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God sent the prophet Isaiah to his people at a time of great prosperity. But it was also a time of moral and spiritual decay. In the first 39 chapters of his prophecy, Isaiah warns of the coming judgment of God upon his people and upon all nations. Yet these chapters also contain rich and comforting promises of God’s grace and the future arrival of the Messiah.

leopard stalks the goat; the lion, learning to growl and hunt, kills the solitary calf for food. But where this Son of David rules, all hostility will cease. Former enemies will live side by side in peace. Even a little child and a helpless infant, not yet weaned, will have nothing to fear. Isaiah paints the ideal picture of what nature must have been like before the fall into sin. In a world filled with hostility, bloodshed, and discord, the vision of this peaceable kingdom soothes us. But how should
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