And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.
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… verse 1 of chapter 4 and shall be raised up above the hills and people shall stream to it many nations shall come and say come let us go 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 path for out of Zion shall go forth instruction and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem so check that out in chapters 1 2 and three it's clear that the nations of the earth are in opposition to Israel opposition to Zion and God says though in chapter four I'm the same people who are who are the subject of ridicule I'm gonna make the resource and the source of blessing that's how quickly God can change your circumstance that's how that's how that's how sharply God can change your situation that the that the same people who are being ridiculed today will be the source of blessing for those who ridicule them tomorrow. …
… of what would happen when the Messiah would come. And this is the picture that you have. It's found in both Isaiah and in Micah. We read, they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. This continues to be a vision for us as Christians. It's found in our stained glass window that we're building here at the Leawood campus, a picture of somebody beating a sword into a plowshare. The idea that the day would come when we won't make war anymore, when we won't use violence anymore. We don't live in that day yet, but at least this is our vision and our dream, that there would come a day where we would not need guns, we wouldn't need swords anymore. Now what's clear is that both the prophets and Jesus had a different picture of what the world should look like than what you find in the first 15 books of the Hebrew Bible. And again, they didn't forbid weapons for self-defense or for hunting, but they had a different picture of how you treat your enemy. Now again, I'm just going to say it a third time now, there's nothing wrong with hunting, sports shooting, or even having guns for self-defense. If you own them, store them properly, learn how to handle them well, obey the laws, never use your weapons in an aggressive way to threaten other people, no matter how angry you become. But I temper all of that with three ideas from Scripture. The first is from Psalm 27. Psalm 20, verse 7. And here we read these words, …
… there will be one world government. There will be one world government, Isaiah chapter 2, verses 1 to 4. The word which Isaiah, the son of Amos, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. So now we know that this future one world government we're about to hear about will be connected to Judah and Jerusalem. Now it will come about that in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord will be established as the chief of the mountains, and will be raised above the hills, and all the nations will stream to it. And many peoples will 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 concerning His ways." So what do we have here? We have God in Judah and in Jerusalem in the last days establishing His house, the house of the Lord." Really, in Jerusalem on the Mount of Zion, it will be raised up above the hills. …