learn where this peacefulness shall reign.

"They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain." It is in God's
holy mountain where they shall not hurt nor destroy. What is God's holy
mountain? It is Zion, the church. "And it shall come to pass in the last
days [the gospel days] that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be
established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the
hills; and all nations [both Jew and Gentile] shall flow unto it. 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." Isa. 2:2, 3.

This is surely too plain to need comment, Zion is the Lord's mountain. The
wolf dwelling with the Lamb is figurative language, and never will be
literally fulfilled, but has been spiritually and figuratively fulfilled
throughout the whole of this Christian dispensation. It shows the wonders
of God's grace. Jesus called Herod a "fox." Luke 13:32. He certainly did
not mean that he was truly a fox, but that he had a thieving, dishonest,
foxlike disposition. Paul says, "Beware of dogs." Phil. 3:2. He is not
giving us a warning against this literal animal, but against men that have
a fierce and doglike nature. Jesus again says, "Beware of false prophets,
which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening
wolves." Mat. 7:15. Here we learn that men are inwardly ravening wolves;
that is, they have a devouring, wolflike disposition. Thus we could
continue.

In Isa. 35:9 it says that no lion shall be in the highway of holiness. In
a Christian's holy life there is no lionlike nature. God's salvation saves
men from such dispositions. And the whole of Isa. 11:6-8 is a prophecy
relating to this present time, when the salvation of Jesus saves men from
all wolf, bear, lion, and leopardlike natures, and fills all with a
peaceable nature, that an innocent child shall lead them.

Please read the first verse of this chapter. Do we not find its fulfilment
in Christ? Also read the tenth verse. Does it not point to the Savior? It
all relates to the time when Christ shall come and the Gentile can be
saved as well as the Jew. The ninth verse is often misquoted. Many say
that in the millennium "righteousness shall cover the earth as the waters
cover the sea." Such is not Scripture. B