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SERIES BUILDER The Best Christmas Tree The shoot from Jesse's stump is our coming king. Lee Eclov

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Topics:  Advent; Arrogance; Blood of Christ; Christ, blood of; Christ, lordship of; Christ, Messiah; Christ, only Savior; Christ, our righteousness; Christ, Return of; Christmas; Creation; Day of the Lord; Deliverance; Disobedience; End times; Eternal life; Faithfulness, divine; Forgiveness, divine; God, grace of; God, love of; God, mercy of; God, works of; Gospel; Holidays; Isaiah; Jesus Christ; Judgment, divine; Judgment, final; Last Days; Last things; Moses; Nations; New Covenant; Obedience; Pardon; Perfection; Prophecy; Rebellion; Reconciliation; Redemption; Salvation; Second Coming of Christ; Self-reliance; Ungodliness; Unrighteousness; Waiting on God; World Filters:  Discipleship; Evangelism References:  Isaiah 11:1-5; Isaiah 11:6-9; Isaiah 11:10-16; Isaiah 12

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• In Isaiah 11:6–9, he describes the type of kingdom Christ will create.

• Creation has been out of whack ever since Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden.
  • Romans 8:19–22
• Isaiah 11:6 indicates that when Jesus establishes his kingdom, nature's most fundamental hostilities will cease.
• The Hebrew word for "live" suggests that the wolf will be the lamb's houseguest.
• The world will enjoy such profound harmony that there will be no predators; there will be no need for the protection of leashes, cages, or stalls.
  • Illustration: John Wesley on God's New Creation [see Illustrations and Quotations below]
• The phrase "and a little child will lead them" alludes to God's command that Adam and Eve subdue the earth and rule over its creatures.
• In Christ's new kingdom, even the smallest child will have a natural authority over God's creatures.
  • Illustration: A Good Master in "The Magician's Nephew" [see Illustrations and Quotations below]
• In the Garden of Eden, animals were vegetarian.
  • Genesis 1:29–30
• It isn't wrong to eat meat; God commanded Israel to eat meat in connection with sacrifices and provided quail in the desert.
• Nevertheless, all animals were vegetarian in the beginning, and they will be again in the new kingdom.
• Making carnivores vegetarians will require a complete change of nature.
• Jesus will so profoundly recreate the world that animal biology will promote the peaceable kingdom.

• Eliminating the human taste for sin will be a greater miracle than eliminating the carnivore's taste for meat.
• Isaiah 11:8 suggests that the youngest child will be safe not only from the venom of snakes, but also from the poison of Satan, the Serpent.
  • Genesis 3:13–15
• Satan will no longer tempt the child.
• The enmity between humans and Satan will be over forever.
  • Revelation 20:10
• The curses against men and women will likewise be ended.
  • Isaiah 65:22–23

• Isaiah 11:9 summarizes this passage beautifully.
• The "holy mountain" is Mt. Zion, which represents both the hill where the temple stood and the new Eden.
• In that peaceable city, no one "will either harm or destroy."
• People from all nations will worship Christ there.
  • Revelation 21:24–27
• Knowing the Lord is how we experience the peaceable kingdom in the present.
• Jesus came to forgive sin so that we could be reconciled with God.
• We can know God only after we are reconciled with him, because then his Spirit lives within us.
• Christ made our reconciliation possible with his blood.

• The kingdom described in Isaiah 11 is our native land, our eternal home.
• Jesus will prepare a place for us all in that kingdom.

John Wesley on God's New Creation
Randy Alcorn writes of a remarkable sermon by John Wesley. In it Wesley said:

Man was God's vicegerent upon earth, the prince and governor of this lower world; and all the blessings of God flowed through him to the inferior creatures … so when man made himself incapable of transmitting those blessings, the communication was necessarily cut off … But will 'the creature,' will even the brute creation, always remain in this deplorable condition?

God forbid that we should affirm this … They will be restored, not only to that measure of understanding which they had in paradise, but to a degree of it as much higher than that."

A Good Master in "The Magician's Nephew"
In C. S. Lewis's The Magician's Nephew, Aslan declares Frank, a cabbie on Earth, King of Narnia. The talking animals make crowns for the king and his queen, Helen, and express their delight in being ruled by these humans.

One of the animals in attendance is a horse named Strawberry, who drew Frank's carriage in London. He toiled daily for his master, and sometimes Frank, who was a good man, whipped Strawberry to make him move faster. When Aslan crowns Frank as king, Strawberry marvels at the change in his master. "My old master's been changed nearly as much as I have!" he remarks. "Why, he's a real master now."

Title: Banner Day

Subtitle: Jesus will draw all people to himself.

Text: Isaiah 11:10–16

Subject: Who will dwell in God's kingdom

Purpose: To show how God's kingdom will be populated by people from all nations

Relevance: Israel looked forward to the day when God would judge the nations and return Israel to its Promised Land. But God promises to deal with the Gentiles in a way Israel might not have expected. Instead of destroying the nations, God will draw believers from every people group to himself through Jesus. Not only that, but he will deal faithfully with the remnant of Israel in the Last Day. Ultimately, all believers—Jews and Gentiles alike—will find a home in God's peaceable kingdom.

Big Idea: Jesus will redeem believers from all nations, along with the remnant of Israel, when he comes again.

• Isaiah 11:1–5 promises the coming of a king from the line of David who will exalt the humble and crush all who rebel against God.
• Verses 6–9 describe the peaceful kingdom this king will inaugurate.
• Verses 10–16 explain how this king will draw people to himself from all over the world.
• Verses 10 and 11 both begin with the phrase, "In that day," which indicates the Day of the Lord.
• It isn't a 24-hour day; it's an era in which God will intervene in history for the final time.
• The prophet calls Jesus the root of Jesse.
• In verse 1, Jesus was called the "shoot from the stump of Jesse;" he is both the new branch and the source of life for Jesse's line.
• There are two groups of people discussed in these verses—Jews and Gentiles—and they're treated separately.
• When the Bible speaks of "the peoples" and "the nations," it means everyone except the Jews.
• In the church there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles who trust in Christ.
• Nevertheless, I believe that one of the End Times miracles is that God will deal differently with Jews and Gentiles.

• Jesus is called a banner in Isaiah 11:10 and 12.
• A banner is a "standard erected in a conspicuous place for communicating important information."
  • Illustration: Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima [see Illustrations and Quotations below]
• Jesus is a rallying point.
• This image calls to mind the rod of God, which symbolized God's presence among the armies of Israel (Exodus 17:8–15).
• It also alludes to Numbers 21:4–9, when the pole was raised so dying people could look to it and be healed.
• Jesus is both the living rod of God, who guarantees our victory, and the one upon the tree to whom we can "look and live."
• Jesus himself makes this connection in John 12:32.
• The eyes of people all over the world are searching for Jesus, the banner of God.
  • Illustration: God at Work in India [see Illustrations and Quotations below]
• Some, when they lay eyes on Jesus, will rally to him.
• Jesus' place of rest is his home; we will share that home with him for eternity.

• In Isaiah 11:11–16, God promises to preserve a remnant of Israel who will one day return to him.
  • Isaiah 10:20–22
  • Romans 9:1–6; 25–27
• The return of the remnant is the second Exodus; that's what the phrase "a second time" refers to in verse 11.
• This passage is full of imagery related to the Exodus.
• The phrase "the LORD will reach out his hand" is a familiar Exodus phrase.

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