Did you know that Islam has a Hebrew Bible proof-text that mentions their prophet Muhammad by name? "No way" you say? The following is a topical Hebrew to English Muslim translation / interpolation of Song of Songs 5:16"His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is Muhammad. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem."
My sarcastic response to such an Islamic proof text is always the same:
"Wow, there must be many Mohammad Muslim prophets since Mohammad is mentioned by name as Machmadim (spelled in Hebrew "mem-chet-mem-dalet-yod-mem") in the plural of all things in Song of Solomon 5:16.1 And since he's mentioned by name within the Hebrew Bible, I'll bet I can find more Mohammad-named verses throughout the Hebrew Bible as well. Surely, Allah wouldn't have stopped at just one verse in naming his greatest prophet within the Hebrew text! Oh praise Allah, I just found some more Muhammad proof-texts within the Hebrew Bible that indeed mention Muhammad by name and I'd like to share them with your Muslim self. Here's how they read:"
"though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the "Mohammad fruit" of their womb." - Hosea 9:16
"where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our "Mohammad things" are laid waste." - Isaiah 64:11
For some reason I never get a response back about my Mohammad-named Hebrew Bible proof texts. You would think that Muslims who claim Song of Songs 5:16 as a Mohammad proof-text would be very exited over a Hebrew Bible reader like myself finding new Mohammad-named proof-texts within the Hebrew Bible?
One of the facts of life is whenever there is a bogus dollar bill note, that means that there is a real genuine dollar bill somewhere. I am one who don't put much faith in coincidences especially when it pertains to the Hebrew Bible. If the Muslims can paint into the Hebrew scriptures a bogus proof text perhaps there is real genuine text that indeed does mention Islam's involvement against the covenant by name - the name of "Hamas"?
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"Hamas" is an Arabic acronym - not an actual word - for "Islamic Resistance Movement". Arabic is a sister language to the ancient Biblical Hebrew language, therefore, the Arabic term "Hamas" has in a sense a direct link to the Biblical Hebrew. Also, the Hamas terrorist organization operates within the land boundaries of ancient Israel, giving them a direct link - though negatively - to the biblical covenant land of Israel. The fact that Israel's enemies are indeed mentioned all through the Bible when addressing the land covenant of promise is something that is never mentioned by non-Zionists of the world - probably because it's not politically and Quartet-correct to do so.
When the Arabic acronym Hamas is placed as an actual Biblical Hebrew word (root word spelled chet-mem-samach) that Hebrew word begins to speak of the very nature that the Arab-terrorists Hamas organization displays throughout the biblical land of the covenant! Hamas in Hebrew means "violence, to oppress, and to do wrong". What is even more interesting is that the word Hamas is used to describe "violence" against the Jewish people (children of Judah) within the covenant land:
"Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the Hamas against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land." - Joel 3:19 (Christian Bible) - Joel 4:19 (Hebrew Bible)
Even more interesting is the mentioning of "Egypt" in the text above. In following the confirmation of the Joel 3:19 text - a prophecy text - it is by their very own words of their 1988 covenant that Hamas declares that their organization originates from non-other than the Egyptian Brotherhood that began in Egypt during the Holocaust of all things.2
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Centuries before the rebirth of the State of Israel Jews have viewed Edom as Christian-Rome and Egypt as Muslim-Ishmael. Israel's foremost enemy just after coming into a UN world recognized statehood was the Egyptian Fadayeen. Their terror attacks came from their controlled area of the Gaza Strip up until the 1967 Six Day War. Now, the spiritual offspring of the Fadayeen is Hamas, who like their Egyptian father now currently controls the Gaza Strip. Hamas presently receives most of its weapons for the purpose of Islamic Jihad terrorism from the tunnels coming from Egypt.
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Because of their close proximity to the Jewish covenant people, and because they reside within the very borders of the covenant land (like a violent virus taking up host within the body in order to destroy the body) Hamas is the most evil-violent natured people (given their biblical prophesy) of all the peoples of the earth, including those within Al-Queda and the Taliban!
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Not one single nation in the West has ever or will ever be supportive, or call for support for Al-Queda or the Taliban. That would be going against the West's very nature as a civilization. Yet recently the prime minister of superpower Russia Vladimir Putin and Quartet Representative Tony Blair (representing the West and all world power) has called for the West to recognize Joel 3:19's "Hamas"! This is in addition to former US president Jimmy Carter who has actually called for Hamas to be taken off the Western US and UK official list of state sponsored terrorism! [see top cartoon] Why is it that the West can be so vehemently against what it views as "Islamic extremism" in places in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq, that they involve themselves - even militarily, but are just the opposite and become very passive when "Islamic extremism" involves Palestinian terrorist groups such as Islamic Jihad, Al-Fatah, of course Hamas? Is there a spiritual understanding of this insanity? Of course there is. Just before the first world destruction by the flood, the Bible informs us of the following:
"The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with HAMAS." - Genesis 6:11
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By the world powers making a covenant (adopting) Hamas as their beloved partner of so-called peace - committing themselves against the everlasting covenant the God of Israel made with the Jewish people, Hamas' evil becomes the world's evil, literally and spiritually "filling the earth with Hamas / violence"! Hamas becoming the world's focus point of terrorist-favoritism and its advancement of evil-violence that at its source is literally against God of the covenant, will in turn bring forth the fulfillment of prophecy that all (UN-Quartet) nations shall fight against the Jewish King David's capital and Judaism's spiritual center - Jerusalem.
"For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle....Then shall Jehovah go forth, and fight against those nations, as when He fought in the day of battle." - Zachariah 14:2-3
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According to Joel 3:19 the God of Israel will make Egypt (Islam) and Edom (Roman-based Christianity) very desolate. After the God of Israel has wiped violence (Hamas) from the earth and literally obliterated every article of Hamas' 1988 covenant and Hamas' worse nightmare of the fulfillment of Ezekiel 37: 25-28 has become reality3 it is then that the nations whose focus point and spiritual commitment had been towards favoring Hamas-violence, then becomes converted towards the God of Israel. As the Hebrew Bible foretells the End of Days:
"And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths: for the Torah shall go forth of Zion, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem." - Micah 4:2
"Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek Jehovah of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before Jehovah. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you." - Zachariah 8:22-23
"And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles." - Zachariah 14:16
Notes:
1. The Hebrew word used in Song of Songs 5:16 is "machamad" meaning "desirable or precious things" and it's only used in the Hebrew Bible in plural form. It's from this Semitic language root-word that Mohammad was named by his polytheistic father Abdallah. This is what one would call "painting into the text" not a "proof text"!
2. See Hamas Covenant 1988 - Article 2 > http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp
Notice also, that according to the God of Israel, Israel's enemies are defined as originating from outside the land of the covenant. Since Gaza is within the land of the covenant, Gaza is not mentioned as the source of the Hamas / violence.
3. "And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And the heathen shall know that I Jehovah do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore." - Ezekiel 37:25-28
