Swords into Plowshares
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The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
“saw”
God’s goodness is meant to be experienced.
The vision contains four major images or concepts.
It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,
“latter days”
The Hebrew Scriptures are a story in search of an ending.
It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,
“mountain of the house of the Lord”
The ultimate glorification of God is pictured as if the house and the mountain both rose above all others.
It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,
and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; 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 anymore.
“the nations”
Waters roll down hill, but the nations flow up to the mount in search of peace.
He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; 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 anymore.
“swords into plowshares”
Imagine nations gathered, but not for war.
Imagine not needing to secure yourself.
Imagine absolute trust in the peace of God.
Imagine that our imaginative, selfish intent was redirected toward equally imaginative and selfless goodness.
Imagine that this world is already here, at least a little.
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
“The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”
O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.