War and Peace

Luke 21 – “The Olivet Discourse”, Part 2

War and Peace

So-Called Notable Cases of “Swords into Plows”

WD-40

Kleenex

Jet engines (?!)

Peace: The Hope of Humanism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swords_to_ploughshares#List_of_notable_cases

“Swords into Plows”“Sculpted by Evgeniy Vuchetich to represent the human wish to end all wars by converting the weapons of death and destruction into peaceful and productive tools that are more beneficial to mankind.”

Peace: The Work of God

United Nations Plaza

“Applying the scientific method to war leads Horgan to a radical conclusion: biologically speaking, we are just as likely to be peaceful as violent.”

Secular Humanism: “The End of War”

John Horgan“War is not preordained, and furthermore, it should be thought of as a solvable, scientific problem—like curing cancer.

But war and cancer differ in at least one crucial way: whereas cancer is a stubborn aspect of nature, war is our creation. It's our choice whether to unmake it or not

Evidence:• 1st Half 20th C was far more violent than the

2nd Half.

• “The signs are good right now – this kind of violence is decreasing.”

• “Sweden and Switzerland have both renounced war.”

• “There’s no good reason that explains why we fight.”

Secular Humanism: “The End of War”

John Horgan

While they are saying, "Peace and safety!" then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape. 1 Thessalonians 5:3

Secular Humanism: “The End of War”Promises Reality

We can change overnight! Look at Apartheid…

The most educated nation on earth…

God’s Word: a Proven Record

The Only Source of PeaceThe end of Apartheid

The end of slavery

Civil Rights Movement

God’s Word: a Proven Record

100% Historically-Verifiable

The rise and fall of Israel’s neighbors.

The date, life, death, and

resurrection of Messiah.

The violent dispersion and regathering of

Israel.

I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. … Joel 2:30-31

He continued by saying to them, "Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom” Luke 21:10

“There will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves, men fainting from fear and the expectation of the things which are coming upon the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.” Luke 21:25-27

GOD’S WORD ON WAR AND PEACEJesus Old Testament Prophets

Then they will see the son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory Lk. 21:25-26

War

PeaceAnd everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved Joel 2:31

Jerusalem: the Epicenter"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it! Luke 13:34

“…the days will come in which there will not be left one stone upon another which will not be torn down." Luke 21:6

Jerusalem: the Epicenter

"But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near. Luke 21:20they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Luke 21:24

Jerusalem: the Epicenter Jerusalem

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“Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.” Luke 21:24

And Then:

I will make Jerusalem like an intoxicating drink that makes the nearby nations stagger when they send their armies to besiege Jerusalem and Judah. Zechariah 12:2

On that day I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock. All the nations will gather against it to try to move it, but they will only hurt themselves. Zechariah 12:3 For on that day I will begin to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. Zechariah 12:9

• Size of New Jersey.• 9 Miles Across• 120 Miles Long• Only 7 Million People.

A Blip

• “I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt.” Genesis 12:3

Vital

Jerusalem: the Epicenter

Israel

“dismay among nations” begins with Ezekiel 37

Ez. 38 Autonomous human rule ends.

“I will gather the people of Israel from among the nations. I will bring them home to their own land from the places where they have been scattered.” Ezekiel 37:21

Context: “Son of man, these bones represent the people of Israel. They are saying, ‘We have become old, dry bones—all hope is gone. Our nation is finished.’ Ezekiel 37:11

Armageddon Begins Ez. 38And the word of the LORD came to me saying, "Son of man, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal. "I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them splendidly attired, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them wielding swords; Persia, Ethiopia and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet; Gomer with all its troops; Beth-togarmah from the remote parts of the north with all its troops—many peoples with you. Ezekiel 38:1-6

“Remote North”

“Kings of the

South”

Armageddon Begins Ez. 38

Russia

Iran

Africa

Libya


Russia

Iran

Africa

Libya

"After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but its people were brought out from the nations, and they are living securely, all of them. Ezekiel 38:8

“You will say, 'I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will go against those who are at rest, that live securely, all of them living without walls and having no bars or gates.”Ezekiel 38:11

to capture spoil and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places which are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired cattle and goods, who live at the center of the world.' Ezekiel 38:12

But this is what the Sovereign LORD says: When Gog invades the land of Israel, my fury will boil over! In my jealousy and blazing anger, I promise a mighty shaking in the land of Israel on that day. Ezekiel 38:18-19

Now this will be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth. Zechariah 14:12

“And I will make a vast graveyard for Gog and his hordes in the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Dead Sea…It will take seven months for the people of Israel to bury the bodies and cleanse the land. Ezekiel 39:11-12

"They will set apart men who will constantly pass through the land, burying those who were passing through, even those left on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search…and anyone who sees a man's bone, then he will set up a marker by it until the buriers have buried it. Ezekiel 39:14-15


Russia

Iran

Africa

Libya

Wail, for the day of the LORD is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty. All hands will fall limp, And every man's heart will melt. They will be terrified, Pains and anguish will take hold of them; They will writhe like a woman in labor, They will look at one another in astonishment, Their faces aflame. Isaiah 13:6-8 I will make mortal man scarcer than pure gold And mankind than the gold of Ophir. Isaiah 13:12

"Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. Matthew 24:22

Israel regathered from the nations.

Armageddon: Fact or Fiction?

1948Holocaust remembrance day, January 27, 2010:“We have returned to our homeland from every corner of the earth. The Jewish people have risen from ashes. The dry bones have been covered with flesh, as Ezekiel has prophesied.”


Jerusalem recaptured by Israel.


1967



Israel living in relative security.




Israel living in relative security.

“Cities without walls”


Tel Aviv


Jerusalem recaptured by Israel. Israel living in relative security. “Cities without walls” Israel surrounded by hostile

nations from Africa and Iran.


Arab Spring


Jerusalem recaptured by Israel. Israel living in relative security. “Cities without walls” Israel surrounded by hostile

nations from Africa and Iran.


Morsi &Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Israel regathered from the nations. Jerusalem recaptured by Israel. Israel living in relative security. “Cities without walls” everywhere. Israel surrounded by hostile

nations from Africa and Iran. Military coalition between “King of

the North” and “Kings…South”


Israel regathered from the nations. Jerusalem recaptured by Israel. Israel living in relative security. “Cities without walls” everywhere. Israel surrounded by hostile

nations from Africa and Iran. Military coalition between “King of

the North” and “Kings…South” Humans killed by fire en masse.


Israel regathered from the nations. Jerusalem recaptured by Israel. Israel living in relative security. “Cities without walls” everywhere. Israel surrounded by hostile nations

from Africa and Iran. Military coalition between “King of the

North” and “Kings…South” Humans killed by fire en masse. All human life threatened.


Israel regathered from the nations. Jerusalem recaptured by Israel. Israel living in relative security. “Cities without walls” everywhere. Israel surrounded by hostile nations from Africa

and Iran. Military coalition between “King of the North”

and “Kings…South” Humans killed by fire en masse.

All human life threatened.

Jerusalem is the center of global conflict.


“So when all these things begin to happen, stand and look up, for your salvation is near!” Luke 21:28,34-36

• And they sang a new song with these words: “You are worthy to take the scroll and break its seals and open it. For you were slaughtered, and your blood has ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. Revelation 5:9

God’s Answer to War

What Does it Mean?

Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. Romans 5:9

“Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap…” Luke 21:34

What Does it Mean?

Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life. Proverbs 4:23

"But keep on the alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man."

• Luke 21:36

What Does it Mean?

Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are evil. So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. Ephesians 5:15-17

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