ess and diseases will be banished and those who obey
the laws of His kingdom will continue to live on earth, so that death,
the common thing now, as the wages of sin, will become uncommon during
the coming age. What a glory time there is in store for this earth!
But we must not forget that day, when the shadows flee away, will be
ushered in by a judgment of nations. Nations now in existence, steeped
in unspeakable wickedness, having cast even a skin-deep civilization to
the winds and outraged the laws of God and man, will be dealt with in
judgment and pass away as nations (Matthew xxv:31).

+IV. The Shadows which are upon Creation Will Also Flee Away+. The
Apostle Paul tells us of creation's curse, creation's groans and
creation's deliverance: "For the earnest expectation of the creature
waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was
made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath
subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be
delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of
the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and
travaileth in pain together until now" (Romans viii:19-22). Creation
has fallen under the curse through man's sin. As man has continued in
sin and has become worse in his deeds of defiance of God, creation has
also seen degradation in a like degree. Blights are seen everywhere.
Tidal waves and terrific earthquakes have destroyed human lives by the
millions. All creation is suffering and groaning under the curse. But
it is not to be so forever. The King who comes back is also the
Creator, He who called all things into existence out of nothing. He
surely will set all things in order and deliver groaning creation. He
will put all things back as they were in the beginning and then earth
will be once more a paradise. If He would do anything less than that
the dark shadow of the one who brought sin and death into the world
would have the last word, and could then sneer into the face of God the
fact that in spite of the redemption price He could not restore things
as they were in the beginning.

We quote but one passage from the Book of Isaiah in which this blessed
time is predicted when the shadows flee away for a groaning creation:
"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 l