The Path of Peace - Luke 1:67-79

Isaiah’s vision of the day when Messiah would come is either the most fantastic promise of peace or comically absurd. He pictures the messiah slaying his enemies with mere words. Wolves living peacefully with lambs; leopard resting with goats, baby bulls and lambs fattened for slaughter lying peacefully with lions; and get this, all with a little child leading them. Not only this but infants could play unharmed near a cobra’s den or viper’s nest. (Isaiah 11:4-8)Not understanding the metaphorical nature of such prophecies, many Christians have arbitrarily assigned this prophesy’s fulfillment to some future age. Sadly that may mean we don’t understand the glory to which it calls the church today.Advent is a time of recognizing the possibilities of peace in the world because Jesus has come. While it also looks forward to a greater peace when He comes again, we must not think the promises held forth by Isaiah’s vision are comically absurd today. They call us to a new way of living.