1 It shall come to pass in the latter days
   that the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
   and it shall be lifted up above the hills;
and peoples shall flow to it,
2 and many nations shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
   to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
   and that we may walk in his paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
   and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
3 He shall judge between many peoples,
   and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away;
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
   and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
   neither shall they learn war anymore;
4 but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree,
   and no one shall make them afraid,
   for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.
5 For all the peoples walk
   each in the name of its god,
but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God
   forever and ever.

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As I write this thought, it is mid-October, and so many wars are happening around the globe.  Ukraine and Russia are slogging through a difficult season, with so much loss for so little gain.  Somalia, Sudan, and Syria are fighting amongst themselves in ongoing civil wars and terrorist insurgencies.  This past weekend we witnessed the terrible explosion of long-simmering hostilities between Israel and Hamas.  By the time you read this, we will most likely be talking about even more fighting.

Let us pray that God will speed the coming of the events Micah describes in this passage.  We know that the first coming of the Savior made it possible for us to have peace with God.  Scripture teaches us that the day is still coming when the Savior will return, when God will say “Enough!” to all our battles, and when He will lead us into His eternal peace.

As the next-to-last verse of the Bible says, Amen.  Come, Lord Jesus! (Revelation 22:20)