Is this Hosea 2:18 covenant an attempt at restoring the Edenic state?
No, it’s not. As all will acknowledge, upon careful reflection, the Edenic state was only the beginning of God’s plans. As God had somewhere that He was taking man, God also has somewhere that He’s taking the animal kingdoms. There is a mature place for the animals, as there’s a mature place for us, in Christ. There is a maturity that we should gain regarding animals. And there is a place of progress that God is taking animals towards. At this stage in my understanding of this Hosea 2:18 covenant, there’s not a whole lot more that I could say about this without wandering into speculation. As God’s written His laws upon our hearts, so He’s writing His laws upon the hearts of the animals in His own time and reordering of things, according to the 19th verse of Hosea chapter 2 and Jeremiah 31:27-28.
