The Return To Eden!
“The wolf and the lamb shall feed together,
the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust
shall be the serpent’s food. They
shall not
hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,”
says the Lord.
Isaiah 65: 25
In the “kingdom” of Eden, peace prevailed. In fact,
that
peace existed with both humans and animals.
There was apparently no hostility between humans
and animals in Eden (Genesis 2:19-20).
Animals were not even part of the human diet
(Genesis 1:29). But after sin entered the
world,
that peace disappeared as the rule in creation.
Violence became the norm for both man and
beast (Genesis 6:5-8).
Peace will return when the Prince of Peace rules the
world: “For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of
the Lord as the waters cover the sea” (Isaiah 11:9).
Natural enemies
like wolves and lambs, leopards
and goats, lions and calves will exist in harmony
together.
Even a child will play with a deadly snake
(Isaiah 11:6-8). Just as peace was the norm
in Eden, so peace will be the norm
in
Christ’s Kingdom on earth.
Until that day, let us fulfill our
stewardship
responsibilities towards God’s creatures
that He has entrusted to us.
"Everything we have is
on loan from the Lord,
entrusted to us for a
while."
John MacArthur
