The angels heralded the greatest peace to ever arrive on Earth! The coming of the Lord from Heaven, who alone is the means of Peace.
*** PEACE ON OFFER TO THE WORLD ***
"And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men" [Luke 2:13-14].
Man in his unregenerate state is inherently incapable of "perfect peace" (Isaiah 26:3) though he longs for it.
People everywhere influenced by a carefree spirit will try and quote the Bible reference about the wicked being like the "troubled sea" and say ... "There's no rest for the wicked", but they quote it wrong! The final word of the verse is ... .... ..... "There is no peace, saith my God to the wicked" [Isaiah 57:21].
The true wiggle of the verse is ... Where there are wild winds, storms and strong under currents, the sea is stirred up and cannot rest and anyone upon such unrest and lethal power will be drained of every skerrick of 'peace'.
The World is currently an unprecedented, troubled and agressivley violent sea that cannot allow peace to anyone except the Christian that is looking daily to the Lord.
The united nations is playing a fools game in it's endeavour to re-unite the nations that God has divided. Jesus has plainly said, that right to the end, Nation will war against Nation, Kingdom against Kingdom.
Neighbours within their own countries suffer the ruin of lost peace!
The united nations has united nothing since it's inception in 1945 and the organisation is only a ruse of power grab and dominance by a cabal, formed of the World's elites.
*** JESUS IS THE LORD OF PEACE. ***
"Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means ...."
[2 Thessalonians 3:16].
Allow Jesus to be Lord over All, in your life this Christmas and you will kow that "Peace which passeth all understanding" 
[Philippians 4:7].
"And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven" [Colossians 1:20].
Jesus in the midst of a storm with his fearful disciples said to the stormy wind "peace be still" and there was "peace and a great calm" [Mark 4:39].
Further, the promise of the Lord is to the Christian, and in absolute confidence he can say in any storm of argument and variance in the family, church or community ..... "Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them" [Psalm 89:9].
*** END TIMES DEPARTURE OF PEACE. ***
In Australia and across the world, we are seeing extreme violent storms of hateful and murderous wretchedness like never before.
"And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken" [Luke 21:25-26].
Praise the Lord, the above disastrous nerve shattering conditions, largely apply to the world's final repulsive moral decay, after the Church has been "caught up" (1 Thessalonians 4:17) to glory.
Yet, we are warned that the Church shall see "the beginning of sorrows", but as the Lord encourages - "see that ye be not troubled" because every Christian has not received from God "the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love and of a sound mind" [2 Timothy 1:7].
"And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
All these are the beginning of sorrows" [Matthew 24:26-28].
*** THE CHASTISEMENT OF PEACE. ***
"....the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed" [Isaiah 53:5].
How wonderful, that the Lord Jesus took the serious 'chastisement' of our transgressions and enmity produced in our hearts because of sin!
As Paul declares - "...... we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" [Romans 5:1].
*** JESUS IS THE CHRISTIAN'S PEACE. ***
Peace is one of the most important works of the Spirit of God amongst His people. Paul begins all his letters with a greeting that always includes 'Peace'. Man is such an opposing rogue in his own nature that he constantly needs to be reminded of .... "Seek peace and ensue it" [1 Peter 3:11].
"But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace ...." [Ephesians 2:14].
When our daily walk is not centred in Christ, we can become mean, hard and lacking peace. Paul said - "For me, to live, is Christ and to die is gain" [Philippians 1:21].
*** PEACE IN TIME OF WAR. ***
During the insanity of world war 1 in 1914 at Christmas time, men in the horror trauma of fight on the battlefield, paused the enmity to celebrate Christmas peace!
Click on the following link for a close up look at the recorded history, of desperation in the heart of men for peace against the ugly bitterness of war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWF2JBb1bvM
Tears cannot be held back at the tragic realities of the above video and the desperate longing for an impossible peace that the world has never known and cannot know till the "New Heaven and the New Earth" is established by the "King of kings and Lord of lords" [Revelation 21:1, 1 Timothy 6:15].
*** A PEACELESS WORLD FROM THE BEGINNING. ***
The Bible reveals that the world right from it's beginning has never known a "perfect peace" but only an artificial peace, as in the following verse ..... "And the way of peace have they not known" [Romans 3:17].
The first man born of a woman killed his own brother, the second human being, that was born into the human race, giving validity to the following words of Jesus ...
...... "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it"
[John 8:44].
*** REAL PEACE IS THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT. ***
The only way that God could bring real Peace back into the World is by re-creating man!
Real peace was lost in the garden when man became troubled by his sin and the following consequence of Death: And not only his death, but that of all humanity. Indeed man's troubled life on Earth can only afford a fragile peace. Man's sin mucks up his peace and the peace of others.
To the Galatian Church Paul wrote with an earnest plea that "Christ shall profit you nothing" (Galatians 5:2) if believers seek by adherance to the law to be justified! he declares that Christ has "become of no effect" and that they had "fallen from grace" [Galatians 5:4].
Further he claims that the Spirit of Christ will not lead towards adherance to legal obedience of rules and regulations of the law; such endeavours are the works of the flesh and misguided aspirations of the self life and not the Lord!
A spiritual Christian will enjoy and exhibit the "fruit of the Spirit" (of Christ) and this singular "fruit of the Spirit" catagorises "Peace" to be the third on the list!
But the fruit of the Spirit is ..
... "love,
joy,
peace,
longsuffering,
gentleness,
goodness,
faith,
Meekness,
temperance:
against such there is no law" [Galatians 5:22-23].
What a beautiful list of blessing!
In the Galatian Church, sadly the fruit of the Spirit was perilously missing.
Paul had to seriously warn them that if, "ye bite and devour one another, take heed that they be not consumed one of another" [Galatians 5:15].
Sadly such a state of things can exist among the saints of God in these last days. A Christian who harbours a spiteful and resentful disposition with 'biting' and 'devouring' words is walking in the flesh and not in the 'gentleness' of the Spirit.
Things were so contrary to the Spirit of the Lord among these believers at Galatia that he wrote to them .. "I stand in doubt of you" [Galatians 4:20].
There is much today that stands in the realm of 'doubt' and exhibits a sad disposition and contradiction to God's Peace.
*** THE "RULE" OF PEACE IN THE CHURCH. ***
"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful" [Colossians 3:16].
A good check for any Christian concerning the Lord's will for them personally regarding some issue, is the peace of God in the hearts of others in "the Body of Christ" (the Church), who are prayerfully in support for the Lord's best regarding that issue for that particular believer. Oneness with other believers regarding the will of God is truely a blessed seal, upon good expectation of the pending goodness of the Lord.
Further, it should always be an urgent endeavour to maintain peace and unity in the fellowship of the Church. Therein is found great blessing.
"Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore" [Psalm 133:1-3].
"Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace" [Ephesians 4:3].
*** CHRIST IS THE "PRINCE OF PEACE" ***
"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace" [Isaiah 9:6].
The Lord Jesus Christ is the Champion of peace!
He is able to give a believer, peace in any situation. So many (it is documented) that were burned at the stake for their faith in Christ and the Word of God, experienced incredible peace in the flames as their soul departed their body to be "present with the Lord"!
The Lord Jesus himself greatly comfort and Bless you this Christmas as you "lean on your beloved" Saviour (Song of Solomon 8:5), praising Him for "all His benefits" and love to you and this world so desolate and bankrupt of peace.
God BLESS.
Feliz Navidad - Boney M.
Gloria - gaither Vocal band.
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