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Now, as to Sacrifice, in the New Jerusalem, and such as it applies to Isaiah 65. There will be no sacrifice in that Holy Mountain, none. This dictated by Isaiah 65:25
21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards,
and eat the fruit of them.
22 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.
23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed
of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
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.
This doesn't mean there won't be blood shed or death or even curse in that world. It means such will not exist in all of YHWH's Holy Mountain. You see, at the Sabbath Study at Clive's in April, both Clive and Catherine alluded to the passage of Zechariah 14 as it related to David Koresh's Jerusalem experience, the Vision of 1985. It was explained that the earth is soiled, and The New Jerusalem is a Holy city which cannot rest on Unholy ground. The mountain the young man of Zechariah 2 goes to measure, will not currently hold 144,000...the earthquake of Zechariah 14 will change that, as a new mountain will be created by that earthquake, it will literally rise up out of the earth, and never having had man nor beast to stand upon it, it will be pure, sanctified, holy, upon which the New Jerusalem will rest. The city will be holy, the mountain will be Holy, there will be no sacrifice in that city, nor on that mountain.
Now, you go on to cite in your reply of Priests and Levites being chose before the establishment of the Kingdom in Isaiah 66:
HOWEVER ISAIAH 66:22 ALSO STATES THAT "THE LORD SHALL MAKE A NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH."
“Isaiah 66:22 For as the new heaqvens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.”
Part of me wonders if you note confusion as to Priests and Levites being chosen before the establishment of a Kingdom you note to occur at the end of the timeframe noted by the Millennial Reign doctrine. Let's keep in mind that such originates with the Rapture crowd, many of whom denounce the person of David Koresh. I am not saying that such ideas do not have foundations in Scripture, but note that they mostly have strayed from those foundations, and their logic is flawed.
Chapter 66 builds on 65, describing the events at the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth, detailing it's headquarters, it's timeframe of establishment and life in the same...The New Jerusalem. Verse 13 offers it to be the place in which comfort will be found.
The battle prior to the establishment...at the time of the arrival of New Jerusalem Can be seen:
(*Update:
January 4, 2013
Okay, in the original study in 2008
I placed a reference to Isaiah chapter 66 vs 1-6, but did not place the actual verses, nor did I expound upon them. That reference was, as will this update be also, followed by a reference to Zecheriah chapter 14. The emphasis on referencing Isaiah 66 in that study was plural, MOST OBVIOUSLY in the moment, to illustrate that the passage of Isaiah 66 particularly verses 10 thru 20 of the same chapter correlate to the timeframe just before the arrival of “A CITY COMING DOWN”, that “NEW JERUSALEM”, the same timeframe seen in Zecheriah 14 in the first verses we see The earthly city of Jerusalem being pillaged, slaughtered and raped, to which we see response of the Lord in Zecheriah 14:3, the same response stated in greater detail of the same timeframe as noted in the visions of Isaiah
13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
14 And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
20 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.
We see then a direct correlation between Isaiah 66 and Zecheriah 14, also to Revelation 21.
In such, we see the arrival of the New Jerusalem in Isaiah 66 vs 13 through 16, the battle in vs 16 and 17 also called “Armageddon.” In vs 18 through 20 of Isaiah 66, we see missionaries of those surviving that event, going throughout all the world to spread the news of the arrival of the Kingdom of God. We also see in vs 20, that these missionaries will bring others back to this “NEW JERUSALEM.”
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