All the boots of the marching soldiers and the garments rolled in blood will be burned as fuel—the instruments of warfare are rendered useless and destroyed, signifying complete cessation of conflict and military threat. The burning of weapons as fuel suggests their transformation from instruments of death into resources that serve the peace-building community, symbolizing the utter elimination of the martial order that has devastated the land. This eschatological vision of weapons destroyed anticipates the peaceable kingdom depicted in subsequent chapters.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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