…for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea… the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people…

It’s going to be interesting, End Times, it’s going to be REALLY REAL. And it WILL get worse before it gets better. I wouldn’t want to miss it for the world – but none of us will miss it – the one thing certain about the future is that it is coming. 

The future. No, I’m NOT packing a travel bag now, but we should be unpacking our burdens and handing them over to Jesus. There is a higher Way outta here, and Jesus already did all the legwork. 

But first, the time will come (soon many do say), when God brings a moment when the animals that normally spar with each other now will be at peace. Isaiah speaks of this time in order to give hope, comfort that this will be a time for the remnants of Israel and the Gentiles to be saved up, as followers of a rod stemming from the house of Jesse [that’s Jesus]. This time Isaiah is describing, scholars say, is the millennium also described in the book of Revelation. 1000 years of peace as satan, snake, asp, venomous dragon of a devil, is locked up before being completely defeated. Yes, there’s many special times in our future. It’s going to be more real than real.

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. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice [venomous snake’s] den. 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.

And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign [banner to rally around] of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. Isaiah 11:6-10

Ah……. The devil gets his due. Jesus strikes down and put His Hand over the snake’s ability to interfere. And as Genesis states, then Revelation states, Jesus IS the ALPHA and Omega, beginning and end, and really does crush the snake at the end as was told at the beginning. God told Adam and Eve (and that snake) of the consequences, but also of the Way. God recovers what was lost, His people to Him. The full knowledge of His presence will come again. 

Isaiah first tells the people of the time, plus us, that God’s going to have His justice on the lost, and His mercy on the found. In the time of recovery, His people will have full knowledge of Him.

Know that the knowledge of the Lord brings us the Road map of the Way. Jesus WILL save our day.

Amen 

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.

And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. Isaiah 11:11-16