One quick google query led me to “What does it mean that Jesus is Prince of Peace?” That article seems reasonable.
I was listening to this Advent devotional yesterday and it mentioned Revelation 19. I never much liked the book of Revelation because of all the gory stuff in it. But I had a look after hearing the devotional mention it.
And I was very shocked at what I read. It’s judgment without mercy and much bloodshed. I think the ‘typical view’ of Christians who look for meaning in the book of Revelation is that the rider with King of Kings and Lord of Lords is Jesus. But that seems impossible to me if Jesus is the Prince of Peace. Another article about that.
Anyway why would Jesus need those things tattooed onto his thigh and embroidered on his clothes? Isn’t it obvious who is and isn’t Jesus? But if it isn’t we have a clear measuring stick, that he is the prince of peace. This warriour in Rev 19 surely can’t be Jesus? Here’s the quote about Jesus being the prince of peace?
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6)
If anything Jesus being Prince of Peace is the solution and this is past tense? Or maybe it’s about the/a Holocaust? Or maybe it’s about our own times in America in which some Christians do seem to be riding out in righteous anger, saying “We are Christians, we are doing this for Jesus!” – the tattoo on the thigh and clothes – and yet, their actions do not feel led by the Spirit of all that is good, of YHWH, of El-Shaddai, the one who told Paul the Apostle “My power is made perfect in your weakness”