Life hangs by a silver thread which nature can cut at any time unless the Lord protects or intervenes.
The Lord created nature to serve His ends.
But we worship the Creator and not the created.
The Creator can and will by His own words change the hearts and minds and actions of the created when the Lion lays down with the lamb and Jesus Christ starts His millenial reign.
When death will no longer have a sting and will be swollowed up in victory, in eternal life, is when the Lord will come to dwell among us once again.
While death holds sway, those who follow the Lord and keep His commandments will go to Him. But He will return with them on the day that death will be no more and when the lion will lie down with the lamb.
Jesus Christ is at the door. Look up for you redemption draws nigh very soon.
It is better to trust in the Lord than in man. That will be the test of those who are snatched away when the Lord comes for His own to spare them from great Tribulation.
This will happen before He comes back in great glory and power to rule and reign in Jerusalem and before the lion lays down with the lamb.
Then the scepter will rise out of Judah and the government will be on His shoulders and every knee will bow to Him. And then death will be vanquished and the lion will lay down with the lamb.
The director of the Jerusalem zoo, concerned about falling revenues, came up with an idea to bolster attendence.
"THE LION LAYS DOWN WITH THE LAMB," blared the advertisements. "OPENS MONDAY."
Monday morning, crowds gathered outside a large fenced-off area covered by a black curtain. The director, Moshe, took the podium and announced, "Now, ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present to you our new exhibit, the lion and the lamb."
The curtains parted, and lo and behold, there was a full grown lion laying down with a tiny lamb. It was an amazing sight.
At the end of the day a reporter came up to the director and asked, "Moshe, how did you do it? How did you get the lion to lay down with the lamb?"
"It was easy, Benjamin," said the director. "Every day we get a new lamb."
There is a parable in here about Israel and the PLO if you choose to look.