Highlighted points from last study:

· Verse 16 says, “He who blesses himself in the earth, shall bless himself in the God of truth.” The most blessed life any of us can have, is to enter as soon as possible and as much as possible into the kingdom of God! The kingdom of God on earth is the dominion of God in a life! The servants of God are those that are within the kingdom of God. There are no other positions available! Why? Because that is our rightful place in the presence of the King of kings!

Isaiah Chapter 65 Verses 19

· We jump back to the Millennial Reign here… Isaiah isn’t concerned with just simply narrating a linear progression. He is layering as the Lord gives Him inspiration. Verse 19 is a transitional verse that goes back in time from the New Jerusalem to the Millennial Reign Jerusalem and we know that by what comes next…

Isaiah Chapter 65 Verse 20

· Isaiah is talking about death and age here which points not to the New Jerusalem but to the Millennial Reign. Before God creates the New Heavens and the New Earth, death is finished. It says in Revelation 20:11-15, “Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.” So, death is gone…

· During the Millennial Reign, there will be two kinds of people on the earth. Those that came back with Jesus in Revelation 19 and those that somehow survived the Great Tribulation. So, there will still be birth, birthdays, life, and death…, and even those that sin, during the Millennial Reign of Christ… AND, things will be very different than they are today… Check this out…

Isaiah Chapter 65 Verses 21 – 25

· Before the flood, people lived far longer than they do today. Adam was 930 years old when he died. Seth was 912 years old. Noah was 600 years old when the flood happened (according to Genesis 7:6). Why is that? Well, first and foremost, it is because that was the decree of God, that He would shorten the length of man’s years.

· Right before the flood, we read in Genesis 6:3 God say, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” Now it is interesting that after the flood we see the lifespan of people greatly decreased…, and some very astute scholars have offered further information on that fact by describing the ecological difference between the pre-flood earth and the post-flood earth in what is called the Canopy Theory or the Water Canopy Theory.

· Genesis 1:1-2 and verses 6-7 says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the fact of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” “Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” Thus, God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.”

· Ok, why is this interesting? Genesis 1:8, “And God called the firmament Heaven…” Thought it was the land, didn’t you? Genesis 1:20 tells us that “The birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens…” And so, the waters separating the firmament are waters under the sky and also above the sky.

· In the days of Adam, Seth, Noah and all people before the flood, the earth was in many ways a literal paradise (theoretically – none of us were there). Similar climate across the world with a very different ecology than today. This is why petrified animals are still found with fresh vegetation in their bellies is sub-arctic climates…

· Check out the design of the human body. When you cut yourself, what happens? You heal… Your body is designed in such a way as to replenish itself, heal itself…, so what is it that causes us to perish? Primarily it is age. And what is aging? Partly and rapidly affected by UV energies radiating us at a cellular level.

· We see this clearly on the outside, on the skin but this also happens all the way through our bodies. If the world had a blanket of water above the skies before the flood, then the UV radiation would be essentially diffused prior to reaching the earth… Causing us to age much much slower than we do today… SO what happened? The flood… The waters of the deep came up and the waters from above came down. And so, the aging process extremely accelerated due to the loss of the protective layer of water above… Thus, the Canopy Theory…

· Now, during the time of the Great Tribulation and even at the start of the Millennial Reign of Christ, worldwide ecology will again be changed. Revelation 6:12-14 says, “I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood, and the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place.”

· Something happens to the sky at the beginning of the Great Tribulation and Jesus said at the time of the end of the Great Tribulation, Matthew 24:29, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.” So, the atmosphere, the ecology of the world, just like in the days of Noah where people lived 900 years, will change again, and during the Millennial Reign of Christ, some people will probably live the entire time…

· It’s during the Millennial Reign period, according to Isaiah, lifespans are increased again. 100 years old will be the new 20! And there will be some other sort of monetary system as one will build and there will be no mortgage…, no owing someone else for what one has…

· And Jesus will rule and reign from Jerusalem… Revelation 19:15 says that He will rule them with a rod of iron. Every sin, Jesus will see. Every statement, Jesus will hear. You will simply ask for Him and He is there. Peace will be on the earth and even peace in the animal kingdom…

· And everyone will have what he works for… “They shall not plant and another eat…” I love this one. If a man will not work, in the reign of Christ, neither shall he eat… Everyone will reap entirely and exactly what they sow… And the truth is, the truth is, that’s today too…, it just hasn’t been yet revealed!