What happens to the curse when the millennial kingdom is set up?
When the millennial kingdom is set up, all the ravages of the curse will be gone. Creation will revert to the beauty, glory, and tranquility it had before sin entered. Ferocious, carnivorous animals will coexist with lambs, goats, and human children, and poisonous serpents will pose no threat.
Les explains that Isaiah chapter 11 describes this coming kingdom. He notes that the whole animal kingdom, including the most ferocious, carnivorous, meat-eating species, will cohabit the same pasture with the lamb, the goat, and human children. Isaiah 11:8 says the nursing child will play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child will put his hand on a cockatrice. Les points out that three children are mentioned in just two verses, three times, proving this is not a slip of the pen or a wild idea but the inspired Word of God. He teaches that when this kingdom is set up, all the ravages of the curse will be gone, and it will revert to the beauty, glory, and tranquility that existed before sin entered. The presence of little children also proves human beings will come into the front end of the kingdom and reproduce.
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.