Oct 7, 2018
Isaiah 11:1-11;
12:1-6
The wolf shall dwell with the
lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the
calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little
child shall lead them. 7 The cow and the bear shall
graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall
eat straw like the ox. 8 The nursing child shall play
over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand
on the adder's den. 9 They shall not hurt or destroy in
all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the
knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the
sea.
God has huge plans for this world.
The prophet Isaiah drops clues into the final culmination of peace
in a way that we could not imagine. Beyond being an Eden-revisited,
the Peaceable Kingdom will have a memory of the time of injustice
and yet will be a place of total and complete Shalom. There will be
no death on God's holy mountain and all of his creation will be at
rest together. Yet, we struggle in the here and now with our own
internal peace, making peace with others, and making peace in our
world. Join us as we are reminded of God's final and beautiful plan
for New Creation