My favorite moment is the slow - motion shot of Deadpool tossing one
of his swords into the spokes of a motorcycle's front wheel, sending the unfortunate rider helmet - first into the road.
«This is a biblical choice
of swords into plowshares directly and the House Republicans want to beat our ploughshares into more swords,» he said.
The right story is the old, old story of heaven breaking through, of redemption arching, of justice rolling down, of deserts blooming flowers, of exiles planting gardens,
of swords into ploughshares, of life instead of death.
Jewish theology aims for nothing less than the «beating
of swords into plowshares.»
Not exact matches
That's the
sword the Democrats will carry
into the looming battle over the future
of one - fifth
of America's economy.
The lesson: how the craftsmen used the secrets
of metallurgy to turn iron ore
into the final product — an ultra-sharp, slightly curved steel
sword.
For centuries the only way this religion
of sword has been able to proliferate has been to brainwash people by getting them angry, and injecting sorrow,
into their souls about the dead and martyrs, as well as creating hate towards an enemey, even a made - up one Without a funeral, mourning, and a physical shrine, muslims are lost!
Deut 20:12 - 16 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it
into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge
of the
sword
The Bible shows that the one true religion is «no part
of the world» (John 15:19), remaining politically neutral, and these has» beaten their
swords into plowshares and spears
into pruning shears, learning war no more.»
However, after a careful examination
of the Bible, some changed their hatred
into love, so that Croat became a brother to a Serbian and vice versa, having» beaten their
swords into plowshares».
They surrounded the camp and after breaking the pots which held their torches and blowing
into their trumpets, they all shouted out, «The
sword of the Lord and
of Gideon!»
If you were a real Christian you would know Christs words speak for themselves and the fact that he didn't take the
sword away and turn it
into a pruning shear right then and there does not mean he was saying «I mean all this stuff is for later after I come back and kill all the evil people and those who haven't accepted me as their savior so you won't have to fear anyone so you can finally give up your guns and weapons
of war...» You disgust me chad.
Hello,
swords into ploughshares, meet bombs
into jewellery that will continue to do the work
of justice.
Jubilee, justice,
swords into ploughshares, all for the restoration
of both lives and the land.
But paying attention to the prophets in this season reminds us that the sort
of waiting and preparing that God calls us to as citizens
of this upside - down Kingdom is the active kind that demolishes obstructions and levels the playing field, that binds the brokenhearted and liberates the imprisoned, that beat
swords into plowshares and spears
into pruning hooks, and bets it all by going all in on this irrational and seemingly impossible vision
of peace on earth.
For while gentle silence enveloped all things, and night in its swift course was now half gone, thy all - powerful Word leaped from heaven, from the royal throne,
into the midst
of the land that was doomed, a stern warrior carrying the sharp
sword of thy authentic command, and stood and filled all things with death, and touched heaven while standing on the earth.
Clapping trees, quaking mountains, hearts
of stone exchanged for hearts
of flesh,
swords beaten
into plowshares and spears
into pruning hooks — this is the colorful language
of prophecy, which simultaneously comforts and disturbs, frightens and frees.
It was said that «the best
of defense is to attack»... --- Those allowed such to be signed knew all the time that this is what was going to happen because it happened repeatedly through out history from time
of the crusaders but still they continued with signing it because it meant for them money pouring in for all involved with the trading on this issue which has spoiled the life
of the Palestinians and all Arabs ever started war over those lands started with
swords and horses that has developed
into the present arms that we became to know and only God knows how future arms would look like in few de-ca-des or cen - tur - ies that are yet to come...?!
But Jesus never turned the
sword of the Spirit
into a security blanket for the already convinced.
Tolerance is a double - edged
sword that has crept
into the body
of Christ and provided comfort, cover and an accepted excuse for allowing today's church model to hinder the gospel
of Christ and burden the church.
And when the LORD thy God delivereth it
into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge
of the
sword; shalt thou take for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil
of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils
of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get
into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws
of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with
sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins
of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
They deem the talk
of God's judgment irreverent, but think nothing
of entrusting judgment
into human hands... And so violence thrives, secretly nourished by belief in a God who refuses to wield the
sword.
I believe that is one
of the lessons to be learned by the passage that states «they shall beat their
swords into plowshears», the same material that creates a
sword can create a plowshear, it is just the shape that makes it different.
For example, Isaiah's portrait
of shalom is when people «beat their
swords into plowshares and their spears
into pruning hooks.»
If you have dreams for what you are going to do for God, and how your ministry will grow, and what books you will write, and how many children you will rescue, and how churches will beat down your door to ask you to come speak for them, the chances are pretty good that if you are following Jesus, none
of this will happen and instead, He will lead you
into obscurity, poverty, nakedness, danger, and
sword (Rom 8:35).
So when they put them to the
sword, the guard and the officers cast them out and went
into the inner room
of the house
of Baa!
Ezekiel creates an intriguing image
of swords being smashed
into ploughshares.
The dream
of turning
swords into ploughshares seems laughable.
And when people flocked out
of the cities to come out
into the fields to meet Him, He did not tell His disciples to enter the city behind the people and put all those who were left to the
sword.
When the donkey saw the angel
of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn
sword in his hand, she turned off the road
into a field.
In short, the classical contexts
of Christian theologies and theoria historically witnessed the recurrent betrayals
of the Cross by the
sword, Christianity by Christendom, as colonizations brought new peoples and lands
into the orbit
of the dehumanizing power games
of Europe's so - called Christian cultures and nations.
Whatever Jesus may have meant when he told his followers to buy
swords (see the discussion
of Luke 22:35 - 38 in chapter 1), when the
sword was actually used, he rebuked the user, healed the wounded man, 1 and said, «Put your
sword back
into its place; for all who take the
sword will perish by the
sword» (Matt.
It is one
of the puzzles
of history that a group
of people who believed in Au and had made great sacrifices for his sake, who knew him to be right and his enemy wrong, and who had even risked their lives by going
into battle for him should desert him and even take up their
swords against him.
There is a hint in Zechariah 9 that the peace may be shared with other nations, but the
swords into plowshares vision is clearly a vision
of worldwide peace,
of the abolition
of war.
Muslims can not be counted as worshiping «the only true God», for they fail to use his personal name, Jehovah, but use the Aramaic word Allah, meaning «the God» and are as mixed with the «world» and violence as are the churches
of Christendom and Jews, not having» beaten their
swords into plowshares and spears
into pruning shears» whereby «nation will not lift
sword against nation, neither will they learn war anymore».
He shall judge between many peoples, and shall arbitrate between strong nations far away; 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; but they shall all sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees, and no one shall make them afraid; for the mouth
of the LORD
of hosts has spoken.
This idea, enshrined in our Constitution, was inspired by the Judeo - Christian vision
of an impartial tribunal that would allow states to «beat their
swords into plowshares,» as Isaiah pictured it.
Isaiah envisioned Israel's mission as entailing in part the mediation
of conflict among nations under impartial international law; a world court in Zion, judging by truth and justice under due process, would enable warring factions to «beat their
swords into plowshares» that is, to give up conflict and concentrate on economic development.
One aspect
of this messianic hope was the prophecy
of a warless world when men should «beat their
swords into plowshares, and their spears
into pruninghooks»; (Isa.
But the mob asked that their bodies be brought out
into the open that their eyes might be the guilty witnesses
of the
sword that pierced their flesh.
The narrative
of Gideon bringing only three hundred warriors
into battle against the combined might
of the Midianites and Amalekites, blowing trumpets that resulted in God setting «every man's
sword against his fellow» among the enemies» army (Judges 7:22), is a colorful expression
of God's capacity to shape the result
of any human conflict.
In his essay on religious violence in his new co-edited (with Robert Jenson) book
of essays, Ploughshares
into Swords?
He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations afar off; 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; but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid; for the mouth
of the Lord
of hosts has spoken.
the context
of the whole narrative suggests to me that Jesus is saying in effect...» get a
sword, becuz without one, what is about to happen will not be fulfilled»... these details seem to be important to the gospel writers... as well.compare Matthew's version
of the story where the response suggests more non-violence...»» Put your
sword back
into its place; for all who take the
sword will perish by the
sword.
foresaw the consummation
of such an ethic in a warless world — «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.»
Where are all the Christians with their
swords into plowshares????? We know Bush II the hypocrite and his war
of choice in Iraq left us with 2 trillion dollar debt.
37 And as he was worshiping in the house
of Nisroch his god, Adram - melech and Sharezer, his sons, slew him with the
sword, and escaped
into the land
of Ararat.
Isaiah shares with a younger contemporary prophet, Micah, the vision
of a peaceful world
of the future when «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.
Then Achilles savagely severs the poor boy's neck with his
sword, heaves him by the foot
into the Scamander, and calls to the fishes
of the river to eat the white fat
of Lycaon.