The promise of peace

Isaiah 2:2–4 stands at the beginning of this Manifesto because it reveals the intended destination of the Kingdom: the nations seek instruction from the One, He administers justice, and war gives way to peace. Isaiah 2:2–4 2:2 And it shall come to pass in the end of days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established as the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 2:3 And many peoples shall go and say: 'Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths.' For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 2:4 And He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. This promise is not a call to establish a human kingdom by force. It is a vision of a world in which God's justice is sought and people no longer turn their weapons against one another.