A Doubled Edged sWord?

     Mt.24:9 - “..you will be hated by all nations because of my name.” Spoken to Israel? But also, were they “believers”? Parallelism? History repeats, thus prophecy.. Even the word sword, a double! As in sword or sWord; sword of the world or of God.. which sword will we listen to? So important, yes? to “submit ourselves to the LORD” freely by our belief in all that happened with and to the Son. “Declared righteous” and innocent. Now his fruit growing in us.. Doesn’t hurt to put our heart into it. Jn.15,17; Rev.7:9,4 oR? Rev.17:5.🤷🏼‍♀️ The kingdom progresses in peace. The violence.. and the cause and effect is on the part of mankind, Ps.2. (His ‘wrath’/“passion”, the bowls of Revelation, and some of the trumpets are obviously thermonuclear effects, Is.24:20.)

    Progresses in peace, leaven, not sword. Yet surely? That does not mean we should shrug our shoulders over great evils carried out and committed. But there’s this! We’re used to listening to the world! But it’s a whole matrix of genuine misinformation. Jesus said “take heed no one deceives you, they will even come in my name saying (acknowledging?) I am he..” So it’s not just one sort of voice coming at us. God’s voice is in the inner Quietness. Usually. Take care what we hear? We may not even want to take sides.. Be careful who we do align ourselves with? …What irony should we turn the sword upon ourselves.. Only one reason we would do that? Our guilty conscience has not really been appeased? ..So we sabotage ourselves.. and others.. Do you feel it? The pressure? What to say and not say. It penetrates? What to believe and not believe? Fruit or weed, it’s the nature of all things to grow.