#168 - Kyle Thompson // A Time for War, and a Time for Peace

The Daily Blade: Joby Martin & Kyle Thompson

Joby Martin & Kyle Thompson

Devotional, Christianity, Mens Devo, Daily Mens Devotional, Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Devo, Joby Martin

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🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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We conclude our week-long study of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 by focusing on the final phrase: "a time for war and a time for peace." While exploring this tension between conflict and reconciliation, we acknowledge both the reality of necessary warfare and the promise of God's future peace. • Everyone has experienced peace, but fewer have witnessed actual warfare • Some listeners carry battlefield memories, scars, or have lost comrades • Isaiah 2:4 promises a future where God will make weapons unnec...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.
0:24.0	All right, guys, let's put a bow on this week. All week this week on the Daily Blade, we've been focusing on Ecclesiastes 3 versus 1 through 8, and I'll read it again
0:28.8	here. For everything, there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven. A time to be born
0:34.3	and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted. A time to kill. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted.
0:39.0	A time to kill. A time to break down and a time to build up. A time to weep and a time to laugh.
0:45.8	A time to mourn and a time to dance. A time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together.
0:51.4	A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing. A time to seek
0:55.6	and a time to lose. A time to keep and a time to cast away. A time to tear and a time to sew.
1:02.1	A time to keep silence and a time to speak. A time to love and a time to hate. A time for war
1:08.4	and a time for peace.
1:13.0	Yesterday we talked about the first part of verse 8.
1:15.5	Today we're keying in on the latter part of verse 8,
1:17.9	a time for war and a time for peace.
1:21.9	So everyone listening to this has experienced peace at some point in their lives, right?
1:24.2	When I say peace, I mean peace in the land.
1:26.7	I mean the absence of actual warfare.
1:29.0	But some of you, in ever-growing smaller percentage of some of you in this country, have actually seen war. You have actually
1:34.8	been a part of it. And some of you have experienced that war up close. Some of you can still remember
1:40.0	what it feels like, what it sounds like, what it smells like. And some of you have left
1:46.3	parts of you on the battlefield, whether physically or mentally, and some of you have had to say
1:51.6	goodbye to brothers in arms. And to all of you in this audience that have signed up to potentially
1:55.7	make the ultimate sacrifice to this country, I will never be able to thank you enough.
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