Sabbath 6/10/40/120

Dear Friends,

We have completed the sequence of the seven “Ha Mim” which is the sequence from Surahs 40-46 dealing with the requirements to inherit the Resurrections of the Kingdom of God and the danger of the Second Death in the Lake of Fire after the Second Resurrection.

Summary of the Ha Mim texts to date:

Surah 40  Ha Mim is a warning to the idolaters at Mecca and among the Arabs and it is a call to the study of the Scriptures and to repentance and obedience so that their people may be granted their place in the First Resurrection and so that the people are warned of the dangers of the Second Death in the Second Resurrection.

Surah 41 Fusilat deals with the exposition of the Scriptures in Arabic to people who are assumed to have prior knowledge of the Scriptures.  It thus establishes that knowledge of the Scriptures is essential to an understanding of the Koran and of the Faith. The Surah takes up the warnings from S11 “Hud;” S13 “The Thunder” and S15 “Al Hijr.”  These texts portray the sequence of the destruction of the Arabs and Amalekites over the ages into the Last Days for their idolatry and the rejection of the Scriptures and the Command of God.

Surah 42 “The Consultation” or “Counsel” is directed at the Qureysh and the Arabs generally based from Mecca.  It is a specific warning to the Arabs generally for their idolatry and rejection of the Laws of God.  The entire Ha Mim are directed to this purpose of the conversion of the Arabs and their salvation which to date has not been effected.

Surah 43 “The Gold Adornments” also termed “The Ornaments of Gold” derived from a word in verse 35 is the Fourth of the Ha Mim.  The text refers to the Scriptures and the fact that the Koran is a summary in Arabic to make plain the meaning of the Scriptures.  It is not a substitute for them.  The Hadithic Imams pretend that the Scriptures were lost and that the terms refer only to the Koran which is false.  The text attacks the false teachings of the idolatrous Arabs and their failure to follow the Scriptures and is in fact prophecy.  The Prophet reinforces the role of Moses, and the Messiah the Christ gives the Laws and the Commandments of God (v 63).   He also reiterates in verse 81 that the Benificent One had no son (meaning by procreation), in that Messiah was born by divine fiat as we see in the previous Surahs just as were the other sons of God (Job 1:6; 2:1 and 38:4-7).

Surah 44 “The Smoke”  refers to the conditions of the Last Days but the Hadithic scholars attempt to limit it to the conditions before the conquest of Mecca following the drought there before the armies of the Prophet and the Church conquered Mecca and took in the thousands of unconverted and later unbaptised infidels as Muslims.

It is a prophecy of the Last Days for those under the pseudo Muslims (and pseudo Christians) and applies the penalty of the people of Egypt under Pharaoh when they rejected Moses (vv 17 ff).  Then the text refers to the Children of Israel in their deliverance (v 30) and their selection as the chosen of God (v. 32). The Arabs are then referred to as the People of Tubb’a as successors to the Amalekites and the fate of the idolatrous Arabs (see also Surah 15 Al Hijr above).

Surah 45 Al Jathiyah “the Kneeling” also termed “the Crouching” is named from verse 28 where the nations are all brought before God in judgment and thus more appropriately termed “the Kneeling.”  This is the Sixth of the Seven Ha Mim and is specifically a warning to the Arabs both in Mecca and Arabia then and in the Last Days for the Judgment in the two Resurrections of the Dead.

The text shows clearly that the Children of Israel were given the Scriptures, the Command and the Prophethood; and with Christ it was vested in the Churches of God as the Children of Israel and the nations would be judged according to the commands given to them (vv 16-17). 

The Ha Mim are clear prophecy of the Faith and the 7th, Surah 46 “The Barquands” or the “Wind Blown Sandhills,” is a final reinforcement of the warning to the Arabs of the Scriptures and the Commands of God and the fate of them and the nations in the Last Days. It is direct rebuke of the Binitarian/Ditheists and Trinitarians of their placement of any of the Host with Allah or Eloah and their fate in the Judgment (v. 4-6). 

The Prophet denies he is any new thing among the prophets of God and that he is another mere warner as were the prophets before him (v. 9).

The Koran states that it is a confirming Scripture of the Scriptures before it from Moses onwards (v. 12) and cannot therefore be read independently of the Scriptures and cannot therefore contradict them.

It also says that those who refuse to believe the Scriptures say that this is an ancient lie (vv. 11, 30), which is exactly what these false teachers did to the Koran with the Hadith and they will be judged and punished in the Second Resurrection.

The text places the Fifth Commandment as the basis of the acceptance of the elect and also even as we saw with Samuel at such a young age (vv 15-16).

We see that The Arabs and the nations will all be punished for not following the Laws of God and for praying to others aside from the One True God (vv. 19-28).  The Arabs from the A’ad on down are identified and also it is from the A’ad that we derive the name of the Wind Curved Sandhills and warning of the early Prophet to the A’ad whom they disregarded. 

All who died and were not converted and baptised of the Saints will be in the Second Resurrection as will be those who pray to other than the One True God Eloah or Allah.  Thus, those who pray to Christ, let alone the dead, such as Mariam and the saints will also be punished.

The text summarises the requirements for acceptance in the First Resurrection following on from the warnings of the previous Ha Mim. 

There is only One Lord; One Faith; and One Baptism, and those who teach against the Faith and the Scriptures will die and go to the Second Resurrection. So also will those who pray to other than the One True God Eloah who is the Father of all as Ha Elohim or The God, the father of all the Sons of God who are all elohim.  Is it not written in our law: I said ye are Gods (elohim or theoi) all of you? If he called them Gods to whom the word of God came (And Scripture cannot be broken) do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world. ‘You are blaspheming’ because I said ‘I am the son of God’? (Jn 10:34-36).

Wade Cox
Coordinator General