Isaiah 65:17
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new
earth: and the former shall not be remembered,
nor come into mind.
Revelation 21:1
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for
the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
1000 Year Days
Many preachers and
theologians that view the discussion of the 1000 Year Days as being
numerology, or that it’s God’s way of saying that time is minuscule in His eyes. Well let’s dispel that
notion right up front and demonstrate that God has done many great work and
appointments on specific Millennia
2nd Peter 3:8
But beloved, do not let this one thing be
hidden from you, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day.
Moses reiterates the point of the 1000-Year-Day in Psalms.
Psalms 90: 4
One thousand years in your sight are but a
single day that passes by, just like a night watch.God makes a very important point in Chapter 46 of His book to the prophet Isaiah that is the backdrop and foundation for much of Eschatology we will discuss in this blog and future writings.
Isaiah
46:9-10
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I
am God, and there is none like me, 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and
from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall
stand, and I will do all my pleasure.
God tells us in Isaiah that He has
“declared the end from the beginning,” and in the prophetic nature of God, He
did exactly that when He gave Moses the
first 35 verses of the Genesis. It would be too much of a rabbit hole to
describe in detail for this letter, but all of human history from Adam until
the end of time is revealed in those
initial verses of Genesis 1 and 2. Most people don’t realize that many of the
great prophets, kings, and icons of the
Bible were born or positioned precisely
on Millennial days. Day 1 (3000BC) Noah
Day 2 (2000BC) Abraham
Day 3 (1000BC) King David
Day 4 (1AD) King Jesus
Above is the storyline of how God works on Millennial Days,
and when God speaks about 1000 Year Days
it can and is prophetic and literal. In
Genesis 2:17 God told Adam if he ate of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil that “in the day that you eat you will surely die” and we know that Adam
lived 930 years. Almost a 1000-years or “A Millennial Day” later. In Genesis
6:3 God tells Moses that He is going to reduce man’s lifespan to 120 years right before the flood of Noah. One Thousand
Years later Moses himself dies on his birthday at the exact age of 120. Moses death was an exact fulfillment of the
declaration God made just before the flood.
Moses “with his eyes still bright” (meaning he was still full of life)
fulfilled that prophecy perfectly 1000 Years later in Deuteronomy 34:7.
As God finished His six days
of work creating the Universe and every detail of Heaven and Earth, He ends
with this very prophetic proclamation.
Genesis 2:1-2
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished,
and all the host of them. And on the seventh day,
God ended his work which he had made; and
he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Hebrews 4: 4-5
For He has spoken in a certain place of the
seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”
1000 Year Reign
of Christ
Just as God gave Moses and man the 10 Commandments to guide our
path, God also took remembrance of these truths as well as you can see in
Genesis 2:1-2 to “remember the Sabbath Day and keep Holy.” This was a declaration of rest from His
creative process on the 7th day of the week, and the fact that Satan and his
angles are locked up in a bottomless pit during the 1000 Year Reign of Christ
is why the millennial reign is referred
to as a Day of Peace/Rest. There are three primary books of Scripture (see below) that describe this Millennial Day after the events of the 7-year Tribulation/Apocalypse have ended. John’s Revelation seems to indicate that the New Heavens and New Earth after the 1000 Year Reign of Christ, I also see Isaiah 65: 17-25 seems to indicate the New Heaven and New Earth are to be formed before the 1000 Year Reign of Christ. So as 2 Timothy 2:15 says I implore you to rightly divide the Word of Truth and come to your conclusion.
Revelation 20:1-3
Then
I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the abyss and a great
chain in his hand. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the Devil
and Satan, and bound him for 1,000 years. He threw him into the abyss, closed
it, and put a seal on it so that he would no longer deceive the nations until
the 1,000 years were completed. After
that, he must be released for a short
time.
Revelation
20:6-9
Blessed
and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! The second death has
no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of the Messiah, and they will reign with Him for 1,000 years. When
the 1,000 years are completed, Satan will
be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations at the four
corners of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the sea. They
came up over the surface of the earth and surrounded the encampment of the
saints, the beloved city. Then fire came
down from heaven and consumed them.
Isaiah
65:17-25
For
I will create a new heaven and a new earth; the past events will not be remembered or come to mind. Then be glad and
rejoice forever in what I am creating; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy
and its people to be a delight. I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My
people. The sound of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her. In her, a nursing infant will no longer live only
a few days, or an old man not live out
his days. Indeed, the youth will die at a hundred years, and the one who misses
a hundred years will be cursed. People will build houses and live in them; they
will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They will not build and others live in them; they will not plant and others eat. For My people’s lives will be
like the lifetime of a tree. My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their
hands. They will not labor without success or bear children destined for
disaster, for they will be a people blessed by the Lord along with their
descendants. Even before they call, I will answer; while they are still
speaking, I will hear. The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion
will eat straw like the ox, but the serpent’s food will be dust! They will not do
what is evil or destroy on My entire holy mountain,” says the Lord.
Isaiah 11: 6-10
The wolf will live with the lamb, and
the leopard will lie down with the goat. The calf, the young lion, and the
fatling will be together, and a child will lead them. The cow and the bear will
graze, their young ones will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw
like the ox. An infant will play beside the cobra’s pit, and a toddler will put
his hand into a snake’s den. None will harm or destroy another on My entire
holy mountain, for the land will be as full of the knowledge of the Lord as the
sea is filled with water. On that day the
root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek
Him, and His resting place will be glorious.
Ezekiel 37: 25-26
They will live in the land that I gave
to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live in it forever
with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their
prince forever. I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an
everlasting covenant with them. I will establish and multiply them and will set
My sanctuary among them forever.
These scriptures above are abounding
and a deep wealth of knowledge about what
the future holds for God’s Creation, Christians, the Hebrew people, and allows
us to glimpse the destiny for the world at large. It is evident that Satan will
be bound for 1000 years. This will usher
in a dispensation of peace and rest that will end not with a final war. Many
have described this as a fire from Heaven that devours Satan, and all his
angelic, demonic, and human minions.
(Revelation 20:9-10)
Animals
Become Peaceful: I have long debated with other Christians about animals in
Heaven, and it was not until I did my full vetting of this project that I
realized it’s not about whether animals are in Heaven. It’s about us as
perfected humans/spirits have access to this new Earth where animals are
peaceful, herbivores, and possibly communicative. Psalms 150: 6 says that “everything
has breath will praise The Lord.” So while we know there are horses and beast
and other “living creatures” in Heaven itself, we are also well assured that on
this New Earth there will be animals in a perfected nature. (Isaiah 11: 6-9)
Life
Spans Increased: Here a passage with some astounding information. Isaiah 65:20-25
says, "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. And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the
fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant,
and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine
elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labor in vain,
nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD,
and their offspring with them.
People
will procreate: It is clear in both Isaiah 65:23 and Ezekiel 37:26 that during
this 1000 Year Reign of Christ there will be offspring, infants, toddlers,
children, etc… So, this begs the
question; who all will be procreating during this prelude to eternity? I think
many will conclude that in Isaiah 65: 22-23 that these are “Chosen” people that
will have offspring, but we also see in Isaiah 46:20 that sinners will also
procreate and die with increased lifespans. The curious nature that is in my
heart must ask; what about us? As the perfected, renewed, redeemed of Christ is
it too bold of a question to ask if we procreate in this 1000 Year Reign? Most
would point to the scripture in
Matthew 22:30
For in the resurrection they neither
marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
To that,
I would ask what about the angels in Genesis 6: 1-4 that obviously procreated
with human women to create “giants”? They obviously were not sexless if they
indeed procreated with human women. Obviously
procreation is not predicated on marriage, and in the end, we are all married
to The Lamb of God in Heaven, so the human idea of marriage is
irrelevant.
I hope this letter has stimulated you
to do some digging on your own into the fascinating book of the Bible God left
for all of us. I am so encouraged by the reality
that we serve such an amazingly
powerful God and want to encourage all
Christians to take God, and our denominational ideologies out of the tiny boxes
we have kept Him in. Let us see beyond
our wildest visions. We serve a BIG GOD, and as long as our imaginations don’t
go beyond the bounds of sound doctrine, then let’s dream big... Flying like
angels, talking animals (Balaam’s Donkey did it on Earth) future generations of
perfected human beings (without physical limitations), a sinless Earth. It is
all a grand vision that most don’t dare to explore, but I say why not?
