Shortly after the establishment of the church of Christ and the Christian religion (in A.D. Having examined the context, it is transparently evident that these verses have absolutely nothing to do with Muhammad!ДЄ second verse that Muslims brandish in support of their claims is the promise of a coming prophet in Deuteronomy 18:18-вЂњI will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.вЂќ Muslims claim that the prophet to whom God referred was Muhammad.ДЄgain, a simple examination of additional biblical evidence reveals that the statement made to Moses was divinely intended to refer to Jesus Christ-not Muhammad. But, as usual, God revealed a better day when people would listen (vss. They did not want it! Verses 13-16 explain that because of their closed minds, they would all suffer for their rejection of His Word when the Assyrians arrived to besiege the city. The point is that the people of IsaiahвЂ™s day refused to pay attention to GodвЂ™s Word spoken through His prophets. It then is delivered to an illiterate person, but he excuses himself by saying he cannot read (vs. Notice that Isaiah then described the unwillingness of the people of his day to heed the truth by comparing them to a literate person who is told to read something, but refuses, excusing himself by saying the document is sealed (vs. GodвЂ™s people were in the throes of deliberate spiritual blindness, and JudahвЂ™s false prophets/seers were not helping the situation (vss.

Jerusalem (called вЂњArielвЂќ) would be attacked by her enemies and punished for her crimes against God, and then those enemies would, themselves, also receive their just desserts (vss. The context indicates that within a year, the great Assyrian king Sennacherib would lay siege to Jerusalem in 701 B.C. Isaiah 29 is in a context in which God pronounced woes on Judah for her sins at that time, i.e., 702 B.C. To understand the context of the verse, one must remember that Isaiah, who lived in the 8th century B.C., is known as the вЂњMessianic prophetвЂќ because he prophesied so many details about Jesus-not Muhammad. They claim that Muhammad fits the description of this individual, since Muhammad was illiterate when the angel Gabriel revealed the words of Allah to him.

Nevertheless, the reader is urged to weigh these claims in light of the exegetical evidence for five of these passages.ДЇirst, Muslims appeal to Isaiah 29:12-вЂњThen the book is delivered to one who is illiterate, saying, вЂRead this, pleaseвЂ™ and he says, вЂI am not literate.вЂ™вЂќ Muslims insist that the book referred to in this verse is the Quran, that the one to whom the book was delivered is Muhammad, and that the one who ordered Muhammad to read the book is Gabriel. Ironically, this claim comes even in the face of the prevailing Islamic contention that the Bible has been corrupted, and thus cannot be relied upon as an accurate record of GodвЂ™s Word. Islamic apologists have attempted to bolster the credibility of their beliefs by claiming that the Bible, itself, makes reference to the coming of the prophet Muhammad.

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