What is the sword coming out of Jesus's mouth in Revelation 19?
The sharp sword proceeding from His mouth symbolizes the Word of God. Revelation 19 depicts Him smiting the nations with that spoken Word, not a literal blade. Hebrews 4:12 supports this, describing the Word of God as sharper than any two-edged sword.
Les explains that the sharp sword coming out of His mouth is the Word of God. He connects it to Hebrews 4:12, which says the word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword. Revelation 19:15 says that out of His mouth goes a sharp sword so that with it He should smite the nations. Les notes this is symbolism or allegory, since Christ will not destroy them naturally or by walking on them, but with the spoken Word. The armies in heaven, the saints, follow Him on white horses at His second coming.
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.
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.
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What does the sharp sword from Christ's mouth in Revelation 19:15 represent?
The sharp sword that comes out of Christ's mouth in Revelation 19:15 is a reference to His judgment and wrath upon the empires and nations of the world described in Revelation 18.