Isaiah 11:6
2 Nephi 30:12
Isaiah 65:25
Lions, leopards, and wolves, oh my.
The millenial promise of these great carnivores laying peacefully with a helpless lamb is a well known one. Of course, everything with Isaiah has multiple meanings. I felt inspired with a different view point for these verses.
These great hunters are used in other scriptures as disrupters of peace, sin or the consequence of sin, temptation, even the devil. For them to lay down peacefully or raise their children on grass/straw, is not just a millenial promise. These predators are active now. Unfortunately, each of us, sometimes and in some ways, acts more like predator than prey. Following the peaceful Lamb takes practice. These symbols of sinful behavior laying down or changing their nature is a call for is to do the same. If a lion can eat grass and a wolf not stalk the sheep, I can tame my temptations too.
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