"1 But when all is said and done, God's Temple on the mountain, Firmly fixed, will dominate all mountains, towering above surrounding hills. People will stream to it 2 and many nations set out for it, Saying, "Come, let's climb God's mountain. Let's go to the Temple of Jacob's God. He will teach us how to live. We'll know how to live God's way." True teaching will issue from Zion, God's revelation from Jerusalem. 3 He'll establish justice in the rabble of nations and settle disputes in faraway places. They'll trade in their swords for shovels, their spears for rakes and hoes. Nations will quit fighting each other, quit learning how to kill one another. 4 Each man will sit under his own shade tree, each woman in safety will tend her own garden. God-of-the-Angel-Armies says so, and he means what he says. 5 Meanwhile, all the other people live however they wish, picking and choosing their gods. But we live honoring God, and we're loyal to our God forever and ever." Micah 4:1-5If ever there was a time for prophecy fulfillment, it appears to be now. Wars raging on several fronts, and all we seem to have are national elected leaders who wish to perpetuate the killing and destruction of others. And here at home we are engaged in our own war - the war of the economy. Economic classes pitted against each other, while millions are falling farther into debt and despair everyday, struggling with how to survive and care for their family and loved ones. And jobs are as scarce as ever, while political parties vie for re-election and tote the party-line at all costs towards those whom they have been elected to care for through the political process.
Where and when does it end? When will we see the day when our values and concerns are for our neighbor, instead of sole for ourselves? When will the word "profit" come to mean the welfare of all persons everywhere, and not just how fat our wallet or investment portfolio is today?
Rifles turned to agricultural tools.
Humvees to water purification systems.
Forward operating bases to schools and hospitals.
Attack choppers to Medivac choppers.
Industries of death into industries of life - and life-giving jobs.
Where and when will the citizens of earth take refugee God - in the teachings of the Creator of all life?
When and where will we turn from what is destroying us to that which can bring peace and life to everyone - everyone?
The Lord of All waits for us to reach for the truth that God holds out to us, and then to follow those ways into a new world; a world for which our hearts and souls long.
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