End Time-The Solutions: Peace, Spiritual

In the end time and in the Great Tribulation we will need peace within ourselves and in the congregation. This Godly principle will have to be invoked daily for us to keep our sanity and to be able to face each day. It will be essential in our relationships with the brethren and those we encounter from the world.

Definition:
Peace from Webster's Dictionary

1. In a general sense, a state of quiet or tranquility; freedom from disturbance or agitation; applicable to society, to individuals, or to the temper of the mind.
2. Freedom from war with a foreign nation; public quiet.
3. Freedom from internal commotion or civil war.
4. Freedom from private quarrels, suits or disturbance.
5. Freedom from agitation or disturbance by the passions, as from fear, terror, anger, anxiety or the like; quietness of mind; tranquility; calmness; quiet of conscience.
6. Harmony; concord; a state of reconciliation between parties at variance.
7. Public tranquility; that quiet, order and security which is guaranteed by the laws; as, to keep the peace; to break the peace.

This word is used in commanding silence or quiet; as, peace to this troubled soul.

To be at peace, to be reconciled; to live in harmony.
To make peace, to reconcile, as parties at variance.
To hold the peace, to be silent; to suppress one's thoughts; not to speak.

From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
---the gospel in Christ is a message of peace from God to men.
---it is “peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."
---an essential element in the spiritual kingdom of God.
---it is to be cherished and followed by Christians.
---the peace that Christ brought is primarily spiritual peace from and with God, peace in the heart, peace as the disposition or spirit.
---this is represented as the ultimate result of the gospel and Spirit of Christ; universal and permanent peace can come only as that Spirit rules in men's hearts.
---"Peace” in the sense of silence, to hold one's peace.

Quotes:

“Truth, righteousness, peace and love — these are the four pillars on which the mansion of happiness is built.”

“Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. The rest will be given.”

“The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.”

“Where there is FAITH, there is LOVE; Where there is LOVE; there is PEACE; Where there is PEACE; there is GOD; Where there is GOD; there is BLISS.”

Scriptures:

God is the author of peace
Psalm 147:14 He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
1 Corinthians 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

Results from Heavenly wisdom
James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Praying for peace for rulers
1 Timothy 2:2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

Seeking the peace of those with whom we dwell
Jeremiah 29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

Necessary to the enjoyment of life
Psalm 34:12, 14 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
1 Peter 3:10-11 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.

God bestows Peace upon those who...
Obey him
Leviticus 26:6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

Endure his chastisements
Job 5:17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
Job 5:23-24 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

Is a bond of union
Ephesians 4:3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

The fruit of righteousness should be sown in
James 3:18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

The church shall enjoy--prophecies
Psalm 125:5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

Psalm 128:6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.

Isaiah 2:4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: 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.

Hosea 2:18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

Firstfruits should...

Love
Zechariah 8:19 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.

Seek
Psalm 34:14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
1 Peter 3:11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.

Follow
2 Timothy 2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Follow the things which make for
Romans 14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

Cultivate
Psalms 120:7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

Speak
Esther 10:3 For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.

Live in
2 Corinthians 13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

Have, with each other
Mark 9:50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
1 Thessalonians 5:13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

Endeavour to have will all men
Romans 12:18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Pray for that of the church
Psalm 122:6-8 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.

Ministers should exhort to
2 Thessalonians 3:12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

Advantages of peace
Proverbs 17:1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
Ecclesiastes 4:6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

Blessedness of peace
Psalm 133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

Blessedness of promoting peace
Matthew 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

The Wicked speak peace with insincerity
Psalm 28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

The Wicked speak not peace
Psalm 35:20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

The Wicked enjoy not peace
Isaiah 48:22 There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.
Ezekiel 7:25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

Opposed to peace
Psalm 120:7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

Wicked hate peace
Psalm 120:6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.

General Scriptures:

Romans 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Job 22:21, 26 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

Psalm 119:165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith.

Psalm 29:11 The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.