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Isaiah 65:20

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 19, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 15.

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Isaiah 65:20

3097.—Isaiah 65:20

Will you please explain Isa. 65:20?
The scripture reads, "For the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed." The text and the context clearly refer to the end of sin and the entering upon the eternal inheritance. Note the
great day of God's wrath begins with the end of probation and the pouring out of the last plagues. For fuller account of this see the Bible Students' Library, "The Great Day of God."
After the pouring out of the seventh plague, Christ comes, and all the living wicked that are left perish in the presence of His awful glory. See Rev. 14 to 19.
During one thousand years—the "many days," Isa. 24:22—the earth is left desolate; the wicked are dead; the saints are in heaven with Christ. See Isa. 24:1-5; Jer. 4:23-27; John 14:1-3; Rev. 20:4-5.
At the close of the one thousand years, the "many days," the wicked are raised from the dead to vindicate God's infinite justice by giving themselves more to the deceptions of Satan, who reorganizes them again into armies, prepares them for war, and marshals them for the battle for the city of God. This is "the season," as compared with the thousand years of his existence, and it seems reasonable that it may be the one hundred years of Rev. 20:5-8; Isa. 54:15, 17.
There will be among these wicked ones those who have just passed the age of accountability, and have rejected God. There will also be the hardened sinner; and for that period of time they will, by yielding to Satan's control, demonstrate that God has justly rejected them.
Now in the light of these facts read Isa. 65:17-21. Verses 17 to 19 present before us the glorious new earth and its capital city, in which sorrow and crying will never enter. See also Rev. 21:1-4.
The next verse gives the reason; for before that time all the former conditions will have passed away, the premature old man, the abnormally old infant; for at the close of that little season the child of wickedness will die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed. And when God's glory appears above that city, they shall all perish in His presence. Rev. 20:9. Beyond this lie the glorious new heavens and new earth.