BLESSED ARE ALL WHO PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM

Psalm 122

1 I rejoiced with those who said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”
2 Our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem is built as a city closely compacted together,
4 Where the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord.
5 For there the thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May those who love you be secure.
7 May peace be within your walls and prosperity within your palaces.
8 For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, “Peace be within you.”
9 For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good.

A QUESTION TO CONSIDER:
Why do Muslims harbor so much hatred toward Israel — a nation that even their Allah declared to be the most favored nation in the world?

ALLAH SAID ISRAEL IS THE BEST AND MOST BLESSED NATION ON EARTH:

1. Allah says Israel is God’s chosen nation — Surat Al-Baqara 47

2. Allah says the land of Israel belongs to the Israelites — Surat Al-Maida 21

3. Palestine is neither named nor exists anywhere in the Qur’an.

Dear readers,
This is a serious blow to Muslims who zealously defend Palestine. Why didn’t Allah ever mention Palestine in his Qur’an? Yet Israel and the Israelites are explicitly mentioned?

Surat Al-Jaathiya 16: “And We certainly gave the Children of Israel the Scripture and judgement and prophethood, and provided them with good things and preferred them above all other nations.”

ALLAH TELLS THE JEWS THAT THE LAND OF ISRAEL IS SANCTIFIED AND PREPARED FOR THEM:

Allah (s.w.t.) said: “O my people! Enter the holy land which Allah has assigned to you and do not turn back and become losers.” (Qur’an 5:21)

In the verse above, Allah calls the Jews through Moses “MY PEOPLE”, and further instructs them to go to Israel, to the HOLY LAND. So even Allah acknowledges that the land of Israel is not for the Palestinians.

Dear reader, why does Allah call the land of Israel sanctified — yet never once said the same about Mecca?

Shalom,
Dr. Maxwell Shimba
Servant of Jesus Christ, the Almighty God.