With the words:
"In the name of Allah,
the Merciful, the Compassionate"
I opened the Bible. At that time I intended to read Deuteronomy 18:15.
This
passage attracted my attention because I had previously used it as a
hammer,
to strike at the faith of Christians, whether they were preachers, or
evangelists, with the intention that they would acknowledge and believe in
Muhammad as the prophet who had been prophesied by the Bible in this
chapter. I had known this passage before, but now its meaning had totally
changed for me. Truly the Bible remains closed and difficult to understand
by everyone who does not believe in it, but on the other hand, it can be
clearly understood by those who believe in it, and whose hearts are filled
with the Holy Ghost.
The words in Deuteronomy 18:15 read as follows:
"The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your
midst,
from your brethern. Him you shall hear."
Formerly I had considered this passage a prophecy about the prophet
Muhammad. The words "a Prophet like me (Moses)" indicated to me the
identity
of Muhammad as the promised prophet because:
- Moses was born of parents; Muhammad was also born like Moses, of a
father
and a mother. He was not like Jesus Christ, who was born only of a mother,
without a father.
- When Moses became an adult, he was married. Muhammed was also married,
contrary to Jesus Christ who never married.
- Moses had sons and Muhammad had children, too. But Jesus did not have
any
descendants, as he was never married.
- Moses died in old age and was buried, and the same happened with
Muhammad.
But Jesus Christ never died. He ascended to heaven alive and was not
buried.
Previously, it had been obvious to me that the verse in Deuteronomy 18:15
indicated Muhammad as the prophet promised by Moses, but did not prophesy
Jesus Christ as a prophet, and not at all as the Son of God, according to
the Christian faith.
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