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ISAIAH 65 : 20

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 1, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 22.

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ISAIAH 65 : 20.

By Leslie Littell

"THERE shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days." During the judgment, which even now is set, God will separate all men, women, and children into two classes. All the righteous will be in one class, and all the unrighteous in the other.
The men and the women will be judged according to the deeds done in their bodies. But the children will be judged by their hearts, that is, according to what they would have done had they not died in childhood. See Prov. 20 : 11.
During the thousand years after their resurrection the righteous will grow up as calves in the stall. See Mal. 4 : 2. And the old and young and little children will become perfect in stature as Adam was when created; and every one of them will develop perfect characters like the character of Christ. For God will make no mistake in the judgment in choosing those that are righteous.
At the end of the thousand years every righteous man, woman, and child will be as much more than one thousand years old as the length his or her life was in this life. Hence there will be in the new earth no baby a few days old, and no old man who has not reached the full stature of a perfect man: "For the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed."
During the hundred years after the resurrection of the unrighteous, which will be at the end of the thousand years, the unrighteous will be covetous. Hatred will be in all their hearts. And they will be deceived by Satan into attempting to destroy the saints, and to take possession of the New Jerusalem. Then the child, who having lived the hundred years, and having shown to all that he is worthy of death, will die. But not having sinned in this life, his punishment will be eternal death only. But the sinners at the end of the hundred years will be tested by fire, and punished according to their sins committed in this life. God will take away their life, for they will convince all, during the hundred years, that they are worthy of death, and that God made no mistake in judging them all to be unrighteous.
May you all, who read this, look to Jesus Christ for help, so that you may be judged worthy to dwell with Him during the thousand years, for all such shall dwell with Him during the eternal ages on the earth made new.
Gentry, Ark.