{"id":803,"date":"2009-05-06T22:47:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T03:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/05\/06\/the-power-of-the-word\/"},"modified":"2009-05-06T22:47:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T03:47:36","slug":"the-power-of-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/06\/the-power-of-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of the Word"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gospel of John records a curious little note during the arrest of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.<\/p>\n

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John 18:4-7 (ESV) Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?” 5 They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. 6 When Jesus said to them, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.<\/strong> 7 So he asked them again, “Whom do you seek?” And they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.” <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Jesus speaks and the soldiers, the officers of the chief priests, and the Pharisees fell down when Jesus spoke<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’ve been studying about “Armageddon” lately and I’ve noticed a curious detail concerning the final war of men against God: Jesus arrives and the battle is over<\/strong> (Rev 19:11-21).<\/p>\n

Jesus does have a weapon: “From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations” (Rev 19:15).<\/p>\n

The question is, is there a real metallic sword protruding from Jesus’s mouth, or is this a metaphor for the power of his breath\/word?  <\/p>\n

I’m not sure, but either way, I don’t want to mess with Jesus.  I’m pretty sure that the next time they come to capture and kill him, Jesus’s enemies won’t stand back up after he speaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gospel of John records a curious little note during the arrest of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. John 18:4-7 (ESV) Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?” 5 They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.”\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gospels","category-revelation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}