The way Bible prophecy unfolds there will be an implementation of the New Covenant in Jerusalem and throughout whatever is left of the world at that time.
It will be the creation of a worldwide theocracy led by King Yeshua that is centralized in Jerusalem.
Peter called it the times of restitution of all things (Acts 3)
Tell me what you know about it, note: I`m not interested in hearing from members who do not believe in this future golden age, forgive the double negative.
When Christ our Lord returns in glory as judge of the living and the dead, and the dead are raised in glory, and God renews all things, it's not going to be some temporal golden age. This is the renewal and restoration of all things (what Peter speaks of in Acts ch. 3), that heaven shall keep our Lord--who lives and reigns at the right hand of the Father from whence He will come again--until the time of "the restoration of all things", the apokatastasis panton (
ὃν δεῖ οὐρανὸν μὲν δέξασθαι ἄχρι χρόνων ἀποκαταστάσεως πάντων ὧν ἐλάλησεν ὁ θεὸς διὰ στόματος πάντων, ἁγίων αὐτοῦ προφητῶν ἀπ᾽ αἰῶνος - Acts of the Apostles 3:21). There is no literal city of Jerusalem in that Age to Come, the heavenly Jerusalem is not a literal city (Galatians 4:25-26); the vision St. John beholds is the union of the heaven and the earth, God in the midst of all His creation in a fullness that we cannot even begin to imagine (Revelation 21:1-3). But of that Day we can read the Prophets, who spoke of the time coming when God will renew the heavens and the earth, and the wolf shall lay down with the lamb, and the leopard with the goat, the lion shall be with the nursing calf--and the tiny child shall lead them (Isaiah 11:6), wolf and lamb grazing together, the lion eating straw like an ox, in that Age to Come (Isaiah 65:25). On that Day it shall be as it was written by the Prophet Habakkuk, the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of YHWH (Habbukuk 2:14), on that Day, "
He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken." (Isaiah 25:8, c.f. 1 Corinthians 15:53-55).
It's not a golden age. It is the hopeful and glorious eternity of life which God has purposed for all of creation in Christ Jesus (Colossians 1:16), of which we are partakers of by the redemption that we have received in Christ Jesus, both now through faith lived out in love and hopeful expectation and then, when all is said and done, the fullness of resurrection and all renewal (Romans 8:19-23): even that very redemption, healing, salvation, and renewing of our own bodiles. Bodies transformed by the power of God's grace, and now possessing new bodily life not like the bodily life of our present experience: mortal, broken, perishable (what St. Paul calls "soulish"); these present mortal bodies are sown, and raised "Spiritual" (1 Corinthians 15:44), that is by the quickening, life-giving power of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:11), by which our bodies are transformed even as Christ our Lord's body was transformed (Philippians 3:20-21). So that as it is written, "
And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!" (Job 19:26-27).
This is the renewal, restitution, the restoration of all things: When God brings the whole of creation into the renewal of resurrection and future redemption of all things. When, as St. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15:28, that God will be "all in all".
-CryptoLutheran