From: dfreemans@live.com   
      
   On Sunday, August 26, 2018 at 7:26:28 PM UTC-4, Debra Dee McQueen Freeman   
   wrote:   
   > J E S U S    A N D    T H E    S W O R D   
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   > There are many bible verses that associate Jesus   
   > with a sword:   
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   > MATTHEW 10   
   > Think not that I am come to send peace on earth:   
   > I came not to send peace, but a sword.   
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   > REVELATION 1   
   > And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth   
   > went a sharp two-edged sword.   
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   > REVELATION 2   
   > These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges.   
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   > REVELATION 2   
   > Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against   
   > them with the sword of my mouth.   
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   > REVELATION 19   
   > 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 of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God [i.e. kills them].   
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   > REVELATION 19   
   > And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse,   
   > which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with   
   > their flesh.   
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   > QUESTION:   
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   > WHAT IS THIS SWORD PROCEEDING OUT OF THE MOUTH OF JESUS   
   > WHICH HE CAST UPON THE EARTH AT HIS FIRST COMING,   
   > AND WILL KILL THE WICKED SINNERS WITH OR DUE TO   
   > AT HIS SECOND COMING ??   
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   > EPHESIANS 6   
   > ...the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.   
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   > HEBREWS 4   
   > For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any   
   > two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit.   
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   > ANSWER:   
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   > THAT SWORD IS   
   > "THE WORD OF GOD" -   
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   > WHICH MEANS   
   > THE HOLY BIBLE,   
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   > AND WHICH IN   
   > THE HOLY BIBLE   
   > ITSELF IS ALSO CALLED   
   > "THE WORD OF TRUTH" AND   
   > "THE TRUTH".   
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   > 1 KINGS 17   
   > And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a   
   > man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.   
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   > PSALM 33   
   > For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.   
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   > PSALM 119   
   > And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth;   
   > for I have hoped in thy judgments.   
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   > 2 CORINTHIANS 4   
   > But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty,   
   > not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully;   
   > but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's   
   > conscience in the sight of God.   
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   > 2 CORINTHIANS 6   
   > By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of   
   > righteousness on the right hand and on the left.   
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   > 2 TIMOTHY 2   
   > Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth   
   > not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.   
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   > ISAIAH 26   
   > Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which   
   > keepeth the truth may enter in.   
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   > DANIEL 8   
   > And a host (army) was given him to end the daily sacrifice [in The   
   > Temple] by reason of [the] transgression [of the Jews who had Jesus   
   crucified]   
   > and it [the Roman army] cast down the truth [the Old Testament scrolls in   
   > The Temple] to the ground [as well as the entire Temple itself] [70 A.D.].   
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   > JOHN 18   
   > (Jesus) To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world,   
   > that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth   
   heareth my voice.   
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   > ROMANS 2   
   > But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth,   
   > but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.   
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   > GALATIANS 5   
   > Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?   
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   > 2 THESSALONIANS 2   
   > And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;   
   > because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.   
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   > 2 THESSALONIANS 2   
   > That they all might be damned who believed not the truth,   
   > but had pleasure in unrighteousness.   
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   > 1 TIMOTHY 2   
   > Who will have all men to come unto the knowledge of the truth,   
   > and to be saved.   
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   > 1 TIMOTHY 4   
   > Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God   
   > hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe   
   > and know the truth.   
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   > 2 TIMOTHY 2   
   > Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is   
   > past already; and overthrow the faith of some.   
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   > 2 TIMOTHY 4   
   > And they shall turn away their ears from the truth,   
   > and shall be turned unto fables.   
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   > TITUS 1   
   > Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men,   
   > that turn from the truth.   
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   > HEBREWS 10   
   > For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of   
   > the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins.   
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   > P.S.   
   >   
   > The only proper way to correctly interpret Scripture   
   > is to apply the two rules of reading comprehension   
   > which are context and comparison and allow Scripture   
   > to interpret itself just as when reading any other   
   > piece of writing as a book or article.   
      
      
   Oh, and here are 45 occasions that the phrase "the word of God"   
   is found throughout the entire Bible, at least half of them   
   in reference to the written word of God i.e. The Holy Bible,   
   which word Jesus believed in and lived by and preached   
   and taught and often quoted - the sword that he cast upon   
   the Earth which divides truth from falsehood and   
   the righteous from the wicked and   
   even soul from spirit:   
      
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