Isaiah 11

"“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,

The leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
The calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little child shall lead them.
7 The cow and the bear shall graze;
Their young ones shall lie down together;
And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole,
And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den.
9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
As the waters cover the sea. ” vv.6-9

Read chapter 11.

This chapter describes the kingdom with so many characteristics we long for in our daily life.  A lot of people are aware of the characteristic of the kingdom from the worship song "How Great is Our God" but the lyric doesn't have it quite right with the actual verse here in Isaiah.  The song's verse says "lion and the lamb" but here in Isaiah it says the "wolf and the lamb" and "calf and lion,"  no doubt all animals will be tame with one another as they will probably be all vegetarians again as before the fall.  There also will be no hurt nor destruction.  This definitely is not true today or true after the captivity of Israel closer to the time when this was written.  This is a characteristic everyone longs for as all our hurting whether inside or out.  This also may rise the question of what some/most people think of "hell."  If "hell" is an eternal conscious torment that people in heaven can see (Luke 16), then how can this verse be true? 

My favorite description of the kingdom in these verses is "the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea."  All will know God and there won't be a doubt in someones mind if He's real or not; no agnostics, no atheists.  What characteristic in the rest of the chapter stands out to you?