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What did Jesus mean in Luke 22:36 about buying a sword?
September 19, 2019 / StevieRay Hansen /HNewsWire-Words spoken by the Lord Jesus to His friends mean exactly what they say, now I will grant you some words may have a deeper spiritual meaning (“SOD” that which profits). Let us examine the scripture closely for clues to the Lord’s message to His friends. (Ezekiel 33:6) (Luke 22:34)
(Luke 22:34) Jesus dresses down His friend Simon Peter with a prophecy.
(Luke 22:35)”When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?
In this scripture, Jesus acknowledges the twelve disciples past kingdom season and then transitions into a new world season with eleven friends.
(Luke 22:36) “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.
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In this scripture Jesus is telling His friends to be prepared for what He knows will soon come upon them, remember the betrayal by Judas is in the background.
Consider now if He was speaking spiritually of the Word as meaning a sword?
Why then would He instruct them to sell their cloak to purchase what was already freely given them at supper? One must purchase in the world, but the kingdom is freedom.
(Luke 22:38) The disciples said, “See, Lord, here are two swords.”
“That is enough,” he replied.
In this scripture, they answer in the affirmative as to possessing two physical objects that Jesus could see, and I humbly submit they are indeed metal swords.
Also note there are only two swords among the eleven, meaning only some need to carry a sword to protect the larger group “That is enough” he replied.
(Luke 22:50) And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.
Jesus rebuked Peter for striking a servant who was not a direct threat and only doing what his master had requested, also his back was to the sword in Peter’s right hand to enable the clean cutting of the right ear only. Shield in left and sword in the right which was the custom
(Luke 22:56-59) Peter disowns Jesus at the fire because likely the servant’s relatives were seated among them wanting to exact revenge for their poor relative with the new ear problem, which was the custom.
Bottom line
I submit the Lord knew the season had changed between the first disciple send off and the current one and He was equipping His friends to meet the coming challenges and dangers of this new season. (Luke 12:56)
The first training mission builds their faith and the second would build their administrative discipline in the correct deployment and usage of weapons for defending themselves and spreading the Gospel message. (Psalms 149:6-7; Psalms 149:9) Firearms and weapons do not limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, they limit only the actions of those who would choose to do so by force. (Psalms 149:8) If you chose this civilized path of conduct, it is your moral and legal responsibility to obtain all the correct and proper training of their usage in very stressful situations. “Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not” Thomas Jefferson In the Lord’s freedom a sheepdog standing…………….. warrior on
“It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. Let me tell you something, friend, it is not love and it is not friendship if we fail to declare the whole counsel of God. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is impossible to find anyone in the Bible who was a power for God who did not have enemies and was not hated. It’s better to stand alone with the truth, then to be wrong with a multitude. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. There is only one Gospel and Paul said, ‘If any man preaches any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.”
StevieRay Hansen
Editor, HNewsWire.com
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