Jesus Defeated Night

This condemned world in darkness lay,
When to virgin Mary a glimmer showed;
To her, Gabriel had these words to say,
"Dear maid, do not fear; no misfortunes bode.
Your innocent womb guards God's only Child,
To whom the world will kneel and honor pay!
His words shall be of love and mercy mild;
He brings hope, and light that burns the night away!"
With no doubt, or delay, she quickly said,
"I am God's servant, His humble handmaid;
Let it be as you say," and bowed her head;
Thus was night disspelled, and His light displayed!
To a dark and blinded world came light,
When Jesus the Savior, defeated night!

When the first man Adam disobeyed God and ate the forbidden fruit, he and all mankind lost their privileged status as children of God. All men for a long time were born condemned. During the time until Jesus was born, some people, by good fortune, or by God's special election, escaped condemnation, but there were comparatively few, and most were Jews. The world was covered in gloomy darkness. It required very astute observance of Mosaic laws and unusual spiritual insight to remain in God's approval.

Then God brought light into the murkiness when He voluntarily let Himself be born in the flesh and form of a man. Before then, He had sent His words of guidance to the Jews only through prophets; these words were written in a book called the Old Testament. Now, He lived as a man, Jesus, for 33 years and spoke His teachings much more clearly; these words were written in a book called the New Testament. Taken together, the testaments are the completed Bible that is available to anyone, whether Jewish or not. Today there is no reason for any person to remain in condemnation.

In 610 A.D. Mohammed began writing what he said was a corrected Bible called the Qur'an, and the religion called Islam, or Submission, was born. Since Mohammed was familiar with the Bible, in his "prophecies" he included some parts of the Bible and reversed the meanings of other, selective parts; this allowed him to claim that Jews and Christians had done the perversions to the Bible. The Qur'an is a mirrored contradiction of the Bible; they are irretrievably opposite and completely incompatible. You canot accept both; if you accept one, you are rejecting the other. This was Mohammed's (or Satan's) intent, and why the religion is called Submission---the submission, though, goes only one way, in favor of every other religion submitting to Islam.