John the baptist was of the glory of the old covenant, and his assignment was parallel to that of its glory(Ex 23:20-32.) This was the same assignment carried by the angel in the wilderness using the law.
John took the new assignment as Elijah(Mathew 3:3, 17:12-13), a prophet of the law that had to prepare the way before the terrible day of Christ(Malachi 4:5). Due to the cyclic nature of prophesy, this was first fulfilled in John the Baptist. It also assures us that Elijah precedes the terrible day of the Lord as is the interpretation of Malachi.
These(John and Jesus) were therefore two dispensations working side by side, the old paving way for the new. The old seems to have power to judge harshly by the law, also a function of the two witnesses of the passing age in Revelation 11:3-6. The sword is for the sons of the law, not believers, for those who live by the sword, die by the sword, and the law is a sword. It is for this reason that I believe that the power of the sword has already been released upon the principalities of the earth, due to many witness accounts. The mission of John the Baptist was marked with violence in the Kingdom of God. These are the birth pains of the earth(Is 66:8,9), a sword expected and prophesied against the nations(Is 66:15,16).
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