Saturday, August 27, 2016

WOMEN: WHY?

      "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."  (Genesis 1: 27)


   If you ever read parts of the Qur'an of Islam, you will learn that Allah has nothing good to say about women; in fact, the only woman mentioned by name in the Qur'an is Mary, the mother of Jesus.  Other than that, not one name of a woman is written, not even the names of the wife or female children of Mohammad the prophet of Islam.
   To Allah, women are as nothing.  They are to be no more than slaves of men, to be used and abused as men desire, and even to be hanged or beheaded by the authority of men.  Women have no civil or religious rights, no right for an attorney, and even the police will not stop men from abusing them or killing them.
   We know that the World Religion will gather in Jerusalem next month, and we know that Islam is the third leg of a tripod---along with Catholicism and Judaism---that will hold all other world religions together under the authority of Pope Francis.
   But let us be clear at this time and very honest:  Allah is just another name for Satan.
   So the question of the day is this:
      Why would women of the Catholic Church, or women of all Protestant denominations that are moving toward Jerusalem, choose to remain as followers of this World Religion, knowing the history of Islam?  For even this World Religion will be a system dominated by men, where women will have no seat at the table.  They will be used and abused in the future just as they are used and abused now.
   Women, you are better than this! 
   You are created in the image of God and not in the image of Allah. 
   For women hold a special place in the heart of God as well in the heart of Christ our Lord.
   It was a woman named Mary, who anointed Jesus with oil.
   It was the woman at the well, whom Jesus had compassion, after which she became an evangelist, ran to town and brought men to Jesus, and saying, "is not this the Christ?"  (John 4: 29)
   It was Mary and Martha and their brother Lazarus of Bethany who were special friends of Jesus, and Jesus was a frequent quest in their home when the Lord was near Jerusalem.
   It was Claudia Procula, the wife of Pontius Pilate, who became a disciple of Jesus after the Lord's crucifixion.
   It was a group of women, and not men (other than John), who remained at the cross of Jesus while the Lord bled and died.
   It was Mary Magdelene, who was the first witness at the empty tomb of Jesus, who ran and "told the disciples that she had seen the Lord."  (John 20: 18)
   It was Mary, the mother of Jesus, who was praying in the upper room with 120 disciples on the Day of Pentecost, where "they were all with one accord in one place".  (Acts 2: 1)
   It was Fanny Crosby, 1820-1915, who wrote more than a thousand hymns for the Lord, and Fanny Crosby was blind.
   Throughout the Bible, there are hundreds and hundreds of names of women, who have done some great and marvelous works for God:  and God remembers them, each and every one. 
   But God also knows that women like deals, and there is no better deal than Christ the Lord.
   Knowing this, women can be assured that they will have a seat at the table of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb (see Revelation 19: 6-9). 
      "Nay in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."  (Romans 8: 37-39)

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