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Messianic Prophecy Fulfilled (for 45 Minutes)

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The leopard appeared to befriend the calf. Photo: Daily Mail.

A South African game ranger might have assumed that the arrival of ‘the Messiah’ was imminent after witnessing what appeared to be the fulfillment of a biblical prophesy according to the Daily Mail.

Marius Croetzee was driving his Land Rover through the Sabi Sand Game Reserve when he came across a Leopard that appeared to have befriended a baby Steenbok calf. For 45 minutes it played unafraid with the big cat even attempting to suckle milk from it at one point, seemingly embodying the fulfillment of the famous verse in Isaiah 11:2 “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.”

But after a short a while, the heartwarming scene was over when the predator decided that the game was up, promptly killing and eating the newborn whose mother had run away to protect herself. The unnatural rapport symbolizing the dawn of an era of world peace ended just as soon as it began, and for Jews around the world the long wait for signs of global redemption continues.

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12 Comments

  • stam L-hair

    there is a machlokes if it is just a parable or not though Chassidus sides with the opinion that it is not just a parable

  • waits for the redemption

    leopard,,,,, wolf

    not exactly, but close enough

    thanks for the pic, can you find a video of it please

  • Nobody

    The same thing happened with a lion and a lamb a few years ago. But in that case the lion bonded with the lamb and treated it as its child, protecting it from other lions. However, when it was asleep once another lion came along and had lunch.

    So similar ending.

  • ......................

    the sarcastic comments are so sad. Aibershter, bring Moshiach before Am Yisroel mocks, laughs, and doesn’t even want. So is everyone having such a hard time believing that this is a sure sign that Moshiach is coming very soon???

  • Rebecca

    Ask any animal behaviourist. The predator will sit down with the prey – until he gets hungry.