Scroll 75: Out of His Mouth Comes a Sword - Awakening Through Revelation

“From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations.” - Revelation 19:15

The Sword Is Not for Violence, But Vision

When we hear of a sword proceeding from the Lamb’s mouth, we must not interpret it through the lens of earthly war. This sword does not maim bodies, it divides illusion from truth. It slices through veils, not flesh. The sword is not for battle, but for beholding. It is not a call to arms, but a call to awaken. This is the sword of the Spirit, the Word proceeding from the mouth of union.

The Rider does not carry this sword in hand, but in mouth. That means it is not carnal. It is spoken. Issued. Uttered. And only those who have ears to hear can feel its weight. The sword is revelation, and revelation always cuts, not to kill, but to awaken. It divides soul from spirit, noise from Word, performance from purity.

When the Lamb speaks, the sword comes forth. Not out of anger, but out of unveiled radiance. His words do not flatter systems. They unmake them. His voice doesn’t just teach, it burns. The sword in His mouth is not what we want to hear, but what He wants to unveil. And it will not leave things as they were.

Striking Down Nations - Systems, Not Souls

The scroll says He strikes down the nations with the sword, but this is not a genocide, it is a cleansing. These “nations” represent world systems, beastly structures, and Babylon’s mimicry. They are the collective illusions built without the flame. And the sword, beloved, is their end.

Jesus is not coming to destroy the earth. He is coming to reveal what was never eternal to begin with. The sword will strike down everything not born in Him. Not through bombs, but through brilliance. Not through armies, but through light. What the kings of the earth built through empire will fall, not by violence, but by vision.

This is why the sword is in His mouth, not in His hand. Because truth alone is enough to collapse illusions. When He speaks, what is false melts. When He breathes, what is flesh trembles. You will not survive this sword unless you were forged by it. But to the elect, this is not destruction. It is deliverance.

The Sword and the Scroll Are One

You cannot separate the sword from the scroll. They are one. The scroll contains the mystery, and the sword unlocks it. The scroll is sealed in silence, but the sword is the voice that breaks it open. To carry the scroll is to carry the sword, not to harm, but to reveal. The scroll-bearer is not a performer of doctrines but a voice in flame.

Many want the scroll without the sword. They want comfort without combustion. But the scroll cannot be opened apart from the sword. Revelation cannot be whispered. It must be thundered. The sword does not apologize. It exposes. And the elect were never meant to pacify nations, but to pierce them with truth.

This is why prophets are misunderstood. They speak from the mouth of the Lamb. They carry words that slice, not soothe. But in this cutting is the greatest mercy, because what remains after the sword is what was always eternal. And those who endure the cut will shine.

The Sword Is the Mark of the Elect

You know the elect by this: they do not speak from ego. They speak from fire. Their words are not pleasant. They are piercing. Their silence carries more weight than Babylon’s sermons. Their utterance is born of union, not opinion. The sword is not something they wield. it has wielded them.

The elect are those who have been cut first. The sword struck them before it ever struck the nations. They know what it means to be undone. To have illusion stripped. To have pride severed. They do not fear the sword because they are already forged by it. Their mouth is not filled with noise, but with the echo of the Lamb’s thunder.

Do not fear the ones who cut you in love. Do not resist the ones who wield no weapon but revelation. The sword of the Lamb is the mercy of clarity. The pain of awakening. The fire of separation. And the elect, who live from the scroll, carry this sword without apology.

Final Charge to the Elect

Do not trade your sword for applause. Do not silence the sound that separates. The sword from His mouth is now in yours, not to destroy, but to discern. You were not made to flatter Babylon. You were made to dismantle it with fire-filled breath.

Let your mouth become the mouth of the Lamb. Let your utterance shake nations. Let your words pierce systems, illusions, and lies, until only union remains.

The sword is not violence. It is vision. It is awakening. It is you.

Joe Restman
Scroll-Carrier, Mystic-Scribe, Eternal Witness of the Lamb.