Who is Allah Open your Bible to the book of Deuteronomy. We are now at a point in The Last Days series where I want to move from the Old Testament period to a point in the New Testament age after the Church had been established and Mohammed comes on the scene. Mohammed was born in 570 AD. He started promoting his new religion in 610 AD. I am going to give you an introduction to who Allah is. I hope you have a grasp of these two characters, Lucifer and Allah, and how it has always been Satan’s plan “A” to use a false system that was based on false gods (no matter what name was used at any given time). God warned about it even coming out of Egypt in the wilderness at Mount Sinai, giving the warning to not worship anything in the heavens including the sun, the moon, and the stars. Of course, it did not take man very long to do the opposite of what God instructed. Islam is just an extension of the moon-god religion, which not only can be traced all the way back to after the flood but even before the flood in Enoch and Lamech’s day. I will return to that in the near future because I do have more to say on that particular subject but, I want to make some strides forward to bring us more into the present time of Islam and how we can deal with it today, and what to expect that still needs to be fulfilled in God’s Word. What religion were they practicing in the pagan rites of the moon-god? It is not called Ashtoreth anymore. It is not called Baal any longer. It is not called any other god whether Egyptian or Greek—which many of those gods were extensions of the moon-god religion as well. What is it called? It is called Islam. Islam is what was prophesied, the 7th and the 8th Beast. According to God’s Word for our time, it is the 8th Beast’s moment to be front and center once again and for Satan’s plan “A” to take the headlines. But God someday will send His only begotten son, Jesus Christ, to wipe the 8th Beast off this planet once and for all. From an article: “Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world today. Many times it has been a violent religion in which one has two choices: either convert or die.” It always has been a violent religion, not just “many times”. “The religion of Islam has as its focus of worship a deity by the name of Allah. Allah was a pagan moon-god in Arabia during pre-Islamic times. Moon worship has been practiced in Arabia and the Middle East since about 2000 BC.” Actually it goes further back than that. It is pre-flood.. “The crescent moon is the most common symbol of this pagan moon worship. The moon-god was also referred to as "al-ilah". You need to remember these names because I will refer to them often. Al-ilah eventually became just Allah. (ref. Lucifer and Allah, Isaiah 14:12-15) Then there was Al-Lat, Al-Uzza, and Manat; the three different names of the daughters of Al-ilah. “Originally this was not a proper name of a single specific god, but a generic name meaning "the god". Each local Arab tribe would refer to their own local tribal pagan god as "al-ilah". So, it was a generic name depending on who would use it. It was a generic name so any tribe could use it. "Al-ilah" was later shortened to Allah before Mohammed began promoting his new religion in 610 AD.” This is not something Mohammed came up with. This was already in existence. “Mohammed retained almost all the pagan rituals of the Arabs at the temple, Kabah, and redefined them in monotheistic terms. Today Islam is a false monotheistic religion with its roots in polytheistic paganism. The Old Testament regularly forbade the worship of the moon-god and other false gods. When the children of Israel came out of Egyptian bondage they were warned...” They were warned not to follow these other gods. Where does it say that? Deuteronomy 16:18, “Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.” These are instructions given to the children of Israel. [17] “Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words, of the righteous.” Ha, how true that has become. God foresaw and he warned against problems in the judicial system: You are going to take some money from the people, and they will expect a decision in their favor and it will cloud your judgment. In other words, they will finance your campaign. They will finance your causes, things you will want to associate yourself with. They will give you the support you necessarily need to get it done. Things like this will cloud your vision and judgment. Why? Because you are going to lean toward those peoples’ desires and what they want to see done, or what decisions they want to see come to pass. “Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words, of the righteous.” If only our politicians and our judicial system would heed to that, no matter what governmental system, how much better off we would be, but that has not happened. “and pervert the words of the righteous”. That is right; pervert. Deuteronomy 16:20, “That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not plant thee a grove [asherah]...” Here is the asherah again in the Hebrew. And where were asherahs planted? Near the altars, usually the altars of Baal. And then they would make false images of these asherah groves into moon-god or moon-goddess representations. “Thou shalt not plant thee a grove [asherah] of any trees near unto the altar...” Remember, they were just coming out of Egypt, but this stuff was already being practiced in the land of Canaan by the pagans, by the Canaanites and other cultures. Deuteronomy 16:21-22, “Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee. Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.” In the Hebrew, it is very clear what that word hateth means. It means to hate with intensity. God hates with intensity any false images. Then Scripture continues on with verse one in chapter 17: “Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish...” Here, in this set of instructions, God is not only dealing with the possibility of the children of Israel eventually following false gods, creating false images, practicing a false religion, but in one verse He also throws in giving and how it should be done in their day and age under the Mosaic Law. “Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish...” Circle the word blemish. The definition comes with a certain understanding. You would not give as an offering anything, in this case an animal (sheep or goat), that was second best or third best. It had to be the best! Most New Testament Christians in our day and age have forgotten that concept—which in God’s Word has never been changed as a manner of practice including the here and now. He still wants your best. He will be your provider. He will still make sure you have whatever is the best for you to give. “Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness : for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.” Circle evilfavouredness. Hmm... He hates with intensity images, asherah groves (everything that is related to the moon-god or other gods, by the way); and He does not want your second or third best. He wants the best and not only your best, He also doesn’t want you thinking or talking evil about the act. That is what evilfavouredness designates in the Hebrew: it means a speech of evil or evil speech. In other words, through thought, you are going to express in words and convince yourself to give a second or third best. You are going to talk yourself out of giving your best, by whatever silly excuse and usually because you want to keep your best and not be obedient to the Lord’s requirements. He considered that an abomination, an abomination unto Him. So here He hates false images and false gods with intensity and He does not like your second or third best. “Well, my second or third best is still a sacrifice to me.” Big deal! You are still disobedient. He wants the best. Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or... if you even speak or create an excuse why the Lord just has to accept the second or third best for now, those thoughts are evil in His mind and it is an abomination unto Him.