Are there any prophecies concerning the prophet Muhammed (pbuh) in the Old Testament?

[lamarg]

i've heard that there are like Isaiah 29:11 and 12. Are there any others. Are these true prophecies or just cherry picking by muslims?
What's the difference between muslims using that reference out of context as prophecy and christians using Isaiah 7:14 out of context as prophecy?
Isn't that the same thing as the jewish concept of midrash?

djmantix:::Matthew 1: 22 -23 appears to say Isaiah 7 14 is referring to the "virgin" birth of the messiah. When read in context isaiah 7 appears to have nothing to do with a messianic prophecy and actually appears to be a sign for that time to king Ahaz's court referring to the birth of Hezekiah.

[IrishGirlt17thaccountt]

where is the name Mohammad in the old testament?


lol

[birdsflies]

No there is no prophecies in either the OT or NT about mohammed, only the ones that mentions about beware of false prophets.

[Greg]

I have been told the same thing by Muslims. I have not had time to analyse the assertions, it is far from a simple matter. Their claim is that the references Christians see as foretelling the coming of Jesus are actually foretelling Muhammad. Interesting. It would be disrespectful not to analyse it properly.

Small edit. Some examples would help, I am not winning these arguments and I still find the assertions unbelievable.

[EverardG]

Islam and Mo' were invented 500AD+
No way they appeared by name in OT.
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[djmantx]

From the first Scriptures, the Torah God warns of men who would claim to be prophets that would seek to deceive people to follow false gods.
God warns us to test a prophet of God with the word of God and the words of the prophets.
Muhammad claims to have met a messenger who clearly disagreed with God and the words of the prophets. Muhammad first correctly identified this spirit as a demon.
Some time later for no known reason other than instructions from his wife and her uncle Muhammad decided to trust this spirit...this spirit instructs Muhammad that if he had doubts he should check with those who read the previous scriptures....Muhammad is a false prophet according tot he true word of God and a false prophet according to his own book

Deut.13: 1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;
3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

A prophet of God must be in agreement with the words of the prophets and the known word of God.

1John 2: 22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

1John 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

Anyone who claims to be a prophet of God must agree Jesus is the Christ the Son of God who is our Savior.
2 John 1:7 For many deceivers
are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist

Gal. 1: 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

If an angel or a man preach a different gospel he is not of God.

Lamar, in what way do you believe Isaiah is taken out of context by Christians? Feel free to read all of Isaiah and read it from the Jewish Tanakh... you will still find the same prophesies of the coming Messiah.


Lamar, a prophesy can refer to more than one incident and more than one time...I would give you the example of Abraham and Issac.A Jew may well not see the story of the sacrifce of Issac as a prophesy of the coming "Lamb of God" but Abraham names the place Jehovah-jireh..which means the lord will provide, because it was the place he said "the Lord will provide himself a Lamb" The same Isaiah we were speaking of prophesied the same coming of the Lamb of God in Isaiah 53. The difference between Jew and Christian would be the interpretation of a scripture, the difference in a Jew and Christian as compared to a Muslim prophesy would be the scriptures themselves...Muslims teach that God would not keep his word and then attempt to self interpret scriptures they can't trust and do not follow. The words of Isaiah are recognized as scripture to both Jews and Christians. To say Islam recognizes the Torah or Gospel as trustworthy scripture would be and is disingenuous.
Muhmmad was not a Christian who received further revelation from God. Muhammad did not follow the scriptures before receiving the revelation he called the Quran.
The difference in the writers of the Gospel interpreting scripture is these were followers of the scriptures.
Are we to say Mathew was unfamiliar with the Jewish interpretaion of scripture? Mathew was a Jew. Christians recognize the words of Isaiah and the words of all the prophets as scripture and these are a part of the Christian Bible.

[CatholicCorrector]

it is has you said.

[RationalBeliever]

Cherry picking

[aekolathil]

See Johannah. 16: 12,13 / Johannah 1:19-26 / Psalms 18: 18-19 and 33: 1,2.

[lazyslacker013]

it's just cherry picking. after reading the passage itself, those specific lines could be taken out of context to imply that the prophecy and seers have failed to see somebody, however when read as a whole, ie chapter 28 as well as the beginning of and rest of Isaiah 29 you see that it was a specific event in the past during a siege of Jerusalem where the people were being told not to fret since the lord would provide.
It's just another sad example of zealots and fools trying to dice words in such a manner as to appear in the right, like when the pope gave a speech that mentioned muslim violence in one line and then began talking about peace and cooperation or some such. They ignored the plea for nonviolence and tolerance, chose to be insulted and began attacking people all the while quoting the one offending line out of context because in context it was just a segue into hopes for a modern peace.
Back to Isaiah, In this case there is no mention of mohammad or islam or any such thing to come but because of some commentary on prophets not seeing and seers being blind they try to hide mohammad in it. They see what they want to see, not what is there.