Call it a contemplative reflection, or seeing obvious patterns of “Reason”.
Christ at the Center of History!
Introduction: The God Who Does Not Change
Our God is a God of mercy and unity. He does not change His plan.
Once He sent His Son into the world, once Christ was born, once He died, once He rose again. The work of salvation was sealed for all humanity.
Yet, through history, we see the pattern of division.
Three children of Abraham:
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Israel, the covenant nation.
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The Church, born from Christ’s resurrection.
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And later, Islam, rising from Arabia.
Each bears a relationship to the promise, but each tells the story differently.
Part I: Israel Missed the Show
Israel had the law and the prophets.
Isaiah foresaw the suffering servant: “He was pierced for our transgressions.”
Daniel foresaw the Son of Man coming in glory.
Every prophet pointed forward, every sacrifice foreshadowed Christ.
And yet, when He came, born of a virgin in Bethlehem, performing miracles, fulfilling the Scriptures—they stumbled.
They saw the preacher, but rejected His cross.
They held to the shadow, but missed the substance.
As John wrote: “He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.”
Part II: The Church Holds the Center
But the disciples bore witness.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, all in unity proclaiming the same story:
Christ crucified, Christ risen, Christ ascended.
Tacitus, the Roman historian, not a believer, confirmed that Christ was executed under Pontius Pilate.
Josephus, the Jewish historian, wrote of Jesus the Christ, a doer of wonders.
Even Rome, the empire that tried to suppress Him, left records that prove His life and death.
The Church was born in blood and fire, yet its testimony never fractured.
From Jerusalem to Antioch, from Rome to Alexandria, from Ethiopia to India, the same Gospel spread:
that Jesus Christ is Lord, and salvation is in no other name.
Part III: Islam and the Divided Word
Six centuries later, in the deserts of Arabia, a new voice rose.
Muhammad claimed visions from Gabriel, and he recited what he believed was revelation.
Those words were memorized, scattered, contested.
And after his death, they became a source of division, not unity.
Muslims killed one another over whose recitation was true.
The memorizers died in battle.
The fragments multiplied.
Until at last, Caliph Uthman commanded a single codex to be written, and all other Qur’ans were burned.
Unity was enforced, but at the cost of diversity.
What was lost, we will never know.
And yet, even in this codex, even in a text bent toward conquest; Christ could not be erased.
The Qur’an still proclaims:
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Jesus, born of the Virgin.
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Jesus, the Messiah.
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Jesus, the sinless.
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Jesus, the miracle-worker.
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Jesus, the Word from God.
Two billion Muslims today attest to this. They stop short of Lord, they deny the cross, but they cannot escape the Messiah.
Part IV: The Synthesis of Testimony
Think of it:
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Israel testifies to the expectation of Messiah.
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The Church proclaims the fulfillment: the death and resurrection of Christ.
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Islam, even while altered, still bears witness to His virgin birth, His miracles, His exalted place above all prophets.
The witnesses are divided, but the story converges.
History, scripture, and even Islam’s reluctant testimony point to one truth:
Jesus Christ is Lord.
Part V: The Mercy of God
What kind of God would allow division?
A God of mercy.
A God who leaves signposts even in altered texts.
A God who ensures that, whether Jew, Christian, or Muslim, the seeker will find Christ somewhere on the path.
Even when men burned books, God left fingerprints.
Even when armies twisted revelation into conquest, God preserved the Messiah’s name.
Even in the Qur’an, meant to diminish Him, Christ shines through.
This is mercy:
God does not abandon His children.
He allows no generation, no nation, no faith to escape without some testimony of His Son.
Conclusion: Every Tongue, Every Knee
And so we stand at the crossroads of history.
Three great faiths, divided in their stories.
One missed Him, one diminished Him, one confessed Him.
Yet together they circle the same center: Jesus Christ.
He is the unchanging One, the cornerstone rejected but made the head of the corner.
He is the Lord of Israel, the Savior of the Church, the Messiah even in the Qur’an.
And the day will come when every tongue confesses,
every knee bows,
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Caveat of reason: The Codex and Conquest
But let us be honest about how the Codex came together.
It was not only about faith, it was about power and domination.
It was a convenient unifying tool, forged at the very moment when islamist armies were conquering the world.
A message of mercy, a message of love and unity, would not have rallied soldiers.
It would not have driven men to march across nations with the sword.
Love does not fuel conquest, ambition does.
And so we must ask: what if the original memory of Muhammad, what if his earliest recitations, truly bore witness to Christ as Messiah and Lord?
What if Gabriel’s message was not meant for war, but for peace, not for conquest, but for mercy?
But who will ever know?
The Deeper Question, Why Free Will?
If the message was twisted, if the conquest was wrong, if men turned revelation into violence and oppression and submission, then we must ask:
Why did God create us with free thought and free expression?
The answer is mercy.
Instead of forcing us into chains, He offered His Son to bear our sin and provide a way.
The arrogance not to humble ourselves and accept this free gift, that is our problem, no longer Christ’s…. “It is finished”!
And yet, even in our arrogance, He loves.
He shows mercy, because we breathe today.
History itself testifies: God has always balanced the world.
And when Islam crossed that red line, spreading conquest under a message of domination, God raised up resistance, the Crusades, the Templars, not perfect men, but a limit against unchecked power. There is no empire that has ever existed, or is established today that will not face judgement when an individual or collective crossed that line… name one today! All reached for the “Apple”, all built towers of power and conquest, yet were consumed all the same. Just name one empire, modern or ancient I contend that today, America is reaching for the “Apple”, that we are building towers without divine permission…, do you see it?
The point is this: there is only one who truly seeks to dominate the world, only one who wants to put humanity in chains…. “I will ascend above the seat of God”
Contrast that with Christ.
Christ gives freedom.
Christ makes it simple: Call My name. Accept My gift. Repent of your sins. Love one another.
That is the free gift. That is choice.
A God of love offers no coercion, only invitation.
Accept Christ, or live without knowing God at all.
For Christ was the flesh and blood representation of the Father among us.
To glorify Him is to glorify the Father.
This is the God of love. This is the God of mercy.
This is the God who gives us choice.