Origins Of Judeo-Christian Vs Muslim Enmity & Strife ( Part Four)

by Joel Hendon⁽¹⁷⁰⁾ Red Star

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We learned in our last episode that the nomadic roamers and looter arabs moved into the lands and cities left when the children of Israel were finally all conquered and taken away into captivity. When the Roman empire conquered this land, all were under the Roman rule and no others had the authority to rule. So the Jews that were left in the land and all others who infiltrated were living under the same conditions. During this time, the Lord's church fell into apostasy and also became politically powerful.

In the lifetime of Muhammad when he started the Islamic religion, those Arabs who especially had shunned and despised the Jews as well as the early Christians, embraced the new Islamic religion by the thousands since it was founded by one of their own. There was violence almost from the beginning of this new religion. They took land and cities one by one, often without violence but with violence when necessary. Thus,the beginning of the infamous Christian Crusades. The Muslims had taken control of Jerusalem in 638 S.D. and continued in that regard until the early 11th century. they allowed the Jews freedom for their pilgrimages into the city until the Seljuk Turks took control and they stopped the Jewish pilgrimages. The first crusade was begun by Pope Urban II cooperating with Emporer Alexus I of Constantinople, calling on all the European princes to join in the crusade. It was the most successful of all the crusades and the European conquerors established 4 Latin kingdoms to "protect pilgrims and the holy sites". There were seven crusades from 1095 to 1291. The brutality shown in these crusades will forever be remembered.

"Some of our men cut off the heads of their enemies; others shot them with arrows, so that they fell from the towers; others tortured them longer by casting them into the flames. Piles of heads, hands and feet were to be seen in the streets of the city. It was necessary to pick one's way over the bodies of men and horses. But these were small matters compared to what happened at the temple of Solomon, a place where religious services ware ordinarily chanted. What happened there? If I tell the truth, it will exceed your powers of belief. So let it suffice to say this much at least, that in the temple and portico of Solomon, men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins." (Raymond of Agiles...Historian)

Fast forward now to World War II. After this second world war ended and the United Nations organization was formed, the Israelies living in and around Jerusalem petitioned the U.N. to be given their homeland back and claimed that the Bible was their authority to claim it since God gave the land to them. It was then under the control of the British and they did grant them the land which they held until the six days war in 1965. When most of their Arab neighbors attacked them, Israel fought back with a vengeance and captured the lands known as the Gaza Strip, Sinia Peninsula, West Bank and Golan Heights. They took them to form a buffer zone around Israel. These lands have been in contention since.

This has been a very abbreviated run down on the history of the hatred, dissension and violence between the children of Isaac and those of Ishmael and Esau. Some profess that there is no hatred among them, but all the violence belies that. It is most likely that this simmering hatred will prevail as long as those forces exist. Neither side has a legitimate claim on the land. God's promise of the land to Israel was voided by their disobedience.

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