Islam - The Summit of Religious Evolution — Page 70
70 Islam, that is to say, was to clash with the borders of the Asiatic part of the Roman Empire and smash it to pieces. The Roman Empire was the temporal expression of the Christian Church. The stone of the prophecy, therefore, was to clash with the Church. The stone could not be the Church, for the Church could not clash with itself. Nor could it be Jesus because Jesus came a long time before the Church. Whoever destroyed the might of the Roman Empire fulfilled the prophecy. The prophecy, therefore, applies only to the Holy Prophet of Islam and his followers. The prophecy goes on to say: 98 The stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. This is exactly what happened. The Holy Prophet and his followers defeated the Kaiser and the Chosroes, and the Muslims became the rulers of the whole of the then known world. The stone did become a great mountain; for a thousand years, the direction of the world affairs remained in the hands of the Muslims. PROPHECIES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT The following books of the New Testament also foretell the advent of the promised Prophet whose coming was prophesized earlier in the various books of the Old Testament. 1. Matthew 2. John 3. Luke 4. Mark 5. Acts The prophecy in Matthew states: 99 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first; and they did unto them likewise. But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. And they caught him and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner; this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, The Kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a