The passage from Isaiah 11:6 describes a time of peace during the Messianic kingdom when predatory animals like wolves and leopards will live peacefully together with prey animals like lambs and kids, with a young child being able to lead them. This reflects both the literal transformation of nature and the figurative conditions of security under God's kingdom. A following passage from Isaiah 2:2-4 further expands on this future time when God's kingdom will be established, people from all nations will flock to Jerusalem to learn God's teachings, and nations will no longer engage in war.
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Revelation of maturity
1. Isaiah 11:6
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, And the leopard shall lie down
with the kid; And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little child shall lead them.
The Branch of Jesse
2. Wolf
Leopard
Calf
Fatling Together
The peace and safety of the
Messianic age are reflected in the
fact that little children will be
unharmed as they play with
formerly ferocious animals.
Lamb
Kid
Lion
Child Shall Lead Them
Such conditions are a description
of the future consummation of the
Messianic kingdom
3. The Message
The description is literal in that it portrays the transformation of nature that will
occur and figurative in that it portrays the conditions of peace and security that
will exist in the kingdom
Isaiah 2:2-4
Gods kingdom to triumph
And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORDs house
shall be established in the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the
hills; And all nations shall flow unto it. 3)And many people shall go and say, Come
ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of
Jacob; And he will teach us of his ways, And we will walk in his paths: For out of
Zion shall go forth the law, And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4) And he
shall judge among the nations, And shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat
their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks: Nation shall not
lift up sword against nation , Neither shall they learn war any more.