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The Cross in the Shadow of the Crescent
11/23/14
Lesson #1: Taking the Existence of the Church for Granted
Lesson #2: Faithfulness to Christ Requires an Acceptance of
Persecution
“O you who believe (in Allah's Oneness and in His Messenger
(Muhammad)! Verily, the Mushrikun (polytheists, pagans, idolaters) are
impure . So let them not come near Al-Masjid-al-Haram (at Makkah) after
this year, and if you fear poverty, Allah will enrich you if He will, out of
His Bounty. Surely, Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. 29. Fight against
those who (1) believe not in Allah, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid
that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger (4) and those
who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the people of
the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing
submission, and feel themselves subdued. 30. And the Jews say: Ezra is
the son of Allah, and the Christians say: Messiah is the son of Allah. That
is a saying from their mouths. They imitate the saying of the disbelievers
of old. Allah's Curse be on them, how they are deluded away from the
truth!”
Quran 9:28-30
“As a universal religion, Islam envisages a global political order in
which mankind will lie under Muslim rule as either believers or
subject communities.”
Efraim Karsh
“I was ordered to fight all men until they say, ‘There is no god but
Allah.”
Muhammad’s farewell address (March 632)
“We will export our revolution throughout the world . . . until the
calls ‘there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of
Allah’ are echoed all over the world.” Ayatollah Khomeini (1979)
“I was ordered to fight the people until they say there is no god but
Allah, and his prophet is Muhammad.”
Osama bin Laden (2001)
“Do they seek other than the religion of Allah, while to Him submitted all
creatures in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly. And to
Him shall they all be returned. 84. Say (O Muhammad): "We believe in
Allah and in what has been sent down to us, and what was sent down to
Ibrahim, Isma'il, Ishaque, Ya'qub and the twelve sons of Ya'qub and
what was given to Musa, 'Iesa and the Prophets from their Lord. We
make no distinction between one another among them and to Him (Allah)
we have submitted (in Islam)." 85. And whoever seeks a religion other
than Islam, it will never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will
be one of the losers . . . 87. They are those whose recompense is that on
them (rests) the Curse of Allah, of the angels, and of all mankind.
88. They will abide therein (Hell). Neither will their torment be lightened,
nor will it be delayed or postponed (for a while).” Quran 3:81-88
“And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: The One who has the
sharp two-edged sword says this: 13 ‘I kow you dwell, where Satan’s
throne is; and you hold fast My name, and did not deny My faith even in
the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one, who was killed among
you, where Satan dwells.’” Revelation 2:12-13
“For to you it has been granted for Christ’s sake, not only to believe in
Him, but also to suffer for His sake, 30 experiencing the same conflict
which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.” Philippians 1:29
The Islamic “option”:
*convert
*death
*dhimmitude = the covenant of liability
the terms of dhimmitude (Lutzer, p. 64)
Islam believes itself to be the final and complete revelation of the
one true god (Allah). Judaism and Christianity are abrogated
systems that had become corrupt and so were replaced. Islam
believes that if Judaism and Christianity were ‘purified’ then all
Jews and Christians would become Muslim.
Abraham was a Muslim (Quran 3:64-68)
The disciples of Jesus were Muslim (Quran 3:51-53)
“Islam offered a door that was easy to enter, but the door was
bolted from the inside. Woe to the person who wanted to convert
back to Christianity.”
Lutzer