Isaiah 11, another whole chapter in his Prophecy that focuses solely on the Millennium, includes this glorious verse: “For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.” Isaiah 11:9

Let me advance the thought that this has never before happened! “The earth filled with the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.” Never!

That word “earth” (in Hebrew “eretzs”) means the whole planet! My Lexicon says, “the whole earth as opposed to only part of it!”

Yes, in the Garden of Eden everyone knew of the Lord God Almighty! But that knowledge did not envelop the whole earth! Just the “Garden” area!

The same condition prevailed as Noah and his family (eight souls) disembarked from the Ark. Everyone alive possessed the “knowledge of the Lord,” but only on Mount Ararat and vicinity!

Soon, due to mankind’s “drift into sin” … ignorance of God (albeit willingly oft-times) seeped into the human fabric.

And certainly today … ignorance prevails, no knowledge of our dear Lord, not universally!

In fact, Nations exist in our day where it is illegal to teach the Truth of God’s Holy Word! I am told that North Korea, for example, immediately imprisons (and perhaps even executes) anyone found carrying a Bible!

Oh, but some day … when Jesus returns to this earth, His Return when “every eye shall see Him” (Revelation 1:7) our Text, Isaiah 11:9, will come to full realization!

“The earth SHALL BE full of the knowledge of the Lord.”

And to what extent? “As the waters cover the sea,” pretty deep! Over seven miles deep in some places!

Yes!

Let me point you (a verse we may study later in detail) to Jeremiah 31:34 now … “And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, KNOW THE LORD: for they shall ALL know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

Knowledge leading to salvation!

Not yet … but during the Millennium!

Then it gets even better! Based on Habakkuk 2:14 anyway! “For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the GLORY of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.” Knowledge has now become “Glory!”

Knowledge of Jesus, if pure, always turns into Glory!

What a Day (a thousand year day) that will be!

The Millennium!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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