“And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” (Isaiah 2:4)
In my lifetime of more than three score years and ten there has not been such a time on earth as Isaiah spoke of. Jesus made the statement in Matthew 24 in the Olivet discourse that there would be wars and rumors of wars, nation rising against nation and kingdom against kingdom. But, the book of Revelation in chapter 20 speaks of a thousand years of peace on earth when the devil will have been cast into the bottomless pit. And Jesus will be ruling and reigning in what is called the millennial reign of Christ. Just think. A thousand years of perfect peace. Weapons of war will be turned into implements of agriculture. The Bible tells us in other places that the wolf and the lamb will lie down together. A little child can have a poisonous snake for a pet. There will be unsurpassed agricultural production.
This perfect peace will not come from peace summits among world powers. It will occur when Jesus comes again. Until then, even though the world is in turmoil you and I can have the peace that passes all understanding by placing our faith in Jesus and following Him.
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