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The New Jerusalem Pt. 2

In part one we looked at the fall of the New World Order and the coming of King Yeshua. In part 2 we want to look at the Messianic Age, the 1,000 year rule of King Yeshua as He sits on the throne of King David in Jerusalem. When we look at the Messianic Age we seem to mix it up with eternity. Let’s take a closer look.

Let’s start with the pre-tribulation rapture. John Nelson Darby first solidified and popularized the pre-tribulation rapture in 1827, despite vague notions of this view existing in a few Puritan theologians prior to Darby. No matter if you are pre- trib or mid-trib or full- term, we have this idea that we are going to rise in this new heavenly body. No!  If we are going to be part of the Messianic Era, we are going to be in our same body. Everyone will experience complete physical and spiritual restoration. We read Isaiah 65:1 that God will create a new Heaven and Earth, this line along with the rest of this passage does not go together, because in Eternity there will be no death, but the rest of the passage talks about the Messianic Age. We get Eternity and the Messianic Age mixed up and we will see why. But Isaiah 65:18-25 is correct for we will return to a Garden of Eden setting. “But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem for rejoicing and her people for gladness. I will also rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people; and there will no longer be heard in her the voice of weeping and the sound of crying. No longer will there be in it an infant who lives only a few days, or an old person who does not live out his days; for the youth will die at the age of a hundred, and the one who does not reach the age of a hundred will be thought accursed. They will build houses and inhabit them; they will also plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They will not build and another inhabit, they will not plant and another eat; for as the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people, and My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands. They will not labor in vain, or give birth to children for disaster; for they are the descendants of those blessed by the Lord, and their descendants with them. It will also come to pass that before they call, I will answer; while they are still speaking, I will listen.  The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will do no evil or harm on all My holy mountain,’ says the Lord.”

Satan will be bound for 1,000 years and then released as Revelation 20:1-6 tells us,  “Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. And he took hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;  and he threw him into the abyss and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time. Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Yeshua and because of the Word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their foreheads and on their hands; and they came to life and reigned with Messiah for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Messiah, and will reign with Him for a thousand years.”

But when Satan is released after 1,000 years this is what Revelation 20:7-10 continues to say. “When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison,  and will come out to deceive the nations which are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the sand of the seashore. And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”

So you see there can not be a New Heaven and Earth yet. So the earth will be the same. Yeshua will heal us and restore us and we will be living in the New Garden of Eden in Jerusalem.  From the book Sabbath to Sabbath by First Fruits of Zion tells us this,  “Yeshua felt compelled to heal, cast out demons, and restore broken bodies on the Sabbath because it was a way to show the fruits of the Messianic Era on the very day that reflects the coming kingdom: each miracle Yeshua performed was a part of portraying the coming kingdom, and in a way, He was bringing the weekly Sabbath that much closer to the ultimate Sabbath rest of the Messianic Era.” 

Yes, God created the heavens and the earth and then rested. You see the first six days represented man, as does the number six, but the seventh day belonged to God, as so the number seven represents God. God sanctified the seventh day. It was to be holy. The Messianic Age is a time without the influence of the devil, like in Creation and the beginning of the Garden of Eden, when life was peaceful and abundant. God rested, not that He needed to rest, but it was a picture of the Sabbath, a day of rest, a time of peace, a day when Adam and Eve walked with God in the cool of the evening. God made the Sabbath holy. This was not just for the Jewish people. This began at the time of Creation. This was to be eternal. Everything God did had a purpose, and it was a picture of things to come, as was the binding of Isaac, and the first Passover, and everyone of God’s Appointed Times. But then came the eighth day as we say, and Satan fell from heaven and Adam and Eve fell with him. This is what we see happen after the thousand years, when the devil will be released and once again we will have war and destruction. But Yeshua, this time, will cast him down for eternity. We shall see other great things like Isaiah 2:1-4 tells us, “Now it will come about that

in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord will be established as the chief of the mountains, and will be raised above the hills; and all the nations will stream to it.  And many peoples will come and say, ‘Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; so that He may teach us about His ways, and that we may walk in His paths.’ For the law will go out from Zion and the word of the Lord  from Jerusalem. And He will judge between the nations, and will mediate for many peoples; and they will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning knives. Nation will not lift up a sword against nation, and never again will they learn war.”

Yeshua will gather the people and He will teach them like He did when He was on the earth the first time. There is so much Scripture speaking about the last days, but Zechariah 14:9-11 tells us this, “And the Lord  will be King over all the earth; on that day the Lord will be the only one, and His name the only one. All the land will change into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; but Jerusalem will rise and remain on its site from Benjamin’s Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses. People will live in it, and there will no longer be a curse, for Jerusalem will live in security.”

Then Zechariah 14:16-21 continues to say this, “Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of armies, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths (Sukkot).  And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of armies, there will be no rain on them.  And if the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.  This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. On that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, ‘Holy to the Lord.’ And the cooking pots in the Lord’s house will be like the bowls before the altar.  Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord; and all who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord on that day.”

We see that the Temple will be built and the sacrifices will resume, and everyone will come to celebrate the Appointed Time of God, Sukkot, which is a picture of us dwelling with God for eternity. Maybe we need to rethink about those Appointed Times, and realize that they are for everyone, they are Biblical, that’s what makes us Judeo- Christians.