Bible says about Muhammad (S.A.W.)
Ahmed Deedat
SAY: "DO YOY SEE? WHETHER THIS MESSAGE BE FROM
ALLAH (God Almighty), AND YET YOU REJECT IT, AND A
WITNESS FROM AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BORE
WITNESS OF ONE LIKE HIM...." (Holy Quran 46:10).
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
The subject of this evening's talk - "What the BIBLE says about
MOHAMMAD(S.A.W.)" -will no doubt come as a surprise to many of you
because the speaker is a Muslims. How does it come about that a
Muslims happens to be expounding prophecies from the Jewish and
Christian Scriptures?
As a young man, about 30 years ago, I attended a series of religious
lectures by a Christian theologian, a certain Re. Hiten, at the "Theatre
Royal", Durban.
Pope or Kissinger?
This Reverend gentleman was expounding Biblical prophecies. He went on to prove that the Christian Bible foretold the rise of Soviet Russia, and the Last Days. At one stage he to the extent of proving that his Holy Book did not leave even the Pope out of its predictions. He expatiated vigorously in order to convince his audience that the "Beast 666" mentioned in the Book of Revelation- the last book of the New Testament - was the POPE, who was the Vicar of Christ on earth. It is not befitting for us Muslims to enter into this controversy between the Roman Catholics and the Protestants. By the way, the latest Christians scholars are ingenious and indefatigable in their efforts to prove their case.
Rev. Hiten's lectures led me to ask that if the Bible foretold so many things- not even excluding the "Pope" and Israel", - then surely it must have something to say about the greatest benefactor of mankind- the Holy Prophet Mohammad (may the peace of Allah be with him).
As a youngster I set out to search for an answer. I met priest after priest, attended lectures, and read everything that I could lay my hands relating to the field of Bible prophecies. Tonight I am going to narrate to you one of these interviews with a dominee of the Dutch Reformed Church.
Lucky Thirteen
I was invited to the Transvaal to deliver a talk on the occasion to the Birthday celebration of the Holy Prophet Muhammed(S.A.W.). Knowing that in that province of the Rebublic, the Africans language is widely spoken, even by my own people, I felt that I ought to acquire a smattering of this language so as to feel a little "at home" with the pople.
I oped the telephone directory and began phoning the Africans-speaking churches. I indicated my purpose to the priests that I was interrested in having dialogue with them, but they all refused my request my request with "plausible" excuses. No. 13 was my lucky number. the thirteenth call brought me pleasure and relief. a dominee Van Heerden agreed to meet me at his home on the Saturday afternoon that I was to leave for Transvaal.
He received me on the verandah with a friendly welcome. He said if I did not mind, he would like his father-in-law from the Fee State (a 70-year old man) to join us in the discussion. I did not mind. the three of us settled down in the dominee's library.
Why Nothing?
I posed the question: "What does the Bible say about Muhammed(S.A.W.)?" Without hestition he answered, "Nothing!" I aksed: "Why nothing? According to your interpretation the Bible have so many things to say about the rise of Soviet Russia and about the Last Days and even about the Pope of the Roman Catholics?" He said, "Yes, but there was nothing about Muhammad(S.A.W.)!" I asked again, "Why nothing? Surely this man Muhammed(S.A.W.) who had been responsible for the bringing into being a world-wide community of millions who, on his authority, believe in
1) the miraculous birth of Jesus
2) that Jesus is the Messiah,
3) that he gave life to the dead by God's permission, and that he healed those born blind and the lepers by God's permission.
Surely this book ( the Bible) must have something to say about this great Leader of men who spoke so well of Jesus and his mother Mary?"
The man from the Free State replied, "My son, I have been reading the Bible for the past 50 years, and if there was any mention of him I would have known it?"
Not One by Name!
I enquired: "According to you, are there not hundreds of prophecies regarding the coming of Jesus in the Old Testament." The dominee interjected: "Not hundreds, but thousands!" I said, " I am not going to despute the 'thousand and one' prophecies in the Old Testament regarding the coming of Jesus Christ, because the whole Muslim-world has already accepted him without the testimony of any Biblical prophecy.
We Muslims have accepted the de facto Jesus on the authority of of Muhammad(S.A.W.) alone, and there are in the world to-day no less than 1500,000,000 followers of Muhammed(S.A.W.) who love, respect and revere this great Messenger of God -Jesus Christ- without having the Chirstians to convince them by means of their Biblical dialectics.
Out of the 'thousands' of Prophecies referred to, can you please give me just one signel prophecy where Jesus in mentioned by name? The term 'Messiah', translated as 'Christ', is not a name but a title. Is there a single prophecy where it says that the name of the Messiah will be JESUS, and that his mother's name will be MARY, and that his supposed father will be JOSEPH THE CARPENTER; that he will be born in the reign of HEROD THE KING, etc. etc? No! There are no such details! Then how can you conclude that those 'thousand' prophecies refer to Jesus?"
What is Prophecy?
The dominee replied: "You see, prophecies are word-prophecies are word-pictures of something that is going to happen in the future. When the thing actually comes to pass, we see vividly in these prophecies, the fulfilment of what had been predicted in the past." I said: "What you actually do is that you deduce, you reason, you put two and two together." He said: "Yes." I said: "If this is what you have to do with a 'thousand' prophecies to justify your claim with regard to the genuineeness of Jesus, why should we not adopt the very same system for Muhammed(S.A.W.)?" The dominee agreed that if was a fair proposition, a reasonable way of dealing with the problem.
I asked him to open up deuteronomy, chapter 18 verse 18, which he did. I read from memory the verse in Africaans, because this was my purpose in having a little practice with the language of the ruling race in South Africa.
'n PROPFEET SAL EK VIR HULLE VERKUIT DIE MIDDE VAN HULLE BROERS, SOOS JY IS, EN EK SAL MY WOORDE IN SY MOND LE, EN HY SY SAL AAN HULLE SE ALLES WAT EK HOM BEVEEL. Deut. 18: 18.
The english translation reads as follows:
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and I will put my words in his mouth; and he sahll speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Prophet Like Moses
Having recited the verse in Africans, I a apologised for my uncertain pronunication. The dominee assured me that I was doing fine. I enquired: "To whom does this prophecy refer?" Without the slightest hestiation he answered: "Jesus!" I asked: "Why Jesus- his name is not mentioned here?" The dominee replied: "Since prophecies are word-pictures of some thing that is going to happen in the futre, we find that the wordings of this verse adequately describe him.
You see the most important words of this prophecy are 'SOOS JYIS' (like unto thee), - LIKE YOU- like Moses, and Jesus in like Moses. I questioned: " In which way is Jesus like Moses?" The answer was: "in the first place Moses was a JEW and Jesus was also a JEW; secondly, Moses was a PROPHET and Jesus was alos a PROPHET- therefore Jesus is like Moses and that is exactly what God had foretold Moses- "SOOS JYIS." "Can you think of any other similarities between Moses and Jesus?" I asked. The dominee said that he could not think of any.
I replied: "If these are the only two criteria for discovering a candidate for this prophecy of Deuteronomy 18:18, then in that case the criteria could fit anyone of the following Biblical personages after Moses: - Solomon, Isaiah, Esehiel, daniel, Hosea, Joel, Malachi, John the Baptist etc., because they were also ALL Jews as well as Prophetd. Why should we not apply this prophecy to any one of these prophets, and why ony to Jesus? Why should we make fish of one and fowl of another?" The dominee had reply. I continued: "You see, my conclusions are that Jesus is most unlike Moses, and if I am wrong I would like to correct me."
Three Unlikes
So saying, I reasoned with him: In the FIRST place Jesus is not like Moses, because, according to you- 'JESUS IS A GOD', but Moses is not God, Is this true?" He said: "Yes, I said: "Therefore Jesus is not like Moses!" Secondly according to you- 'JESUS DIED FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD' but Moses did not have to die for the sins of the world. Is this true?" He again said: "Yes." I said: "Therefore Jesus is not like Moses!" "THIRDLY, according to you- JESUS WENT TO HELL FOR THREE DAYS'. but Moses did not have to go there. Is this true? He answered meekly: "Y-e-s." I concluded: "Therefore Jesus is not like Moses!"
"But dominee," I continued: "these are not hard facts, solide facts, tangible facts; they are mere matters of belief over which the little ones can stumble and fall. Let us discuss something very simple, very easy that if your little ones are called into hear the discussion, would have no difficulty in following it, shall we?" The dominee was quite happy at the suggestion.
Father and Mother
(1) "Moses had a father and mother, Muhammed also had a father and a mother. But Jesus had only a mother, and no human father. Is this true?" He said: "Yes." I said: "EAAROM IS JESUS NIE SOOS MOSES NIE, MAAR MUHUMMED IS SOOS MOSES!" Meaning: "Therefore Jesus is not like Moses, but Muhammed is like Moses! (By now the reader will realize that I was using the Africans language only for practice purposes. I shall discontinue its use in this narration).
Miraculous Birth
(2) "Moses and Muhammed were born in the normal, natural course, i.e. the physical association of man and woman; but Jesus was created by a special miracle. You will recall that we are told in the Jospel of St. Matthew 1:18" '...BEFORE THEY CAME TOGETHER, (Joseph the Carpernter and Mary) SHE WAS FOUND WITH CHILD BY THE HOLY GHOST.'
And St. Luke tells us that when the good news of the birth of a holy son was announced to her, Mary reasoned: '...HOW SHALL THIS BE, SEEING I KNOW NOT MAN? AND THE ANGEL ANSWERED AND SADI UNTO HER, THE HOLY GHOST SHALL COME UPON THE, AND THE POWER OF THE HIGHEST SHALL OVERSHADOW THEE...' (Luke 1:35).
The holy Quran confirms the miraculous birth of Jesus, in nobler and sublimer terms. In answer to her logical question: 'O my Lord How shall I have a son when no man hath touched me?' the angel says in reply: 'Even so: Allah createth what He willeth: when He hath decreed a plan, He but saith to it"Be," and it is!' (Holy Quran 3: 47) It is not necessary for God to plant a seed in man or animal. He merely wils it and it comes into being. This is the Muslim conception of the birth of Jesus." (When I compared the Quranic and the Biblical versions of the birth of Jesus to the head of the Bible Society in our largest city, and when I eqquired "Which version would you prefer to give your daughter, the QURANIC version or the BIBLICAL version?" The man bowed his head and aswered: "The Quranic.)
In short, I said to the dominee: "Is it ture that Jesus was born miraculously as against the natural birth of Moses and Muhammed?" He replied proudly: "YES" I said: "Therefore Jesus is not like Moses, but Muhammed is like Moses. And God says to Moses in the Book of Deuteronomy 18:18 "LIKE UNTO THEE" (like You, Like Moses) and Muhammed is like Moses."
Marriage Ties
(3) "Moses and Muhammed married and begat children, but Jesus remained a bachelor all his life. Is this true?" The dominee said: "Yes." I said: "Therefore Jesus is not like Mose, but Muhammed is like Moses."
Jesus Rejected by his People
(4) "Moses and Muhammed were accepted as prophets by their people in their very lifetime. No doubt the Jews gave endless trouble to Moses and they murmured in the wilderness, but as a nation, they acknowledged the Moses was a Messenger of God sent to them. The Arabs too made Muhammed's life impossible. He suffered very badly at their hands.
After 13 years of preaching in Mecca, he had to emigrate from the city of his birth. But before his demise, the Arab nation as a whole accepted him as the Messenger from Allah. but according to the Bible - 'He (Jesus) CAME UNTO HIS OWN, BUT HIS WON RECEIVED NOT.' (John 1:11) And even today, after two thousand years, his people - the Jews, as a whole, have rejected him. Is this true?" The dominee said: "Yes." I said: "THEREFORE JESUS IS NOT LIKE MOSES, BUT MUHAMMED IS LIKE MOSES."
"Other-worldly" Kindgdom
(5) "Moses and Muhammed were prophets as well as kings. By prophet I mean a man who receives Divnine Revelation for the Guidance of Man and this Guidance he conveys to God's creatures as received without any addition or deletion. A king is a person who has the power of life and death over his people. It is immaterial whether the person wears a crown or not, or whether he was ever addressed as king or monarch: if the man has the prerogative of inflicting capital punishment - HE IS A KING.
Moses possessed such a power. do you remember the Israelite who was found picking up firewood on Sabath Day, and Moses had him stoned to stead? (Numbers 15:36) there are other crimes also mentioned in the Bible for which capital punishment inflicted on the Jews at the behest of Moses. Muhammed too, had the power of life and death over his people. there are instances in the Bible of persons who were given gift of prophecy only, but they were not in a position to implement their directive.
Some of these hly men of God who were helpless in the face of stubborn rejection of their message, were the prophets Lot, Jonah, Daniel, Ezra, and John the Bapits. They could only deliver the message, but could not enforce the Law. The Holy Prophet Jesus unfortunately also belonged to this category. The Christian Gospel clearly confirms this: when jesus was dragged before the Roman Governor, Pontius Pilate, charged for sedition, Jesus made a convincing point in his defence to refute the false charge:
JESUS ANSWERED, 'MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD': IF MY KINGDOM WERE OF THIS WORLD, HEN WOULD MY RFIGHT, THAT I SHOULD NOT BE DELIVERED TO THE JEWS; BUT NOW IS MY KINGDOM NOT FROM HENCE," (John 18:36) This convinced Pilate (A Pagan) that though Jesus might not be in full possession of his mental faculty, he did not strike him as being a danger to his rule. Jesus claimed a spiritual kingdom only; in other words he only claimed to be a prophet. Is this true?" The dominee answered: "Yes." I said: "Therefore Jesus in not like Moses but Muhammed is like Moses."
No New Laws
(6) "Moses and Muhammed brought new laws and new regulations for their pwople. Moses not only gave the Ten Commandments to the Israelities, but a very comprehensive ceremonial law for the guidance of his people. Muhammed comes to a people steeped in barbarism and ignorance. They married their step-mothers; they buried their daughters alive; drunkenness, audltery, odolatry, and gambling were the order of the day.
Gibbon describes the Arabs before Islam in his "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", 'THE HUMAN BRUE, ALOMOST WITHOUT SENSE, IS POORLY DISTINGUISHED FROM THEREST OF THE ANIMAL CREATION.' There was hardly anything to distinguish between the "man" and the "animal" of the time; they were animals in human form.
"From this abject barbarism Muhammed elevated them, in the word os Thomas Carlyle, 'into torch-bearers of light and learning.'
'TO THE ARAB NATION IT WAS AS A BITH FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT. ARABIA FIRST BECAME ALIVE BY MENAS OF IT. A POOR SHEPHERD PEOPLE, ROAMING UNNOTICED IN ITS DESERTS SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD. SEE, THE UNNOTICED BECOMES WORLD NOTABLE, THE SMALL HAS GROWN WORLD-GREAT. WITHIN ONE CENTURY AFTERWARDS ARABIA WAS AT GRANDADA ON ONE HAND AND ATDELHI ON THE OTHER. GLANCING IN VALOUR , AND SPLENDOUR AND THE LIGHT OF GENIUS, ARABIA SHINES OVER A GREAT SECTION OF THE WORLD...' The fact is that Muhammed gave his people a Law and Order they never had before.
"As regards Jesus, when the Jews felt suspicious of him that he might be an imposter with designs to pervert their teachings, Jesus took pains to assure them that he had not come with a new religion - - no new laws and no new regulations. I quote his own words: 'THINK NOT THAT I AM COME TO DESTORY THE LAW , OR THE PROPHETS: I AM NOT COME TO DESTROY, BUT TO FULFIL. FOR VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, TILL HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS, ONE JOT OR ONE TITLE SHALL IN NOWEISE PASS FROM THE LAW, TILL ALL BE FULFILLED.'
(Matthew 5:17-18). In other words he had not come with any new laws or regulations; he came only to fulfil the old law. This is what he gave the Jews to understand -unless he was speaking with the tongue in his cheek trying to bluff the Jews into accepting him as a man of God and by subterfuge trying to ram a new religion down their throats. No! This Messenger of God would never resort to such foul means to subvert the Religion of God. he himself fulfilled the laws.
He observed the commandments of Moses, and he respected the Sabbath. At no time did a single Jew point a finger at him to say 'why don't you fast' or why don't you wash your hands before you break bread', which charges they always levied against his disciples, but never against Jesus. This is because as a good Jew he honoured the laws of the prophets who preceded him . In short, he had created no new religion and had brought no new law like Moses and Muhammed is this true?" I asked the dominee, and he answered: "Yes." I said: "Therefore, Jesus is not like Moses but Muhammed is like Moses."
How they Departed
(7) "Both Moses and Muhammed died natural deaths, but according to Christianity, Jesus was voilently killed on the cross. Is this true? The dominee said: "Yes." I averred: "Therefore Jesus is not like Moses but Muhammed is like Moses."
Heavenly Abode
(8) "Moses and Muhammed both lie buried in earth, but according to you, Jesus rests in heaven. Is this true?" The dominee agreed. I said : "Therefore Jesus is not like Moses But Muhammed is like Moses."
Ishamael The First Born
Since the dominee was helplessly agreeing with every point, I said "Dominee, os far what I have done is to prove only one point out of the whole prophecy- that is proving the phrase 'LIKE UNTO THEE- 'like you'-'like Moses'. The prophecy is much more than this single phrase which reads as follows: "I WILL RAISE THEM UP A PROPHET FROM AMONG THEIR BRETHREN LIKE UNTO THEE..." The emphasiz is on the words-- "From among their brethren."
Moses and his people, the Jews are here addressed as a racial entity , and as such their 'brethren' would undoubtedly be the Arabs. You see, the Holy Bible speaks of Abraham as the "Friend of God". Abraham had two wives - Sarah and Hagar. Hagar bore Abraham a son- HIS FIRST-BORN- ".....And Abrahm called HIS SON'S name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.' (Genesis 16: 15). And Abraham took Ishmael HIS SON..." (Genesis 17:23).
'And Ishmael HIS SON was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskind.' (Genesis 17:25) Upto the agoe THIRTEEN Ishmael was the ONLY son and see of Abraham, when the convenant was ratified between God and Abraham. God grants Abraham another son through Sarah, named Isaac, who was very much the junior to his brother Ishmael.
Arabs and Jews
If Ishmael and Isaac are the sons of the same father Abraham, then they are brothers. And so the children of the one are the BRETHREN of the children of the other. The children to one antoher. The Bible affirms, 'AND HE (ISHMAEL) SHALL DWELL IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL HIS BRETHREN.' (Gensis 25: 18). The children of Isaac are the brethren of the Ishmaelities. In like manner Muhammed is from among the brehtren of the Israelities because he was a descendant of Ishmael, the of Abraham.
This is exactly as the prophecy has it- "FOM AMONG THEIR BRETHREN'. (Deut. 18:18). There the prophecy distinctly mentions that the coming prophet who would be like Moses, must arise NOT from the ' children of Israel' or from 'among themselves', but from among their brethren. MUHAMMED THEREFORE WAS FROM AMONG THEIR BRETHREN!
Words in the Mouth
The prophecy proceeds further: ' ...... AND I WILL PUT MY WORDS INTO HIS MOUTH...' What does it means when it is said 'I will put my words in your mouth'? You see, when I asked you (the dominee) to open Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verse 18, at the beginning, and if I had asked you to read, and if you had read, would I be putting my words into your mouth? The dominee answered: "No." But I continued:
"If I were to teach you a language like Arabic about which you have no knowledge, and if I asked you to read or repeat after me what I utter i.e.
SAY: HE IS ALLAH THE ONE AND ONLY;
ALLAH, THE ENTERNAL ABSOLUTE;
HE BEGETTETH NOT , NOR IS HE BEGOTTEN;
AND THERE IS NONE LIKE UNTO HIM.
Would I not be putting these unheard words of a foreign tongue which you utter, into your mouth?" The dominee agreed that it was indeed so. In an identical manner, I said, the words of the Holy Quran, the Revelation vouchsafed by the Almight God to Muhammed, were revealed.
History tell us that Muhammed was forty years of age. He was in a cave some three miles north of the City of Mecca.
It was the 27th night of the Muslim moth of Ramadaa. In the cave the Archangel Gabriel commands him in his mother tongue: ÇÞÑÇð which means READ! or PROCLAIM! or RECITE! Muhammed : I AM NOT LEARNED! The angel commands him a second time with the same result. For the third time the angel continues:
Now, Muhammed grsps, that what was required of him was to repeat ! or rehearse! And he repeats the words the words as they were put into his mouth:
"READ! IN THE NAME OF THE LORD AND CHERISHER, WHO CREATED-
CREATED MAN, FROM A (MERE) CLOT OF CONGEALED BLOOD:
rEAD! AND THEY LORD IS MOST BOUNTIFUL,-
HE WHO TAUGHT (THE USE OF ) THE PEN,-
TAUGHT MAN THAT WHICH HE KNEW NOT." (Holy Quran 96:1-5)
These are the first five verses which were revealed to Muhammed which now occupy the beginning of the 96th chapter fo the Holy Quran.
The Faithful Witness
Immediately the the angel had departed, Muhammed rushed to his home. Terrified and sweating all over he asked his bloved wife Kahdija to cover him up! He lay down and she watched by him. When he had gained his composure, he explained to her what he had seen and heard. She assured him of her faith in him and that Allah would not allow such a terrible thing to happen to him. Are these the confessions of an imposter?
Would imposters confess that when an angel of the Lord confronts them with a Message from on High, they get fear-stricken, terrified, and sweating all over, run home to their wives? Any critic can see that his reactions and confessions are that of an honest, sincere man, the man of Truth- 'AL AMIN'- The Honest, the Upright, the Truthful.
During the next twenty-three years of his prophetic life, words were 'put into his mouth', and he uttered the. They made an indelible impression on his heart and mind: and as the volume of the Sacred Scripture (Holy Quran) grew, they were recorded on palm-leaf fibre, on skins and on the shoulder-blades of animals; and in order in which we find them today in the Holy Quran.
The words (revlation) were actualy put into his mouth, exactly as foretold in the prophecy under dis cussion; 'And I will put my words in his mouth.' (Deut. 18:18)
Un-lettered Prophet
Mohammed experience in the cave of Hira, later to be known as Jabal-un-Noor- of another Biblical prophecy. In the Book of Isaiah, chapter, 29, verse 12, we read; "AND THE BOOK" (al-Kitaab, al-Quran- the 'Reading', the 'Recitation') "IS DELIVERED TO HIM THAT IS NOT LEANRED," ÇáäÈí ÇáÇãí the unlearned Prophet, (Holy Quran 7: 158) "SAYING, READ THIS, I PRAY THEE:' (the words "I pray thee", are not in the Hebrew manuscripts; compare with the Roman Cathlics' Douay Version" and also with the "Revisied Standard versions") AND HE SAITH, I AM LEARNED." ( "I am not leaned, " is the exact translation of the wordsãÇÇäÇ ÈÞÇÑÆ which words Muhammed uttered twice to the Holy Ghost - the Archangel Gabriel, when he was commanded "READ!").
Let me quote the verse in full without a break as found in the "Kind James version, " or the "Authorised Version" as it is more popularly known "AND THE BOOK IS DELIVERED TO HIM THAT IS NOT LEARNED, SAYING READ THIS , I PRAY THEE: AND HE SAIDTH, I AM NOT LEARNED." (ISAIAH 29:12)
It may be noted that there were no Arabic Bibles in existence in the 6th Century of the Christian Era when Muhammed lived and preached ! Besides, he was absolutely unlettered and unlearned. No human had ever taught him a word. His teacher was his
creator-æãÇíäØÞ Úä ÇáåæÇí
HE DOES NOT SPEAK (AUGHT), OF ( HIS OWN) DESIRE
IT IS NO LESS THAN INSPIRATION SENT DOWN TO HIM:
HE WAS TAUGHT BY ONE MGHTY IN POWER,"
Without any human learning, ' he put to shame the wisdom of the learned'.
Grave Warning
"See! I told the dominee, 'how the prophecies fit Muhammed like a glove. We do not have to strtch prophecies to justify their fulfilment in Muhammed.'
The Dominee replied: "All your exposition sound very well, but they are of no real consequence, because we Chritians have Jesus Christ the incarnate" God, who has redeemed us from the Bondage of sin.
I asked: "No important?" God did not think so! He went to a great deal to trouble to have His warnings recorded. God knew that there would be people like you who will flippantly, light-heartedly discounout his words, so he followed up deuteronomy 18:18 with a dire warning: "AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS," (it is going to happen) "THAT WHOSOEVER WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO MY WORDS WHICH HE SHALL SPEAK IN MY NAME, I WILL REQUIRE IT OF HIM."
(In the Catholic Bible the ending words are- "I will be the revenger", - I will take verngeance from him- I will take revenge