14^th August 2008

The prophetic End-Time ministry of Rabbi Simon

Altaf called out by YHWH Yahushua the G0d of my forefathers

Are the Muslims illegitimate Children and should we hate them?

 

Genesis 16:3 Then Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan.

This is an instance of a woman such as Sarah giving over her maid to Abraham the form of patriarchal marriage through then whom Ishmael was to be born.

Scripture tells us that Abraham had dwelt ten years trying to show us that it was ten years since the last time YHWH had spoken to Abraham and said to him that He would give him a son.  Sarah obviously did not think this would happen through her as Ten years had gone and any human might think that it is time to move on and surely this was in Sarah’s mind when she let Abraham had the son through Hagar.

Genesis 16:9  So the Angel of YHWH said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hand.''

When Hagar had gotten pregnant she became a bit haughty and started taunting her sister wife Sarah because she was barren and then when Sarah retaliated Hagar fled while the Angel of YHWH (this angel is Yahushua) told her to go back and submit to Sarah.

Genesis 16:11  And the Angel of YHWH said to her: "Behold, you are with child, and you shall bear a son. You shall call his NAME Ishmael, because YHWH has heard your affliction.

It was YHWH that gave her the name for her son Ishmael which means “YHWH has heard”.  From here we can see that the whole process from Sarah giving over Hagar to Abraham to the birth of the child is all legal and proper according to Torah.  Nothing untoward had happened other than that the oestrogen of the two women came in the way of fighting however Ishmael is the legitimate son of Abraham by every right and so far from a human perspective the heir and first born son before Isaac was born to the principle wife which overrides any child born earlier according to the Law of God.

Genesis 17:12  "He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised, every male child in your generations, he who is born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not your descendant.

The instructions were clear that YHWH had given Abraham the Abrahamic Covenant and commanded him to circumcise all the children starting at eighth days old.  This circumcision was “forever.”  Muslims still carry out the circumcision faithfully of their children.  At this point in time Abraham was ninety nine years old and his son Ishmael was thirteen years old so he was circumcised at this age.

Genesis 17:14  "And the uncircumcised male child, who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.''

Christians are predominantly taught not to circumcise their children yet it was a commandment and part of the covenant they cite for themselves.  So this was not for salvation but for righteousness sake.  Yahushua was also circumcised on the 8^th day of His birth (Luke 2:21). Christian Pastors are wrong not to circumcise.

Genesis 17:15-16 Then Elohim said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. (16)  "And I will bless her and also give you a son by her; then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be from her.''

Now YHWH reiterates the promise He had made to Abraham almost twenty five years ago that He would give him a son.  He changes the name of Sarai to Sarah and it was not that YHWH rejected Ishmael in anyway but YHWH was showing Abraham a new thing that the covenant had to be worked through the son of Sarah who was the principle wife while Hagar was the second wife so would be next in line of rights and inheritance.

Genesis 17:19 Then Elohim said: "No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him.

Here YHWH begins to narrow down the covenant working with Isaac so there is no misunderstanding although Ishmael is blessed by YHWH but the covenant and all subsequent prophetic dealings regarding Israel would come through Isaac.

Ishmael was legal heir of Abraham’s property but we need to remember the law that YHWH gave in the Torah the reason why YHWH even showed us that He switched the blessings and covenants from the older to the younger.

Point one – Ishmael was born through Hagar who was Abraham’s second wife however Abraham had wife number one who was Sarah so the commandment in Torah stated that a husband cannot favour a son from the second wife over the first even though Isaac had not been born but YHWH makes this precept very clear early on with Abraham by personally performing a switch and later Moses writes the precept which was well understood about Torah even by the Patriarchs.

Exodus 21:10 "If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marriage rights.

Whose marriage Rights shall not diminish?

Wife number one that is Sarah.  So her children will always get preference over the second or third wife and their children even if they are hated or loved. Biblical polygamy was practiced predominantly and very much part of Torah law even to this day.

Deuteronomy 21:15-16 "If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the unloved, and if the firstborn son is of her who is unloved.  (16) "then it shall be, on the day he bequeaths his possessions to his sons, that he must not bestow firstborn status on the son of the loved wife in preference to the son of the unloved, who is truly the firstborn.

Here YHWH is clear that even in a two wife situation that if the man loves one of the wives and does not love the other he still must give preference to the bekhor (first born) son of the unloved.  Yahuweh wanted to regulate the marriages so that women will not be left in an un-advantaged situation or their children neglected and without a father.  Today women are quick to run to the divorce courts but in the Middle-Eastern culture and even Muslims and Sepharidic Jews still have more than one wife and divorce is unheard of in these lands and communities.

So coming back to the story of Ishmael he was not unfavoured in any way but he was not given the Covenant or it could not continue through his line so if Muhammad being a son of Ishmael through his progeny then it will be apparent why Muhammad cannot be the prophet for YHWH but he certainly is the prophet for Allah considering Allah and YHWH are two entirely distinct deities.

Genesis 17:20 "And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Ishmael was to beget twelve sons and these were to be princes.  It should be apparent that twelve sons are not going to come from one woman so let us seek evidence if this is so.

Yahsar 21:17 And he and his mother afterward went to the land of Egypt, and they dwelt there, and Hagar took a wife for her son from Egypt, and her name was Meribah.

 

So here comes wife number one for Ishmael since YHWH had already decided that Ishmael was going to have twelve sons so you reckon that he deliberately went out seeking a second wife?  No, what YHWH had decided was good and kosher and no man can come in between to destroy the precepts of YHWH.  Sorry the West has its culture lopsided and thinks what they do is right. They are not. Israel practiced both monogamy and polygamy both were right.

Yahsar 21:18 And the wife of Ishmael conceived and bare four sons and two daughters, and Ishmael and his mother and his wife and children afterward went and returned to the wilderness.

 

So she conceived four sons and two daughters.  I would say the average for one wife in the Bible is about five children.

 It was Abraham who ordered his son through using an idiom such as nail of the tent to mean to take another wife since Ishmael’s first wife was not only beating up her children but also cursing her children and her husband and this thing displeased Abraham greatly.

The women are really the nail of the tent (home) and if that nail becomes blunt then the holy One of Israel help us because it can start to wreak havoc on a family no wonder the Bible says this in the book of proverbs.

Proverbs 19:13  A foolish son is the ruin of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

Ah I hear those ladies in the West who wear the pants trying to correct me.  Let me remind you ladies who are wives to submit to your husbands (Eph 5:22 be like Sarah, Rebeccah, Rachel and Leah) just as Yahushua commands and stop usurping authorities in the home trying to become little gods.  And husband love your wives unconditionally, give them respect even if they are haughty against you pray for them but do not call for divorce, this is unholy and not the way of YHWH.

Let’s get back to Ishmael.  Did YHWH know that Ishmael would take another wife?  Of course and fully approved by YHWH.

Contrary to popular belief Ishmael was very obedient to his father Abraham. 

The second wife of Ishmael was very obedient and she respected and honoured Abraham.  Abraham in turn blessed his son Ishmael in the name of YHWH.  Abraham his father was the one who approved for his son to have the second wife not condemning his son unlike today many Christian condemn fellow brothers who are in difficult marital situations and calling them names if they want to save their marriage and take on another wife by not divorcing.  I say it is fully approved and you have no reason to ask another man, ask YHWH only and listen to His voice for your life.

Yashar 21:41 And Abraham said to her, I will not stop for I am in haste to continue my journey, but give me a little water to drink, for I have thirst; and the woman hastened and ran into the tent and she brought out water and bread to Abraham, which she placed before him and she urged him to eat, and he ate and drank and his heart was comforted and he blessed his son Ishmael.

 

Would a father bless his son if he was into false worship?  No way of that happening.

You want proof?

Yashar 21:48 And Ishmael knew that it was his father, and that his wife had honored him, and YHWH blessed Ishmael.

 

Proof that YHWH blessed him for the sake of his second wife who was sincere and faithful. 

Quite an honour I might say for one that many people claim was unrighteous. Ishmael was indeed righteous albeit with his human issues which I must say we all also have and the Bible leaves us with the end of Ishmael showing us nothing negative about his belief system.  I would say Ishmael died believing in YHWH just like his dad Abraham so would go to be joined unto his fathers.  However the line diverted from Ishmael’s sons.

Genesis 25:9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite,

In fact the last reference to Ishmael’s sojourn in Israel shows us that he went to bury his dad.

 

Conclusion

I would say it would be very wrong for anyone to hate or show indifference to the Muslim people because there are some wonderful Muslim people.  I know some Christians who go around saying the Muslims should be annihilated or removed from the land of Israel.  This thing is obscene and should not be done as the Muslims have all the rights to live in the land of Israel as long as they submit to the Israel’s laws.

They are children of Ishmael connected along the patriarchal lines back to father Abraham.  In the end the Bible paints a very interesting picture of the struggle of Abraham’s two sons, Isaac with the line of Israel the twelve Patriarchs (Israel’s sons) and Ishmael with the twelve princes so the final battle is already drawn and the battle is over a piece of real estate today known as Israel.  The battle is spiritual but is being manifested in the physical.

Essentially as I have said in my book World War III – Unmasking the End Times Beast the conclusion is already evident, twelve sons of light (Israel) versus the twelve sons of darkness (Islam).  Now how many of Ishmael’s sons come to realisation of the light of Yahushua and be saved is something we do not need to question but we need to pursue as righteous servants of the most High to reach as many as possible that we can be the salt and the light of the earth to them so that the Son (Yahushua) may be manifested in their lives and many find eternal life.  Amen.

Simon Altaf was chosen by God for the special End-Times prophetic calling. A lone voice in the wilderness, one taught by God (Ps 119:120-121), a Messianic Rabbi and a writer. He is an ex-Muslim, called out of Islam to rejoin His people after his long exile. 

 

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