From Adam to the Messiah

Translations and additions have taken the present-day Bible very far from the original. But it still contains multiple references to the coming of the Prophet Muhammad. If one studies the Bible objectively, one will find specific references that cannot be applied to anyone else. The mission of the Prophet Jesus was to announce to the world, and the Jewish nation in particular, the coming of the final prophet. The “New Testament” to which he referred was, in truth, Islam, for it marked the end of Jewish religious hegemony and projected the Children of Ishmael as the true recipients of the word of God. Hence the rise of the Prophet Muhammad. The Prophet Jesus came to the world six hundred years before the last of the Prophets. In one reference to Jesus, the Quran has this to say: And remember the Prophet Jesus, who said to the Children of Israel: “I am sent forth to you by God to confirm the Torah already revealed and to give news of an apostle that will come after me whose name is Ahmad.”7 “Ahmad” and “Muhammad” have the same meaning: the praised one. In the Gospel of Barnabas, the name of the coming prophet is given quite clearly as Muhammad. But since Christians consider the Gospel of Barnabas apocryphal, we do not think it proper to quote from that source. We cannot even be sure whether Jesus, in his prophecy, referred to Ahmad or Muhammad. Most probably, he used a word with the same meaning as these names.