWH's final new covenant solution for remission of sin, for all who have faith in the shed blood of the Messiah, Yeshua, the Lamb of God.

To our Muslim friends, have you wondered why you prostrate yourself five times a day to the very same black stone idol that the Quraish venerated?

Why you orient your prayers to the Kaaba they built to house 360 idols?

Sahih Muslim Book 007, Number 3078: 'A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) reported: Allah's Messenger may peace be upon him) said to me: Had your people not been unbelievers in the recent past (had they not quite recently accepted Islam), I would have demolished the Ka'ba and would have rebuilt it on the foundation (laid) by Ibrahim; for when the Quraish had built the Ka'ba, they reduced its (area), and I would also have built (a door) in the rear.

Why is it you continue to run back and forth between Al-Safa and Al-Marwah the way the Arabian jinn-demon worshipers did? Certainly some of Mohammed's closest followers disliked engaging in his rituals because they well understood their origins ......

Sahih al-Bukhari 2 Book 26 710 Narrated 'Asim: I asked Anas bin Malik: "Did you use to dislike to perform Tawaf between Safa and Marwa?" He said, "Yes, as it was of the ceremonies of the days of the Pre-lslamic period of ignorance, till Allah revealed: 'Verily! (The two mountains) As-Safa and Al-Marwa are among the symbols of Allah. It is therefore no sin for him who performs the pilgrimage to the Ka'ba, or performs 'Umra, to perform Tawaf between them.' "

Blessedly, Christians aren't obliged to bow to a black box - particularly one located 1200 kilometers away from the Holy Land, in Mecca Saudi Arabia of all places - for our omnipresent God YHWH to hear our prayers. Indeed the notion is impossible since we are to

1Thessalonians 5:17 Pray without ceasing.

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To our Muslim could-become brethren please visit the YouTube channel muslims4jesus to listen to testimonies of your former brethren that have come to know the love of the one true God through the sinless Messiah, Yeshua, Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, the Lamb of God, the Almighty.

1John 1:3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

God Bless You

Rey Anthony Gatela

www.cesreygatela.blogspot.com