Isaiah 9:5 For the trampling boot of battleThis is an amazing promise about what the Messiah will accomplish in the world. On the one hand, peace will be brought, the boot of battle will be burned as fuel, because in the culmination of God's coming Kingdom, boots and the weapons/ instruments of war are not needed. Obviously at this point we don't see this fulfillment entirely, warfare and violence are still commonplace in our world, but there will come a day when all of that pain, and destruction is done away with completely.
and the bloodied garments of war
will be burned as fuel for the fire.
The other half of this amazing promise says that the bloodied garments of war will be burned in the fire. This may apply as the boots of battle, referring to the impending peace that will come and how the instruments of warfare will be no longer needed. But, it could refer to the forgiveness that Jesus offers. The bloodied garments of war, the evidence of violence and destruction, are burned in the fire and completely done away with. As Jesus forgives and makes us into new creations, born-again, the old bloodied garments of our past mistakes and past problems and past decisions are done away with 100% completely forgiven. That's why there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
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