The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord (Isa. 65:25).
Conditions on earth are not like this today. In our world the wolf eats the lamb. The lion is a predator and feeds upon creatures less strong than itself--in fact, upon the bullock whenever it has the opportunity. The serpent acts with the nature of a serpent, and many die of snakebite every year. Hurt and destruction are worldwide, at times bursting out into desperate and terrible wars.
The time is coming when "the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea," and that is why the Lord declares, "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain" (Isa. 11:9).
Hurt and destruction result from ignorance or an ignoring of the knowledge of God. The physical creation itself, and even the animal world, will be changed when human beings are immortalized and brought back to their Eden home.
"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth" (Matt. 5:5). But today "the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together," waiting "for the manifestation of the sons of God" (Rom. 8:22, 19). In the earth made new there will be perfect harmony between humans and their environment.
"To lick the dust," we are reminded by commentators, is figurative of the final, utter, and perpetual degradation of Satan and his emissaries (Isa. 49:23; Ps. 72:9). The reign of sin will then be over, and God will have a clean universe.
MEDITATION PRAYER: "Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God" (Ps. 43:4).
Conditions on earth are not like this today. In our world the wolf eats the lamb. The lion is a predator and feeds upon creatures less strong than itself--in fact, upon the bullock whenever it has the opportunity. The serpent acts with the nature of a serpent, and many die of snakebite every year. Hurt and destruction are worldwide, at times bursting out into desperate and terrible wars.
The time is coming when "the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea," and that is why the Lord declares, "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain" (Isa. 11:9).
Hurt and destruction result from ignorance or an ignoring of the knowledge of God. The physical creation itself, and even the animal world, will be changed when human beings are immortalized and brought back to their Eden home.
"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth" (Matt. 5:5). But today "the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together," waiting "for the manifestation of the sons of God" (Rom. 8:22, 19). In the earth made new there will be perfect harmony between humans and their environment.
"To lick the dust," we are reminded by commentators, is figurative of the final, utter, and perpetual degradation of Satan and his emissaries (Isa. 49:23; Ps. 72:9). The reign of sin will then be over, and God will have a clean universe.
MEDITATION PRAYER: "Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God" (Ps. 43:4).
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