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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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