[Isa. 65:8] Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
[13] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
Hungry, (Amos 4:6; 8:11). This may refer to the siege of Jerusalem under Titus, when 1,100,000 are said to have perished by famine; thus 65:15 will refer to G-d's people without distinction of Jew and Gentile receiving "another name". A further fulfillment may still remain, just before the creation of the "new heavens and earth," as the context, 65:17, implies.
[17] For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Messiah and His followers shall inherit the renovated earth which once they trod while defiled by the enemy (34:4; 51:16; 66:22; Eze 21:27; Ps 2:8; 37:11; 2 Peter 3:13; Heb 12:26-28 Rev 21:1). The former sorrows of the earth, under the fall, shall be so far from recurring, that their very remembrance shall be obliterated by the many mercies G-d will bestow on the new earth (Rev. 21:4-27).
[18] But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
[19] And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
(25:7, 8; 35:10; Rev. 7:17; 21:4), primarily, foretold of Jerusalem; secondarily, of all the redeemed.
[20] There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
Refers to the New Heavens and New Earth. The other passage is 66:22-24. Both Peter
(2 Pet. 3:13) and John (Rev. 21:10 must have had the first Isaiah passage in mind, for they borrowed its wording.
The problem comes when we examine 20-25 in light of what John had to say in the Apocalypse about the New Heaven and the New Earth. Here death is possible, (death may be limited), but in Rev 21:4 death is no longer a feature of that new estate.
John depicts the new order of things as conditions in which absolute perfection has been reached and where sin, death and sorrow are no more. Y’Shua mentioned that there would be no begetting of children at that time in Lk. 20:36.
20-25 is the Jerusalem of the millennial kingdom of the Messiah. The writers of Scripture often arranged their materials in the topical, rather than a chronological order. Therefore, in the eternal state in which the New Heavens and the New Earth have arrived, there will be no sin, sorrow and death. But when the Messiah reigns on earth, just prior to this eternal state, some of the burdens will remain, even if only in limited forms. So unexpected will death be that if people die after only living one hundred years, they will be regarded as having died as infants. Isaiah breaks the chronological order expected in the chapter and interjects a related note about Jerusalem during the millennium.
Almost universally the early church believed Rev. 20:1-6 to represent a period of time, roughly corresponding to a thousand years, which would begin and conclude with two resurrections (the first of the righteous dead in the Messiah and the second resurrection of all the dead) and would be the time when, at the end of this period, satan would be loosed for one last fling at opposing G-d before being finally and forever vanquished. It is in this same time period, then, that we would assign the strange collection of facts stated by Isaiah.
Since the millennium is part of the eternal state in introduces, ‘this age’ could be expected to overlap with ‘the age to come.’ Thirty times the NT uses the dual expressions, this age and the age to come. This age is the current historical process. Overlapping the powers of the age to come (Heb. 6:5) had already begun and overlapped this present age’s historical process. Thus in the ‘now’ believers were already experiencing some of the evidences and powers to be experienced in the ‘not yet’ in bursting of the Messiah into history at His Second Coming.
[25] The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, saith the LORD.
What a time that will be, when My Savior I shall see!! Makes our lives troubles worth it all! A time of no more sorrow, no more pain, come quickly L-rd, come quickly!
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