Isaiah 2- 4

I never realized there were domed cities in the Bible before. I had always assumed they were a concept you find in science-fiction or overly-optimistic architectural journals. But take a look at Isaiah 4:5-6:

Then the Lord will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy. 6 There will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.

I'm imagining just how cool that would look at night. A massive wall of fire covering the entire nation of Israel.

More impressive than the outside, however, is what's going on inside this city of God. From the beginning of chapter 2:

2 It shall come to pass in the latter days
that the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
and shall be lifted up above the hills;
and all the nations shall flow to it,
3 and many peoples shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
and that we may walk in his paths.”
For out of Zion shall go the law, [1]
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 He shall judge between the nations,
and shall decide disputes for many peoples;
and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war anymore.

What we see is that at last God will be acknowledged in his rightful role as ruler over this world. And all of the earth will reap the benefits. Imagine a world without war. A world where any disputes can easily be settled by an honest and good judge.

I'm looking forward to it.