No More Swords

December 3, 2025

The time is coming when all things will be made right and forevermore!  The time is coming when all people will be brought under the joyful reign of the true and perfect king in Jesus Christ!  The time is coming when the old powers and the old order will pass away.  The time is coming when this old order will globally be revealed as not being order at all but chaos, and chaos will be defeated!

….and this time is coming SOON!

How soon is SOON? SOONER than you think!  And for me, that’s all I need to know!  Because this tells me that ultimate hope will be answered and met, once and for all and in a short time.  Furthermore, some of you may remember that I already publicly shared before, hope can only be found in Jesus Christ!  He is the Messiah, he is the Christ, he is the one and only Saviour of the world!  And without him, life would be completely meaningless, and I refuse to believe life would be void of meaning!  If I believed that nonsense, then it would imply we as Christians worship a god of disorder – contrarily to that notion, meaning has order, order has function and function has ultimate purpose.  And in God’s economy ultimate purpose is to rightfully elevate our triune God and magnify his glory above all else! – I refute and refuse to believe things and events ultimately happen not for the sake of God’s eternal glory (Rom. 8:28)!  For this reason, Jesus the Saviour of the world must and will come back to bring his glory into completion!

Now look at the picture that Isaiah paints to show this completed glory from our limited perspective.  It would be a world where….

1)      The Lord stands out as supreme to be exalted above all else.

2)     All nations and all people will be joined in the highest exaltation and worship of the Lord.

3)     Jerusalem will be the world’s capital where the Lord and Messiah/Jesus will establish his throne (in the future glorified temple on Mount Zion)

4)     From Jerusalem, ultimate, perfect and unrefuted law (and thus order) will be established and maintained by the Lord himself.

5)     Swords (war tools) will turn into plowshares (farming tools) with their spears (killing tools) turned into pruning hooks (fruit developing tools) – this is REAL peace!

6)     All are not invited into this magnificent time (only the true descendants of Jacob/the true remnant of Israel meaning true spiritual followers of Jesus Christ whose hearts have been circumcised and it’s not by physical lineage – see Rom. 2:28-29, Matt. 3:9).

Oh and by the way, this same prophetic description was revealed in Micah 4:1-3 as well.

Can you picture this kind of world?  In particular I’m amazed at the fact there will be no more swords for war and thus, no more conflicts!  How is this possible?  In Isa. 9:6 amongst numerous descriptions, the Saviour of the world is described as the Prince of Peace!  It is only made possible because the peace that he is and he brings is perfect in his divinity and since it’s brought by the second person in the trinity himself (Jesus) and because God himself is perfect in all he is and all he does, it’s a perfect peace, such that the world has never seen since the fall of human kind in Genesis 3.  And THAT my friends is what the world has been longing for!

And THIS is why Advent is so important for Christians – we await this perfected time for his called believers.  Imagine all the pain and suffering this world has ever known that will one day come to an end forever!  I refuse to live eternally in a world of endless and meaningless suffering, and more importantly, I refuse to live in a world without Jesus!  Thank goodness Jesus is coming back!

 

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