Our Future Foretold   

Last Sunday, we wrote of the Lord's future reign on Earth, followed by disappearing Earth and sky (the heavens), judgment, and a new heaven and Earth. All this from the New Testament.

Today, we see God foretelling these events, about 700 B.C., through the prophet Isaiah, chapter 51. 

We include two of some 400 verses in the Bible that are closely related to the book of Revelation. Our Jewish friends should enjoy these promises. Israel may resemble the Garden of Eden during the Millennium. Wow! 

The Lord will surely comfort Zion (Israel) and will look with compassion 

on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wasteland like 

the garden of the Lord.  - Isaiah 51:3

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath;

the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out

like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies.

But my salvation will last forever; my righteousness will never fail.

- verse 6

The ransomed of the Lord ... will enter Zion with singing;

everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them,

and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

- verse 11

For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd;

he will lead them to springs of living water.

And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

- Revelation 7:17

Awake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk 

from the hand of the Lord and the cup of his wrath...

- verse 17

If anyone worships the beast ... he too will drink of the wine

of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of wrath.

- Revelation 14:9-10

This is what the Sovereign Lord says, your God who defends his people.

See, I have taken out of your hand the cup that made you stagger;

from the cup, the goblet of my wrath, you will never drink again. 

- verse 22