“And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.” (Revelation 20:1-3)
I was on the patio holding my nine month old great-grand-daughter, and playing “Jesus Loves Me” on my harmonica. A full grown wild rabbit came up on the edge of the patio within eight or ten feet of us. I kept playing, the rabbit kept sitting there watching us, seemingly enthralled, while Mackenzie kept listening to the music and watching the rabbit. The rabbit sat there, unafraid of an old man and a baby girl and seemed to be enjoying the music about Jesus.
I thought of the time following the Second Coming of Jesus and before the earth as we know it ends. There will be a thousand years of perfect peace. It will be known as the Kingdom Age of Christ. The wolf will dwell with the lamb, a leopard shall lie down with a baby goat, a calf and young lion will be together and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear will feed together. Swords and implements of war will be turned into tools for farming. For that thousand years there will be no war. (Isaiah 11:6-9; Micah 4:3)
How can that be? It will happen because Satan will not be running loose and causing problems and Jesus will be ruling and reigning.
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