In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
I am pretty sure everyone I know would say they want world peace. I think it’s the motivation of almost every political movement and those who become involved in them. Satan and the devils that followed him in the fall want world destruction. But I doubt that the people who follow their agenda know or believe that it their ultimate goal.[1]
I assume those who lead nations to fight other nations do so, at least in part, because they believe that their system of philosophy and government is more likely to produce world peace than another’s would. I assume those who counter them in combat do so believing that world peace cannot be achieved by the agenda of the invaders but only by their own.[2]
I imagine that those people who rigged the recent election to ensure that the candidates of their choice came into office did so because they believed that world peace can only be achieved by those they elected. They believed it to the point of willingly cheating so they could win.
The soldier will say that he hates war. But he believes so strongly that the only way to prevent war and thus bring in world peace is to be willing and able to fight.
Everyone except Satan wants world peace. It’s a question of how we get it. Our text shows us three nations, historically and even currently at odds one with another. To the north, Assyria. To the south, Egypt. Sandwiched between them, Israel. Geographically they represent only a small portion of the earth’s land mass and, at least in modern times, a smaller portion of the world’s population. I am certain that they can be used here to represent the peoples of the world. Currently, right now, the world is at odds with itself. In the center of the controversy is Israel.
But the day being described in this text shows them to be completely at peace. How? They are under the headship of God.
- Egypt is, in this day, God’s people
- Assyria is Gods workmanship
- Israel is God’s inheritance
Only when all the people of the world finally come under the headship of the LORD will this world have peace. The Bible teaches us that this will not come perfectly to pass until after the Millennial Kingdom of Christ. We cannot force nations to surrender to God any more than we can force an individual to come to Jesus for salvation.
- But we can pray
- But we can seek others to see them saved
- But we can preach truthfully the Word of God
We can’t make this day happen. But, seeing the goal of the Lord, we can make that the objective of our lives.
[1] In most cases they do not know or believe they are even following Satan’s agenda.
[2] The Bible teaches that wars come about because of our own lusts. World leaders lust for power. The rest of the world lust for things sometimes but always for peace.
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