(October 31, 2015 at 11:46 pm)drfuzzy Wrote:(October 31, 2015 at 7:48 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Here
As I was taught, Huggy, these verses refer to the coming of the kingdom. The 1000 years when god will rule over the nations. NOW - - in your defense, this is Isaiah. So it's a rule of the Messiah prophecy, maybe. Jesus hadn't arrived on the scene yet. But, I was taught that this didn't apply to heaven. And, of course, nearly everything that I was taught was a load of bullcrap.
SO - - and since I don't believe heaven exists - - whatever. Carry on.
That passage in Isaiah is referring to Mt. Zion (aka New Jerusalem, a city in the shape of a giant pyramid, 1500 miles square) the millennium takes place before this period.
After the 1000 years, there is a general resurrection, then Judgement and then a new earth.
Quote:Revelation 20:5
But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Quote:Revelation 21
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
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.
Since the city is in heaven to begin with, that would mean the animals are there also.
