A BIBLICAL VIEWPOINT
ON DEATH, TERRORISM AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Charles
e. Whisnant Pastor-Teacher
Romans
1-2, James 4:1-2; Genesis
Sunday September 11,
2011
We know why on a superficial level.
·
We now
know that there is a very highly developed, sophisticated group of terrorists
in the Middle East who are the superficial, the immediate why.
This then immediately projects us into the
land of the Bible.
·
These terrorists weren't Norwegian and they
weren't Argentine and they weren't Mexican and they weren't German and they
weren't Chinese, they were Middle Easterners from the land of the Bible.
THE
QUESTION WE WANT TO ASK, WHY DO PEOPLE KILL
THERE IS A NATURAL
MOTIVATION WHY PEOPLE KILL
·
Sociologists in modern days in psychology have
been trying to convince us that man is basically good but he is not. Man is
basically evil, he is basically wicked.
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The heart of man is deceitful above all things
and desperately wicked...the Bible says...and who can know it? That is who can
figure it out, it is so desperately wicked?
Biblical
Answer to man’s problem:
ROMANS
3:10
·
Man is by nature a killer. We see it in the wars
of the world. We see it in the terrorists actions of the world. We see it in
the tribal battles. We see it everywhere. We see it on the streets of the
cities of the world. Man is a killer
Why does
this happen? Let's turn to James
chapter 4. James is an epistle in the New Testament.
JAMES
4:1
· "What is the
source of quarrels and conflicts among you?" Why do these things happen?
Why is there murder? Why is there war? Why are there quarrels and conflicts at
every level?
o It comes down to this. It is your pleasures. 2237 (lust)
pleasure, please
·
What is Hedonism?
o
Hedonism is a school of thought which
argues that pleasure
is the only intrinsic good In very simple terms, a
hedonist strives to maximize net pleasure (pleasure minus pain).
JAMES 4:2 develops
it. "You lust and you don't have." “You
kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain. Or you ask and you
don't receive it because you ask with wrong motives that you can spend it on
your own Hedonistic self-love.
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You want it, you have this Hedonistic
compulsion, this drive and it's dissatisfied. You want it.
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It's a war inside of you, that's how much you
want it.
·
And
something is in the way and that something is someone
because you want it so badly and you can't have it, you commit murder.
Why does
Hitler massacre the Jews? Because he saw them standing in the way of his Aryan
supremacy. Why does Joseph Stalin massacre millions more? (In Nazi ideology, a white person is
superior.)
·
Because they stood in the way of his world
empire. It may be as vast as that, it may be as simple as a mother who kills
her children because she can't find satisfaction, they're in the way of it.
That's
why people kill because they want something and somebody stands in the way.
THERE IS A HISTORICAL
MOTIVATION WHY PEOPLE KILL
In order to get to the
very core of this we need to look back to the MIDDLE EAST in the Bible.
GOD GAVE
ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED THE LAND OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN
GENESIS
12 ABRAHAM FATHERED THE JEWISH
PEOPLE
· Abraham
was the son of Terah and they were moon god worshiper in the area of UR in the
Mesopotamian valley, known as the MIDDLES, the land where there are 22 Arab states.
GENESIS
15:18
·
By divine right from the mouth of God Himself,
the region belongs to Abraham and his seed.
GENESIS 10:21
·
Ham’s son Mizraim is the Hebrew name for the
land of Egypt.
·
They were all idolatrous.
·
They were all rejecters of the true and living
God, the Creator God.
·
And when
God gave the promise to Abraham that all of this land was his, there was a
collision course established.
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In order
for that land to belong to Abraham, God was going to have to give it to him and
Abraham was going to have to be true to God. And if Abraham was true to God and
obedient, God would give him the land.
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But if
the descendants of Abraham were disobedient to God, they were going to have an
endless battle trying to claim what was really theirs.
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So, the idolatrous people, as I said, if that
land were set on a collision course with Israel, and the reason Israel has
never really been able to possess the land they were given is because Israel
has not been faithful to God...some day they will be.
GENESIS 17:21, I CHRONICLES 5
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In an act of distrust toward God, he did that
and she became pregnant and she brought forth a son whose name is Ishmael, an
illegitimate son, not the son of God's promise, not the son of the covenant.
·
God wanted to remove those people, those wicked
idolatrous, adulterous people. He wanted to do it when He led Israel out of
Egypt Descendants of all those people that I identified who today speak Arabic,
who accept Arab culture. Two hundred and fifty million of them surrounding five
million Jews..
·
Jews believe it
is a divine right to have the land but they can't take the land, they can't
have the land because God won't give them the land until they turn from their
sin and embrace their Messiah.
GENESIS 16:10
·
So Scripture
says Ishmael's descendants will, dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
They're all trying to co-exist in the Middle East, and little Israel, the
covenant people, unbelieving, apostate, but still the covenant people, unsaved
but still the covenant people, surround it and everybody around them has
destruction on their minds.
WHY GOD
MADE SEPARATE NATIONS IN THE WORLD AND PEOPLE TO HAVE
DIFFERENT LANGUAUGES GENESIS
11:1
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That's why I told you when everybody was of one
language and one mind in battle, God scattered them and, remember, separated
their languages and sent them out all over the world because when everybody
gets together and you have one great force among ungodly people, you have one great
force for evil...unmitigated and unrestrained.
·
And
just on a human level, God separates the world into nations because it prevents
monolithic evil.
THE
HISTORY AND BEGINNING OF MUHAMMAD
THERE IS THE RELIGIOUS
MOTIVATION WHY PEOPLE KILL
ISLAM
·
Islam is the
monotheistic religion articulated by the Qur’an, a text considered by its
adherents to be the verbatim word of God (Arabic: Allah) and by the teachings
and normative example (called the Sunnah
and composed of Hadith) of Muhammad, considered by them to be the last prophet
of God.
·
An believer of ISLAM
is called a MUSLIM
o Some 1 + billion Muslilms 21-23% of the
worlds population.
MUSLIM BELIEVE
·
Islam is a word that means
"surrender." It means "submission." And the idea is that
Islam is surrendered to the will of Allah and the will of Allah is revealed.
It's not an unknown thing, the will of Allah is revealed through his prophet
Muhammad and the revelation from Allah is written down in the holy book called
the Koran. A Muslim is one who submits to the will of Allah.
·
No Muslim, no Muslim knows for sure in this life
where he's going, it's all predetermined by Allah. And on the scale of life,
good things weigh heavy and bad things weigh light and it doesn't hurt to weigh
heavy on Allah's decision. But there are no guarantees. Those are the six basic
articles of faith.
Where did all this come from? Where
did all this stuff come from?
MUHAMMAD
(610-632)
·
Muhammad grew up in Mecca. He was a member of a
tribe called Quarish(?).
·
And in Mecca they worshiped 360 idols and also a
prominent black stone supposedly given by Gabriel to Abraham.
·
It was said in the Koran that at the age of
three Muhammad had an amazing event take place.
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Gabriel did some surgery, the archangel Gabriel,
split open his chest, reached in and squeezed all the sin out of his heart so
that Muhammad was sinless.
If you see any muslamic symbols you would see a
crescent moon. Allah was the moon god, some form of the very god that Abraham's
family worshiped, that Abraham's father who was an idolater worshiped, the
children in the family were named after, even Terah is a name that connects
with the name of the moon god.
So, what
Muhammad did under the influence of the powers of darkness was take all the
elements from the 360 different forms of idol worship, piece them all together
into a form of religion making only one change, he demanded that there was only
one god, Allah the moon god.
Muhammad
built his whole system of religion on all these demonic forms of idolatry,
adapting all the forms and features of idol worship with one new thing, and
that was only the moon god Allah was true god and all the others were not and
worship of all the other gods was forbidden and they were going to bring people
into submission to that or kill them.
Resources
came from John MacArthur, Articles from Wikipedia, Many Websites
