Luke 12:49-53
Not Peace but Division
49 "I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 50 But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed! 51 Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. 52 From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."
Jesus knew His coming and teachings would be controversial... Many would follow Him, others would not...God gives us free will and we have a choice to follow Jesus...Jesus knew this...He knew families would be divided by His message...He knew those family members who strongly believed would struggle with those who had no belief...Jesus asks in verse 51 "Do you think I came to bring peace on earth?"...Two thousand years later we still have wars, hot spots and battles that are like war, and their is not this peace on earth, at least not this total peace on earth...Jesus could have brought peace, but His message, was one of faith, to have us believe that God, His and our Father, sent Him, to die for our sins...Peace will come, at the end of age, when Jesus returns...