They
Shall Beat Their Swords Into Plowshares
Micah 4:3 “And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
1. The Swords
2. The Plowshares and
the Pruning Hooks
3. The Coming Judge
4. The
Forced Peace
1. The Swords
As long as there are men running things … there will be the need for swords in this world.
HISTORY proves this to be the truth.
The Bible tells us this is so.
Why, the Bible is replete with the notorious history of man as being a history of the devising of evil, and the doing of it [and Devil laughs].
Here is the commentary of God concerning the whole matter in Genesis chapter six, verse five: “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” [Genesis 6:5]
You say, “That was then”.
But, I say, this:
What man was like before the world-wide flood … in Noah’s day … is what man is like … in our day.
It is in the blood of men [since Adam and Eve] to war, and to go to war in order to take from another.
It all comes down to this. It is a heart problem!!! Follow this out!
Where sin is … there is rage. This rage reveals the anger against God that is within the heart. Where rage reigns … there will be war … WAR … WAR!
In Palms 2, we will see where it will take us when the kings of this earth “set themselves” against the Lord:
“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.” [Psalm 2:1-3]
The one thing we can learn from history … is that men will not learn from history.
2. The Plowshares and the Pruning Hooks
The bronze statue at the United Nations headquarters in New York called: “Swords Into Plowshares” represents a “figure of a man holding a hammer in one hand and, in the other, a sword which he is making into a plowshare, symbolizing man's desire to put an end to war and convert the means of destruction into creative tools for the benefit of all mankind.”
This verse in the Bible [along with Isaiah 2:4] is perhaps the most misused [or abused] verse in the Bible.
The reason why this verse is so misused [or abused] is because man has so-to-speak an axe to grind. The axe that men have to grind is this. Now, do you have the stomach for this?
Man wants to implement a kingdom here on this earth that eliminates all the borders and limits [imposed by the diverse languages, religious, culture, and trade barriers].
This kingdom that men want to build will be a one-world kingdom where all the people will be molded into one nation … from the many nations. [This is exactly what Nimrod attempted to do … as recorded in Genesis 11:6: “And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.”]
Now, in man’s view using the implements of warfare to achieve the desired end goal of peace on earth is totally justified. This explains why men over the millennia have scanned the Bible … searching for any opportunities to USE the Bible to help advance their goal of a one-world human government [under the authority of the Devil].
Men want to USE the Bible and not BELIEVE the Bible!
Thus they have found their candidate here in Micah chapter four, within verse three: “… and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
The problem here is that men have deliberately pulled this verse totally out of the context from which it is found. They do this because of this axe they have to grind against the God of the Bible. They have determined to have this one-world kingdom without Jesus Christ. Read Isaiah chapter two, verse four to see how it will turn out.
HE SHALL JUDGE!
“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 any more.” [Isaiah 2:4]
3. The Coming Judge
God sees the whole thing from Heaven. HE sees the nations of the earth working in their kingdom building delusive dream. Also, God sees how all the nations hate HIM.
Now, the BOOK has something to say about all of this. In Psalm 2, in verse four and five the word of God shows us God how views this whole thing.
“He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.” [Psalm 2:4-5]
The thing that is totally [and completely] mentally blocked out of the mind of all unsaved men is this; the “he” in the first part of this verse: “And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off”.
They do not want HIM! Too bad! What they do not want … they will get!
WHO they do not want … they will get!
The Second Advent of Jesus Christ, “the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David,” [Revelation 5:5] will judge “among many people”, HE will judge the nations.
• [Psalm 67:4] “O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.”
• [Psalm 82:8] “Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.”
4. The Forced Peace
When the SON of GOD establishes HIS supernatural government in the mountains of Israel from Jerusalem, then from that point on the world will enjoy the peace that had so long has eluded them.
Now, for Psalm 2 again, for the proper close to this whole matter.
Verses six through twelve: “Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my son; this day have I begotten thee.
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little.
Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.” [Psalm 2:6-12]
KISS THE SON !!!