Sentences with word «plowshares»

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.

There have been reactionary times when the past laid its dead hand oppressively upon the present, when all old things were glorified and all new things were hated, when the new iron plowshares were preached against as sacrilegious.

A thousand generations since Cain clubbed his brother in some field, and a million cries for peace, for plowshares, say, and what's to show?

The foregoing is enough to demonstrate that the familiar swords into plowshares vision is not the only vision of peace in the Hebrew scriptures.

Representation of Swords to Plowshares in a matter threatening the operation of one of its largest supported housing programs.

«This is a biblical choice of swords into plowshares directly and the House Republicans want to beat our ploughshares into more swords,» he said.

In the prophetic promises of shalom there was usually the element of the reversal of the present situation: plenty instead of want, healing instead of disease, security instead of constant danger, return to the land instead of being scattered over the earth, plowshares instead of swords.

It failed utterly God will beat swords into plowshares not the U.N. that is what people like that give us wars for vengeance which is Gods do you like that huh?

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.

Refocus Ministry was started by Christina Embree, wife to Pastor Luke, mom to three wonderful kids, and church planter at Plowshares BIC.

Their swords are now plowshares.

Arthur Dworin, IRON (Y) From Swords to Plowshares Nov 26 - Dec 14, 2013 Reception: Dec 5, 6 - 8 pm Wine and Words: Dec 14, 4 - 6 pm Press Release

I can't imagine why the Gentleman doesn't want to provide more plowshares to be beaten into swords against him.

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.

Two - page sections offer short introductions on «Farming» (planting in rows, wheelbarrow, iron plowshare), «Weapons and Warfare» (gunpowder, stirrups, crossbow), or «Everyday Innovations» (kite, umbrella, fishing reel), followed by illustrated paragraphs exploring individual technologies.

The reality is that the military is probably taking the lead on this — so either they really do not want a war with Iran, which is unlikely (when was the last time professional warriors ached to beat swords into plowshares?)

«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.»

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.»

Yet the biblical writers yearn for a time when people will «beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.»

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».

In fact, they would have» beaten their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears» and as a result, «they will not lift up sword, nation against nation, neither will they learn war anymore.»

Only the one true religion has succeeded in becoming peacemakers, having» beaten their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears».

I invite you to take action, to collaborate with God and God's people in beating swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks.

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.

After the communist regime was overthrown, he convinced many of the freedom fighters to turn swords into plowshares and help him bring the people out of extreme poverty... [read more]

Plowshares?

The way beyond is not about security and prosperity but about vulnerability, neighborliness, generosity, a modest future with spears turned into pruning hooks and swords into plowshares.

Hell, what did I know of plowshares?

Ah, my father, look how the plowshares keep turning into bullets, and the bullets into brains.

With my father's Army ballpeen hammer I'd found down in the cellar, I kept banging on the swordblade, trying to turn it back into a plowshare like the ones the prophets sang of.

For yours is the kingdom in which all nations will one day be healed, all swords melted into plowshares and all tears wiped away for good.

«To drive the plowshare of the normative principle into the hard sod of political fact» is «a tremendously difficult undertaking,» writes Buber, «but the right to lift a historical moment into the light of superhistory can be bought no cheaper.»

In this kingdom, the humble are exalted, peacemakers rule, swords are beaten into plowshares, and the meek inherit the earth.

Um — Mike — The Bible says to beat your swords into plowshares and your spears into pruning hooks.

And yet there is more to this Kingdom that is still to come, Jesus said, and so we await a day when every tear will be wiped from every eye, when swords will be beaten into plowshares and spears shaped into a pruning hooks, when justice will cascade like a river down a mountain and righteousness like a never - ending stream, when people from every tribe and tongue and nation will live together in peace, when there will be no more death.

Titled «Guns into Plowshares,» this 16 - foot - high steel plow blade consists of 3,000 handguns welded together to form the distinctive shape of the well - known farm implement.

We should pray and work for just peace instead and turn our swords into plowshares and machine guns into tractors.

They will beat their swords into plowshares And their spears into pruning shears.

For example, Isaiah's portrait of shalom is when people «beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.»

Jewish theology aims for nothing less than the «beating of swords into plowshares.»

Swords beaten into plowshares and lions will lie down with lambs?

It is also from the prophets that we receive the great gift of the visionary images of shalom toward which God is moving us: swords into plowshares, peaceable kingdoms, joy and peace such that the trees clap their hands, new covenants written on the heart.

But I instead entertained my own wishes that I hoped would reflect the ancient idea, «The turned their swords into plowshares.»