Thank you for the correction, brother, but it doesn't change my point.
You are welcome, yet your point is STILL inaccurate.
Isaiah chapters 2, 11, and 56 are talking about the house of God, the congregation where His people, both saved and unsaved, dwells, during the millennial kingdom. For example...
1st Timothy 3:15
- "But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth."
In Isaiah chapter 2 we see the
mountain is revealed to be the "kingdom" or house of the God of Jacob. And the many people who come to be taught of God (1st John 2:27) are the nations who flow into His house in the millennial reign of Christ, which started at His first advent. Not in your future. Such as also prophesied in Psalms 86.
Psalms 86:9
- "All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
- For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.
- Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name."
And how does the Lord "teach" the servants of God his ways, as Isaiah 2:3 also declared? By the
Holy Spirit poured out at Pentecost He teaches us of his ways, so that we can walk in his paths!! Right now and it has been since Pentecost! It is fulfilled in the Kingdom of Christ as out of Mount Zion the law has gone forth, and the Word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Fulfilled! Christ teaching us of His ways was established as a reality when He came to Israel and preached the gospel from Jerusalem, and taught us of His ways that we might abandoned the crooked paths and walk in His paths. Even as the rebellious leaders of Christ's own congregation (
without even realizing it) prophesied of this in their rejection of Him.
John 7:35
- "Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?"
Israel was blinded, eyes that they would not see that they would not find Him. And indeed Christ did go to teach the Gentiles after He (
their foundation stone), was rejected by His Old Testament Jews, where they to this day have not found Him. Well has John 7:35 prophesied? From that mountain (Zion and the Kingdom Christ established) from Jerusalem, the gospel went to all the world just as prophesied in Isaiah! That is when the word and the law of the Lord went out from Jerusalem, that we might walk in His paths. All of this was fulfilled with the first advent of Christ.
Of course, this is difficult for those indoctrinated into the idea that Isaiah 2 is some future fulfillment where Lambs and Wolves frolic around together in heaven, nevertheless, it is true. The lamb is unafraid of the wolf
NOT because the wolf becomes a herbivore in heaven, but because the Lamb and wolf are
synonyms, in God's Word, for His Servants and those who would devour them. The wolf cannot hurt the lamb because as God declared, "they will not hurt nor destroy in My Holy Mountain." It is
because there in THIS kingdom of Christ is the peace and safety (salvation) of Israel. Not in strong walls and a great military,
only in Christ Jesus.
Luke chapter 10 verses 19 and 20 give us a similar illustration of this same principle of how with the coming of Christ's Kingdom they cannot be hurt by the enemies of God. The Lord sends out 'seventy' (
a spiritually significant number) disciples with the gospel to witness in twos (signifying truthful witness) with this information and instruction.
Luke 10:19
- ""Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you."
Is the Lord giving His servants the power to go around the countryside and be immune to being hurt by enemies that are literal snakes and scorpions? Seriously?! No! Not at all. The serpent and Scorpion
signify and
represent the
power of Satan, just as the
wolf does. Selah!! If you walk through the desert, will physical/literal snakes and scorpions clear a path for you and not hurt you because you are a servant of God? HA! Come on! Not at all, and this is
NOT what Christ is teaching here! Listen...being bitten by a snake is not the force of the enemy that Christ gives us power over. The power of the enemy Jesus speaks about here is the
power of that Scorpion from the pit and
that old Serpent Satan. In other words, the false doctrine! Those who are spiritually serpents and scorpions (
those of Satan) are the ones who God is teaching cannot harm us. Yes, even today we have some misguided souls, Christians going around handling snakes because they can't see the forest for the trees. The truth is, God has given us safety from the antichrist spirit Satan, who desires to deceive, seduce and devour us.
1st Peter 3:12-13
- ""For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
- And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?"
The answer to this rhetorical question is that there is no one who can hurt or destroy you when you are a follower and sealed of Christ! So when we ask, what does the "Lamb not being afraid of the Wolf" in the Lord's holy mountain mean, it means the servant of God cannot be spiritually hurt by the wolf, nor the wolves in sheep's clothing that are among the lambs. It's not really that difficult to discern! Because Christ used this same vernacular with us very plainly during His ministry.
Matthew 10:16
- "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves."
See?! There is the answer to the relevant question concerning the mountain of the Lord, and also the passages that follow verses 2 and 3. Christ didn't send us out among wolves to be hurt, He assures that they will not hurt nor destroy us as we abide in His holy Mountain (Church). Again, not because the wolf has a new nature, but because we are sealed, secured in Christ, and cannot be spiritually hurt by Satan or his minions during the millennial kingdom reign and peace prophesied in Isaiah is the peace of Christ, and the cessation of the sword of warfare, turned into another job of cultivating the Lord's plantings, is by the New Spirit of Christ within us as we are reconciled with God.
Selah! Only those with spiritual discernment will understand what Christ actually talks about the wolf and the lamb! The false Christians and true Christians work together in God's Holy Mountain, where the lamb (Elect) won't be spiritually hurt (deceived) by the false doctrines of the wolves!