THE BOOK

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The Torah, Jerusalem, and the Promised Messiah.

In terms of the Jewish faith, the Torah will be looked at too, for the ‘holy city’ of Jerusalem is claimed by all three. However, in the minds of the Jewish race, by Divine ordination Jerusalem and Jews are inseparable; it belongs to them.

The great religious divide that today characterises the ‘occupation/ownership’ of Jerusalem thus offers one more twist to what will ultimately emerge as a very complex and tragic tale. In the end, however, an horrific outcome wrought simply by the collective religious beliefs of all three protagonists.

For instance, Christians certainly expect the ‘Promised Messiah’ to appear again in the Holy Land, as do the Jews. Since the “Promised Messiah” is expected to bring peace, judgement, knowledge, Truth and Law to the world, He fulfils the same purpose for the same reasons as “The Spirit of Truth”, but is He One and the Same? Islam says not, for Muhammad was that Personage according to the Koran, and Islam –- or at least some within the faith -– expects that the advent/arrival of the “Messiah” is yet to occur in order that certain prophecies be fulfilled.

Therefore, in a singular mini-summary on this particular subject, what we seem to have here are the three key religions that hold to a One God, that accept a “Spirit of Truth” Who has brought, or will bring, all of The Truth for all of mankind, that further accepts the Coming of a “Promised Messiah”, Who may or may not be One and the Same for two of the religions.

It is a toxic minefield of such ‘religiously-righteous’ belief, claim and counter-claim that the possibility of mutual recognition and harmonious accommodation of how it actually is, will be forever lost to all three until the terrible “Day of Recognition and Reckoning”.

Until that day, the arguments and claims have nowhere to rest except in their “dark form” of increasing divisiveness. [We will go into this complete topic to a commensurate level in later Discourses].

For the moment in this introductory phase, let’s briefly look at the Jewish position as given by Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, Talmudist, Halachist, physician, philosopher and communal leader, known in the Jewish world by the acronym, “Rambam”.

Principle 12 of Rambam’s 13 Principles of Faith declares:

Jewish scholars contributing to that website quote numerous Scriptures to make the point that Jerusalem will be the final seat of “Jehovah’s Law”; e.g.,

So we have an unshakeable belief and, of course, a direct challenge to Islam for the right to claim ascendancy over all other religions. Yet despite the fact that the great Truths of peace and goodwill are present in all three “Books of the Religions”, history records differently; continual war and bloodshed in each religion, and between the same three. On the surface then, like so many interpretations of the religious books of the “big three” of monotheism, all is never as Scripture and Verse might indicate. For instance, from the Fenton Bible; a different interpretation of Isaiah 2:3 and 2:2-4 inclusive:

The clear belief and assumption is that these particular Scriptures refer, literally, to the city of Jerusalem in Israel today, but if we read into what Isaiah is saying here –- as he also says in other Scriptures –- ‘the presence and place of Mountains’! e.g., “...the Hill of the Lord’s House shall stand at the head of the Hills, and rise o’er the Mountains ...”

[For the moment we will let such beliefs rest, but will revisit them much more strongly and definitively in future Discourses. In the process, we might just shake the “tree” of many a currently-established, supposedly-sacrosanct religious foundation vigorously enough so that any “rotten fruit” still clinging to its branches will fall onto the “dust of the ground”. For only there --- by ordination of the “Natural Laws of Creation” --- stands the correct place of all “rotting fruit”. Only clear and unblemished TRUTH will be permitted to exist In Isaiah’s “New Earth” time.]

To reiterate the Islamic position here: If, as Muslims claim, the actual Spirit of Truth was incarnated in Muhammad in the 7^th century A.D., then Jews and Christians awaiting the Coming of Him have long missed the boat. Yet the 7^th century to the present is clearly a very long time-period, with no apparent connection to an End-time scenario --- for which The Spirit of Truth was destined to come!

Muslims would no doubt be horrified at the effrontery of such a position. In their eyes, He was/is Mohammad. Of course, in order for Mohammad to be considered The Spirit of Truth, the prophecy --- or perhaps warning –- had logically to have been uttered long before he was born. That fact must surely fit uncomfortably with at least some from the Islamic faith, because the prophesied ‘arrival’ was proclaimed by Jesus to His Disciples. In Islamic eyes, a ‘son of Mary’ was ‘permitted’ to ‘see’ that event and so proclaim it. Muhammad clearly accepted his role and mission as Prophet and Messenger.

But did he, himself, ever personally state that he was The Spirit of Truth and/or the Promised Messiah? That is a crucial question which, in the context of this Work and the claim of Muslims in the affirmative world-wide, must be established beyond all doubt. So, where is, or where are, the Verse/s from Muhammad, which affirm/s any kind of personal claim to the Title? Thus far, this writer has not found one single Verse where Muhammad, himself, proclaimed that he was the Spirit of Truth; or is he designated as such by appointment from Muslim scholars and followers?

Global Christendom, in unambiguous opposition, could not possibly countenance such a notion, simply because the whole foundation of Christianity rests on the certainty that Jesus was the actual Son of God. In that capacity, therefore, His Divine Mandate “powered the promise” of the Coming of a Spirit of Truth to deliver the All-Truth --- thus the whole of The Truth --- to a future humanity. Since Christendom clearly believes there is no All-Truth on earth at this time --- otherwise the Global Church would be a very different entity by now --- The Spirit of Truth has, in their eyes, therefore ‘not arrived’.

In the case of the other monotheistic religion, Judaism, such an event should really matter, for in its “outworking on earth” the reality is, in effect, a Final Truth --- of Divine Law and Justice --- and would thus impact severely on the Jewish race given their rejection of Jesus as The Son of God, and long- prophesied as their Messiah. As for the many other ‘beliefs’ across the globe, the whole idea is probably irrelevant. Yet for some, that promise features strongly in their religions too.

As we track our way through this Work, the unfolding comparisons, analyses and revelatory insights and conclusions should cause the reader to rethink his personal position on the whole question/debate outlined in this Introduction: Has He been, and/or is the All-Truth actually ‘here’ on earth?

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