Sword of His Mouth

 Revelation 1:16: “And out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword.”

             The true interpretation of the term “sword of his mouth” is apparent from the Scriptures:

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. (Eph. 6:17)

 For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12)

             The offensive power of the Lord both for blessing as well as for vengeance is His spoken Word.  Genesis chapter one is sufficient to establish that He needs no other source of power.  It is certainly not consistent with His nature to use carnal weapons such as earthly kings use for warfare.

            In Revelation 2:16 He warns: “(I) will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.”  And in Revelation 19:21: “And the remnant of them were slain with the sword of Him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceedeth out of his mouth.” 

            Ladd, quotes Psalms of Solomon 17:27,[1] saying that “…the Lord’s anointed…will establish the Kingdom by destroying the wicked ‘with the word of his mouth;’ i.e. by supernatural power.”  Thus we see that the believing people of that era expected their Messiah to conduct this kind of spiritual warfare.