Sons of Tumult

Sons of Tumult

These sons fill the earth, and their activities are well known but are not sufficiently studied; they are not sufficiently judged and condemned. Arguments, strife, conceit, criticism, murmuring, complaining, accusation, jealousy, envy, slander, hatred, prejudice, abusive words, divorce, cursing, brawls, murder, and divisions are their works.

How significant that it is written that the crown of the head of the sons of tumult will be devoured because people really use their heads in wanting to surpass one another in degree of intelligence and sharpness in contradicting one another, resulting in strife and tumult everywhere. All these foolish, conceited “heads” are the source of all the wretchedness that fills the whole earth.

All this is not just imperfect, it is cursed. The result is destruction, death, and perdition.

The Prince of Peace (Isa. 9:6) came to these corrupt sons with His message of peace in order to transform everyone who so desires into citizens of His kingdom of peace. It is no wonder an entire heavenly host praised God, singing, “Peace on earth!” at the time when the Prince of Peace was born into the world.

Sons of Peace

However, a new life has to be born, a new mind, a new creation, before you can prove yourself to be a citizen of this kingdom of peace in deed and in truth—someone who is like his heavenly Father—who lets his sun shine and pours his blessings on good and evil, on reasonable as well as unreasonable people.

These citizens, these sons, these sons of peace, are blessed on all their ways in the midst of a myriad of worldly and religious people precisely because they keep the peace. They are peacemakers. “Blessed are the peacemakers!”

In order to keep the peace, it is necessary to pay the price. Everything goes according to laws. It is a requirement for following the laws of the Prince of Peace or the laws of the kingdom of peace.

The old law stated: “‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I tell you [said the Prince of Peace] not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also.” Matt. 5:38-40.

These are truly laws of peace; these are the laws that the sons of peace follow in their daily lives.

On the other hand, the sons of tumult pay back in kind. They lack love and cannot bear to suffer an injustice. When the gauntlet is thrown to the ground, they immediately pick it up and begin to fight. But the sons of peace leave the gauntlet on the ground, and so the fight is cancelled before it has begun. What a blessed peace of God!