Todd tomasella: The
Cross is the sword of God’s violence against evil. The cross even looks like an
ancient sword with a handle, a hilt, and a blade with two edges and a point.
For the word of
God (the Word of the Cross; 1 Cor 1:17-18) is quick, and powerful, and sharper
than any TWO-EDGED SWORD, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and
spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and
intents of the heart. Heb 4:12.
The cross is
two-edged because it frees and saves believers as it destroys unbelievers who
reject and rebel against it. It cuts both ways, both saving and destroying
depending on how people respond to its truth. It is this Word of the Cross that
judges all people by allowing them to judge themselves. God and His Son, Jesus,
judge no one. John 5:22; 8:15; 12:47-48; 12:31; 16:11.
The sword of the
cross is like the fiery furnace of Daniel 3. The furnace saved and promoted
God’s three men but destroyed the mighty men who pushed the three down into the
fire. Dan 3:20-25.
Christ died and
thereby destroyed Satan’s power of death, Satan’s works and the fallen nature
of the old man. Heb 2:14; 1 Cor 2:6-9; 1 John 3:8; and Rom 6:6, KJV. But that
same cross was the salvation and redemption of all who believe into Christ.
Satan’s sword and wrath against Jesus, the cross, became God’s sword and wrath
against Satan. It cut two ways: AGAINST Satan and His people and FOR God and
His people said by Todd tomasella.
In Judges 7, the
sword of the enemy against Gideon’s army became God’s sword against the enemy.
Judges 7:18-22.
Goliath’s sword
cut for God’s man, David, and against Goliath. David cut Goliath’s head off
using Goliath’s sword to do it. 1 Sam 17:41-54 @v51.
Saul’s sword was
two-edged, too. Saul’s own sword killed Saul (suicide) but elevated Saul’s
enemy, David, to the throne of Israel.
The sword of
Satan, the cross, destroyed Satan and elevated Christ to glory. Heb 2:14.
The sword of the
cross destroys Satan’s best inside agent, the flesh, and elevates our spirit
man to the throne of glory with Jesus, seated with Christ in heavenly places.
Eph 2:6; Gal 5:24.
How will this
two-edged cross cut in you: against you or for you? Every moment of every day
you are deciding whether to take up the sword of the cross, die on it and be
saved by it OR take it up against someone else and be destroyed by it. Luke
9:23-25.
See also Isaiah
8:13-15 for another example of this two-edged sword of the cross where, in the
same event, comfort is given to those who trust God and simultaneous destruction
to those who trust their idols.
He who takes up
the sword shall die by his own sword! Matt 26:52.
Think not that I
am come to send peace on earth but a sword (the two-edged cross). Matt 10:34.
God’s sword is not
a sword He used in order to kill people. It is a sword to save people that He
died on. By dying he destroyed His enemy, Satan and the devil’s power of death
was put to the sword. Heb 2:14.
This metaphorical
sword of God is last seen in Rev 19:15. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp
sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a
rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress (also symbolic of the Christ on the
cross) of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. The sword coming out of
Christ’s mouth is the Word of the Cross that will destroy evil in the end time
as it has throughout the New Testament.
The cross is God’s
only sword. It is also His winepress and wrath against evil. God will never
take up a literal sword against anyone. Otherwise, He would have to die by His
own sword, by His own rule stated in Matt 26:52.
There are two
edges to the use of the word “sword” in the Bible, Satan’s literal sword, the
cross, and God’s metaphorical sword, the cross. Both swords are found in one
and the same sword, the same cross, the two-edged cross of Christ.
So he drove out
the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cheribims, a flaming
sword (symbol for the cross) which turned every way (two-edged), to keep the
way of the tree of life. The two-edged sword both opens and closes the way to
life, the eternal life of Christ.
Who is wise, and
he shall understand these things? Prudent, and he shall know them? For the ways
of the Lord (ways of the cross) are right, and the JUST (the just shall live by
faithing it thru the Cross experiences) shall walk in them (the ways of the
cross): but the TRANSGRESSORS (rejectors of Christ and His cross) shall fall
therein. Hos 14:9. Thus, the two-edged sword of the cross both saves and
destroys! And they said,
Lord, behold, here are two swords. And He said unto them, it is enough. Luke
22:38.
The two swords are
found in the one cross: one a literal sword of Satan, with which to kill and
thereby conquer; the other a spiritual sword of Christ, on which to die and
thereby conquer.
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