Davidpt
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Most Premils argue otherwise because it makes no sense to think that the NJ, as described in Revelation 21-22, is already present during the millennium.
LOL. You mean the same Premils that argue Isaiah 65:17-25 is meaning during the millennium? Not only do those verses mention a new Jerusalem, they also mention a NHNE. And according to Revelation 21-22, one can't have a new Jerusalem without also having a NHNE. Therefore, these Premils are being contradictory by insisting the NJ doesn't come down until after the GWTJ, but that Isaiah 65:17-25 is meaning before the GWTJ.
So why act as if they are being reasonable in regards to the NJ coming down after the GWTJ when they already, per Isaiah 65:17-25, have the millennium involving both a NJ and NHNE?
Isaiah 65:17 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.
19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
For example, compare verse 19 with the following.
Revelation 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
I give up if Isaiah 65:19 does not equal this in Revelation 21:4--And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no crying.
Isaiah 65:19 is a flat out lie if it is not until the time of Revelation 21:4 that there are no more tears, no more crying. Isaiah 65:19 does not say that. It plainly says, thus clearly means, that at that time, meaning when Isaiah 65:19 is meaning--the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
Are these Premils going to treat 'no more' in Isaiah 65:19 in the same manner Amils treat 'no more' in Revelation 20:3, for example? IOW, what part of 'no more' are some not comprehending? Therefore, when Isaiah 65:19 already says--the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying--it is meaning never again for forever. But how can it be, if according to most Premils, it is not until the time of Revelation 21:4 when there will never be anymore crying for forever? Therefore, obviously Isaiah 65:19 is also meaning and involving Revelation 21:4. And not something absurd instead--first Isaiah 65:19 is fulfilled--later on Revelation 21:4 is fulfilled. That makes the 'no more' recorded in Isaiah 65:19 a lie per that scenario.
But we have to apply things in context, thus use some common sense as well. The no more crying is meaning in the NJ. Nowhere, for example, does it say that anyone cast into the LOF, there is no more crying among them as well. And that's pretty much how I reason a lot of this and why there can still be a NHNE during the millennium in spite of Revelation 21:4. It says the crying is no longer found in Jerusalem. And clearly the NJ is being likened to the garden of Eden.
And nobody that I'm aware of thinks the garden of Eden was meaning the entire planet. Therefore, until the time that 1 Corinthians 15:28 arrives, there can still be death and crying outside of the NJ in the meantime. This assuming that the NJ is already present during a future millennium.
I also think Isaiah 60, for example, supports some of what I'm proposing. But I will have to go into reasons why per a future post.
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