“The question now is, did you just forget what God said would happen after that?“
not at all I’ve said the entire time that Israel’s restoration will happen like god said it would ….the difference is how ?
Nope. There WILL be a "transitional" millennial reign. THEN comes the New Heavens and New Earth.
Isa 65:20
There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old;
but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
Rev 20:7
And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Rev 20:8
And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom
is as the sand of the sea.
Your interpretation collapses the
Millennial Kingdom and the
eternal state into one event, but Scripture does not allow that.
The clearest proof is Isaiah 65:20:
“the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.”
Now compare Revelation 21:4:
“there shall be no more death.”
These cannot describe the identical condition.
Isaiah 65 contains:
- extraordinary longevity
- children being born
- houses and vineyards
- sinners
- death
Revelation 21 contains:
- no death
- no sorrow
- no pain
- the former order completely passed away
Therefore Isaiah 65 describes a
transitional Messianic Kingdom before the final eternal state.
Revelation 19–21 gives the chronology plainly:
Second Coming → 1,000-year reign → Satan released → final rebellion → Great White Throne → new heaven and new earth.
Revelation 20 repeatedly states:
“they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.”
—Rev. 20:4
“they shall reign with him a thousand years.”
—Rev. 20:6
“when the thousand years are expired…”
—Rev. 20:7
Only afterward does John say:
“I saw a new heaven and a new earth.”
—Rev. 21:1
So Revelation itself places the thousand-year kingdom
before the eternal state.
Isaiah 65 fits that kingdom perfectly.
It cannot be Revelation 21 because Isaiah still has
sinners and death.
Nor are Israel’s promises merely transferred into an undefined heavenly existence.
Ezekiel says:
“David my servant shall be king over them…”
—Ezek. 37:24
And:
“they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt.”
—Ezek. 37:25
That is explicitly national and territorial.
Likewise Ezekiel 36:
“I will… bring you into your own land.”
—v. 24
Then:
“A new heart also will I give you…”
—v. 26
Then:
“ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers.”
—v. 28
The sequence is unmistakable:
regathering → cleansing → regeneration → dwelling in the ancestral land.
Zechariah 14 also cannot describe the eternal state.
Messiah stands upon the
Mount of Olives (v. 4), becomes
King over all the earth (v. 9), and surviving nations come to Jerusalem to worship Him (v. 16).
Yet nations can still disobey and be disciplined by withholding rain (v. 17).
That is impossible in Revelation 21–22.
It is perfectly consistent with a millennial kingdom containing mortal nations under Messiah’s rule.
Your appeal to Hebrews 11 does not cancel the land covenant.
Hebrews itself says Abraham:
“sojourned in the land of promise.”
—Heb. 11:9
Stephen adds:
God “promised that he would give it to him for a possession.”
—Acts 7:5
Genesis is even clearer:
“all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.”
—Gen. 13:15
Abraham’s desire for a heavenly city does not nullify that promise. It means he looked beyond temporary earthly life to resurrection and ultimate fulfillment.
Indeed Revelation 21 says the heavenly Jerusalem eventually comes
down from God out of heaven.
Galatians 3:28–29 does not cancel Israel either.
“There is neither Jew nor Greek” no more means Jews and Greeks cease to exist than “neither male nor female” means men and women cease to exist.
Paul is teaching equality of standing in Christ, not the abolition of national covenant distinctions.
Romans 11 explicitly denies that conclusion:
“Hath God cast away his people? God forbid.”
—Rom. 11:1
Israel’s blindness is only:
“until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.”
—Rom. 11:25
Then:
“all Israel shall be saved.”
—Rom. 11:26
Why?
“For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.”
—Rom. 11:29
The biblical categories therefore fit naturally:
Present age: Satan deceives nations; sin and death continue.
Millennial Kingdom: Christ reigns openly; Israel restored; mortal nations remain; longevity greatly increased; sinners and death still exist.
Eternal state: final judgment complete; Satan gone forever;
no death; no curse; new heaven and new earth.
That is why Isaiah 65:20 is such a serious problem for the amillennial reading.
If Isaiah 65 is exclusively Revelation 21, then Scripture describes
a sinner dying at age 100 in a world where there is “no more death.”
The premillennial interpretation preserves both passages without contradiction.
