An argument/apology that I use when talking to Muslims is based on Genesis 15:16 which Muslims willingly accept is what God had had written.
Genesis 15:12-16: - 12 Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him.
First prophecy concerning God bring the nation of Israel out of Egypt.
13 Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. 14 And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
Second prophecy given to just Abraham.
15 Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age.
Third prophecy about the return of some of Abraham's descendants in the distant future
returning to the Land of Canaan in their own strength and
the fullness of the iniquities of the Amorites coming to its completion at this time.
16 But in the fourth generation/age they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."
The usual rebuttal is for them to quote the misguided understanding of some Christian Theologians who claim/suggest that the third prophecy is linked to the first prophecy of God bringing the Israelites out of Egypt which has led to the wrong understanding that there were only four descendant generation of Israelites born during the time period that Israel resided in Egypt over the 430 years that they were there. However, the genealogy of Joshua was recorded, and that he was the tenth descendant generation born in Egypt during the 430 years that Israel live in Egypt.
However, the third prophecy was indicating that some of Abraham's descendants would return to the land of Canaan during the time period of 3,075 to 4,096 years from when Isaac was born.
Now, by my calculations Isaac was born in the year 2052 BC and that when the descendants claimed the Land of Canaan for the nation of Israel in 1948 AD exactly 4,000 years had passed.
Now if Abraham's God had told him that the sin of the Amorite people would come to its full completion during the time that the Israelite were establishing themselves in the Land of Canaan, what was their primary sin that they were committing at that time. The answer is, "That Jesus is not the Son of God."
Now if God had prophesied some 4,050 years ago that the Amorites would be committing their iniquities against God during the present time, then there is a need for the Amorite people to humble themselves and to repent of their blasphemous sins against God.
At present the visitation of the Israelite fathers' iniquities on their children and the children's children is not yet complete yet and there is still around 20 years required too past before God will once again incline His ears towards the bleating of the nation of the Israelites scattered throughout the whole world and begin drawing them to Himself once more.
The visual sign of when this will happen is the gathering of the kings of the earth at Armageddon to be judged in around 20 years from now which is also the fulfilment of Isaiah 24:21-22.
What is required of us to understand God's salvation plans for all of mankind and that we Christians have a need to be able to adapt to how those plans will unfold with the many people groups coming to the Lod in our near future after the Summer Season of the 1,000 years of the harvest of Souls unto the Lord begins. This will be the time when many will come to the lord. At present we, so called Christians" are stuck in the weeds crowding us with the cares of the world.
It is a time for Christians to humble themselves so that they can follow His leading as we rub shoulders with many different people from every people group who are seek the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Shalom
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