The first letters of the following responses answer the following question: A day is coming when nation will no longer lift up the sword against nation, war will be learned no more, and spears will be beaten into pruninghooks. What will swords be made into? [1] Numbers in brackets indicate the number of words in the answer.
1. Which church (or assembly) was addressed in this way: “These things saith He which hath the sharp sword with two edges”? [1]
2. “The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon” was the battle cry of three hundred men with trumpets in their right hands. What did they carry in their left hands? [1]
3. Another name given for Araunah, the man at whose threshingfloor the destroying angel stopped, having a drawn sword in his hand, when David sinned in numbering the people of Israel. [1]
4. What is the sword of the Spirit which is available to believers? [3]
5. Who uttered these words: “Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also”? [1]
6. The Word of God is quick (or living) and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of what? [1]
7. One who was hewed in pieces by the prophet Samuel, fulfilling his sentence: “As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women.” [1]
8. Which ear of the high priest’s servant did Peter cut off with his sword? [1]
9. Something that might be done, causing fear of one who bears the sword, though not in vain. [1]
10. The place the Lord told Peter to put his sword, indicating that the cup His Father had given Him He must drink. [1]
Answers to these questions will be found, Lord willing, in the next issue of Christian Shepherd.
J. Short