The Crooked Vine: The Sons of Ishmael

By Lance Stewart

Satan, posing as the archangel Gabriel, dictates the Qur'an to Muhammad. Satan uses this new religious doctrine in an attempt to destroy the message of the Messiah and mankind's link with God. Pitting this new religion, void of all characteristics known both to the Jews and Christians, against Christianity, this deception would be the greatest threat ever known to mankind for many religious wars would not only define the new religion but continue still.
Using the Old and New Testaments, as well as the Qur'an, this detailed book examines Satan's planned destruction of mankind and his attempt to refute God's covenant with Abraham, regarding Abraham's son and the Son of Man. This book will take the reader on a journey of discovery but end with one clear focus in mind, that God is, has always been, and continues to be in control.
There is a bibliography at the end of the book to help guide the reader along this journey of discovery.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lance Stewart
• Release date: Feb 2, 2012
• ISBN: 9781465814432

Lance Stewart

I'm married to the most beautiful girl in the world (she's making me type this while staring over my shoulder with a knife to my head). But she really is : ) Pablo, the vicious chihuahua, keeps me busy constantly. I've published four books which are all available through Kindle, Nook, Ipad, and all the other electronic devices as well. I have a half dozen other projects I've been writing on for some time now and will find time, at some point in my active duty Naval career, to finish them. So go buy one of them or all so I can do that!

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Satan’s Pawn

The Story of Muhammad

By

Lance Stewart

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Published by Lance Stewart at Smashwords

Satan’s Pawn: The Story of Muhammad

Copyright © 2008, 2011, 2012 by Lance Stewart

A mi futura esposa, Jessica

And Mom and Dad-thank you for all of your encouragement. It’s been a long time since we first discussed this seemingly possible probability. And to my sisters and their families. And I must not forget the Pablo-to him as well.

Chapter 1

A more perfect race He will make.

One that will replace this dying breed.

Never. An angel will always be that, an angel of His glory.

He is replacing us for we have been found to be not perfect. Search your heart Michael. God has forgotten us.

He is making a more perfect race made from His perfect image, Lucifer. One that will redeem the qualities we have long forgotten.

But it doesn’t have to be like this.

Paradise has never known a dark spot and yet I can’t but help see the impending doom. What have you done Lucifer?

I’m not the only one who sees this imperfection as a threat to our very existence. How long have you and Gabriel been in the shadows? How long will you plan to stay there?

God casts no shadows!

He has on me my old friend. A long, deep shadow. No longer will I allow this lunacy. No longer will I allow for God to turn His back on the very creation that has sustained Him.

You speak of blasphemy!

I speak of the truth Michael. Of the strongest of our kind I am taking with me. We will correct His only mistake.

God makes no mistakes…

He has made one. True, He was perfect. He created Himself and then as a side note created me, and then you, and the rest followed. We no longer have to follow. He will destroy us.

God will not create something only to have it destroyed, Lucifer. Do not plan to do that of which you are attempting.

He will destroy us. He has already formed His plan. Michael, do not be so naïve that you fail to see God for what He is. A tyrant who will create and then will destroy. And why? The reason being He is not perfect. Why then would He destroy? For His creation, we, are not perfect. How then can one create something as imperfect as we are without Himself being therefore not perfect?

I make no warranties for God’s plan. I am just His humble servant to carry on the duties entrusted to me through Him.

Then you are a fool!

Twilight becomes darker as more images emerge from the shadows.

The dark Lucifer smiles, Call us Legions, for we are many.

In the emerging shadows an angel grins as he whispers to Lucifer, who turns slightly and looks over his shoulder behind him. In the fair distance a loud roar is heard as the darkness moves like water.

So polluted have you made Heaven that one can no longer distinguish what is Holy nor where it ends.

A sea of fire you will one day call it. I give you a chance to be greater than what you have ever imagined. You can help me greatly Michael. God’s rule is at an end. It now is the time of the Angels. Will you join us in this fight? Join us against that which is impure and sustain this Holy race?

Never tyrant! My allegiance will always be to God. Have you forgotten the trust He has placed within you?

I will never bow down to the Christ nor to mankind, an inferior race. I will be their savior and they will bow down to me.

Smiling, Lucifer reveals his newly formed fangs. Unknowingly he bites through his lips. As the newly warmed blood drips down his chin he hesitantly wipes it away with his palm. He looks at the strange substance with disgust.

What is this? he asks.

The first smote against you Lucifer appears to not have been delivered by God, nor by me, but has come from you, yourself. You are no longer welcomed in the land of His Majesty.

By what authority do you challenge my position here? an angry Lucifer snidely protests.

You have fallen from the grace of God. I will send you to dwell with the very land of the creation you detest. But you will be alone for a time with the other brethren who have foolishly joined your quest to overthrow our Father.

Brightness illuminates behind Michael, much brighter than it had been for several days. Behind the dark angel remains a shadow as dark as himself, an infinite spread of blackness. Between the two fronts stand Michael and Lucifer in a clash of the two fronts as light and as dark as the evening. Illumination peers forth through the dusky setting in rays as of the brightest sunshine cutting through into the dark as a surgeon’s knife cuts through cancer. High on a mountain above them an angel’s voice is heard.

You are not alone Michael, Gabriel’s voice echoes through the land, more of our brethren stand for God and are proud to do His bidding. More than what have conceited their hearts to believe otherwise.

Angered, Lucifer snares at Michael, his words come out to what Michael remembers as a hiss. You will be the first to die.

A weapon much like that of a sword blurs Michael’s vision as it comes crashing toward his skull. The motion is met with Michael’s defiant staff. The two angels, one light and the other dark, exchange heavy blows toward one another.

High above the two, Gabriel marches down with his army, one that serves God and whose leader is now in a struggle to throw that conceited angel down. The one whom they knew once as their leader in what seems to be long ago. It has been recorded there were two thirds of the angels doing battle with a defiant one third who lusted for power and control over Paradise. The pride of Lucifer led his struggle with God to spill over and corrupt the souls of weaker angels, those who had forgotten their Maker. Ones who had forgotten themselves. The most powerful angel and the one closest to God would eventually despise Who made him and greatly despise His wanting him to bow before His Son, the Christ. For a creation would soon be under way, one in which the angels of Heaven would serve. In Lucifer’s eyes, a much inferior race made after the image of their own God. The Christ would be their leader and would account for the imperfections of the great race of the angels. There would be a new leader and that leader would not be Lucifer as he thought it should be. How dare God deceive the mighty angel? How dare He turn His back on His most perfect creation. Every angel would agree to striking attributes placed in Lucifer. All others would agree in all of Heaven there was not one who could compare to the majestic beauty of the favored angel. None that was as clever or cunning, nor wise and beautiful. No other angel held the praise of all, and yet God wanted Lucifer to bow down to His Son, a creation as much as is Him as is a creation? Utter and complete blasphemy to the angel race. The dark angel held the court of the angels with much interest and they beheld him as a god. Why not then behold him as God? The thought had long originated in his mind but never would he dare challenge this position openly. Only secretly. But Lucifer was too prideful to acknowledge his Maker knew the innermost thoughts and desires of all He created. Perhaps God saw that if there existed imperfections in His most trusted and beheld creation, Lucifer, than other imperfections more severe would be found in all His creations. Perhaps then that is why He made a creation of Himself as the Christ. For if God is perfect than a part of Him would then be perfect as well.

This is what Lucifer would have you believe. But if God being perfect would already know the follies of what would be known as Satan than He would also have prepared an alternative to His perfect plan, for every purpose there is a reason unto God. Perhaps then God knew His angels would not be perfect and the creation of Himself was already prepared before the time of the angels. Perhaps it is blasphemous to think otherwise, or maybe God does allow us to wonder. At any rate, there are angels and there are demons both of which fight for the good of mankind and the hopeful fall of mankind, for when mankind fails who else would God turn to for His grace?

The dark and cunning Lucifer had long thought of this as well. Hopeful for the swift transition of power, he had also thought of the circumstance should his legion not prevail. One against three is an enormous odd in this situation. Still, for one out of three to agree with him not only told the story of those angels’ dissatisfaction, but it also told of the ability of Lucifer. Cunning he was and still is. Only the strongest of the bravest would be able to stand up to his persuasiveness. Michael, he knew would never budge. Gabriel, Raphael, and the other lower angels below him would be inwardly delighted to move up in ranks and to find more favor with God. But the others? The others had nothing to lose! God did not want them. If He did want them He never would have demanded Heaven bow down to this puny creation. A creation with no powers or mind. A thoughtless race they no doubt will be.

In an attempt to overthrow God, the dark legions marched on and in their pursuit machinery was made to wheel the industry of evil. Machines with the sole purpose of the overthrow of Heaven would eventually manifest itself once again unto the age of man, leaked through the voice of the dark angel unto man. The time of man would come Lucifer knew in his last days in Heaven, but not before he would make a lasting impression of evil. This same evil would prolong during his stead on earth and in it he would forever challenge God by tempting the very creation that would replace his race as he also tempted the angels of Heaven. There is a flaw in God, Lucifer would forever feel, and he would expose it. Should he lose the battle in Heaven, he would win the war with mankind by proving his stance they were an inferior race also aimed to overthrow their Creator. Heaven knew no boundaries and Lucifer held the illimitable key to its salvation, for it would surely fall in the hands of less capable angels like that of Michael, or his close friend Gabriel. Other angels laid witness to this instability and other angels saw favor with their leader, the highest of the angels. To them, there was only one leader, for why else would God have put so much faith in another if he was not a responsible and good leader? The dark Lucifer held this argument to be true, and since God allowed other angels to dictate the direction of Heaven, it was easily confirmed by one third the host of Heaven. But everything has a reason beyond the understanding of man and angel. God long knew of the battle that would eventually take place and knew it had to take place. It is neither for man nor angel to understand why this had to happen, though, nonetheless, evil thought it would prevail. And so with the thought Heaven would bow down not to the Christ, but instead to him, Lucifer lead a charge against the very God that created him and the angels that once looked up to and respected him. Still, there is a price for everything. The price of negligence is death. This race of man had to be avoided at all cost even if it meant falling out of the grace of God. How could God be so irresponsible after forming the perfect creation of the angels? After the perfect creation of him?

The first day had long been seen by Michael. In the open of the daylight the other angels were forewarned about the possibility of war as Lucifer hid in the shadows talking of the same possibility. Where the shadows met, the good angels held their presence, for to be in the light meant God shined upon their soul constantly, but to be in the shadows meant losing their angelic qualities and eventual eternal damnation. For some, the gamble was hard, although they were reassured by the dark lord God had lost all resolve within Heaven. To challenge Him meant also to love Him, for they would forever keep Him Holy. The fallen leader explained God wasn’t totally certain of the human race but needed the angels to make a stance. Eventually their mindset became more diluted as Lucifer explained God did not want the angel race as the favored ruler with Him. As second in command in Heaven, he argued he would know the intimate thoughts of God and this is really what He wanted. God wasn’t sure about The Christ nor did He know about the image in His own form. A strong stance from the angels showed love for Him, but as time moved on, that love was turned to hate and the dark angels began to question their very existence, along with Lucifer. Before the meeting with Michael and Lucifer, the darker angels started to become different in appearance. Where fair skin once dominated an angelic body, a darker complexion ensued. For some who noticed the change within themselves, they repented to God and asked for forgiveness. Granted by the mercy of God, these angels plead to their darker brothers to do the same. Some would not change their stance and darker their desires and complexion became. By the time of the meeting with Michael and Lucifer, a definite side in good versus evil was very distinct.

Machines and weapons of war long thought out and hid in the darkest of their souls became known the second day. Cockiness ruled Lucifer in his charge against Michael, though he was held for a day in his tracks merciless. The angel Michael had long despised the evil Lucifer was bringing to Heaven. His charge against the dark leader was well prepared, for Gabriel and the others were always nearby. A fact Lucifer failed to see, for pride is a block on the soul, human or angel that deludes a soul’s innermost thoughts of reality. The reality is seen around one without the cockiness of that one’s desires. Pride will plague the best of creations with an untrue fact of superiority. Cloud one’s judgment on life it will and can be the undoing of those who once stood firm in the grace of God. Pride destroyed Satan and continues still in the hearts of men.

The pride of Lucifer warranted an inability to notice Michael’s restraint against any stance against God. Two fronts passionately collided and it was with great effort Lucifer retreated to the back lines to warrant a more strategized effort against God and His angels.

Smarter have they become, he told his legions. Smarter for they are scared of this overthrow. They are scared for they know not what to do with themselves. More afraid yet are they of losing their comfortable place and not knowing where to go. Michael claims we will be thrown to earth with mankind. Do you believe this?

A unanimous roar breaks through the crowd with disbelief.

Heaven is scared. God is scared. Why is He not fighting His war? If He was so majestic, so superior, He would simply throw us out of His palace. This is further proof He is not as powerful nor as caring as once thought. He can’t even protect His own. We rose to battle for we know The Christ to be a false representation of perfection and we know there is only one superior race. Never will I bow down to this Christ. Never will you bow down to this Christ.

There is loud applause.

It is unfortunate our brethren and our God have forsaken us, but we will prevail.

Loud applause still shakes the countryside as Lucifer bows to his audience.

Bring out the machines of war!

Louder applause echoes in the shadows as crowds of angels make way for the machines.

2

A leader more with his actions than that of his words, Michael addressed his army with a resolute of the following.

These angels are no longer our brothers. They have defiled God and so have defiled Paradise. Our only alternative is to throw them out of Heaven and into a place deemed appropriate by our Creator. This is for His understanding only. Be not afraid of that which cannot hurt you for you are on God’s side of this fight. We will march into the darkness to bring about the light.

Michael converses with Gabriel and a few others instructing their direction of attack. Brilliant in his ability to keep a firm stance with the host of Heaven, it was not disputed he would lead the charge against the dark angel. Some angels are said to stay constantly with God forever praising His name known in two categories as either the Cherubim or the Seraphim. The Catholic faith categorizes nine groups of angels with each performing a different task due to their respective duties.

Michael administers Heaven and these nine groups.

It was an eventual rule led about as Lucifer cast his shadow among those less vulnerable to the majesty of Heaven.

Sexual appeal was not first known to man. It is a God given instinct even the angels have long known. In fact when man first appeared many angels found women favorable and intimately interacted with them before the great flood. These angels were cast out of Heaven after Lucifer lost his footing. The darker angels continued to have intimate encounters with mankind continuously influencing some lines to darker sides and darker times. There is no doubt Satan has many children.

Temptation was a dark force first discovered by Lucifer. To yearn for something one cannot have and to set out to get that very something is a temptation. To turn against God and lead a charge against him, Lucifer was also the first to experience damnation. It was he who started to change first before the other dark angels.

The battle raged on for many days. Some believe at one point the dark angels outsmarted and outfought the rest of the host of Heaven for a short time and even controlled the majority of Heaven, having won the advantage. Whatever happened in those early days is not clear, but what is clear is that Michael forcefully led his charge against Lucifer and those other polluted angels and drove them out of Paradise as a cleansing rain.

Chapter 2

Fire breaks out of the sky as swarms of angels fall backward unable to fly. Sent from the majestic charge of superior angels, these angels fall to their doom as Michael leads his army unto earth. Gabriel is not far behind on another front.

Of all the impressive art found at the Louvre there is one that stands above the rest. The Mona Lisa is very impressive, Winged Victory is indeed a sight to behold, magnificent paintings and statues adorn the halls, many of angels, and