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posted ago by SovereignSon ago by SovereignSon +18 / -1

"All this shall be accomplished by the sword of Him that rideth on the white horse, because the Word of God is LIVING, AND POWERFUL, AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD! “These things saith He which hath the sharp sword with two edges…” (Rev. 2:12). Do you know what it means that it is a two-edged sword? In the first century there were three primary swords that armies used when they went into combat. There was one sword that was a big, heavy, cumbersome thing, you could only use it with two hands, and you usually rested it on your shoulders, for it was that heavy. You went into combat and you would swing at the enemy with that sword with both hands, you could almost club them to death with it, it was so heavy, and it would cut right through the metal of their armor. The problem with that was, in the first place, it was so heavy that it got you tired; secondly, if you took a swipe at somebody and missed, you were very vulnerable to a counter attack."

"There was a second kind of sword, the kind we usually think of, a sword with a point at the front and one side of it had a sharp edge. You would take that into battle and try to whack the enemy with that one side, pull it back, and try to strike them again. Then someone thought of the idea of sharpening both sides — it was as revolutionary in the days of Rome as the atomic bomb was for us. When a legion went into combat with a sword that had a blade on both sides they had an incredible advantage — the soldier could cut from all directions, forward and backward. Now that’s what the writer to the Hebrews had in mind when He wrote about the Word of God being living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword of man. The Word of God is alive! The Word of God is powerful! The Word of God is sharp! How effective it is! Without the Word of the Lord man is like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. Man’s sword is a sword of death. It kills. But God’s sword is living — it cuts away and kills what needs to be killed in order to make alive. It is a living sword — yea, a life-giving sword! Isn’t it wonderful!"

Much more spiritual interpretation in the link:

https://www.godfire.net/eby/rev213.html