{"id":172,"date":"2016-06-08T15:08:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T15:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ammanfordchristadelphians.co.uk\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2020-01-28T15:08:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:08:17","slug":"no-more-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ammanfordchristadelphians.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/06\/no-more-war\/","title":{"rendered":"No More War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent report from the <em>Stockholm International Peace Research Unit<\/em> global military spending last year amounted to \u00a31.2 trillion! The USA and China were the biggest spenders.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since the Second World War there has never been a year without conflict between nations.<\/p>\n<p>The Bible, God\u2019s Word, clearly indicates that, before the second coming of Jesus Christ, nations would prepare for war.<\/p>\n<p>The prophet Joel writes (Joel 3:9-10):<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cProclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Wake up the mighty men, Let all the men of war draw near, Let them come up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Beat your ploughshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Let the weak say I am strong.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The nations are, without realising, preparing for what the Bible calls Armageddon (Revelation 16;16). There, in Israel and all over the world, the nations will be subdued by Jesus Christ and His saints. (Isaiah 2:4, Zechariah14: 4-10)<\/p>\n<p>Then an era of worldwide peace will gradually fill the earth. Jesus will rule! <em>\u201c&#8230;.Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.\u201d<\/em> (Isaiah 2:4)<\/p>\n<p>In Jesus\u2019 Kingdom <em>\u201c&#8230;.the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace until the moon is no more\u201d<\/em> (Psalm 72:7). The promise made by the angels at Jesus\u2019 birth<em> \u201c&#8230;Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men!\u201d<\/em> (Luke 2:14) will be fulfilled.The present preparations for war and the mistrust among the nations are a sign that the King of Peace will come soon!<\/p>\n<p>Please read Luke 21:25-28 to see what Jesus said about the state of the earth before His return. He goes on to say, in verse 31, <em>\u201cSo you likewise, when you see these things happening, know that the Kingdom of God is near.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ammanfordchristadelphians.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/hands-making-a-heart-in-the-sunset-hd-wallpapers.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-176\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-176 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ammanfordchristadelphians.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/hands-making-a-heart-in-the-sunset-hd-wallpapers-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"hands-making-a-heart-in-the-sunset-hd-wallpapers\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Unit global military spending last year amounted to \u00a31.2 trillion! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammanfordchristadelphians.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/06\/no-more-war\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No More War<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,5,34,22,33],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-christ","tag-god","tag-peace","tag-the-kingdom","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammanfordchristadelphians.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammanfordchristadelphians.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammanfordchristadelphians.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammanfordchristadelphians.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammanfordchristadelphians.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammanfordchristadelphians.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammanfordchristadelphians.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammanfordchristadelphians.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammanfordchristadelphians.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammanfordchristadelphians.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}