Once again, we must ask ourselves: What are we to do with such powerful end-time prophecies?
The Lord does not reveal these truths so we will remain silent or passive. Instead, He instructs the prophet, and by extension, every believer, to share His message with the nations. As Joel states in verse 9:
“Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war!” If there was ever a time to heed this call, it is now.
But there is one thing that stands out—one thing that the Lord seems to be saying as if He is speaking to all these nations at the UN today. See Joel 3:10, where He declares, “Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, ‘I am a mighty man.’”
What makes this verse so unusual? Here, God uses divine irony, challenging the nations to prepare for war while deliberately reversing the promise spoken through Isaiah and Micah about the Messianic Age, when “They will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.” (Isaiah 2:4; Micah 4:3)
What is even more notable is that the UN has chosen to carve passages from Isaiah and Micah on the “Isaiah Wall,” which is located directly across from the United Nations headquarters in New York.
There we read: And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and never again will they learn war. As you read the quote, something is missing: God is removed from these verses.
They left out the first part of the verse, which says: And He will judge between the nations, And He will render decisions for many peoples; Then peace will come. They have selectively quoted it, leaving out the surrounding context and ignoring the divine conditions for that peace, conditions that cannot exist without the Lord Himself.
So, the real irony is that in Joel, God seems to answer them and turns this quote around, telling them to prepare for war instead, because man or nations cannot bring peace on earth; history confirms this.
Who will judge the nations? Yeshua. Who will bring peace on earth? Yeshua. The word ‘judge’ in this verse in Isaiah and in Micah is shafat, which is the root of the word Jehoshaphat, meaning it is the Lord who will judge them for ultimately rejecting Yeshua. The nations seem to hold this verse in such high regard that they even have a statue of a man transforming a sword into a plowshare. Irony again, for without the Lord, man cannot do it.
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