Isaiah 2:1-5 "The WORD that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the GOD of Jacob; and HE will teach us of HIS ways, and we will walk in HIS paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the Law, and the WORD of the LORD from Jerusalem. And HE shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD."
Mankind naturally longs for peace. The false prophets of every generation have deceived the masses by saying, "Peace" when "there is no peace" (Ezekiel 13:10 pictured above; Ezekiel 13:16 pictured below). The LORD tells us, "There is no peace . . . to the wicked" (Isaiah 57:21). The Bible reveals that the Antichrist will enter the world scene with a great "peace" program for a society that is already conditioned to believe a lie. But only when the PRINCE of PEACE returns to rule and reign in righteousness will this sin-sick world enjoy true and lasting peace. Until then, believers must warn against religious and political leaders who devise unbiblical programs that they claim will bring about world peace. A so-called "peace statue" of a Russian peasant with the revolutionary communist symbol of the hammer and sickle stands in front of the United Nations headquarters, and Isaiah 2:4b is written out under the symbol -- what ignorance and what blasphemy !
Religious liberals pushing for peace at any price also quote today's text, even though they do not believe it is truly GOD's WORD in the first place. Furthermore, they are deceitful to quote only the middle portion of verse four while completely ignoring the context which clearly reveals that beating "swords into plowshares, and . . . spears into pruninghooks" describes the period of time after JESUS CHRIST comes back to this Earth to rule and reign in righteousness for a thousand years. It is therefore amazing and tragic to see so many citizens in the free world, including those who claim to be Christians, being deceived into supporting disarmament programs that will only benefit the workers of iniquity. Genuine peace can come only through CHRIST (Romans 5:1). MHR
Your servant in CHRIST,
Julie
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