A second thing is this. The point of fighting is to win the peace. The Church Militant will not be bored in Heaven, sitting around with nothing to do. The Church Militant will have won through to Heaven, and will know what to do when it eventually gets there. In the words of the spiritual, “gonna lay down my sword and shield, down by the riverside.” In the words of Isaiah, we will study war no more—and this will be a blessing, not a grief.
