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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

"Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears….."


That is a funny thing for a pacifist to say isn't it?

Joel 3:10(NKJV)
    Beat your plowshares into swords     And your pruning hooks into spears;     Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’”

Once again we have a passage in the OT that seems to contradict those who think Jesus is a pacifist.  If you believe as I do that God and Jesus are always in agreement then this passage once again backs up my contention that Jesus was not a pacifist. 

The passage above is telling God's people to arm up and get ready for war as they return from their captivity in Babylon.  A pacifist would not be arming for war.  So either we have a disagreement between God and Jesus or we have proof that Jesus was not a pacifist.

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