"The wolf and the lamb will feed together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox,
and dust will be the serpent's food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
on my holy mountain, says the LORD."
Isaiah 65:25 (NIV)
Last week the newspapers shouted: “The pope teaches that dogs will be in heaven!” No matter if he is right or wrong or if the newspapers are making stuff up again to sell copies, it got me thinking about this passage in Isaiah which describes the new heaven and new earth, and feeling very SORRY for the lowly snake.
The similarities between Genesis 1 & 2 and Revelation 21 & 22 are marvelous and teach us the truth that God’s original design will be restored in the new earth, albeit with some changes. According to Isaiah 65 one of those changes will be the status of the lowly snake. POOR SNAKE! We are not told in the creation account what the snake looked like, nor how it moved, but part of God’s curse on this animal for being used by Satan was that it would crawl on its belly and eat dust! Things are better for the wolf, the lamb and the lion (dogs aren’t mentioned in this passage) on the new earth, but the POOR SNAKE is still eating dust! What a marvelous place the new earth will be – where death is no longer, where we who are His are holy in every way, and where God’s creatures who because of the curse became predators, are fulfilling once again the peaceful purposes for which He created them!
Come long expected Jesus, Come!
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