Isaiah 2:4
4 And he shall judge [shaphat] among the nations, [gowy]
and shall rebuke [yakach] many [rab] people: [`am] and they
shall beat [kathath] their swords [chereb] into plowshares, ['eth] and
their spears [chaniyth] into pruninghooks: [mazmerah] nation [gowy] shall not
lift up [nasa'] sword [chereb] against nation, [gowy]
neither shall they learn [lamad] war [milchamah] any more. KJV-Interlinear
4 And
He will judge between the nations, And will render decisions for many peoples;
And they will hammer their swords into plowshares, and their spears into
pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, And never again
will they learn war. NASB
Judge, ‘shaphat,’ refers
to the judge on the bench in a court of law.
Jesus Christ will become the judge and will hear controversies and
settle them.
These things will occur
during the Millennium.
As for those who believe
that the Millennium will begin and continue before the Second Advent, here is one
of many verses that settles that argument.
Jesus will not only be here physically, on this earth, and will rule,
but will serve as the judge of nations, during the Millennium.
He can only do that while
He is present. Otherwise no one could
bring their complaint before Him to be heard.
Turning swords and spears
into plows and hooks is an expression that indicates that society and nations
will not prepare for war, ever again.
The economy will be a
purely peacetime economy for the entire period of the Millennium.
During the Millennium, at
its beginning, people will primarily live in or near Jerusalem, but as the population
grows, then people will begin to migrate to the four corners of the planet, and
nations will form.
Since at the end of the Tribulation,
we know that the islands and continents will be changed dramatically, then we
do not know exactly what the geography of the planet will look like. It could very well become one big continent,
or have some other pattern.
We know that all of the
mountains will be flattened and that Jerusalem will be the highest point. But
beyond that, we do not know what the whole planet will look like.
As for the end of the
Millennium, when Satan is released from his imprisonment, and leads those who
have been negative toward Christ, against Christ. Then those folks will be advancing in huge
numbers against Jerusalem, but they will not have any weapons. After a thousand years and no weapons have
ever been made, then no one will know what to make nor how to make them.
And that leaves you
wondering just what do they intend to do, and how do they intend to do it?
Satan is the principle
instigator of evil, and lies and arrogance, and violence and so forth. While he is incarcerated, then humanity
during the Millennium, will have no pattern nor anyone working in the
background, to learn the ways of violent evil, such as war.
And so it will be, during
that entire 1000 years. War, and the art
of war, and the study of war and the materials of war, and the causes of war, will
not exist.
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