now verse 9 of isaiah 42 verse 9 is very important because this represents a sort
of pivot in the chapter it says behold the former things have come to pass in other words
what i said in the past came true and now i will prophesy again some new things and
i will tell them before they happen so now the author of deutero isaiah will be speaking
explicitly about future events okay so i said that usually a prophet speaks to his own generation
unless he explicitly states that he's going to be speaking to future generations
so from verse 10 and to the end of the chapter i believe the prophet muhammad
is now being described at the primary level of the text no longer at the level of midrash
he is no longer the mirror image of cyrus now he is the image itself and how does it begin
sing unto the lord a new song a shir in hebrew is a lyrical hymn that praises god this is the
only appearance of the phrase new song in isaiah it does occur in the psalms but the
psalms were written by totally different authors in a different country separated by hundreds of
years so just because another author you know used the same two-word phrase in another book
of the tanakh does not mean that it's identical in meaning the bible as we said is a compendium
it's an anthology as you said it's a library it has multiple authors and multiple authors
often use the same words to mean different things so this is going to be a new scripture
that praises god a new song unto the lord and his praise to hillah from the ends of the earth
you who sail to the sea and you the creatures in it you islands and coastlands and their
inhabitants we already established these yin these coast lands verse 11 very important verse o midav
let the desert and cities lift up their voice
the cities are sorry the villages that kedar inhabits yeshiva
the inhabitants of let the inhabitants of selah sing for joy let them shout from the tops of the
mountains who is kedar so according to genesis he is the second son of ishmael peace be upon him
imam at tabari he says in his tariq that the prophet muhammad peace be upon him is a direct
descendant of kedar others as well to be others say this as well okay this this is just something
mass transmitted as we would say that the prophet salallahu is a descendant
of ishmael nobody but a crazy revisionist uh would dispute this the the ketorites are arabs
okay where did they live during the prophet's time in the hijaz in the arabian peninsula
the quraysh the tribe of the prophet were ketorites jessenia says quote the rabbins
meaning the rabbis call all the arabians universally by this name whence leshon
eider is used of the arabic language he's saying here that in in hebrew the way to say arabic is
that's how you say arabic in hebrew you say the tongue of kedar
okay where is selah according sometimes translate
the inhabitants of the rock right according to commentaries biblical commentaries selah is petra
which was the chief city of the [ __ ] and then the nabataeans the nabateens were named after
nevayov the firstborn son of ishmael so the nabataeans and the ketorites i.e the arabs
will lift up their voices and sing for joy when this abdullah when this nabil umi will arrive
the two major arab capitals of the ancient world were petra and mecca the former was the capital of
the nabataeans and the latter was the capital of the ketorites and incidentally there is a
mountain in medina called salah as well there's also that which is quite interesting but that's
just a little more that's like the cherry on top so so we have we have a gentile prophet who will
bring true religion the divine religion to the coastlands to the nabataeans to the keturites
whose character perfectly matches the prophet muhammad yet christian apologists act like so what
and and then they say that that when god told the snake in genesis
that the speed of the woman will crush its head they say isn't it obvious this is jesus
the seed of the woman will will step on a snake's head i don't see the obviousness of
that at all they further say that by crushing the head of the snake jesus destroyed satan
and thus sin but he clearly did not from their own perspective why because christian polemicists and
apologists say that 600 years later satan deceived muhammad into thinking he was a prophet of god
and by doing so he was able to convince billions that jesus was not god not crucified there's no
trinity etc it seems like the snake is very much alive from their perspective