السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

الرَّبُّ صَخْرَتِي وَحِصْنِي وَمُنْقِذِي

Brothers,

There are some 200 names and titles of Jesus Christ found in the Holy Bible.

They are names that reflect the nature of Jesus Christ, His position in the tri-unity of God, and His salvation offered to every Arab and every Muslim.

We know already that name of God Jesus is Kalimat-Ullah/the Word of God.

But do you know that one of His names is Rock?


As life-giving water flowed from the rock Moses struck in the wilderness,

Jesus is the Rock from which flow the living waters of eternal life.

He is the Rock upon whom we build our spiritual houses,

so that no storm can shake them.

(1 Corinthians 10:4)


Jesus is the cornerstone of the building which is His church.

He cements together Jew and Gentile, male and female—all saints from all ages and places into one structure built on faith in Him which is shared by all. (Ephesians 2:20)


But let’s read this story:


Peter Confesses Jesus as the Christ

When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He (Jesus) asked His disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”
So they said, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Jesus answered and said to him,

“Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.

And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
Then He commanded His disciples that they should tell no one that He was Jesus the Christ.

Matthew 16:13-20



Jesus’ disciple Peter recognized that Jesus is God God. His confession of Jesus Christ as Messiah poured forth from him, a heart-felt declaration of Peter’s personal faith in Jesus. It is this personal faith in Christ which is the hallmark of the true Christian. Those who have placed their faith in Christ, as Peter did, are the Church/Ummah/the Community or Fellowship of all believers in God Jesus. Peter expresses this in 1 Peter 2:4-5 when he addressed the believers who had been dispersed around the ancient world: “Coming to Him (Jesus) as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”


So, we all Christians are living stones and are being built up a spiritual house.

We are a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through His Son Jesus Christ.


At this point, Jesus declares that God had revealed this truth to Peter. The word for “Peter,” Petros, means a small stone (John 1:42). Jesus used a play on words here with petra (“on this rock”) which means a foundation boulder He was going to build the Church/Ummah. Since Peter’s name means rock, and Jesus is going to build His church on a rock – it appears that Jesus is linking the two together. The Church is built of numerous small petros “living stones” (1 Peter 2:5) who, like Peter, confess that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, and those confessions of faith are the bedrock of the Church.

Listen to what my sister Ella said:

Many have erred especially those in the Catholic Church and Chirst of Christ, and many other denominations, who called Peter the rock upon which the church of Jesus Christ was built. To understand the true meaning of Christ’s words to Peter, we must firt look at the original Greek word in the text. We also must keep in mind that the New Testament was not written in Hebrew, but in the Greek language. In the Greek language, there are two words for “rock” The word translated PETER means a small rock or a fragment of a rock, but the word translated rock means a huge, massive rock.

In classic Greek, the distinction between these two words is wellknown. Christ IS NOT building His Church upon a small fragment of a rock, but upon a big rock, a great stone, which is to mean Himself. Becasue He is that “Sure ROCK” Jesus Christ the only one whom Peter had just declared to be “The Christ, The Son of The Living God”. For it is written “For there is no other foundation no man can lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ” When you compare I Corinthians chapter 3:11 to Acts chpater 4:10-12 you will see this clearly, that Jesus is revealed as the foundation of the Church.

Peter’s solid faith revealed the truth about Jesus Christ as the Messiah, our Savior. Therefore, Jesus revealed to Peter the further truth that Christ’s Kingdom would be established through His messianic ministry. Christ knew that He could entrust Peter with the task of preserving this truth for future generations. Jesus chose to give Peter the keys to the Kingdom, which gave Peter authority over the 1st century Church. The person with the keys has the authority to open or lock, bind or loose, and Christ give this authority to all His apostles. This authority to bind, loose open and close meant that each of the apostles had the power, authority, and ability to forbid or to pronounce unlawful and allow or to declare lawful. Only servants who were rock solid in their faith could be entrusted with so great an authority, which Christ has also given to all Christian believers who have been born again and have committed themselves totally and completely to Christ, sold out to the Kingdom as were the apostles.

Summary: So, brothers, you all can be NOT SLAVES as it is in Islam but the sons of God. You all could be entrusted with so great authority of God that you can cast out demons. God gave this authority to ALL Christians who are the Church/Ummah! There is a GREAT difference between sons and slaved. Religion which says about slavery of people and a FAITH which calls us to FREEDOM from our sins and slavery. Islam says: you are slaves. God who existed before the foundation of the Islam says: YOU ARE MY SONS. RETURN to Him brothers and live eternally through the FAITH in Ibn Allah! We are all “rocks” in God’s Church/a spiritual house.

Ibn Allah is “the Chief Cornerstone”

God said in Isaiah 28:16-17: “So this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who trusts will never be dismayed. I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line.’”

Jesus said:

“Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

(Matthew 7:24-25)

”The Lord is my rock” (Psalm 18:2) “And who is a rock, except our God?” (Psalm 18:31).

God said Isaiah 32:1-3 about the Second Coming of Ibn Allah:

ﺃﺷﻌﻴﺎء 32

1 انْظُرُوا هَا إِنَّ مَلِكاً يَمْلِكُ بِالْبِرِّ، وَرُؤَسَاءَ يَحْكُمُونَ بِالْعَدْلِ.

2 وَيُصْبِحُ كُلُّ إِنْسَانٍ كَمَلاَذٍ مِنَ الرِّيحِ، وَكَمَلْجَاءٍ مِنَ الْعَاصِفَةِ، أَوْ كَجَدَاوِلِ مِيَا هٍ فِي صَحْرَاءَ، أَوْ كَظِلِّ صَخْرَةٍ عَظِيمَةٍ فِي أَرْضٍ جَدْبَاءَ.

3 عِنْدَئِذٍ تَنْفَتِحُ عُيُونُ النَّاظِرِينَ، وَتُصْغِي آذَانُ السَّامِعِينَ (لاحْتِيَاجَاتِ شَعْبِهِمْ)

A Reign of Righteousness

Behold, a king will reign in righteousness,
And princes will rule with justice.
A man will be as a hiding place from the wind,
And a cover from the tempest,
As rivers of water in a dry place,
As the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
The eyes of those who see will not be dim,
And the ears of those who hear will listen.