These parts of Rome exist in Europe to-day, under the names, England, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, etc., and will continue separate (see verse 43) until the kingdom of Christ is set up, represented by the stone "cut out of the mountain without hands," which "shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and shall stand for ever." Jesus said, "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." [Illustration: Swords and Plowshares, Spears and Pruning Hooks.] [Illustration: They that take the Sword shall Perish with the Sword....] What the Bible Says About War. THE great Teacher said, "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you." Matthew 5:9, 39-44. When everybody does this, there will be no war. All will be righteous; for "love is the fulfilling of the law," God's standard of right-doing. But no person can love everybody without a change of heart. "Ye must be born again," said Jesus. This change, or new life, comes by _believing_ that God will change us. It is only when we stop believing right that we stop doing right. If the world would believe, the world would be converted, or changed; but the parable of the tares and the wheat (Matthew 13:36-43), and what Jesus said about the "many" in the broad way and the "few" in the narrow way (Matt. 7:13, 14), show that "many are called, but few chosen." Yet thousands of people are prophesying "peace and safety" (1 Thessalonians 5:1-5), forgetting that "evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived" (2 Timothy 3:13), and that the "tares," or sinners, are finally to be destroyed instead of being changed over into wheat. "Ye will not come unto Me," said Jesus. One of the prophecies of Isaiah (2:2-5) says that "many people" "in the last days" shall talk about peace as if it were coming soon by the conversion of the world. The marginal reading of Isaiah 2:16, calls such talk "pictures of desire," and says they shall "be brought low" (verse 12). Verses three to five tell what the "_people_" are saying. Verses six to twenty-two are the _prophet's_ declarations because of what the people have said. He foretells destruction for those who do not repent, the same as does the prophet Joel. It will be a time of general war. Here are the _people's_ sayings and the _Lord's_ sayings, side by side. They are direct opposites; yet both refer to "the last days," when "the day of the Lord is near:" "It shall come to pass in _THE LAST DAYS_ that ... _MANY PEOPLE_ shall say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths:... "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.