Pancho Frijoles
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This is a symbol of peace between people who were enemies in the past.And yet lions and wolves and adders will lie down with lambs and children against their nature in the heavenly state.
Symbol of security, peaceful coexistence among nations that derives from the knowledge of God.
Here is the text. Please read it and let us know if it should be taken literally. As an alternative, ask any Rabbi of how Jews have interpreted these verses throughout history:
And there shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse,
and a Branch shall grow out of his roots.
he Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,
the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and might,
the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
He shall delight in the fear of the Lord,
and he shall not judge by what his eyes see,
nor reprove by what his ears hear;
but with righteousness he shall judge the poor,
and reprove with fairness for the meek of the earth.
He shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.
Righteousness shall be the belt of his loins,
and faithfulness the belt about his waist.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
and a little child shall lead them.
The cow and the bear shall graze;
their young ones shall lie down together;
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
The nursing child shall play by the hole of the asp,
and the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den.
They shall not hurt or destroy
in all My holy mountain,
for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord,
as the waters cover the sea.