We often day dream about what the millennial kingdom will be like. We imagine it to be a bit like the Garden of Eden, a beautiful garden where we can relax and enjoy Yahweh Elohim. The millennial kingdom will not be like the Garden of Eden where only two people lived. It will be a beautiful garden with healing waters, but it will be on the earth with many people living together. This then brings in the need for structure, organization, and atonement for sins. The purpose of the millennial kingdom is for those who have lived and died for Christ Jesus the Lord to live with him on the earth. The Jesus rejectors will not live during this time. There will be judges and a priesthood that stands before Jesus Messiah.
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The group that has been axed for their testimony of Jesus and the logos of the Elohim, and those who did not worship the beast, will live one thousand years. There are more who will be resurrected who will also live for one thousand years with Jesus Messiah. Notice that the only way one lives in the millennial kingdom is to have the testimony of Jesus and the logos of the Elohim. There will be no Jesus rejectors resurrected for the millennial reign.
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The people in the first resurrection will reign with Christ for one thousand years while the rest will stay in hades for one thousand years. This is why Christians share the good news with people, to offer them the option of life with Jesus Messiah.
We will again do a lot of reading of the prophets as they have great insight into this time. We will read them in order of their time on earth.
Amo 9:1 (Brenton) I saw the Lord standing on the altar: and he said, Smite the mercy-seat, and the porch shall be shaken: and cut through into the heads of all; and I will slay the remnant of them with the sword: no one of them fleeing shall escape, and no one of them, striving to save himself shall be delivered.
Amo 9:2 Though they hid themselves in hell, thence shall my hand drag them forth; and though they go up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.
Amo 9:3 If they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, thence will I search them out and take them; and if they should go down from my presence into the depths of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.
Amo 9:4 And if they should go into captivity before the face of their enemies, there will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes against them for evil, and not for good.
There will be no sneaking into the millennial kingdom. Just as Jesus told us about the man who did not have a white wedding garment and who was thrown into the outer darkness. No one can get in unless they confess Jesus as Lord.
Amo 9:5 And the Lord, the Lord God Almighty, is he that takes hold of the land, and causes it to shake, and all that inhabit it shall mourn; and its destruction shall go up as a river, and shall descend as the river of Egypt.
Amo 9:6 It is he that builds his ascent up to the sky, and establishes his promise on the earth; who calls the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth; the Lord Almighty is his name.
Amo 9:7 Are not ye to me as the sons of the Ethiopians, O children of Israel? saith the Lord. Did I not bring Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of the deep?
Amo 9:8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the kingdom of sinners, and I will cut it off from the face of the earth; only I will not utterly cut off the house of Jacob, saith the Lord.
Amo 9:9 For I will give commandment, and sift the house of Israel among all the Gentiles, as corn is sifted in a sieve, and yet a fragment shall not in any wise fall upon the earth.
Amo 9:10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, Calamities shall certainly not draw near, nor come upon us.
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Amo 9:11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
Amo 9:12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.
Amo 9:13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Amo 9:14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
Amo 9:15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.
There will be farming, gardening, and working.
Hos 2:16 (Brenton) And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that she shall call me, My husband, and shall no longer call me Baalim.
Hos 2:17 And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and their names shall be remembered no more at all.
Hos 2:18 And I will make for them in that day a covenant with the wild beasts of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the reptiles of the earth: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle from off the earth, and will cause thee to dwell safely.
Hos 2:19 And I will betroth thee to myself for ever; yea, I will betroth thee to myself in righteousness, and in judgment, and in mercy, and in tender compassions;
Hos 2:20 and I will betroth thee to myself in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.
Hos 2:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, I will hearken to the heaven, and it shall hearken to the earth;
Hos 2:22 and the earth shall hearken to the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hearken to Jezrael.
Hos 2:23 And I will sow her to me on the earth; and will love her that was not loved, and will say to that which was not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art the Lord my God.
Yahweh Elohim will marry His people, even those who were not from the lineage of Jacob. We can now understand Jesus’ words concerning the ten virgins (Matt 25), and the wedding feast guests (Matt 22), and being ready for the Lord to return from a wedding (Luke 12).
Mic 4:1 (Brenton) And at the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be manifest, established on the tops of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and the peoples shall hasten to it.
Mic 4:2 And many nations shall go, and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and they shall shew us his way, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Sion shall go forth a law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Mic 4:3 And he shall judge among many peoples, and shall rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles; and nation shall no more lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war any more.
Mic 4:4 And every one shall rest under his vine, and every one under his fig-tree; and there shall be none to alarm them: for the mouth of the Lord Almighty has spoken these words.
Mic 4:5 For all other nations shall walk everyone in his own way, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
For one thousand years there will be no war. Keep in mind that Micah mentions where the house of the Elohim will be. Notice that it is not a place of only the heirs of Jacob but for everyone who has confessed Jesus as Yahweh and Messiah. Micah also prophesies concerning Jesus’ birth.
Mic 5:2 (Brenton) And thou, Bethleem, house of Ephratha, art few in number to be reckoned among the thousands of Juda; yet out of thee shall one come forth to me, to be a ruler of Israel; and his goings forth were from the beginning, even from eternity.
Mic 5:3 Therefore shall he appoint them to wait till the time of her that travails: she shall bring forth, and then the remnant of their brethren shall return to the children of Israel.
Mic 5:4 And the Lord shall stand, and see, and feed his flock with power, and they shall dwell in the glory of the name of the Lord their God: for now shall they be magnified to the ends of the earth.
The entire earth groans and travails awaiting for the revealing of the sons of the Elohim.
Mic 5:7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many peoples, as dew falling from the Lord, and as lambs on the grass; that none may assemble nor resist among the sons of men.
Mic 5:8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many nations, as a lion in the forest among cattle, and as a lion's whelp among the flocks of sheep, even as when he goes through, and selects, and carries off his prey, and there is none to deliver.
Today the remnant is scattered, but Jesus Messiah will bring them back. Micah and Isaiah were prophets at the same time period.
Isa 2:1 (Brenton) The word which came to Esaias the son of Amos concerning Judea, and concerning Jerusalem.
Isa 2:2 For in the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be glorious, and the house of God shall be on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall come to it.
Isa 2:3 And many nations shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will tell us his way, and we will walk in it: for out of Sion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.
Isa 2:4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plow-shares, and their spears into sickles: and nation shall not take up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war any more.
Isa 2:5 And now, O house of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
We see that there will be people going up to the house of the Elohim to learn the ways in which to walk. Take note of where they are going. Again, there will be no war.
Isa 11:1 (Brenton) And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a blossom shall come up from his root:
Isa 11:2 and the Spirit of God shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and godliness shall fill him;
Isa 11:3 the spirit of the fear of God. He shall not judge according to appearance, nor reprove according to report:
Isa 11:4 but he shall judge the cause of the lowly, and shall reprove the lowly of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the word of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he destroy the ungodly one.
Isa 11:5 And he shall have his loins girt with righteousness, and his sides clothed with truth.
Isa 11:6 And the wolf shall feed with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the young calf and bull and lion shall feed together; and a little child shall lead them.
Isa 11:7 And the ox and bear shall feed together; and their young shall be together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
Isa 11:8 And an infant shall put his hand on the holes of asps, and on the nest of young asps.
Isa 11:9 And they shall not hurt, nor shall they at all be able to destroy any one on my holy mountain: for the whole world is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as much water covers the seas.
The animal kingdom will not harm humans. The animals will be at peace and filled with the knowledge of Yahweh.
Isa 11:10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall arise to rule over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust, and his rest shall be glorious.
Isa 11:11 And it shall be in that day, that the Lord shall again shew his hand, to be zealous for the remnant that is left of the people, which shall be left by the Assyrians, and that from Egypt, and from the country of Babylon, and from Ethiopia, and from the Elamites, and from the rising of the sun, and out of Arabia.
Isa 11:12 And he shall lift up a standard for the nations, and he shall gather the lost ones of Israel, and he shall gather the dispersed of Juda from the four corners of the earth.
Isa 11:13 And the envy of Ephraim shall be taken away, and the enemies of Juda shall perish: Ephraim shall not envy Juda, and Juda shall not afflict Ephraim.
Isa 11:14 And they shall fly in the ships of the Philistines: they shall at the same time spoil the sea, and them that come from the east, and Idumea: and they shall lay their hands on Moab first; but the children of Ammon shall first obey them.
Flying in the ships of the Philistines is interesting. There is a Masoretic alteration here. The Masoretes changed the word ships to shoulders. If we look at this from today’s perspective, the people who are not Jacob’s heirs, but the mixed tribes, are the ones building planes, rocket ships, space stations, and the like. This is how Yahweh will transport people from the four corners.
The LXX-WH states:
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“and fly in ships another different tribe the sea”
Compare these flying ships to Elijah’s visitation with Yahweh.
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Isa 11:15 And the Lord shall make desolate the sea of Egypt; and he shall lay his hand on the river with a strong wind, and he shall smite the seven channels, so that men shall pass through it dry-shod.
Isa 11:16 And there shall be a passage for my people that is left in Egypt: and it shall be to Israel as the day when he came forth out of the land of Egypt.
Yahweh will alter the landscape for people.
Isa 14:21 (Brenton) Prepare thy children to be slain for the sins of their father; that they arise not, and inherit the earth, nor fill the earth with wars.
Isa 14:22 And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will destroy their name, and remnant, and seed: thus saith the Lord.
Isa 14:23 And I will make the region of Babylon desert, so that hedgehogs shall dwell there, and it shall come to nothing: and I will make it a pit of clay for destruction.
Just a reminder of who is not in the millennial kingdom, demons. Babylon will be the place that holds all the evil spirits.
Isa 62:1 (Brenton) For Sion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as light, and my salvation burn as a torch.
Isa 62:2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and kings thy glory: and one shall call thee by a new name, which the Lord shall name.
Isa 62:3 And thou shalt be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
Isa 62:4 And thou shalt no more be called Forsaken; and thy land shall no more be called Desert: for thou shalt be called My Pleasure, and thy land Inhabited: for the Lord has taken pleasure in thee, and thy land shall be inhabited.
Isa 62:5 And as a young man lives with a virgin, so shall thy sons dwell in thee: and it shall come to pass that as a bridegroom will rejoice over a bride, so will the Lord rejoice over thee.
Isa 62:6 And on thy walls, O Jerusalem, have I set watchmen all day and all night, who shall never cease making mention of the Lord.
Isa 62:7 For there is none like you, when he shall have established, and made Jerusalem a praise on the earth.
Today, Jerusalem is not a praise on the earth.
Isa 62:8 For the Lord has sworn by his glory, and by the might of his arm, I will no more give thy corn and thy provisions to thine enemies; nor shall strangers any more drink thy wine, for which thou has laboured.
Isa 62:9 But they that have gathered them shall eat them, and they shall praise the Lord; and they that have gathered the grapes shall drink thereof in my holy courts.
Isa 62:10 Go through my gates, and make a way for my people; and cast the stones out of the way; lift up a standard for the Gentiles.
Isa 62:11 For behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth, say ye to the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy Saviour has come to thee, having his reward and his work before his face.
Isa 62:12 And one shall call them the holy people, the redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called a city sought out, and not forsaken.
Jerusalem will be restored, but where will the temple be? Ezekiel describes in great detail the millennial temple. Chapter 40 covers the construction, 41 covers the inner temple, and 42 covers the chambers in the temple. In chapter 43 he covers the glory of Yahweh.
Ezk 40:45 (Brenton) And he said to me, This chamber that looks to the south, is for the priests that keep the charge of the house.
Ezk 40:46 And the chamber that looks to the north is for the priests that keep the charge of the altar: they are the sons of Sadduc, those of the tribe of Levi who draw near to the Lord to serve him.
Ezk 42:13 And he said to me, The chambers toward the north, and the chambers toward the south, in front of the void spaces, these are the chambers of the sanctuary, wherein the priests the sons of Sadduc, who draw night to the Lord, shall eat the most holy things: and there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat-offering, and the sin-offerings, and the trespass-offerings; because the place is holy.
The sons of Zadok/Zedek/Sadduc are the millennial temple priests, who are/were after the order of Melchizedek, just like Jesus.
Ezk 43:5 (Brenton) And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the house of the Lord was full of glory.
The glory left the temple as Ezekiel records in chapter 9, because of the defilements in the temple. There were over 400 years of defiled practices taking place in the temple. The temple was David’s idea not Yahweh’s idea. It became a central place of idolatry after the kingdom split through to the last captivity into Babylon. Now a different priesthood will serve in the temple, the order of Melchizedek/Shem will be the reigning order. Remember that Jesus was an Essene/Nazarene/Assidean, the order that was shunned by the Pharisees because the Assideans rejected the defilement of Jonathan Apphus as high priest. There was a religious split and the holy people left for Damascus while the Pharisees became a new order with political ties to Rome. This is why the Pharisees rejected Jesus, even though Jesus was of the Melchizedek order, a far more holy and original order.
Ezk 43:6 And I stood, and behold there was a voice out of the house of one speaking to me, and a man stood near me,
Ezk 43:7 and he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, in which my name shall dwell in the midst of the house of Israel for ever; and the house of Israel shall no more profane my holy name, they and their princes, by their fornication, or by the murders of their princes in the midst of them;
Ezk 43:8 when they set my door-way by their door-way, and my thresholds near to their thresholds: and they made my wall as it were joining myself and them, and they profaned my holy name with their iniquities which they wrought: and I destroyed them in my wrath and with slaughter.
Ezk 43:9 And now let them put away from me their fornication, and the murders of their princes, and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.
Ezk 43:10 And thou, son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may cease from their sins; and shew its aspect and the arrangement of it.
Ezk 43:11 And they shall bear their punishment for all the things that they have done: and thou shalt describe the house, and its entrances, and the plan thereof, and all its ordinances, and thou shalt make known to them all the regulations of it, and describe them before them: and they shall keep all my commandments, and all my ordinances, and do them.
Ezk 43:12 And thou shalt shew the plan of the house on the top of the mountain: all its limits round about shall be most holy.
Here Ezekiel prophesies that the house of the Elohim will be on the top of the mountain. We are not talking about the hills of Jerusalem, Ezekiel will pin this place down further, shortly.
Ezk 43:19 And thou shalt appoint to the priests the Levites of the seed of Sadduc, that draw nigh to me, saith the Lord God, to minister to me, a calf of the herd for a sin-offering.
The people today who keep trying to revive the Levitical priesthood should pay more attention to the Zadok priesthood and Melchizedek/Shem’s lineage which predates all other priesthoods.
Ezk 44:6 (Brenton) And thou shalt say to the provoking house, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Let it suffice you to have committed all your iniquities, O house of Israel!
Ezk 44:7 that ye have brought in aliens, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, and to profane it, when ye offered bread, flesh, and blood; and ye transgressed my covenant by all your iniquities;
Ezk 44:8 and ye appointed others to keep the charges in my sanctuary.
Ezk 44:9 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; No alien, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of all the children of strangers that are in the midst of the house of Israel.
Ezk 44:10 But as for the Levites who departed far from me when Israel went astray from me after their imaginations, they shall even bear their iniquity.
Ezk 44:11 yet they shall minister in my sanctuary, being porters at the gates of the house, and serving the house: they shall slay the victims and the whole-burnt-offerings for the people, and they shall stand before the people to minister to them.
Ezk 44:13 And they shall not draw nigh to me to minister to me in the priests' office, nor to approach the holy things of the children of Israel, nor to approach my holy of holies: but they shall bear their reproach for the error wherein they erred.
Ezk 44:14 They shall bring them to keep the charges of the house, for all the service of it, and for all that they shall do.
The Levites will be porters and the people making the sacrifices outside the sanctuary. The word for porters here is thurōros meaning “doorkeeper or janitor”.
Ezk 44:15 The priests the Levites, the sons of Sadduc, who kept the charges of my sanctuary when the house of Israel went astray from me, these shall draw night to me to minister to me, and shall stand before my face, to offer sacrifice to me, the fat and the blood, saith the Lord God.
Ezk 44:16 These shall enter into my sanctuary, and these shall approach my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charges.
Ezk 44:17 And it shall come to pass when they enter the gates of the inner court, that they shall put on linen robes; and they shall not put on woollen garments when they minister at the gate of the inner court.
Ezk 44:18 And they shall have linen mitres upon their heads, and shall have linen drawers upon their loins; and they shall not tightly gird themselves.
Ezk 44:19 And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their robes, in which they minister; and they shall lay them up in the chambers of the sanctuary, and shall put on other robes, and they shall not sanctify the people with their robes.
Ezk 44:20 And they shall not shave their heads, nor shall they pluck off their hair; they shall carefully cover their heads.
Why will there be sacrifices in the millennial kingdom? Obviously because there will still be sin. This is something that we have to realize because we think that everyone will live these holy and sin free lives, but if people do it is only because they choose to. Others may choose not to live holy sin free lives. There are still choices to be made in the millennium. The priests of Zadok/Zedek will stand before the face of Yahweh Elohim and they will teach the people.
Ezk 44:23 And they shall teach my people to distinguish between holy and profane, and they shall make known to them the difference between unclean and clean.
Ezk 44:24 And these shall attend at a judgment of blood to decide it: they shall rightly observe my ordinances, and judge my judgments, and keep my statutes and my commandments in all my feasts; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
Chapters 45 and 46 go into practices and procedures for the temple. Then in chapter 47 we see that there is living water that will heal the waterways .
Ezk 47:8 (Brenton) And he said to me, This is the water that goes forth to Galilee that lies eastward, and it is gone down to Arabia, and has reached as far as to the sea to the outlet of the water: and it shall heal the waters.
Ezk 47:9 And it shall come to pass, that every animal of living and moving creatures, all on which the river shall come, shall live: and there shall be there very many fish; for this water shall go thither, and it shall heal them, and they shall live: everything on which the river shall come shall live.
Yahweh will heal the land. Now Ezekiel will explain the land divisions.
Ezk 47:13 Thus saith the Lord God; Ye shall inherit these borders of the land; they are given by lot to the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.
Ezk 47:14 And ye shall inherit it, each according to his brother's portion, even the land concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall to you by lot.
Ezk 47:21 So ye shall divide this land to them, even to the tribes of Israel.
Ezk 47:22 Ye shall cast the lot upon it, for yourselves and the strangers that sojourn in the midst of you, who have begotten children in the midst of you: and they shall be to you as natives among the children of Israel; they shall eat with you in their inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel.
Ezk 47:23 And they shall be in the tribe of proselytes among the proselytes that are with them: there shall ye give them an inheritance, saith the Lord God.
Ezekiel then tells us that the converts will inherit the land as well. What did Jesus tell his disciples about their role in the millennial kingdom?
Mat 19:28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Mat 19:29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Mat 19:30 But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.
Also:
Luk 22:25 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.
Luk 22:26 But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Luk 22:27 For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.
Luk 22:28 Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations.
Luk 22:29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;
Luk 22:30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
There is a need for judges in the millennial kingdom and the twelve disciples will be judges. Ezekiel tells us the division of the land and where each tribe will be in chapter 48. Ezekiel also tells us where the temple will be. It will not be in Jerusalem but bordering Judah to the east and the west.
Ezk 48:8 (Brenton) And from the borders of Juda, from the eastern parts shall be the offering of first-fruits, in the breadth twenty-five thousand reeds, and in length as one of the portions measured from the east even to the western parts: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of them.
Ezk 48:9 As for the first-fruits which they shall offer to the Lord, it shall be in length twenty-five thousand, and in breadth twenty-five thousand.
Ezk 48:10 Out of this shall be the first-fruits of the holy things to the priests, northward, five and twenty-thousand, and towards the west, ten thousand, and southward, five and twenty thousand: and the mountain of the sanctuary, shall be in the midst of it,
Ezk 48:11 for the priests, for the consecrated sons of Sadduc, who keep the charges of the house, who erred not in the error of the children of Israel, as the Levites erred.
Ezk 48:12 And the first-fruits shall be given to them out of the first-fruits of the land, even a most holy portion from the borders of the Levites.
Ezk 48:13 And the Levites shall have the part, next to the borders of the priests, in length twenty-five thousand, and in breadth ten thousand: the whole length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth twenty thousand.
Ezk 48:14 No part of it shall be sold, nor measured as for sale, neither shall the first-fruits of the land be taken away: for they are holy to the Lord.
The Levites will be in a portion of land next to the Zadok priests. Zechariah has some things to add.
Zec 14:8 (Brenton) And in that day living water shall come forth out of Jerusalem; half of it toward the former sea, and half of it toward the latter sea: and so shall it be in summer and spring.
Zec 14:9 And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day there shall be one Lord, and his name one,
Zec 14:10 compassing all the earth, and the wilderness from Gabe unto Remmon south of Jerusalem. And Rama shall remain in its place. From the gate of Benjamin to the place of the first gate, to the gate of the corners, and to the tower of Anameel, as far as the king's winepresses,
Zec 14:11 they shall dwell in the city; and there shall be no more any curse, and Jerusalem shall dwell securely.
Before Jerusalem can dwell securely the Day of the Lord has to take place.
Zec 14:12 And this shall be the overthrow with which the Lord will smite all the nations, as many as have fought against Jerusalem; their flesh shall consume away while they are standing upon their feet, and their eyes shall melt out of their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Zechariah continues with the millennium.
Zec 14:16 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall be left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem, shall even come up every year to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zec 14:17 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever of all the families of the earth shall not come up to Jerusalem to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, even these shall be added to the others.
Zec 14:18 And if the family of Egypt shall not go up, nor come; then upon them shall be the overthrow with which the Lord shall smite all the nations, whichever of them shall not come up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zec 14:19 This shall be the sin of Egypt, and the sin of all the nations, whosoever shall not come up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zec 14:20 In that day there shall be upon the bridle of every horse Holiness to the Lord Almighty; and the caldrons in the house of the Lord shall be as bowls before the altar.
Zec 14:21 And every pot in Jerusalem and in Juda shall be holy to the Lord Almighty: and all that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and shall seethe meat in them: and in that day there shall be no more the Chananite in the house of the Lord Almighty.
There will be feasts and holy days to celebrate. Everyone will still have freedom of choice.
Jol 3:17 (Brenton) And ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwell in Sion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall not pass through her anymore.
Jol 3:18 And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the fountains of Juda shall flow with water, and a fountain shall go forth of the house of the Lord, and water the valley of flags.
Jol 3:19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Idumea shall be a desolate plain, because of the wrongs of the children of Juda, because they have shed righteous blood in their land.
Jol 3:20 But Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to all generations.
Jol 3:21 And I will make inquisition for their blood, and will by no means leave it unavenged: and the Lord shall dwell in Sion.
The millennial kingdom will be wonderful. The land will be healed, the waters will be healed. The animals will be at peace and will not harm humans. There will be wine and holy days, and celebrations, and no wars. Yahweh Elohim will be married to his people, the ones who confess him as Lord and believe that he rose up on the third day. And while there will still be a need for sacrifices for sins, the people will be instructed by the Zadok priests and Yahweh himself. People will want to go up to the house of the Lord and hear from him.
