Is Muhammad prophesied in the Bible?

 

Muslims should stop reading jackanory stories...

 

Thus the Muslims confidently write twisting the Bible and not paying any attention to the rules of interpretation.

 

Here is what they say!

 

http://ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?t=88197 
 
Muhammad (pbuh) is mentioned by name in the Song of Solomon 5:16. The Hebrew word used in this verse is Mahamaddim. The ending letters im is a plural of respect, majesty and grandeur, just as in Elohim (the God). Without im the name becomes Mahamadd which was translated as "altogether lovely" in the Authorized Version of the Bible or 'The Praised One', 'the one worthy of Praise.' In Arabic, Muhammad means the one who is most praised.
 

Simon answers:

 

The Muslims take the authenticity of Muhammad in the Bible form the Qur'an.

Sura 7:157 Those who follow the messenger, the Prophet who can neither read nor write, whom they will find described in the Taurat and the Injil...

They are desperate to prove Muhammad exists in the Bible yet they say the Bible is corrupt, why search for him in something that is corrupt according to them, what kind of logic is this?

 

Muslims should stop playing games of ignorance and come to a REALITY check in their lives.  How about that the Qur'an is corrupt and the Bible is not!!!

 
The word that appears is machmad, which has the same ROOT as Muhammad but that does not it make it the same word. By using this flawed logic, any ignorant Muslim could claim that Sura Al-Fatiha 1:1  is referring to Muhammad - Al hamdo lillahay Rabbi 'alamin ("Praise be to god, the lord of the worlds").  'Hamdo' is again from the same root word.  Machmad is not Hebrew for Muhammad and yet one could argue that Muhammad's name was Amin not Muhammad.  Arabic and Hebrew do share attributes since both are Semitic languages in fact Arabic is from Hebrew not vice versa there are several examples of words in Hebrew that seem similar to words in Aramaic because Hebrew that was used in the Bible is the square script Aramaic.
 
Let us take a look at the Tenach;
 

Ezekiel 24:21  “Speak to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellence of your strength, the Muhammad of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.”

See how by placing Muhammad where ever the word machmad occurs it actually breaks the text not making it look like it is prophesying for the Muslim prophet.

2 Chronicles 36:19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the Muhammad [machmad] vessels thereof.

See how ridiculous the text looks if you insert Muhammad there instead of "goodly"

 

Now lets look at the songs of Solomon 5:16 which is where the Muslims once again do the same thing as above.

 

His mouth is sweetness itself; he is altogether lovely. This is my lover, this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

 

The songs of Solomon is a poetic love story between King Solomon and his wife, the allegory also fits with Yahshua the bridegroom and the twelve tribes of Israel, the two houses, i.e. Ephraim and Judah the wife.

 

Here comes the Muslim dance;

 

"His mouth is sweetness itself; he is Muhammad.  This is my lover, this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem."

 

This is quite interesting yet difficult to fit but they do try.  We have to ask the following;

 

Let's apply the same crude principle of Muslims to another passage in the Tenach shall we.

Isaiah 64:11  Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire: and all our Muhammad things are laid waste.

 

or is it better this way:

 

Isaiah 64:11 "Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire: and all our lovely things are laid waste."

The word machmad means "the desire of your eyes", "lovely"  or "goodly" so it is a stretch of anyone's imagination to fit this to Muhammad.  I know Muslims can have a wild imagination but let's keep in sensible limits shall we?
 
As for Elohim it does not mean or stand for majesty, it literally means Gods or can mean "mighty ones" or it can even apply to angels and judges i.e. can apply to humans even, it was never applied pre-Christian times to majesty, the majesty development is a rather late Christian period one.

 

Essentially the word "Elohim" defines a family thus the triune Godhead or a compound unity could be attributed to this.

 

 

 

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Simon Altaf is a prophecy expert a Rabbi and a writer who has debated many people on different aspects of the Bible, he is the author of four books one co-authored with Walid Shoebat another prophecy scholar and his personal friend.  He has consistently warned the Church of its lax attitude towards Israel and the Jewish people and the dangers posed to the West by Islamists.  We must be careful not to reject YHWH's holy commandments and His people Israel as non-essential.  This is our call to re-examine our attitudes towards our brothers the Jews and repentance of any error in our life for our current and past mistakes before the great King of Israel returns to judge us all.