Scripture: Revelation 14

Leading Question: “What is God’s message for today?”

As I prepared the study guide for this lesson, I found myself moving further and further back into biblical history, looking for the great hope for restoration among God’s people. For starters, Isaiah’s great dream of God’s vegetarian kingdom is a cry for a better world:

Isaiah 11:6-9 (NRSV): “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 ...