Christian Churches of God
No. QP
Commentary
on the Koran:
Prologue
(Edition 3.5
20170718-20170710-20180219-20191104-20200513-20201208)
The Koran is a continuation of Scripture directed at the Arabs because of their failure to obey the Laws of God and their continuous involvement in idolatry.
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Commentary on the Koran: Prologue
The
Plan of Creation in Scripture and the Koran
Before the
beginning of the creation the One True God Eloah was alone. The name itself
admits of no plurality. It is a Hebrew word of the Bible and the Chaldean
equivalent is Elahh. The Chaldean evolved into the Eastern Aramaic and the
Hebrew became the Western Aramaic. Eastern Aramaic became the Arabic and the
Koran was basically its first major literary expression. Elahh became Allah’.
These names of God are explained in the texts The Names of God (No.
116) and The Names of God in Islam (No.
054).
Spiritual Creation
The first act of
creation of God was to create the elohim as sons of God. Elohim is a plural
word that encompasses the heavenly Host as sons of the One True God. The
Chaldean form in the Scriptures is Elahhin. This order of beings came to be
labelled according to their primary function after the creation of mankind,
which was as messengers. In the Biblical Hebrew they were malak as malakim or
messengers. Various forms of this were applied all over the world (e.g.
Malaikat in Indo-Malay Islam). The Greek for messenger in this usage was aggelos and this developed into the form
“Angels” in various linguistic derivations. However, in Scripture the name of
God as creator was used as an honorific that came to be the term Yahovah which
is a third person form (cf. Oxford Annotated RSV fn. to Ex. 3:14) of the verb
meaning “He causes to be” which is derived from the term in Scripture ‘eyeh ‘asher ‘eyeh or “I will be what I will become” (see also How God Became a Family (No.187);
and The Government of God (No. 174)).
This term was used
referring to Malak as Yahovah (SHD 3068) meaning that the person referring to
them was acknowledging their authority as messenger for the One True God in His
position of Ha Elohim or The God of the elohim as “father” as creator. When He is in the form of the creator as “He
Causes To Be” He is referred to as Yahovih (SHD 3069) or also as Yahovah of
Hosts.
The Jews make
distinction in the names by referring to Yahovih (3069) as Elohim and to the
subordinate elohim termed Yahovah (3068) (or sons of God) as Adonai (see
Strong’s fns to the terms).
Creation of the Universe
The Scriptures and
the Koran are both unanimous that there were two creations both conducted under
the command of the One True God. First the Universe was created.
The Scriptures
that concerned the original creation and the involvement of the sons of God are
explained in Job 38:4-7 where the One True God assembled all the sons of God
and their Morning Star Commanders together at the creation, and the sons
shouted for joy and the Morning Stars sang together.
Physical Creation
Scripture tells us
that, for some reason, the earth became tohu
and bohu or without form and void and
the One True God dispatched the elohim under the Christ to reconstruct the
earth for this age. Many terms reading Aeon
or Age are rendered as “world” or “Kosmos” to imply that Christ created the
universe which is incorrect and the Koran corrected this error inserted by the
Trinitarians and the Binitarians/Ditheists and even some Monotheists.
The sons of God
had to be given responsibility and had to live by faith in the decisions of the
One True God as their Father. The only way they could achieve that goal is if
they had a weaker being for which to be responsible. God thus chose to create
mankind and they were given the responsibility of the supervision of the physical
creation. Satan objected to this responsibility and the ultimate aim of
elevating mankind to the level of sons of God as Elohim.
The heavenly Host
are subject to the faith and are instructed by the things that are revealed
through mankind. It is as a family under God as father that the whole creation
is structured and the Demons have done their level best to hide that plan in
both Scripture and the Koran.
Satan subverted
the initial plan as outlined to the Host and, as he was of the opinion that humans
were unworthy, he set about proving that as a fact. Hence he induced Eve to
subvert Adam and introduced sin and rebellion into the world.
God understood
that and had planned from before the earth’s foundation a system or plan of
salvation. That involved a perfect being who would become a human and in so
doing he would redeem both the fallen or rebellious Host and the human Host
from their sins.
Azazel or Iblis as
he is referred to among the Arabs became the accuser of the humans and hence
lost his el status and became Satan, meaning the accuser. He remained as Morning Star of this planet and was given
a limited duration of rulership. The plan of God was symbolized by the week and
as such the Sabbath became the critical identifier of the faith and symbolized
the rule of the Messiah for one thousand years as the Sabbath Rest of the
Christ where the Covenant and the Sabbath were inseparable (Rev. 20 and S. 4:154).
Satan had deceived
Adam through Eve and after they had come under judgment, when Adam had lived thirty
years from his creation in 4004 BCE, they were removed from the Garden of Eden
(see the paper Doctrine of Original Sin Part 1:
The Garden of Eden (No. 246)). They were given 6000 years or six days to
act as they saw fit and they chose to act contrary to the laws and the nature
of God (see the paper Doctrine of Original Sin Part 2:
The Generations of Adam (No. 248)).
This age should end
with the 120th Jubilee of the Sacred Calendar (see the paper Outline Timetable of the Age (No.
272)). That time will
be cut short by the return of the Messiah or no flesh would be saved alive according
to the Bible texts.
The question is
often asked why did not God simply destroy Satan and avoid all this
damage. The fact is that an Omniscient
God was aware of all the problems arising from Satan and the fallen Host’s
opposition and the damage that it would cause but He created a way of teaching
and bringing good out of the Creation and all the damage that it would cause.
It is His will that no flesh should perish and that includes also the sons of
God that are the angelic Host. The Scriptures are quite clear that God will
bring the demons to the sides of the pit and after their release in the final
rebellion at the end of the millennial rule of Christ at the end of the
thousand years, Satan will be released for the short remainder of his rule. Then
after the war against the elect at Jerusalem they will have their spirits
removed and be reduced to humans and killed. The demons teach now that spirit
cannot die; however, God is Omnipotent and He certainly can reduce demons to
flesh and kill them. Otherwise Christ could not have died. Then the demons will
be resurrected as humans for the Second Resurrection and their judgment and
retraining. We will judge them then (1Cor. 6:3). They are also judged by our
conduct in mitigation of their sin. In that way also the conduct of Islam in
the Middle East and Africa has been disgraceful (cf. also Judgment of the Demons
(No. 080)).
There is no
benefit in the destruction of Satan and the rebel Host and then having us go
through this same nightmare again in a few thousand years or aeons, perhaps
somewhere else in the universe, because we have learned nothing. Also the killing of Satan is a gross
imputation on the Omniscience of God the Father of the Host in creating the fallen
Host in the first place. Scripture says that Satan was perfect from the time he
was created until iniquity was found in him. He was an anointed covering cherub
(cf. Isaiah Chapter 14 and Ezekiel Chapter 28).
The gifts and the
call of God are irrevocable and thus Satan was appointed but had to have a
limit imposed on him by God. The limit logically also limits his power.
Thus God had to
allow a set time that would bring all lessons to a head and then stop the
creation from destroying itself. This God did and used the sequence as a
training vehicle for all of the Host and He also forced the loyal angelic Host
to engage in their responsibilities to humans, which they obediently did acting
as messengers to mankind. The demons reported all human activity as evidence of
their unworthiness. Satan removed the nexus of the law of God so that it rained
on the just and the unjust so that mankind saw no immediate effect for their
sin. Thus the demons or jinn encouraged that sin and breach of the law creating
long term damage. That was part of the learning process also.
Over that time God
issued warnings to the world through the prophets and those texts were compiled
in Scripture or what we now know as the Bible or the Book. God’s word is
inspired and cannot be lost or ignored with impunity.
God in the Indo
Germanic languages means the centre of ultimate goodness and hence there is no
real contradiction in the terms. He is the One True God who alone is immortal (1Tim.
6:16) and He will confer that status on us when we have all qualified for
either the First Resurrection or at the end period of the Second Resurrection.
These Resurrections are referred to as the Gardens of Paradise in the Koran.
The Plan of Salvation
The Omniscience of
God meant that God knew and planned for the entire disruption of the plan in
the creation.
Satan had
corrupted the entire creation except for the generations of Noah in the
patriarchs. Satan had created the
Rephaim or Nephilim to disrupt the purity of the genetics of the Adamic
creation. For the abject corruption God
decided to destroy the planet and deny the resurrection to these products of
Satan as He was not morally or ethically obliged to give life to these creatures
that were not part of His creation (see the papers The Nephilim (No. 154);
and the Resurrection of the Dead (No.
143)).
God used Noah and
the people and animals with him in the ark to repopulate the earth. He placed
Shem as priest of Melchisedek at Salem (see Melchisedek (No. 128)). However, the Host destroyed the
stability of the planet and mankind at Babel and God had to intervene again and
disperse mankind. He intervened with their languages and genetic structure to
disperse and confuse them. They became rebellious and idolatrous and as a
result God called Abraham out of Ur of Chaldea and made him the father of many
nations. The Koran and the Scriptures
are agreed that the priesthood descended through Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael, and
Jacob to Moses and Aaron and then through Levi and the prophets down to John
the Baptist and then the Messiah.
The Scriptures
were compiled through the prophets. All of the law and the prophets pointed to
the Messiah who fulfilled the law and sacrificed himself for sin and made the
Holy Spirit or the Ahmed available to mankind through the Apostles and the
church. All of this was made available through the Sign of the prophet Jonah
and no other sign is given the church other than the Sign of Jonah (see the
paper The Sign of Jonah and the History
of the Reconstruction of the Temple (No. 013)).
Messiah appointed the Seventy and ordained them and placed them under the Twelve. When the Holy Spirit had been sent to them at Pentecost, when they had remained there as Messiah instructed them, they then went out all over the known world. Their locations were all recorded by Hippolytus, Auxiliary bishop to Irenaeus of Lyon who had sat at the feet of the apostle John and knew those who had served with the Messiah and was trained by Polycarp. Hippolytus had been trained in the same system. He was later bishop of Ostia Antica the port city of Rome. He was trained in the area of what is now Turkey under the jurisdiction of the church at Smyrna, in what is understood in the Churches of God, as the Smyrna era. He lists each of the Seventy and where they all went. Many were sent to the Ten Tribes under the apostle Peter throughout Parthia and into Armenia and Scythia and across to Bactria and India. The locations stretch to Britain and Gaul and to Milan and throughout Italy and to extensive locations. Before the church was established under the Arabian Prophet in Arabia it had been established in China from India in the Fourth century under bishop Meuses of Abyssinia and in Arabia from the Apostles (see the Fate of the Twelve Apostles (No. 122B); General Distribution of the Sabbath-keeping Churches (No. 122); Establishment of the Church under the Seventy (No. 122D) and Role of the Fourth Commandment in the Sabbath-keeping Churches of God (No. 170)).
The Jews had been
destroyed by the end of the Forty years for repentance allowed for under the
Sign of Jonah in 70 CE. Over the First century CE the NT was written with Revelation
being written at the very beginning of the Second century CE. The OT Scriptures
by that time had been spread all over the world and the NT letters and Gospels
were spread with them.
The Jews were
scattered by the Romans and they were unrepentant. They corrupted their faith
even further and by 358 CE they had adopted the Babylonian Intercalations and
corrupted the Temple Calendar completely and issued a false calendar under Rabbi
Hillel II.
The Jews had been
scattered all over Arabia and the Yemen but they had become a ruling force in
both areas. Their calendar had become identifiable with the Paganised Arabs and
the Ishmaelite Arabicised Arab sub tribe of the Bani Khinana of the Qureysh
were responsible for the issue of the Calendar there based on the Babylonian
Intercalations. Becca and, later from 699 CE Mecca was the city of
idolaters and of idols. The nearby Al-Madinah was not as steeped in idolatry,
as was Becca/Petra, and later Mecca, but most of the areas of the
neighbouring Arabs were indeed idolatrous. The prophet’s father was himself
almost offered as a sacrifice to the god Hubal at the Ka’aba in
Becca but was saved by 100 camels being offered in his stead. The prophet
was himself brought there as a child.
The
Mission to Arabia
As is sometimes the
practice, God decided to deal with the area by raising one of their own and
converting them to the faith to deal with their idolatry, as they had refused
to stamp out these idolatrous practices of child sacrifice and prostitution
that were steeped in the worship of the area.
Qasim ibn Abdullah
was an illiterate young man who impressed a prosperous family and married an
older woman. He was called and taught to read. He was named at one stage Abu
Qasim which appears to indicate he had become a Monophysite priest. He
certainly had no son named Qasim. He was however baptised as a member of the
Church of God as the doctrines expounded in the Koran are exact doctrines taken
from Scripture as were taught and expounded by the Churches of God over the two
thousand years since Christ and the Apostles to this day.
In this text we
will deal with each Surah and list the doctrines on which the Koran is based. It
will be seen that the Koran is an exact explanation of the Unitarian structure
of the Bible and we will explain each text and how it is developed and what it
means.
The Koran is not
just an explanation of Scripture; it is prophecy against the idolaters of Becca
and later at Mecca and the Arab peoples that have misused and misled the sons
of Keturah and the sons of Ishmael and those further afield that have been lied
to about Scripture being lost as though the God of the Bible and the Koran is
some doddering incompetent that can’t keep control of His own instruction
manual.
Very soon Messiah
will return as foretold by Scripture and the Koran. The Prophet Qasim, like all
of the leaders of the Muhammads, or councils of the Churches of God all over
the world, will be resurrected along with the Great Multitude and we will deal
with these false teachers of the Hadith and the Shia and the Trinitarians,
Binitarians and Ditheists and these corrupt people who pervert the laws of God
and the faith and testimony of the Messiah (Rev. 12:17; 14:12).
Note: The genealogy of the sons of Ishmael and
the families of the Prophet with external links is found at Descendants of
Abraham Part III: Ishmael (No. 212C) at
http://ccg.org/weblibs/study-papers/p212c.html
See also the
following papers:
Sons of Ham Part II:
Cush (No. 045B)
Sons of Ham: Part III
Mizraim (No. 045C)
Sons of Ham: Part IV
Phut (No. 045D)
Sons of Ham: Part V
Canaan (No. 045E)