Will the Levitical Priests make Sacrifices during the Millennial Reign?

Will the Levitical Priests make Sacrifices during the Millennial Reign?

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Good question. I believe all means all which includes dead Israelites who died in unbelief as well as those Jews who are still alive. The reason is found in Ezekiel 37 where God commands Ezekiel to prophecy on the dry bones of Israel causing them to come up out of their graves (v.12) and are clothed with flesh, nerves, skin (v.9) and spirit (v.10). The result of which is described in the remainder of the chapter and is described in v.23:
They will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.

So we'll meet and greet Judas in heaven?
 
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Does not Heb 10:2-3 state that the sacrifices remind us of sin and guilt?
Consequently, the sacrifices are reinstituted to remind the people of guilt and sin and their need for the ultimate sacrifice found only in the blood of Jesus.

Hebrews 8
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

Hebrews 10
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

God will be presiding over the sacrifices in the premil temple. How will He avoid being reminded of the sins which He said He will remember no more?
 
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According to Scripture, the earth to come or age to come are perfect, renewed and incorrupt according to Scripture. According to premillennialism, it is more-of-the-same. In your theology: corruption continues on, the wicked continue on, sin continues on, death continues on, war continues on, rebellion continues on. In your thinking, the second coming is not the closing of time, corruption, Satan and all evil, it is just a transition to the same old same old.
Read your Bible.
Isa 65:17 “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.
Isa 65:20 No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the young man shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.

The ceremonial law is obsolete. It is gone since the cross! Why do Premils want to promote it and restore it? There is something seriously wrong with that doctrine. That is why many here have abandoned that error. The shadow lasted till the cross.
I told you to read your Bible. Did you not even read what I referenced in Hebrews?? You did not provide a counter reply. I guess that's because it's inconvenient for the sake of your theology? You have the choice of either dealing with it or ignoring it.
 
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So we'll meet and greet Judas in heaven?

Exactly! That whole reasoning is absurd. This is Judaizing of the most extreme variant. It is heretical! It involves a rewriting of God's Word, history and reality. He is making salvation by race and not by grace. This is another gospel.

Numbers 16:26 describes Israelites Korah, Dathan, and Abiram as “wicked men.” Whilst all of these were off solid Hebrew stock, they did not belong to the Lord. Their awful end (and that of their families) is seen when confirms that: “And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods” (Numbers 16:32).

No one could argue with any validity that these men and their families were the chosen seed of Abraham! These were not God’s people! They were Israelites that were of their father the devil.

What about the apostate priests Nadab and Abihu in Leviticus 10:1-3? These were sons of Aaron, yet they “offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.” What resulted was not pretty: “And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.”

Whilst the religious credentials of these men were impeccable, they were strangers to God, and strangers to salvation. 1 Samuel 2:12 gives us another similar example of priestly man who where enemies of God: "Now the sons (Hophni and Phinehas) of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD."

Belial was a common name for Satan in the Old Testament. 1 Samuel 25:25 gives us another example of an Israelite who was unsaved. He is described as “this man of Belial, even Nabal.” Earlier and 1 Samuel 25:3 he is described as “the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.”

Whilst he had good pedigree, being “of the house of Caleb,” he was nonetheless a child of the evil one.

We find a Benjamite in 2 Samuel 20:1 who is described as “a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba.”

Numbers 14:29–30 confirms that not all of the children of Israel who came out of Egypt entered into the Promised Land. God dealt very harshly with those who sinned against God, by complaining and refusing to believe Him: “Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me, Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.”

Unbelieving Israelites didn’t enter into God’s “rest,” however, believing Israel did. This is a pattern in Scripture. God is bound to a believing people. His elect are a company of faith.

Hebrews 3:16-19 substantiates this saying, “For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.”

Only Joshua and Caleb and all those under 20 years old experienced Canaan land.

Things got to such a low ebb in Elijah’s day that there the Lord disclosed that were only “seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him” (1 Kings 19:18). This shows us the degree of apostasy that had overcome natural Israel. While Israel may had had 3 million citizens, amazingly, there were only 7,000 Israelites that were true Israelites in Elijah's day,

It is quite amazing the amount of kings both of Israel and Judah that did evil in the eyes of the Lord. The Old Testament shows us many cases of them building the high places, raising up altars unto Baal, setting up graven images, making groves, worshiping the host of heaven, and serving them. Sadly, the people followed them like poodles.

Israel’s wicked kings included Jeroboam I, (931—910 BC), Nadab (910—909 BC) Baasha (909—886 BC) Elah (886—885 BC), Zimri (885 BC), Tibni (885—880 BC), Omri (885—874 BC), Ahab (874—853 BC), Ahaziah (853—852 BC), Jehoahaz (814—798 BC), Joash (798—782 BC), Jeroboam II (793—753 BC) Zechariah, (753 BC), Shallum (752 BC), Menahem (752—742 BC), Pekahiah (742—740 BC), Pekah (752—732 BC), and Hoshea, (732—722 BC).

Judah’s wicked kings and a queen included Abijah (913—911 BC), Jehoram/Joram (53—841 BC), Ahaziah (841 BC), Queen Athaliah (841—835 BC), Ahaz (735—715 BC), Amon (642—640 BC), Jehoahaz (609 BC), Jehoiakim (609—597 BC), Jehoiachin (597 BC), and Zedekiah (597—586 BC).

These kings and queen lead Israel and Judah into much idolatry. They rebelled against God. They fought against God. They refused to buy down to his precepts. And, sadly, Israelites followed him into error.

According to Oldmantook, these are God's chosen people who will be joining the rest of us in glory and populating eternity. This is a Zionist form of universalism, which is heresy!

The saddest reality in this Book is that the majority of people go to hell, the minority go to heaven.

Jesus said in Matthew 7:13-20

13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Jesus here describes two different peoples in this life, walking two different roads, in two different directions, to two different destinations.
 
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Hebrews 8
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

Hebrews 10
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

God will be presiding over the sacrifices in the premil temple. How will He avoid being reminded of the sins which He said He will remember no more?
Simple. He will remember those sins no more of those who come to faith in Christ during the millennium. The sacrifices are for sinners - not for God.
 
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Isa 65:17 “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.
Isa 65:20 No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the young man shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.

You just tried to rebuke me for describing your millennial earth is the new earth. You are going to have to make your mind up. You are all over the place! Which is it? Is it the old earth, is it the new earth, or is it the new old earth?

I told you to read your Bible. Did you not even read what I referenced in Hebrews?? You did not provide a counter reply. I guess that's because it's inconvenient for the sake of your theology? You have the choice of either dealing with it or ignoring it.

I did address it, you just ignored my reply as usual. Premillennialist have to do that in order to support their invention of a new old covenant in the future.
 
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So we'll meet and greet Judas in heaven?
Depends on whether you're saved. All Israel is saved. Are you? And BTW, FYI the final destination destination for the believer is the New Jerusalem which is on earhth - not in heaven.
 
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Simple. He will remember those sins no more of those who come to faith in Christ during the millennium. The sacrifices are for sinners - not for God.

On any given day, as He presides over premil temple sacrifices, how will He avoid being reminded of the sins committed by sinners in previous days?
 
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Depends on whether you're saved. All Israel is saved. Are you? And BTW, FYI the final destination destination for the believer is the New Jerusalem which is on earhth - not in heaven.

I'm saved. So are you.

So dispensationally, together we'll meet and greet Judas in heaven, or on earth.
 
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Does not Heb 10:4 state that the blood of bull and goats cannot take away sin? That being the case, only the blood of the Lamb; Jesus' blood is efficacious for the atonement of sin.
Does not Heb 10:2-3 state that the sacrifices remind us of sin and guilt?
Consequently, the sacrifices are reinstituted to remind the people of guilt and sin and their need for the ultimate sacrifice found only in the blood of Jesus.
Does not Heb 10:1 state that the law is a shadow of good things to come?
Note that it states IS a shadow - NOT WAS a shadow of good things TO COME. Thus your view is mistaken as you believe that the law was done away with and is pointless. The fact is, by these very verses the law which IS a shadow, POINTS to Jesus and those who live during the Millennium are reminded of their sins via the sacrificial system - which in turn leads them to faith in Christ.

Read your Bible.
Isa 65:17 “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.
Isa 65:20 No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the young man shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.


I told you to read your Bible. Did you not even read what I referenced in Hebrews?? You did not provide a counter reply. I guess that's because it's inconvenient for the sake of your theology? You have the choice of either dealing with it or ignoring it.

The animal sacrifices were done away forever. Hebrews 10:4-12 explains, For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.”

When Jesus died on the cross He instituted the new covenant which allowed the believer to access God directly. No longer would the bulk of God’s people be excluded from the presence of the Lord by a veil. No longer did they need an earthly priest to represent them before God. They were now free to approach Him personally by simple faith. Christ removed the partition between God and His people when He laid down His life for our sins. He became man’s final high priest.

The curtain between the believer and God was eternally torn apart. The separation was removed. Matthew 27:51 says, “And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent.” This veil was representative of Christ’s physical body. It was torn apart in order to secure eternal redemption for God’s people. It is only through Jesus that we can approach God. The way to salvation can only be found in Jesus.

For what purpose would we need a third temple? Christ is the realization of the shadow, symbol, and type. He is the ultimate fulfillment. He is the eternal temple. Is He not enough? Is He not acceptable enough? Do you need something greater?

Hebrews 9:9-11 says of the old covenant, “for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building.”

The idea that Ezekiel is predicting a return to old covenant worship and the widespread slaughter of animals in a future millennium is preposterous and is dismissed by numerous explicit New Testament Scripture. Thus my question: Why would God restore animal sacrifices when He sent His Son to make one final all-sufficient sacrifice for sin? Jesus did away with any need or reliance upon the outward keeping of the old covenant religious system. The cross fulfilled forever God’s demand for a perfect once-for-all sacrifice.

Hebrews 10:19-20 declares, “Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.”

All of the sacrifices, ceremonies, and methods of worship, which related to the law of commandments in the temple, were mere shadows of the reality that God provided in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. These old covenant ordinances could never satisfactorily fulfil the eternal plan of God for mankind. This is seen in the fact that Jesus abolished these through His work on the cross. Everything was accomplished through Jesus' death. These Old Testament rites simply served as a shadow of Christ and His real and final sacrifice. All of these types came to an end at Calvary when the ancient covenant was completely fulfilled. The New Testament makes it very plain that the old covenant, including its temple ritual and its priesthood, pointed to a greater reality in Christ.

Premils totally circumvented the many explicit New Testament passages that disallow the re-starting of sin offerings, trespass offerings, etc. The fact is, we have the final offering for sin – Jesus Christ. They should be careful not to promote the re-introduction of an old abolished covenant that has been eternally removed in Christ and His final sacrifice for sin. The whole book of Hebrews will reveal the folly of such a concept.

Hebrews 8:7-8 says “For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.”

The Premillennial view regarding the reinstatement of animal undermines the cross-work of Christ, including the divinely pleasing nature of it and the eternal nature of His atonement. Sadly, they present their opinion of Ezekiel 40-48 and Zechariah 14 (which we have seen was referring to God’s people in the old covenant period) to argue that Christ's once-all-sufficient blood sacrifice was not the last.
 
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You just tried to rebuke me for describing your millennial earth is the new earth. You are going to have to make your mind up. You are all over the place! Which is it? Is it the old earth, is it the new earth, or is it the new old earth?
Again you supply your mere opinion without any scriptural backing whatsoever. I accommodated your view pointing out Isaiah 65:20 which states that death is present in the new earth. How can that be? Frankly, I don't know but it certainly calls into question you absolute claim that there is no death. Are you going to ignore that verse too?
And regarding the Millennium, people sin during the Millennium for which there are consequences.
If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The LORD will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. This will be punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. Zech 14:18-19

I did address it, you just ignored my reply as usual. Premillennialist have to do that in order to support their invention of a new old covenant in the future.
You did not address it. Heb 10:1 states that the law IS a shadow NOT - WAS a shadow. That remains an inconvenient fact for you. How can you claim the law was a shadow when the verse explicitly states that the law is a shadow. The book of Hebrews was written after the atonement and yet the law is still a shadow - NOT - was a shadow.
 
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On earth since New Jerusalem is the final destination.

There's this minor problem regarding Judas:

John 17
12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
 
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Again you supply your mere opinion without any scriptural backing whatsoever. I accommodated your view pointing out Isaiah 65:20 which states that death is present in the new earth. How can that be? Frankly, I don't know but it certainly calls into question you absolute claim that there is no death. Are you going to ignore that verse too?
And regarding the Millennium, people sin during the Millennium for which there are consequences.
If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The LORD will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. This will be punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. Zech 14:18-19


Your theology is so confusing. Can you first tell us: does your new earth arrive before or after your millennial kingdom?
 
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You did not address it. Heb 10:1 states that the law IS a shadow NOT - WAS a shadow. That remains an inconvenient fact for you. How can you claim the law was a shadow when the verse explicitly states that the law is a shadow. The book of Hebrews was written after the atonement and yet the law is still a shadow - NOT - was a shadow.

Christ has removed the whole purpose of animal sacrifices. They were simply a signpost to the cross. Hebrews 10:1-2 makes it perfectly clear, “For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.”

Calvary completely finished the Old Testament shadow and type. That is why there is no more sacrifice for sin. I find your belief extraordinary. Honestly! This belief should not be allowed on an evangelical site. It is a direct assault upon the cross. It undermines the finished work of Christ. It abrogates the new covenant.

Notably, there are no so-called ‘millennial memorial sacrifices’ mentioned or inferred anywhere in the New Testament. There are none mentioned in Revelation 20 – the supposed foundational proof text for the Premillennial paradigm. This eschatological hope that they will be restored as memorials is therefore misplaced.

Where does it say in Ezekiel, Zechariah (or anywhere else) that these sacrifices are memorial blood sacrifices? This is the crucial question on this matter. Significantly, it is the question that brings a deafening silence from our Premillennial brethren. Premils need to furnish Scripture (Old Testament or New Testament) that say that these sacrifices were or will be a memorial. The fact is there are none.

The reality is this is a theory that has been foisted upon the sacred text and which is absent in Scripture (old and new). This concept cannot be found anywhere in the Word, it was most likely created by men that wanted to justify their futurist understanding of Old Testament passages. The fact is whilst it is taught in the Premillennial pulpits, colleges, and manuals, it is nowhere to be found in Holy Writ.

There is nowhere that these abolished sin offerings are said to be restored by God. If Premillennialists are so sure of their ground on this matter, it would help if they would furnish us with solid Scripture that explicitly supports this notion, instead of leaving us to guess or speculate as to their evidence. Saying all this, I believe it is a term invented Premil theologians that needed to support their futurist interpretation of Ezekiel 40 – 48 and Zechariah 14. Sadly most Premils have run with it without questioning it or ascertaining whether it enjoys any biblical warrant. It reminds me of the ‘Prosperity gospel’ that is deluding many today. No one dares to question it, but it is a clear distortion of truth.

Animal sacrifices were abolished at the cross and are no longer part of God's eternal plan of atonement. Christ became our final atonement for sin, thus superseding the repeated imperfect unsatisfactory Judaic religious system of sin offerings. On the new earth, Christ will be the exclusive eternal aide memoire of God’s only satisfactory and effective sin offering for mankind. There will no longer be any need for reminder-sacrifices or supplementary sin offerings, Christ will be all in all. One look at Christ hands will be the only reminder we need of Calvary. There is no need for the re-starting of countless, pointless, ineffective, unsatisfactory, futile sin offerings – when the cross totally rendered them obsolete.
 
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Again you supply your mere opinion without any scriptural backing whatsoever. I accommodated your view pointing out Isaiah 65:20 which states that death is present in the new earth. How can that be? Frankly, I don't know but it certainly calls into question you absolute claim that there is no death. Are you going to ignore that verse too?
And regarding the Millennium, people sin during the Millennium for which there are consequences.
If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The LORD will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. This will be punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. Zech 14:18-19

Have you taken the time to examine the original Hebrew? Here are my findings:

Death on the new earth???

Let us look at the challenging aspect of Isaiah 65:20. It says, “the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.” This verse has confused many Bible students over the years because of its seeming contradictory wording. Whilst Premillennialists normally advance Isaiah 65 and 66 to support their millennial viewpoint, neither chapter makes the slightest reference to an earthly millennium kingdom after the Second Coming. Rather, both commence by speaking of this presence age and terminate by speaking of the new heaven and the new earth. Neither chapter knows anything of a future millennium. Whilst it is difficult to dissect every minute detail in a passage like this, we know that the information in view in this prophetic reading is definitely describing the period of the “new heavens and a new earth.”

Let us have a literal word-by-word look at the Hebrew pertaining to Isaiah 65:20.

Lo'- yihªyeh mishaam `owd `uwl yaamiym wªzaaqeen 'ªsher
Not become thence more babe days, old man after


What is this telling us?

Basically: a child will never become old on the new earth.

Lo'- yªmalee''et- yaamaayw Kiy hana`ar ben- mee'aah shaanaah yaamuwt
Not reach your days like the child old an hundred years die


What is this telling us?

The exact same thing only in different terms.

This is called synonymous parallelism. It is telling us that a child will never become old on the new earth. This line reinforces what has just been said. It confirms the thought of the impending reality of no more death in the eternal state for the righteous. In eternity there will be no more aging or dying. It is not going to be like our corrupt age where infants eventually get old. It will not be like the here-and-now where a man could live to be an old person of a hundred years of age and then die.

This passage is actually saying the opposite to what many think. What this is saying is: there will be no more ageing, curse or death on the new earth. Every glorified saints will have come to full maturity in Christ with their new perfect eternal bodies. It is the next line of Isaiah 65:20 that has confused many, because the translators have not interpreted it in a literal word-for-word sense. It is not saying there will be more babies, death and old men. It is saying the opposite to what they are alleging. It is saying that there will be no more aging: children getting old, old people and people dying! It is describing eternity to an Old Testament audience in terms they can grasp.

The new heavens and new earth will indeed be a glorious victorious perfect state where death is unknown. God is saying that the eternal state will actually be free of death for young and old alike. This passage is telling us that there will be no more death on the new earth! The Hebrew word Lo' (Strong’s 3808) means “no” or “not.” The word is a simple negation. The word is found twice in this much-debated new heavens and new earth verse.

Debate in Isaiah 65:20 centers in on the use of the original word yaamuw meaning “die” or “death.” What should we relate it to? Is there indeed “death” on the new earth? Also, should the death be related to the “child” in the second phrase or the “sinner” in the third phrase? What is more, in what way should it read? I must admit, if we are to read it in its most natural way it fits perfectly with the context. So why change it? I believe it should be applied to the “child” as it should agree with the first phrase that is simply a reinforcement of the same truth. It then fits perfectly with the whole overall teaching of the prophet on the perfection and bliss of the eternal state.

No (Lo') longer will an infant become like an old man,
No (Lo') longer will a child reach one hundred and die.


The original Hebrew does not give us any reason to attribute death to the “child” in this second line. In fact, it does not fit the whole context which is evidently speaking of the removal of ageing and death on the new earth. Interpreting it as we have, seems to (1) match the original, (2) make sense to its context, and (3) taps into the thrust of what the prophet was trying to relay. We need to remind ourselves that the whole idea here is describing the incredible eternal deliverance from the curse of corruption and the joy that “the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind” on the “new earth.”
 
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The conditional promise, to disobedient Old Testament Israel, that they failed to realize, through their rebellion, serves as a suitable shadow, type and figure of the perfect new covenant temple and the living water of the Spirit that flowed from Him. The physical temple is a spiritual picture of Christ and the water flowing from Him is spiritual living water.

This spiritual water in the vision rises upon the prophet:

(1) “the waters were to the ankles” (v3).
(2) “the waters were to the knees” (v4).
(3) “the waters were to the loins” (v4).
(4) “the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over” (v5)

You don't understand the Power of God.

God's River of the Waters of Life are REAL. This was shown us early in Genesis 2, as God's River flowed out of His Garden of Eden to feed four other rivers upon the earth, two of which we still know their location on earth today (Euphrates and Tigris, or Hiddekel).

Likewise the River of the Waters of Life in Revelation 22 are REAL, and will manifest back on earth in the holy land, just as Ezekiel 47 also shows. The Tree of Life also is REAL, and will manifest on earth with that River. God said He created the earth to be inhabited, and He Himself once lived upon it, and in the world to come has promised to return to live among His faithful servants. This is why the last verse of Ezekiel 48 even shows the new name of the holy city will be "The LORD is there" (Yahaveh Shaamaah).
 
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