The Millennium is under discussion in Isaiah 65:25, the chapter’s last verse. How living conditions then, under the Reign of the Lord Jesus Christ … here on earth, will be altered for the better! And altered forever!

Actually, it appears the “curse” (as a result of Adam and Eve’s sin) will be lifted from all creation … and things will be restored to their “pre-Garden-of-Eden” innocence, glory.

And our Text today … Isaiah 65:25 … is an example of this “reversal,” at least in the animal world! (God’s Word says a lot about His creatures, the animals. I believe God loves even them! And cares for them as well.)

“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.”

Wolves and lambs … no longer “hunter” and “hunted!” No longer enmity between them!

And lions not attacking and killing innocent little animals? Rather, eating straw (hay) like the cattle do!

And the snakes … a Hebrew word with “dark” connotations, meaning “to practice divination, magic, to observe signs and omens” … will eat “dust,” apparently no longer being venomous!

All nature … transformed!

Jesus, the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6) … here promising … “They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.”

No more killing!

No more pain!

And “God’s Holy Mountain,” is specifically the Temple, but all Jerusalem, no doubt the Holy Land (Israel) as well … but it would not surprise me … the entire world!

Wow!

“Even so, come, Lord Jesus!” Revelation 22:20

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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