There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword” (Heb. 4:12). Some knives and swords had only one sharp side; however, this sword had two extremely sharp sides; thus it is a “two edged” sword. In Hebrews 4:12 the word “two-edged” in Greek is distomos and is literally, “two mouthed”; distomos was used to describe a road or a river that branched out into two directions. 8 On the believer’s sword, I suggest that one blade was sharpened when God spoke His Word to the prophets, and the second blade is the power released from the written Word of God when you speak it . . . thus two mouths: God’s and yours. In Revelation the words from Christ’s mouth are described as a “two-edged sword” (Rev. 1:16; 2:12). When Christ returns to earth to defeat the armies of the Antichrist, He exercises the authority of His words, which release such light and power that the words from His mouth consume the enemies of Israel while they are standing on their feet (Rev. 19:15; 2 Thess. 2:8). There are also two main Greek words used for “word” in the phrase “word of God,” which is found forty-five times in forty four verses in the New Testament. One Greek word is logos , and the other is rhema. The word logos means, “a saying, a topic, or divine expression; the expression of a thought.” The word rhema generally means, “an individual, collective and specific utterance,” or “that which is spoken, what is uttered in speech and writing.” 9 The main difference between the two is that a rhema is a word or scripture that the Holy Spirit quickens to your spirit, bringing with it a strong faith to believe and act thereon. According to Paul, “the sword of the Spirit . . . is the