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(Ezekiel 16:55) While the Lord will rule with an iron hand, compelling
obedience, yet his rule will be a righteous one, and he will reprove
with justice. He is pictured by the Prophet as ruling in faithfulness
and righteousness, thus: "With righteousness shall he judge the poor,
and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite
the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips
shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his
loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins."--Isaiah 11:4,5.
[590]The beneficial effect of his righteous reign is also pictured by
the Prophet, in the passage which shows how that the wild beasts of the
earth will become subject to man, and how a little child shall direct
them. "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. And the cow and the bear
shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall
eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of
the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice'
den."--Isaiah 11:6-8.
[591]All must come to a knowledge of the truth; and those obeying it
will have their sins and iniquities wiped out for ever. Thus says the
Prophet: "They shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man
his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the
least to the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their
iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
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