Wednesday

Peace and War

     Swords and plowshares. The old order of things isn't going anywhere until the age described in Revelation chapter 21. 

     "The nations ... shall beat their swords into plowshares" - Isaiah 2:4. or "Beat your plowshares into swords" - Joel 9:9-10. Which is it? 

     "The Lord is a warrior." - Exodus 15:3-6. "Blessed be the Lord, my strength, which teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to fight." - Psalm 144:1. "The Lord has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines" - 2 Samuel 5:22-25. 

     It was Solomon, not David, who would build God's holy temple. Although David agreed that "peace is better than war" - Psalm 120. 

     George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four involves a state of perpetual warfare by a totalitarian government for its self-preservation of power. There is mass surveillance, lying propaganda and censorship of free speech. 

Above from WORLD magazine

     How did Englishman Orwell in 1948 know what the Democrats would be doing in 2020-2024? We assume he knew how governments - including ours - are inclined to act. His book became "best seller" in 1984, 35 years after the initial publication in 1949. 

          Jimmy