The admonition to get swords was prior to just what event you say? Got the story straight?
The Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Holy Spirit changed the picture. There are enough biblical accounts of post-Pentecostal churches to make the idea that they were like our modern 2nd amendment societies very suspect.
The Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Holy Spirit changed the picture. There are enough biblical accounts of post-Pentecostal churches to make the idea that they were like our modern 2nd amendment societies very suspect.
The failure in your understanding is that you are mistaking the churches for society at large. Trying the treat the one as the other is incorrect.
Yes, the admonition for buying swords was for after the Lord crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. It was for us today. And Jesus was telling us that we can defend ourselves...even with the so-called "carnal" means of physical weapons.
Entirely different from using them *offensively* to "spread the Gospel," as the Catholics claimed to be doing. Nevertheless, "But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel." (I Timothy 5:8) I we don't act to meet the needs of our own, as well as other innocents (mentioned earlier), we are worse than infidels.
This false "spirituality" of "doing anything political is carnal" is a satanic infestation of our churches.