This incident occurred in the garden when Jesus was taken prisoner. When the multitude came, Peter attempted to save Jesus by taking a sword and trying to kill the closest one to them, being Malchus. Peter did manage to cut off his ear with the blow from the sword. Jesus prevented it from going any further by telling Peter to put up his sword. He healed the ear of the soldier and made it plain that if He wanted to, He could call for 10,000 angels and they would come. Jesus was willing to go to the cross.
One thing should be clear from the record of scriptures and of life itself. Those who are violent do not always die a violent death. There must therefore be another meaning to the words used by Jesus on this occasion. What Jesus was speaking about was two different approaches to life. On one hand you have the way of violence. When God looked down on the world of Noah’s day, it was a world filled with violence (Genesis 6:11). Did it mean that every person in the earth was violent? It did not. What it did mean was that when two cultures began to emerge in Genesis 4:26, one went after God and the other did not. The culture that did not filled the earth with violence.
Jesus was telling Peter, in light of all scriptures, that men must in their life make a choice about whom they will follow. The earth was filled with violence in Noah’s day. Our world today suffers the same problem. Men who think the answer to life is power over others often times result in violence. Paul described the way of Jesus Christ to be a more excellent way (I Corinthians 12:31). Mohammad was the way of the sword. Jesus Christ is the way of the cross. Each person must make a decision of who to follow and what represents the best way for mankind. We answer, Jesus: our Lord and our God (John 20:28).
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