[Jean Chauvin]

"NOW go to Isaiah 65:19-20. It says 19 "I will also (45) rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people; And there will no longer be heard in her The voice of (46) weeping and the sound of crying. 20 "No longer will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, Or an old man who does (47) not live out his days; For the youth will die at the age of one hundred And the (48) one who does not reach the age of one hundred Will be thought accursed.

You have 3 and only 3 choices in placing that scripture in its proper time context.

1. It is NOW before the Return of Christ.
2. It is in the New Heavens and the New Earth (it doesn't matter whether the NHNE of the amillennialists or premillennialists.)
3. It is in the millennial reign of the premillennialists. "

Isaiah 65:17,18:
17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
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.

I'll take #2 for $1000, Bob!

Isaiah 65:17,l8 explicitly and specifically tells us that the description of 19-on ~IS~ the New Heavens and the New Earth!!!!!

Your rather tortured and bastardized readings of this passage, aside, or course, LOL!

Jean

(Sorry about the PM! -LOL!)

[xzins]

You have 3 and only 3 choices in placing that scripture in its proper time context. (For the youth will die at the age of one hundred )

1. It is NOW before the Return of Christ.
2. It is in the New Heavens and the New Earth (it doesn't matter whether the NHNE of the amillennialists or premillennialists.)
3. It is in the millennial reign of the premillennialists. "

I'll take #2 for $1000, Bob!</i.

What you choose, then, is to advance the position that there is human death in the new heavens and the new earth. You are certainly free to propose that, but what's the point of death in the new heavens and new earth? Did someone sin? After Christ destroyed death, did He just decide to bring it back? What??? Why does the New Jerusalem passage in Revelation say, "and death will be no more?"

The correct answer is number 3. The word "but" makes it possible in that chapter. The rest of bible revelation makes it necessary.