The Peaceable Kingdom

Published: Oct. 7, 2018, 4 p.m.

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