ALLAH IS NOT ANOTHER NAME FOR YAHWEH (IT'S A PAGAN GOD)

When Rick Warren recently joined with the Pope (Warren referred to him as, Our Pope) in announcing that Allah was just another name for the GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and us, I knew that I would have to say something about it. First, they are in abhorrent error.

Secondly, they are leading a whole lot of people into believing a terribly false teaching. At best it is some perverted form of ecumenical foolishness. Third, they have fallen for the glib lies of religious/political schemers dedicated to the conversion or destruction of every Jew and Believer on earth, not to leave out the Buddhists, Hindus, and atheists standing on the sidelines.

Let me put a little background to this; the culture of Mohammed's world was very animistic, and every Arab tribe had its sacred magic stone(s) that they believed protected the tribe, and residents in the Kaaba. All the nomadic tribes had their own tribal deities. The dominant religion just prior to Mohammed was Sabianism, a religion in which heavenly bodies were worshipped.

The moon was viewed as a male deity, and they used a lunar calendar. Their pagan rite of fasting began with the appearance of the crescent moon. Fasting was later adopted as one of the five pillars of faith of Islam. Fasting, based on the lunar calendar, in the ninth month of Ramadan already pre-existed in the Arab culture before Mohammed was even born. When Mohammed was born in Mecca in 570 AD, the black Kaaba was the religious center of all of Arabia, and in Mohammed's day, approximately 360 tribal idols were worshipped there in that great courtyard.

One of those deities or Allah was the god of the Quraysh tribe, of which Mohammed was a member. When the Quraysh tribe took control of Mecca, all the idols except Allah, the idol of their tribe, were destroyed. The Quran tells us that Mohammed drove the other idols away; his idol was now the only god and he was its messenger. But he kept the Kaaba as a holy, sacred place. He obligated every believer to make a pilgrimage to the stone at least once in his lifetime. (Sura 22:26-37)

This Muslim Allah is a stone, a small to medium black crescent meteor rock. Hence the depictions of the crescent moon on most if not all Muslim nations' flags and the literature of the Muslim faith. It represents this Moon Deity, now commonly called Allah. Mohammed's magical black stone was kissed in those early days when people came on their pilgrimages and worshipped at the Kaaba. It was probably an asteroid or a meteorite, a moonstone, which they viewed as being divine. A meteorite is a piece of iron, stone, or stony-iron composite that has fallen to Earth from outer space. Most meteorites originated within the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter and were once part of a planet or large asteroid. A few meteorites come from the Moon and Mars, and a few others may possibly be fragments of comets. It certainly does not represent the GOD who created the moon, mars, and the asteroid belt from which this Allah rock originated. The central prayer or declaration of Islam, to this day, is: "There is no God but (this) Allah and Mohammed is his prophet."

In that declaration, This Moon deity, Allah, is raised up above and apart from the Biblical GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. There is no confusion on their part. Let's look at their declaration of faith.

1. The Five Pillars of the Muslim faith include:

• Affirmation: "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his messenger" which is recited constantly by devout Muslims.

• The Fast: Faithful Muslims fast from dawn to dusk every day during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, Ramadan, which is sacred.

• Almsgiving: A worthy Muslim must give 2.5% of his income to the poor.

• Prayer: Muslims are required to pray five times a day, kneeling and facing Mecca.

• The Pilgrimage: Muslims are expected to journey to Mecca at least once in their lifetime.

Let's look at these items a bit more closely and from the Biblical perspective. Muslims must kneel on their prayer rug five times a day. They must bow down and face Mecca, where this idol, Allah is kept in its sacred abode. They must pray and recite the required affirmation that there is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his messenger. Every year, Mecca continues to be filled with masses of pilgrims who parade around the Kaaba, bowing down and worshipping Allah. They know their idol is there in that sacred black box. Some sell all they own just to fulfill that last requirement of the Fifth pillar of their faith. This is an extremely tangible look at the complete separation of that religion from any other form of faith. In a further look at the complete separation of Islam from any Biblical kinship, it is basic Islamic ideology that the world is divided into two: The Islamic "Dar e-Salaam" or House of Islam or House of Peace.

Opposing this "Dar e-Salaam" is the "Dar e-Harb" or House of War into which all infidels fall. There can be no peace for Islam until the entire "Dar e-Harb" falls to the "Dar e-Salaam."

So this is a fight to the finish. Islam must be victorious or be vanquished. There can be no effective defense against Islam or any effective Believer outreach to its people until we understand this volatile religious challenger of our faith and our way of life. In the Bible, Moses was given the Ten Commandments directly from YAHWEH.

Ten critical things were listed.

The first two clearly defined who and what we were to worship, to bow down to, to honor as our GOD: Exodus 20:1-5: “And GOD spake all these words, saying, 2 I am the LORD thy GOD, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy GOD am a jealous GOD, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me."

Verses Three through five clearly condemn Islam as a false religion, and certainly no kin or cousin to the Jew or Believer. Muslims continue to have the iniquities of their fathers visited upon them to this day. It is my belief that the Rick Warrens and Popes of this day will bear the terrible wrath of a jealous GOD and this compromise of the gospel will wreak havoc across the nations.

I posted an article recently that talked of our government bringing about 75,000 Muslims to the United States from Syria. Several responded and said, "Wonderful;” It will bring them here where we can lead them to Yeshua."

My response was, “How many have you led to the LORD that are already here?"

Based on the numbers, extremely few, and there are probably several thousand within that number who are jihadists, and hundreds who are terrorists, but the truth is, the Muslims in the USA are about the least assimilated people group ever to come to the United States. They live within their own and within their own laws. They defy assimilation. Yet, while the government seeks out every vestige of serving Christ on the public scene and writes laws to punish Believers for any sign of living their faith in business or charity, the same government bows to every whim and religious practice of the Muslims amongst us. I need not give you a list. It grows every day. Just check the morning news.

Saints of YAHWEH…Apostles…Bishops…Pastors...Leader and friends…do not fall prey to this terrible deception…please preach the error of it, speak against its battle to the death of our faith, and be bold. Never compromise. On that day when HE separates the sheep and the goats, be among the true Believers.

REMEMBER: THE WORD OF GOD IS LIVING & POWERFUL…SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD…PIERCING EVEN TO THE SOUL & SPIRIT…AND OF THE JOINTS & MARROW…AND IS A DISCERNER OF THE THOUGHTS & THE INTENTS OF THE HEART." (HEBREWS 4:2)

"IF YOU'RE NOT WINNING SOULS FOR YESHUA...YOU DON'T WORK FOR YAHWEH...YOU'RE SELF-EMPLOYED!!"