The Sword of the Lord

2021-11-06

The Word of God is the Sword of the Lord. Let us look at some of the instances throughout the Scriptures.

...the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God (Ephesians 6:17)

The Word of God is the Spirit of the Lord’s sword. This sword is the only offensive weapon in the hand of the Christian. Like any sword, if misused, people can be harmed. The sword of the Spirit is to be used against Spiritual enemies, as it says in a previous verse, “against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6:12).

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart (Hebrews 4:12)

This sword of the Word of God is superior to all other swords. When we read it, it will expose our innermost motives. Have we truly entered into His rest? The Lord Jesus, who is the Word, also examines the innermost motives: “I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works” (Revelation 2:23).

The Angel of the Lord is seen with a Sword when confronting Balaam:

And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field (Numbers 22:23)

We see this again when He descended from heaven because of David’s trespass with the census:

And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. (1 Chronicles 21:16)

The sacrifice appeased His wrath, and the Father commands the use of the Sword:

And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof. (1 Chronicles 21:27)

The Sword is His judgment upon the nations in the end:

The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. (Isaiah 34:6)

And again, we read:

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. (Revelation 19:15)

Isaiah 66:16 would be another example of the Sword’s judgment on the nations. It is the sword of the Lord that destroys Satan in the end:

In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. (Isaiah 27:1)

It is even the Sword that went against Jesus Himself, because the Word of God declared the Gospel from the beginning:

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. (Zechariah 13:7)

The Word of God is the Sword that pierces our hearts and discerns our innermost thoughts, is wielded by the Spirit and the Angel of the Lord, and with it the nations and Satan are judged. This is the power of the Word of God, and you have access to it.