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destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited (14:
9-11).
And it shall come to pass, that everyone that is left of
all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even
go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of
hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles (14:16).

Even the normally foreboding Isaiah sees idyllic scenes
of peace:

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 fading 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 suckling child shall play on the hole
of the asp [snake den], and the weaned child shall put his
hand on the cockatrice' den.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy moun-
tain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the
LORD, as the waters cover the sea (Is 11:6-9).
Isaiah corroborates Zechariah's picture of world wor-
ship in Jerusalem, and lasting peace:
And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the
mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the
top of the mountains ['Upon one of the mountains which
I will tell thee of. . .'], and shall be exalted above the hills;
and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall
go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of
the LORD. . . . and they shall beat their swords into plow-
shares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall
not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn
war any more (Is 2:2-4).
At this time Christ awards a place in the new kingdom to
the believers who died during the tribulation: "I saw the