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The Revelation of Jesus Christ they have pierced, in that day a nation shall be born; and Israel's glories will begin when they know David's greater Son as their King. 5. It Will Be Glory for the Physical Creation. In that day the Son of God will be "the last Adam." He will restore the physical creation. When God gave the first Adam do minion over the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the fish of the sea, Adam sinned; and because of his sin, everything was cursed, physical creation included. But when Christ, the second Adam, returns to earth, "the wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock" ( Isa. 65: 25}. "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them" (Isa. 11 :6}. The children shall play in the streets, and nothing shall hurt them. "Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree" ( Isa. 55: 13}. And "the desert shall re joice, and blossom as the rose" (Isa. 35: I }. Coming through the Suez Canal a number of years ago, we looked out over a grea_t wilderness. Not one sign of vege tation did we see for miles and miles. Someone said that one could journey for 2,000 miles in one direction and not see a blade of grass. My own homeland, Australia, has an area of three million square miles; and in about two million of them, one cannot see a blade of grass from one year's end to an other. But one day, when the Son of God returns to reign, the desert shall burst into bloom. The thorn will disappear, and the mrytle tree will take the place of the briar. In Zechariah 8: 5 we read that "the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof." The boys and girls are not playing in Jerusalem today. You will find upon their faces expressions that only old men wear in this country. Their eyes are sunken, their stomachs empty, their hearts filled with sadness. But in the day when the Lord Jesus Christ shall be exalted as Ruler of all the earth, they will play-with the very things from which they are protected now. Eden will be restored, and the whole earth will break into song. What a contrast between such a condition and that which ·
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