JIHAD

JIHAD

 

noun ji·had \ji-'häd, chiefly British -'had\

Muslim sanctification method: a war fought by Muslims to defend or spread their beliefs
Full Definition of JIHAD
1:  a holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty; also: a "personal struggle" in devotion to Islam especially involving spiritual discipline to reach high value in the service for Allah. The closer they become to Allah determines the radical stance they possess.
2:  a personal crusade for a principle or belief

In the Bible - a Christian method of purification and sanctification to serve God the Father through the example of Jesus Christ. Our God is a Holy God and sanctification permeates His Book the Bible. His people were told to keep separate and that His method of holiness was shown throughout the entire OT & NT. The closer one "walks" with Christ determines how "radical" his stance becomes to others. Israel was to be the method of blessing to all peoples on the earth and shall be eventually because of His sanctifying and perfecting them through Great tribulation. See article perfect, perfection. Christ was the most "radical" in the eyes of the religious of His days on earth. So much so that His chosen people had Him crucified.
God's war is against the sin that caused the need of the death of His most beloved Son. He saw it coming in the earliest parts of the OT. The death was foreknown before the foundations of the earth. Men who want to deny the love of God point out all the death of the OT. That death was caused by the sins of human beings which was bringing about the need of Cross of the NT. Men don't learn very easily and the ones Who He wanted to learn from the beginning was His chosen nation who have yet to learn that their disobedience to His very first words caused His wounds at the Cross and finally they learn that fact. It has taken 6000 years.

2 Peter 2:12  But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction, (Final Jihad spoken of in Rev. 20:7-9; Luke 19:27).

John 16:2  They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. (Islamic Jihad)

Zechariah 14:2-5  For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. (Islamic Jihad) Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.

Psalm 2:1-12  Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? (Jihad) The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, "Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us." He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision. Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying, ...

Revelation 20:7-9  The Final Jihad. And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them,

Luke 19:27  But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me.