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The Ten Thousand Fraud
In the article PROPHECIES FOR 10,000 SAINTS & THEIR LEADER we
find Mr. Meherally to be again the master of scripture twisting.
He puts together a number of passages to make his case,
but none of them actually says what he claims for it. All of
them are individually treated at various places on this site.
We just ask you to read and compare his presentation with our
explanation of Habakkuk 3:3,
and Songs 5:16. One of
the strangest errors is that Mr. Meherally correctly quotes
Deuteronomy 33:2 and Jude 14, but fails to see that both passages
speak of "ten thousands" not "ten thousand" (KJV translation).
The words are in the plural, both in Hebrew (Deuteronomy) and
in Greek (Jude).
All of those passages using these numbers are clearly poetic and
want to indicate "larger than you can imagine". They do not give
precise numbers. [Remark by a Hebrew scholar: The word
is Rebabah, which means "myriads" as the NIV renders it.
It is an undefined number that is much larger than merely 10,000.] However, if Mr. Meherally insists on
such an inappropriate application and wants to read it literally
then he should at least do so honestly. The word is plural both
times, and not singular. Hence it has to be at least 2 x 10,000.
This is not fulfilled by Muhammad. Mererally himself quotes Martin
Lings
... the Helpers were four thousand, with five hundred horses;
and the tribes, including those who joined them on the way,
brought the total numbers up to nearly ten thousand men.
This means, Muhammad came up short by at least 50%.
Furthermore, only Jude 14 is a prophecy about the future.
Neither Songs 5:16 nor Deuteronomy 33:2 is prophecy. Songs
speaks about a present reality and Deut. 33:2 looks back at
a past event. None of them can possibly refer to Muhammad.
A careful look at at Deuteronomy 33:2 can be found in our
response to Mr. Al-Kadhi
and in particular in our analysis regarding his
reference to Yaqut.
Furthermore, Meherally refers to Isaiah 42 and Kedar, which
is also discussed in our response to Al-Kadhi.
In Habakkuk 3:3, Deuteronomy 33:2, and Jude 14, it clearly
is said that the LORD came or will come with his ten thousands
of holy ones. It is plain idolatery to substitute the name of
God with Muhammad. It is amazing how easily Meherally commits
what is according to his book the worst of all sins. We call on
him to repent of his idolatery in applying statements about God
to Muhammad.
Another very thorough rebuttal to the attempts to see Muhammad in the "tenthousands" prophecies
is given by Sam Shamoun.
Responses to A. Meherally
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