Muslims Take Vengeance

by Frederick Hoehn, copyright 2015, all rights reserved.

Chapter 1

The religion of the Muslims is Islam.  They say that God's name is Allah.  

But the Muslims take vengeance.

If they believe that someone, or some other family has dishonored their family, they take vengeance.  

Muslims have what are called Honor Killings.

What is an honor killing?

If the other person or family has dishonored your family, you kill one or some of them to preserve the honor of your family.  

But what about the one of the Ten Commandments that says, "You shall not kill"? (Exo chapt 20)

Well, you see, the Muslims don't have the Ten Commandments.

Why not?

Because they don't have the Bible.  They have the Koran (or, Quran).  

So they don't follow the teachings of Moses that Moses got from God for the people.  

But if Moses got instructions for the people from God, why won't the Muslims follow those teachings?

Well, you see, the Muslim god is not the Judeo-Christian God.  The Muslim god is not the real God.  

The real God said, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord." (Rom 12:19)

If someone has wronged you, you're not allowed to avenge yourself, you just let God avenge you.  

Or, if you go against this and take vengeance for yourself, then you've sinned in the sight of God.  

But in Islam, its O.K. to avenge yourself.  So then, if the Muslim god allows that, then he is not the real God, who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay." 

I heard of a case, it was on TV, where one family felt that the other family had dishonored them, so they gang raped a woman of the other family.  

The real God very much disapproves of that, and it is sin in His sight, even if the Muslim god allows it.    

So then, the fact that the Muslims take vengeance is evidence that the Muslim god is not the real God, who forbids the taking of vengeance.  

The Muslims might say, "Well, it's our custom and our practice to take vengeance." 

You could answer that God says not to take vengeance.

They could answer that their god didn't say not to take vengeance.  

But Judgment Day will come, and it won't be Allah that judges us, it will be Jesus.  And Jesus forbids the taking of vengeance.    

So, there's really nothing to be gained by living a life pleasing to Allah, since on Judgment Day, it won't be Allah judging you, it will be Jesus.  

Jesus told us in John chapt 5 that God the Father has made Jesus the Judge.  "For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment to the Son,  

So that all men would honor the Son, just like they honor the Father.  He that doesn't honor the Son, doesn't honor the Father who sent him." (Jhn 5:22,23)

"For as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself,  And has given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man." (Jhn 5:26,27)

Jesus is the Son of man because He came down from heaven, was born of a virgin, lived in a man's body, healed the sick, raised the dead, cast out demons, taught the people, and preached the gospel.

Then they crucified him.  

On the third day, God raised Him from the dead.  Then he was seen by his eleven disciples, and by more than 500 Christians.  (Judas had hanged himself.)

Then Jesus went back to heaven in a cloud.    

Now, Jesus sits at the right hand of God the Father in heaven.  

So God the Father has made his son Jesus the Judge of the world.  

It is not wise to be living a life contrary to the teachings of Jesus, since Jesus will be our judge on Judgment Day. (Rev 20:11-15) 

I was living in a building where there was a Muslim man among my neighbors.

He and I played some games of chess.  

I said to him, "You people don't have Jesus."

He answered, "We have Jesus, he's one of our prophets."

I answered, "You don't have Jesus as Savior."  

Chapter 2

Further evidence that the Muslim god is not the real God is that fact that the real God has a son, Jesus, but Allah does not have a son, Jesus.  

Therefore, Allah is not the real God.  

But although the Muslims claim Jesus as one of their prophets, they really don't treat him as a prophet.  

Jesus certainly was a prophet (and much more).  A genuine prophet is a man of God who gives us messages from God.  Unfortunately, there are also false prophets.  

But if the Muslims really considered Jesus to be a prophet, then they ought to make efforts to find out everything that Jesus had to say while he was on earth, so that they would know everything that could be known that God wants us to know.

But you're just not going to find out everything that Jesus had to say by reading the Koran.  No, you have to read the Bible for that.  

And that same Muslim man, when I said that Jesus said that He is the Son of God, thought that I was wrong about that.  

Why was he ignorant about that?

Because he doesn't read the Bible. 

Jesus was talking with his disciples and He asked his disciples, "Whom do men say that I am?"

They answered John the Baptist, or one of the old prophets risen again from the dead.

Jesus said, "But whom do you say that I am?"

Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

Jesus said to Peter, "Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jona, for flesh and blood have not revealed it to you, but my Father who is in heaven." (Matt 16:13-17) 

On another occasion, Jesus stood before the Jewish High Priest who asked Jesus, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"

Jesus said, "I am, and you'll see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven." (Mrk 14:62)

But that Muslim man was ignorant of that because he didn't read the Bible.  

So then, why do they call Jesus one of their prophets when they won't bother to find out all that Jesus had to say?

I've spoken of Allah here as though there is such a being as Allah.  But I don't know that there really is a being, Allah.  

And one thing that suggests that there is not an Allah is that when the real God wants someone dead, He is well able to kill them himself. 

(Although, in one case, God sent an angel who killed 185,000 of the enemies of Israel.)

Please see my book, "Does God Kill People?"

But it seems that if the Muslims believe that Allah wants someone dead, Allah is not able to accomplish the task himself, but needs a man or woman to go do the job.  

THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD, and He is a three-in-one God.  He is God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit.

Notice that Allah is not part of that, nor is Mary, the mother of Jesus, Catholic friends.  

The praying to Mary is idolatry, and sin.  

The Catholics have a prayer, the Rosary, that is addressed to Mary.  They shouldn't.  

Jesus said, "Come out of her, my people." (Rev 18:4)

(Please see my book, "Isaiah on Babylon.")

If there actually is a being, Allah, he probably is a demon, a fallen angel, that rebelled against God when Satan rebelled against God.

Allah couldn't be one of the angels because God is not going to let any of his angels be the head of a false religion.   

I did a computer search for the name Allah.  Allah is not in the Bible.  

Another lie that the Muslims have been taught is that if they die as a Muslim martyr, they'll go straight to heaven.  

And that's why Major Hasan, of the Ft. Hood massacre, started shooting people, so that he could die as a Muslim martyr and go to heaven.  

Hasan figured that if he started shooting people, someone would shoot him (and they did, only it didn't kill him).  

Hasan was taught very much wrong.  

1 Jhn 3:15 tells us that "...no Murderer has eternal life abiding in him."  Going to heaven and eternal life are the same thing.  

Do you want to commit gang rapes?  Do you want to kill people?  Is it your goal to earn for yourself a place in a fiery hell, where their worms don't die, and where the fire is never quenched, where there's crying and gnashing of teeth? (says Jesus)

A Muslim might say, "But my family has been Muslim for six generations." 

Maybe so, but that's no reason why you have to make the same mistake.  

If you want the truth, read the Bible, especially the New Testament, which has the words of Jesus.  

If you have a Red Letter Edition of the New Testament, or of the Holy Bible, the words of Jesus are printed in red ink, while the other words, not spoken by Jesus, are printed in black ink.    

Your very soul depends on whether you choose the right religion or not.  

The right religion is Christianity, and Jesus said, "You must be born again." (Jhn chapt 3)

And Jesus said, "What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?  Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Matt 16:26)

You lose your soul if you go to hell.  And hell is forever.  

The richest man in the world can't ransom his own soul.  No, you have to get born again, says Jesus in John chapt 3.  

There has been a false teaching by some about a place called Purgatory, but there is no scripture to support that.  

No, the Bible says, "And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment," (Heb 9:27)

Do you get it?  After you die, then comes the judgment.  You don't get another chance in a place called Purgatory.  There is no Purgatory.

No, you have to get born again during this life, or you'll spend the rest of eternity in a fiery hell.  

To become a Christian, obey Romans 10:9,10--
"That if you confess the Lord Jesus with your mouth, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you're saved.  For with the heart man believes for righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made for salvation."  


___James chapter 1
 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are dispersed around, greetings.
 2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various temptations,
 3 Knowing this, that the testing of your faith works patience.
 4 But let patience have its perfect work, so you'll be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God for it, who gives to all men liberally, and won't find fault, and it shall be given to him.
 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.  For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
 7 For let that man not think that he'll receive anything from the Lord.
 8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
 9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted,
 10 But the rich, in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he'll pass away.
 11 For the sun has no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower of it falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes, so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
 12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation, for after he's been tested, he'll receive the crown of life, that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted with evil, nor does he tempt any man,
 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
 15 Then when lust has conceived, it produces sin, and sin when it's finished, produces death.
 16 Do not err, my beloved brothers.
 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, nor shadow of turning.
 18 He chose to father us with the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
 19 So, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
 20 For the anger of man doesn't accomplish the righteousness of God.
 21 So, lay apart all filthiness and the unnecessary naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man seeing his natural face in a mirror,
 24 For he sees himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
 25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
 26 If any man among you seems to be religious, and doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is for nothing.
 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

___James chapter 2
 1 My brothers, don't have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
 2 For if a man with a gold ring comes to your assembly in fancy clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes comes in also,
 3 And you have respect to him that wears the fancy clothes, and say to him, "Sit here in a good place," and say to the poor, "Stand there, or sit here under my footstool,"
 4 Aren't you then partial in yourselves, and have become judges with evil thoughts?
 5 Listen, my beloved brothers, hasn't God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?
 6 But you have despised the poor.  Don't rich men oppress you, and bring you before the judgment seats?
 7 Don't they blaspheme that worthy name by which you're called?
 8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor like yourself," you do well,
 9 But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as sinners.
 10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
 11 For he that said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not kill."  Now if you don't commit adultery, yet if you kill, you've become a breaker of the law.
 12 Speak in such a way, and do, as those who'll be judged by the law of liberty.
 13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has shown no mercy, and mercy rejoices against judgment.
 14 What does it profit, my brothers, though a man says he has faith, and doesn't have works?  Can faith save him?
 15 If a brother or sister needs clothes, and lacks daily food,
 16 And one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you don't give them the things that are needed for the body, what good is that?
 17 Even so faith, if it doesn't have works, is dead, being alone.
 18 Yes, a man could say, "You have faith, and I have works, show me your faith without your works, and I'll show you my faith by my works."
 19 You believe that there is one God, you do well, the devils also believe, and tremble.
 20 But don't you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
 21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son on the altar?
 22 Do you see how faith worked with his deeds, and by works faith was made perfect?
 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness, and he was called the friend of God."
 24 You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
 25 Likewise also wasn't Rahab the prostitute justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
 26 For like the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

___James chapter 3
 1 My brothers, don't be many masters, knowing that we'll receive the greater condemnation.
 2 For in many things we offend all.  If any man doesn't offend in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
 3 See, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so they'll obey us, and we turn around their whole bodies.
 4 Look also at the ships, which though they're so large, and are driven by fierce winds, yet they're turned around by a very small helm, wherever the captain wants.
 5 Even so, the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things.  See how great a matter a little fire kindles!
 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, so is the tongue among our members that it makes dirty the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire by hell.
 7 For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of snakes, and of things in the sea, gets tamed, and has been tamed by mankind,
 8 But no man can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
 9 With it we bless God, the Father, and with it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.
 10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing.  My brothers, these things ought not to be.
 11 Does a fountain send out at the same place sweet water and bitter?
 12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, produce olive berries?  Or a vine, figs?  So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.
 13 Who is a wise man, possessing knowledge among you?  Let him show out of a good lifestyle his works with meekness of wisdom.
 14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, don't glory, and don't lie against the truth.
 15 This wisdom doesn't descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be reasoned with, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
 18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace by those who make peace.

___James chapter 4
 1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from?  Don't they come from your lusts that war in your members?
 2 You lust, and don't have, you kill, and desire to have, and can't obtain, you fight and war, yet you don't have, because you don't ask.
 3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask wrongly, so you can consume it on your lusts.
 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God?  Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is an enemy of God.
 5 Do you think that the scripture says for nothing, "The spirit that lives in us lusts to envy?"
 6 But he gives more grace.  So he says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God.  Resist the devil, and he'll run away from you.
 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.  Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded.
 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and cry, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he'll lift you up.
 11 Don't speak evil about each other, brothers.  He that speaks evil about his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil about the law, and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you're not a doer of the law, but a judge.
 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy, who are you that judges someone else?
 13 Go on now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we'll go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and make a profit,"
 14 Actually, you don't know what will happen tomorrow.  For what is your life?  It is a puff of steam, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
 15 For you ought to say, "Lord willing, we'll live, and do this, or that."
 16 But now you rejoice in your boastings, all such rejoicing is evil.
 17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

___James chapter 5
 1 Go on now, you rich men, cry and howl for your miseries that shall come on you.
 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your clothes are moth eaten.
 3 Your gold and silver are rusted, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire.  You've heaped treasure together for the last days.
 4 See, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you've kept back by fraud, shouts, and the shouts of those who've reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath.
 5 You've lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton, you've nourished your hearts, like in a day of slaughter.
 6 You've condemned and killed the just, and he doesn't resist you.
 7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord.  See, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.
 8 You also be patient.  Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is getting near.
 9 Don't grudge against each other, brothers, so you won't be condemned, see, the judge stands at the door.
 10 Take, my brothers, the prophets, who've spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
 11 See, we count them happy that endure.  You've heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
 12 But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, not by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath, but let your yes be yes, and your no, no, so that you don't fall into condemnation.
 13 Is anyone among you afflicted?  Let him pray.  Is anyone merry?  Let him sing psalms.
 14 Is anyone sick among you?  Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,
 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he has committed sins, he'll be forgiven.
 16 Confess your faults to each other, and pray for each other so you'll be healed.  The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man is does a lot of good.
 17 Elijah was a man subject to the same kind of passions that we are, and he prayed earnestly that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.
 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
 19 Brothers, if any of you strays from the truth, and someone converts him,
 20 Let him know, that he that converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.