HOLY JIHAD - NYOBS 41.02

HOLY JIHAD

This study takes a look at the Judgment of God known as a Holy War

Holy War

·         QUESTION: You say that the Muslims Holy War is Terrorism, but didn’t the God of the Israelites do the same thing and somehow that was considered OK ? – Didn’t God command the Israelites to kill everyone even the women and children; MASS MURDER and then STEAL their land and PLUNDER their possessions? – Isn’t that TERRORISM on a grand scale or is that just selective Bible reading, where you somehow skipped over that part?

·         Background; Jehovah God had just brought the Israelites out from the bondage of the  Egyptians and had given them as an inheritance a parcel of land which was set before them.

·         The God Molech was worshipped in this “Promised Land” which included the offering of children on a burning alter of fire; this was against the Levitical Laws of Moses which states that any person; Israelite or stranger that kills his child and offers him as a burning offering to Molech will be put to death. – If they turned a blind eye to this abdominal practice, God would cut their clan off from among His people.

·         Bible – You are right; God gave the Israelites land for an inheritance that was already occupied with a people that worshipped the God Molech and God told them to kill them all so that there would be no one alive to teach them the abdominal ways of the god Molech. – Scripture bares out that children follow in the same footsteps as their parents, that’s why the children were also killed and even the animals that were used for the sacrifices. EVERYTHING that breathed was to be annihilated to purge the land from sin.  - This will happen again at the Day of the Lord; the land of Israel will be purged; this time with fire.

·         God has every right to deal with evil and sin wherever, whenever and however He sees it, sometimes His instruments of judgment are angels and sometimes He uses men.  

·         There were Rules of Engagement – Offer a Treaty of Peace - If they open their gates; take them as slaves – If they don’t, kill all the males and take all their stuff. – At any case, the people were NOT ALL annihilated; many were displaced out of the land as we can clearly see from scripture.

·         Note:  We are no longer under the Old Covenant of WRATH; we are now under the New Covenant of MERCY – All who draw the sword will die by the sword. – We are no longer God’s instruments of Judgment, but are His instruments of Mercy. – We are warned to NOT mix the two Covenants.

Leviticus 18:21 – You shall not sacrifice your children to Molech
²¹ You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD. (ESV)

Leviticus 20:1-5 – Anyone who follows Molech will be killed.
¹ The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
² Say to the people of Israel, Anyone of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
³ I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name.
⁴ And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,
⁵ then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech. (ESV)

Deuteronomy 20:15-17 – WAR; Save alive nothing that breathes
¹⁵ Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.
¹⁶ But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes,
¹⁷ but you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the LORD your God has commanded.

(ESV)

Deuteronomy 20:18 – That they may not teach you about Molech
¹⁸  that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you sin against the LORD your God.

(ESV)

Deuteronomy 20:10-14 – Rules of Engagement
¹⁰ When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace.  If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you.
¹² If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city.
¹³ When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it.
¹⁴ As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies. (NIV2011)

2 Chronicles 8:7-8 – The people were displaced
⁷ All the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,
⁸ from their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel had not destroyed—these Solomon drafted as forced labor, and so they are to this day.

(ESV)

Matthew 26:52 – We are under the New Covenant
⁵² Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword. (

NIV2011)

Luke 5:37-38 – Don’t mix the Old Covenant with the New
³⁷ And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined.
³⁸ No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. (NIV2011)

Time Out

·          Muslims – Let’s take a look at the thinking of the Islamic religion.

·          Pillars - There are five pillars of the Islamic belief and practice: Confession - Obligatory worship - Obligatory Fast – Alms and Pilgrimage. - Some Muslims believe in Jihad or holy war, exalting it to the level of a “Pillar”. - Some Muslims think of a Jihad as a sacred “STRUGGLE WITH THE WORD” other think of it as a “STRUGGLE WITH THE SWORD” to conquer the world. - NYOBS 39.20 - ISLAM VS; CHRISTIANITY – NYOBS 14.02 ANOTHER GOSPEL – MUSLIM

·         Muhammad: “He, who relinquishes his faith; kill him.  I have been ordered by Allah to fight with people till they testify there is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger”.

·         Ayatollah Khomeini: “The purest joy in Islam is to kill and to be killed for Allah”. There can be no peace with the Jews or Christians or any other non-Islamic people; and that if peace must be made, only a truce is permissible and that “for a maximum of 10 years as an expedient to hone our swords, whet our blood and strengthen our will.” 

Sura 5:33 – Jihad – Wage war on non-Muslims

33 Those who wage war against Allah and his messenger (there fate) is execution or crucifixion or the cutting off of hands and feet on opposite sides or exile.

Sura 9:29 – Jihad – Fight the people that do not accept Islam.

29 Muslims are inspired to fight people who do not accept the religion of Islam.

Hadith 2:483 – Jihad – Fight the people till their worship Allah

483 I have been ordered to fight the people till they say, Allah be worshipped.

Sura 9:5 – Jihad – Slay the idolaters wherever you find them

5 When the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, seize them; lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war).

Hadith 9:57 – Jihad – Kill anyone that renounces Islam.

57 Whoever changes his Islamic religion should be killed.

Hadith 1:505 – Jihad – Receive a reward of a prominent place in paradise

505 Anyone who dies in a Jihad will have a prominent place in paradise.

Hadith 9:459 – Jihad - Receive a reward of booty in paradise

459 Anyone who engages in a holy war (jihad) will be admitted into paradise with his reward of booty

Sura 78:33 – Jihad – Reward - You can have many women in paradise

33 In paradise man can have many women.

Mission Islam

Hadith 9:459 – Mission – Conquer the World and get booty

459 Allah guarantees anyone who engages in holy war (jihad) for the cause of jihad alone with belief in (Allah’s) words, that He will either admit him into paradise or return him with his reward or the booty he as earned to his residence from where he went out.

Mission Christianity

2 Corinthians 5:21 – Mission – Conquer SIN in the World
²¹ God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (NIV2011)

1 Peter 3:18 – Mission – To bring us to God
¹⁸ For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. (NIV2011)

In the multitude of counselors,

there is wisdom.

Proverbs 11:14

I am grateful to those that went before me providing concepts, ideas, historical information, and scripture verses.  Because of them I can stand on their shoulders and see further that I otherwise ever could have.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Antiquity of the Jews – Flavius Josephus

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