Isaiah 11
Isaiah 11:2-3:
And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
Isaiah 11:9: They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
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Man must restore to God His due, total lordship over all things, and this restoration, begun by Christ’s regenerating act, continued by the Holy Spirit, and made the very life of redeemed man to further, shall begin to come into its own way.
We are being prepared for living in a community in which no one hurts or destroys because everybody lives by the same rules—not their own rules, but “the knowledge of the LORD,” God’s rules! What if we are not practiced at living by God’s rules or never cared to pay attention to them? What if we thought one or two of them were rather silly, so we did not need to live according to them? We would not “fit” in His holy mountain any more than a person would fit in a game in which everyone was playing by the rules except him. He would ruin the game. That is the point. Man is proud of his powerful computers, satellites, modern scientific labs, and medical discoveries. In spite of this, he fights with nature and other men. Crime, drug abuse, sexual perversions, and all sorts of other evils escalate. The deaf and blind go unhealed. Man pollutes his air, water, and soil because he does not know how to manage a civilization. With all his technological advances, man cannot get along with his neighbor. The earth being “full of the knowledge of the LORD” means far more than “everyone will go to the right church”! God’s knowledge is vast; He knows how to make a civilization work—even a high-tech one! In the Millennium, man will be at peace. Nations, neighbors and even spouses will not fight. All this will be the result of an unprecedented explosion of knowledge in how to do things right! |