JESUS CHRIST

The problem of peace has emerged as one of the most urgent and pressing issues today. living in a age when the terrifying vision of the prophet Jeremiah (Jer 4. 23-26) could be turned into a reality at any moment with the use of nuclear weapons, it is only natural that the maintenance of peace is a life- and death issue for all humankind.
Today when all the people in the world are in a frantic search for peace, the Christian Church proclaims that Jesus Christ is "the Prince of Peace", fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah of Jerusalem. The great eighth century prophet, who lived and worked in the time of turmoil that twice threatened the survival of Jerusalem, envisioned the coming of the Messianic king, who would rule the people of God with justice and righteousness:

"For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given...
and his name will be called,
'Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace [sa shalom]'" (Isa.9.6)

The Christian church confesses in faith that the prophecy was realized with the coming of Jesus Christ, the lord, What does it mean, then that Jesus Christ is the 'prince of peace' biblically and for us today? To answer this question we shall first turn our attention to the meaning of peace in the biblical sense. The most common word in the bible translated into "peace" is a Hebrew word "shalom". The logical starting point of our study should be an examination of the word, shalom.
The noun form of the word shalom means, basically, "wholeness", "fullness", "totality", "completeness". Shalom means wholeness in the sense that no component part is missing, impaired or damaged. It means also that parts are in harmony, order and unity.
The first step for the restoration of PEACE (shalom) among the people and nations is the prevention of war. Absence of armed conflict does not automatically bring shalom, but peace in the sense of the absence of war (we may call it "passive shalom"), however, provides conditions and an environment for the shalom.
when a society is fragmented between the privileged and underprivileged, the powerful and powerless, there is no shalom. When political power is misused and abused for the benefit of the powerful, and the freedom of the common people is suppressed and curtailed arbitrarily, there is no shalom in that society
In this CHAIN we can see Jesus Christ as a PRINCE OF PEACE to the whole world. His Peace (shalom) can give only HARMONY and UNITY in the world. "Peace I leave with you: my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you" (Jn 14.27)...