Chapter 4.11
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?[1] 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 anyone 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.[2] 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 on 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;[3] except
for the worship of Molech; 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, as we can clearly
see from scripture, the people were NOT ALL annihilated;
many were just displaced out of the land.[4]
Note: We are no longer under the Old Covenant of WRATH; we are now under the New Covenant of MERCY and all who draw the sword will die by
the sword.[5] We are no longer God’s instruments of Judgment,
but are His instruments of Mercy.
We are warned to
NOT mix the two Covenants.[6]
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.
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 of 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 of 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)
[1] Deuteronomy 20:15-17 – HOLY WAR; Save
alive nothing that breathes
[2] Leviticus 20:1-5 – Command; followers of Molech will be killed. --
Leviticus 18:21 – You shall not
sacrifice your children to Molech --
Deuteronomy 20:18 – Destroy them so
that they may not teach you about Molech
[3] Deuteronomy 20:10-14 – There were Rules of
Engagement
[4] 2 Chronicles 8:7-8 – The people not destroyed were displaced
[5] Matthew 26:52 – We are under the New Covenant
[6] Luke 5:37-38 – Don’t mix the Old Covenant with the New
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