COMPARING JESUS AND MUHAMMAD!!!
Good morning once again, dear friends. Hope you enjoyed your sleep? I wish you all a successful day ahead. So far, I had analysed what Jesus' statements in Luke 19:27 and Matthew 10:34 meant in their original contexts in the last two days. I appreciate my readers and, most importantly, my critics. However, not one person could prove the interpretations wrong. In fact, opposing comments have reduced drastically! Wow!!! Jesus is Lord! Halleluyah!
Today, I'm addressing the second (and the last known) ''sword'' statement of Jesus. If you know of any, kindly notify me and I would work on it. God bless you.
Luke 22: 35-38 is the passage to be analysed today. In this chapter, Jesus was having a sort of ''Farewell'' service with His disciples. Jesus talked about Judas' betrayal, Peter's denial, corrected self-promotion, and instituted the Lord's Supper before praying on the Mount of Olives and the eventual fulfilment of His predictions.
Jesus reminded His disciples of His instruction to them prior to sending them out in Luke chapters 9 and 10, and Matthew chapter 10. Now, Jesus tells them that the disciples would now need those things He once told them not to worry about earlier on. However, Jesus did not talk about not taking ''sword'' before now. Thus, it is surprising why He tells them to get a sword at all costs!
Amazingly, Jesus NEVER approved the use of sword by His disciples but His disciples assumed Jesus approved its use when they sought permission to strike with the sword (v. 49). But, to start with, Jesus said ''It's enough'' when the disciples answered that they are with two swords. This implies two things:
1.''Enough of this'', i.e. keep quiet!
2. ''The swords are sufficient'' but the question is how will just two swords be sufficient to fight a battle when He has twelve men on his side and several soldiers as opponents???
Now, we see that Jesus did not resist arrest and rebuked Peter who used one of the swords (John 18:10). He ordered Peter to put back the sword in its sheath, implying that Peter should never fight with a sword. And, never again did any of Jesus' disciples use a sword (if you have one instance, please present it).
In addition, Jesus told Pilate that if His kingdom were ''worldly''/''earth-focused'', His servants/disciples would have been fighting so that He won't be delivered over to the Jews.
A strong condemnation against the use of sword by Jesus goes thus: ''Put your sword back into its place. FOR ALL WHO TAKE THE SWORD WILL PERISH BY THE SWORD'' (Matthew 26:52). Gbam!!! Can you imagine??? Then, Jesus added that if He even needed security, He has access to more than twelve legions of angels (a legion = a Roman regiment of 6,000 soldiers and above). This means that each disciple can have over 6,000 supernatural powerful beings protecting them.
However, Jesus refused to employ this divine security just as He rejected human security by His disciples! Why??? Jesus wants the Scriptures to be fulfilled and drink the cup that the Father has given Him!!! (Matthew 26:54; Luke 22:37; John 18:11). So, it is evident that Jesus NEVER approved the use of sword as so many think!
Now, why did Jesus tell the disciples to sell their cloak in order to buy sword? This is just to prepare them for the persecution ahead of them. Now, what exactly did Jesus mean by sword here? It is glaring that the disciples misunderstood Jesus when they took His words literally from the above analysis. In the same vein, everyone who takes the word ''sword'' here literally misunderstands Jesus who NEVER approved the use of sword!!!
So, d'you want to know what Jesus meant by ''Sell your cloth to buy a sword''??? Join me tomorrow.....
God bless you.......
To be continued......
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