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“They shall beat their swords into plowshares [farming equipment], and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not rise up against nation, neither shall they learn war any more” (Isaiah 2:4).
Over sixty years ago, a sculptor from the Soviet Union by the name of Evgeniy Vuchetich, made a statute of a man with a hammer in one hand and a sword in the other. The man was using the hammer to make the sword into a plowshare, and the work of art was entitled, “Let us make swords into plowshares.” It won the highest award at the Brussels World Exhibition in 1958, and was donated to the United Nations in 1959. It still stands in the north garden of the United Nations headquarters in New York, NY, U.S.A. Yet as I write this in January 2022, the world is on the verge of another war, provoked by the massive buildup of Russian troops on the border of the Ukraine.
We are not writing this to say that countries like Russia are responsible for the wars in this world, but only to point out that this verse will not come to pass until the Lord Jesus comes and reigns in righteousness during the millennium. Only then will there be true world peace. All of man’s efforts to promote peace are doomed to failure, for this world has rejected the Prince of peace.
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