Who are these children?

[JoeWill]

Isaiah 11:6-9 reads:

6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them.

7 The cow will feed with the bear,
their young will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

8 The infant will play near the hole of the cobra,
and the young child put his hand into the viper's nest.

9 They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD
as the waters cover the sea.


Isn't this passage about the Kingdom that Jesus will establish at the end of the age?

So where do the children come from?

[synger]

I think this passage is dealing with the Church. The beginning of this chapter says that there will be a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and the branch shall grow from its root, and the Spirit of the Lord will be upon him. That branch is Jesus. He ushered in His Church. So the 'holy mountain" can be seen as an illustration of the Church. Which makes US the children.

As the commentary puts it:

Knowledge of Jehovah, love and fear of God, is the motive in all acts of the believers; because they fear the Lord in truth, because they know Him the one true God, and Jesus Christ, whom He has sent as the Savior of the world, therefore they, the inhabitants of His holy mountain, the members of His holy Church, give expression of their faith in their entire conduct; therefore they, in the midst of the general hatred and hostility of the world, live together in peace and love.