The Final Prophet: Jesus Christ or Muhammad?

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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• Deuteronomy 1818,19

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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• Introduction
• 1. God would send another great prophet, a
  lawgiver like Moses
• (Deuteronomy 1818-19)

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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• I 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. And it shall be that whoever will
  not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I
  will require it of him.

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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• Introduction
• Two competing, exclusive claims on the identity
  of this final prophet
• Jesus Christ or Muhammad

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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• Introduction
• 3. Study with an open mind to find and obey Gods
  final prophet
• Identification marks in prophecy
• The Savior-Prophet identified
• Muhammad, another prophet?
• Sharp contrast
• Jesus Christ final prophet

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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• Identification Marks
• Genesis 315Seed of woman would defeat Satan

And I will put enmity between you and the
woman, and between your seed and her Seed He
shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His
heel.
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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• Identification Marks
• Genesis 121-3 Born of chosen Land, Nation, and
  Seed Promise

• Human PlanIshmael (Genesis 16)
• Divine PlanIsaac (Genesis 21)

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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• Now the LORD had said to Abram Get out of your
  country, from your family and from your father's
  house, to a land that I will show you. I will
  make you a great nation I will bless you and
  make your name great and you shall be a
  blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I
  will curse him who curses you and in you all the
  families of the earth shall be blessed.

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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• Identification Marks
• Deuteronomy 18, 19, 19 A prophet like Mosesif
  rejected, will be cut off!

I 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. And it shall be that whoever will
not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I
will require it of him.
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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• Identification Marks
• Isaiah 714Born of a virgin

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign
Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son,
and shall call His name Immanuel.
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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• Identification Marks
• Isaiah 53The Suffering Servant

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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• Surely He has borne our grieves and carried our
  sorrows yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by
  God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our
  transgressions, He was bruised for our
  iniquities the chastisement for our peace was
  upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. All
  we like sheep have gone astray we have turned,
  every one, to his own way and the LORD has laid
  on Him the iniquity of us all.

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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him He has
  put Him to grief. When You make His soul an
  offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall
  prolong His days, and the pleasure of the LORD
  shall prosper in His hand.

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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• Identification Marks
• Micah 52Born in Bethlehem

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are
little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of
you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in
Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from
everlasting.
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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• The Savior-Prophet Identified
• All promises fulfilled in ChristGenesis 315
  Romans 1620Seed of woman and defeat of Satan

And the God of peace will crush Satan under your
feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you. Amen.
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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• The Savior-Prophet Identified
• All Promises Fulfilled in ChristGenesis 121-3
  Matthew 11,2All people blessed through Christ.

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the
Son of David, the Son of Abraham Abraham begot
Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah
and his brothers.
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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• II. The Savior-Prophet Identified
• All Promises Fulfilled in ChristIsaiah 714
  Matthew 118-25Born of a virgin.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows
After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph,
before they came together, she was found with
child of the Holy Spirit.
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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• The Savior-Prophet Identified
• All Promises Fulfilled in ChristMicah
  52Matthew 21Born in Bethlehem.

Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea
in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men
from the East came to Jerusalem.
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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• The Savior-Prophet Identified
• All Promises Fulfilled in ChristIsaiah
  53Matthew 27, 28Died for mans sins then
  arose.

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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• 2628 For this is my blood of the new
  testament,
• which is shed for many for the remission of
  sins.
• 274 I have betrayed the innocent blood.
• 2719 Have thou nothing to do with that just man
• 2724 I am innocent of the blood of this just
  person.
• 2735 And they crucified him
• 286 He is not here for he is risen, as he
  said.

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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• The Savior-Prophet Identified
• All Promises Fulfilled in ChristDeuteronomy
  1818,19 Acts 322-26A prophet like Moses

For Moses truly said to the fathers, 'The LORD
your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me
from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all
things, whatever He says to you. And it shall be
that every soul who will not hear that Prophet
shall be utterly destroyed from among the people
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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• The Savior-Prophet Identified
• All Promises Fulfilled in ChristDeuteronomy
  1818,19Acts 322-26A prophet like Moses,

Yes, and all the prophets, from Samuel and those
who follow, as many as have spoken, have also
foretold of these days. You are sons of the
prophets, and of the covenant which God made with
our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your seed
all the families of the earth shall be blessed.'
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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• The Savior-Prophet Identified
• All Promises Fulfilled in ChristDeuteronomy
  1818,19Acts 322-26A prophet like Moses.

To you first, God, having raised up His Servant
Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away
every one of you from your iniquities.
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Identity Confirmed by the Miracles

• Power Testified of His claim of Deity (John
  2030,31)

And truly Jesus did many other signs in the
presence of His disciples, which are not written
in this book but these are written that you may
believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,
and that believing you may have life in His
name. (John 2030,31)
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Identity Confirmed by the Miracles

• Power Over NatureWalked on water. (Matthew
  1422-33)

But the boat was now in the middle of the sea,
tossed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.
Now in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went
to them, walking on the sea. (Matthew 1424,25)
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Identity Confirmed by the Miracles

• Power Over Human BodyHealed all sickness.
  (Matthew 423-25)

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in
their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the
kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and
all kinds of disease among the people. (Matthew
423)
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Identity Confirmed by the Miracles

• Power Over DeathRaised the dead. (John 1139-44)

Now when He had said these things, He cried with
a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth! And he who had
died came out bound hand and foot with grave
clothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth.
Jesus said to them, "Loose him, and let him go.
(John 1143,44)
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Identity Confirmed by the Miracles

• Greatest MiracleHis own resurrection (Mark
  161-7 Acts 13 Romans 14)

And declared to be the Son of God with power
according to the Spirit of holiness, by the
resurrection from the dead. (Romans 14)
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Jesus Christ Son of God, Final Prophet,
andSavior of All Men

• Baptized, saved by His authority as Deity
  (Matthew 2818-20)

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All
authority has been given to Me in heaven and on
earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. (Matthew
2818,19)
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Jesus Christ Son of God, Final Prophet,
andSavior of All Men

• The Way of Salvation In Him, in His Church, in
  His Kingdom (Matthew 1618,19)

And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on
this rock I will build My church, and the gates
of Hades shall not prevail against it. And I will
give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and
whatever you bind on earth will be bound in
heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be
loosed in heaven. (Matthew 1618,19)
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Jesus Christ Son of God, Final Prophet,
andSavior of All Men

• Saved added to His Church (Acts
  241,47)

Then those who gladly received his word were
baptized and that day about three thousand souls
were added to them... praising God and having
favor with all the people. And the Lord added to
the church daily those who were being saved.
(Acts 241, 47)
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Jesus Christ Son of God, Final Prophet,
andSavior of All Men

• Saved in His Spiritual Body His Church, His
  Kingdom (Ephesians 122,23 55)

And He put all things under His feet, and gave
Him to be head over all things to the church,
which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills
all in all. (Ephesians 122,23)
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Muhammad, Another Prophet?

• Ubul Kassim (A.D. 570632)
• Visions of the Angel Gabriel
• Muhammad (Highly Praised) oral revelation later
  written as Quran or Koran (Reading, Recitation)
• Islam (to Submit)
• Muslim(one who submits)

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Pillars of Islam

• Confess There is no God but Allah Muhammad is
  the Prophet of Allah.
• Pray ritual prayers in Arabic
• Fast during daylight hours of Ramadan
• Alms
• Pilgrimage to Mecca
• Holy War (Jihad) against non-Muslims

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Muhammad and Islam Use the Sword

• Warred against Mecca till its surrender in A.D.
  630
• To Europe, North Africa, till Battle of Tours,
  France in 732 A.D.
• Southern Asia, Islands of southwest Pacific Ocean

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Spread of Islam 622-750
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Over 1 Billion Muslims, of Which Less Than 15
Are in Arab Nations
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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• Muhammad and Islam used the sword
• Some still use violence today
• Palestinian attacks on Israel

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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• Muhammad and Islam used the sword
• Some still use violence today
• Muslim rebels in the Philippines

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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• Muhammad and Islam used the sword
• Some still use violence today
• September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on US

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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• Muhammad and Islam used the sword
• Some still use violence today
• Bombing, kidnapping, uprising, repression

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The Final ProphetJesus Christ or Muhammad?

• Muhammad and Islam used the sword
• Claim Muhammads sword fulfills Deut. 18.
  (Bashir Ahmad, Prophecies about Mohammad,
  Pakistan Link, 5-13-03)
• Only Muhammad, not Jesus Christ, was like
  Moses
• Both Moses and Muhammad commanded their
  disciples to fight their enemies and joined
  the fight themselves.

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Glorious QuranSurah IX Repentance

• Give tidings (O Muhammad) of a painful
  doom to those who
  disbelieve.
• Then,, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them,
  and take them (captive), and besiege them, and
  prepare for them each ambush.
• Fight against such of those who have been given
  the Scripture as believe not in Allah until
  they pay the tribute
• names Jews and Christians)

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Glorious QuranSurah IX Repentance

• Go forth, light-armed and heavy-armed,
  and strive with your wealth and your
  lives in the way of Allah!
• Lo! Allah hath bought from the believers their
  lives and their wealth because the
  Garden will be theirs
  they shall fight in
  the way of Allah and shall slay and be slain.

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Muslims Must Work and Earn Their Way to Heaven

• Quran, Surah III, 57 And as for those who
  believe and do good works, He will pay them
  their wages in full.
• Quran, Surah III, 185 And ye shall be paid on
  the Day of Resurrection only that which ye have
  fairly earned.
• No concept of perfect sacrifice for forgiveness
  to prove Gods justice and mercy (Romans 326)
• Believe in Allah, do good works, pray for pardon.

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The Final ProphetJesus or Muhammad?

• Sharp Contrast
• Christ born of Abraham
• Muhammad of Ishmael
• All promises of a Savior fulfilled by Christ
• None by Muhammad
• Christs teaching confirmed by miracles
• Muhammad claimed none

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The Final ProphetJesus or Muhammad?

• Sharp Contrast
• Christ promised all truth warned of
  false revelations from angels.
• Muhammad claimed such revelations.
• Christ died as a sacrifice for sin.
• Muhammad denied it offered no alternative.
• Christ used moral persuasion.
• Muhammad used the sword.

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The Final ProphetJesus or Muhammad?

• Unmistakable evidence identifies Christ as the
  final prophet of salvation.
• Evidence is clear and abundant God wants
  everyone to be saved!
• While he was still speaking, behold, a bright
  cloud overshadowed them and suddenly a voice
  came out of the cloud, saying, This is My beloved
  Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!
  (Matthew 175)

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The Final ProphetJesus or Muhammad?

• Unmistakable evidence identifies Christ as the
  final prophet of salvation.
• Evidence is clear and abundant God wants
  everyone to be saved!
• That you may know the certainty of those things
  in which you were instructed. (Luke 14)

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The Final ProphetJesus or Muhammad?

• Unmistakable evidence identifies Christ as the
  final prophet of salvation.
• Evidence is clear and abundant God wants
  everyone to be saved!
• To whom He also presented Himself alive after
  His suffering by many infallible proofs, being
  seen by them during forty days and speaking of
  the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
  (Acts 13)

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The Final ProphetJesus or Muhammad?

• Unmistakable evidence identifies Christ as the
  final prophet of salvation.
• Evidence is clear and abundant God wants
  everyone to be saved!
• For this is good and acceptable in the sight of
  God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved
  and to come to the knowledge of the truth. (1
  Timothy 23,4)

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The Final ProphetJesus or Muhammad?

• Unmistakable evidence identifies Christ as the
  final prophet of salvation.
• Evidence is clear and abundant God wants
  everyone to be saved!
• The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as
  some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward
  us, not willing that any should perish but that
  all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 39)