| Isaiah chapter two describes an intermediate, "semi-perfect" age that cannot be this present age; nor can it refer to the eternal state. This age is significant improvement over our present age but far from the perfect world of the eternal state, where all people not in the lake of fire will have imperishable, glorified bodies and are incapable of sin or death.
Isaiah chapter two describes a world where nations seek divine adjudication for national disputes rather than taking up arms. If this were the eternal state, why would Christ be judging between nations and rebuking them? If this verse were talking about the eternal state, why would nations be seeking greater knowledge of God's ways in verse 3?
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