I’m not disagreeing with your general sentiment, but I like precision when it comes to the words of Jesus. My reading of the passage, given below, is that he asks them to sell their cloak and buy swords (he doesn’t specify two), they tell him that they have two there already and he says, “that’s enough!”
It’s a pretty ambiguous passage,but I’d agree that it certainly isn’t a charge to go and arm ourselves. If that were the case, then I guess it would be also making the case against tactical gear while armed, right? Gun or coat, pick one.
35 Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?”
“Nothing,” they answered.
36 He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. 37 It is written: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors’; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.”
38 The disciples said, “See, Lord, here are two swords.”
“That’s enough!” he replied.