When we daydream about a future kingdom ruled by Jesus Messiah, where there are no wars but peace for one thousand years, we neglect to think on the last few years where Satanas is loosed on the world for one last test. It is an inconvenient thought that interrupts the placidness of our daydream. We should think about why Satanas is loosed after one thousand years and the nations gather for war against Israel. Why would people want to fight against Jesus Christ the King of kings and Lord of lords? With one thousand years of peace, we would think that people would be content and happy. But a charismatic national leader will rise to power and tell people that he can rule the world better. He will promise everything under the sun, including the allowance of sins and lusts. The people will start to imagine vain things. Then they will join forces with Gog, the Locust King, and attempt to overthrow Jesus Messiah.
When we think about this future event it seems clear that the people in this time period are a bunch of idiots. We know what we have had to endure on the earth under Satanas’ rulership, but they have never had to suffer as we have. They will perceive this strong leader as someone who will make their lives better by not pointing out sins. They will rally under him and try to fight against Israel. Why Israel? Because the temple and the world leader Yahweh Elohim is reigning from there. Israel is defenseless at this time or at least they believe she is. This is the last test to see who rejects Yahweh Elohim before the new heaven and new earth.
Amos reminds us that when Jacob’s heirs are gathered back to Israel they will inhabit the land and prosper.
Amo 9:11 (Brenton) In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and will rebuild the ruins of it, and will set up the parts thereof that have been broken down, and will build it up as in the ancient days:
Amo 9:12 that the remnant of men, and all the Gentiles upon whom my name is called, may earnestly seek me, saith the Lord who does all these things.
Amo 9:13 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when the harvest shall overtake the vintage, and the grapes shall ripen at seedtime; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall be planted.
Amo 9:14 And I will turn the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities, and shall inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and shall drink the wine from them; and they shall form gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
Amo 9:15 And I will plant them on their land, and they shall no more be plucked up from the land which I have given them, saith the Lord God Almighty.
Israel comes from all nations on the earth and the ends of the heavens to live in Israel. They rebuild, and live in peace for one thousand years. The Christians who have eternal life will not ever die. They will populate heaven or the earth as workers for Jesus. But Israel will have to repopulate the planet. A lot of people can be born in one thousand years and spread out over the earth.
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When Satanas is loosed, he is not loosed as king of the world or a prince of the world, he is simply a spiritual being loosed. He is not in command or in charge. He has to go out and find a willing participant in order to overtake Yahweh Elohim. That willing participant is a national leader, Gog.
Ezk 38:1 (Brenton) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Ezk 38:2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, and the land of Magog, Rhos, prince of Mesoch and Thobel, and prophesy against him,
Ezk 38:3 and say to him, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Rhos prince of Mesoch and Thobel:
Ezk 38:4 and I will gather thee, and all thine host, horses and horsemen, all wearing breast-plates, with a great multitude, shields and helmets and swords:
Ezk 38:5 Persians, and Ethiopians, and Libyans; all with helmets and shields.
Ezk 38:6 Gomer, and all belonging to him; the house of Thorgama, from the end of the north, and all belonging to him; and many nations with thee.
The first thing we have to notice is that not only are these primitive weapons, they are coming on foot or horse. The weaponry is primitive and the warfare is primitive. Today all these enemies of Israel fire missiles, rockets, and drones, from the comfort of their own nations. Ground wars are no longer a primary type of warfare. Israel in response has an “iron dome” to block all incoming firepower.
Why is Gog gathering people from all nations to make crude weapons? He wants to be king of the world, empowered by Satanas. This is the test for all the people of earth, to know what is in their hearts and minds.
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It appears that a lot of people from all nations will gather in Magog to fight Israel. Israel is literally defenseless and the King of kings and Lord of lords resides in Jerusalem in the temple. Yahweh allows this last test as the final housecleaning for the new earth. We think of the new heaven and new earth as a wonderful place, but again, there are rules as to who can enter the temple in the new earth. There will be others outside the city. The people inside the city at that time won’t be perfect, but they will have received Jesus as their Messiah and they do not reject him.
Ezk 38:7 Be thou prepared, prepare thyself, thou, and all thy multitude that is assembled with thee, and thou shalt be to me for a guard.
Ezk 38:8 He shall be prepared after many days, and he shall come at the end of years, and shall come to a land that is brought back from the sword, when the people are gathered from many nations against the land of Israel, which was entirely desolate: and he is come forth out of the nations, and they shall all dwell securely.
These nations come at the “end of years” “to a land that is brought back from the sword”. This tells us that Israel has gone a long time without a war. So long in fact they do not know how to fight. Israel has been made desolate several times in her history but in the millennial kingdom she will dwell securely.
What would it be like to be eating breakfast and seeing the news on our phone that a worldwide army has gathered to invade our nation. We would probably be a bit panicked.
Ezk 38:9 And thou shalt go up as rain, and shalt arrive as a cloud to cover the land, and there shall be thou, and all that are about thee, and many nations with thee.
Ezk 38:10 Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass in that day, that thoughts shall come up into thine heart, and thou shalt devise evil devices.
Ezekiel says that these evil nations have gone many days without warring with Israel. Evil comes into their heart. The demons are in the triangular wasteland and Satanas is bound for one thousand years. In order for evil to get into someones heart evil must be loosed.
Ezk 38:11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the rejected land; I will come upon them that are at ease in tranquility, and dwelling in peace, all inhabiting a land in which there is no wall, nor bars, nor have they doors;
Ezk 38:12 to seize plunder, and to take their spoil; to turn my hands against the desolate land that is now inhabited, and against a nation that is gathered from many nations, that have acquired property, dwelling in the midst of the land.
Israel today does not dwell in ease, tranquility, or peace. But they will for one thousand years during the millennial. Israel will not have walls, or bars, or doors. Along the way Gog’s armies will pick up the demons in the rejected land where they have been bound for one thousand years. The evil armies will come to Israel to take over their land, the desolate land that is now inhabited.
Ezk 38:13 Sabba, and Daedan, and Carthaginian merchants, and all their villages shall say to thee, Thou art come for plunder to take a prey, and to get spoils: thou hast gathered thy multitude to take silver and gold, to carry off property, to take spoils.
Ezk 38:14 Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, Thus saith the Lord; Wilt thou not arise in that day, when my people Israel are dwelling securely,
Ezk 38:15 and come out of thy place from the farthest north, and many nations with thee? all of them mounted on horses, a great gathering, and a large force?
Israel will be so prosperous in the millennial kingdom that the other nations are jealous and want to plunder her riches. They are making preparations to carry off her wealth. Yahweh says to Ezekiel, “say to Gog”. Yahweh is prophesying to Gog, the locust king. Yahweh says that this takes place when His people are dwelling securely. Israel has not dwelt securely since entering the promised land after forty years of desert wandering. Since 1948 Israel has always been on high alert and fought with its neighbors repeatedly. Satanas is gathering an army led by Gog the locust king. Yahweh says that this happens in the last days. The last days of the millennial kingdom.
Ezk 38:16 And thou shalt come up upon my people Israel as a cloud to cover the land; it shall come to pass in the last days, that I will bring thee up upon my land, that all the nations may know me, when I am sanctified in thee before them.
Ezk 38:17 Thus saith the Lord God, to Gog; Thou art he concerning whom I spoke in former times, by the hand of my servants the prophets of Israel, in those days and years, that I would bring thee up against them.
Yahweh says that in former times by the hands of the prophets Yahweh said he would bring Gog against his people. Yahweh has told us all his plan as to this last earthly test for humans. Who will fall prey to Satanas and Gog, and who will stand against them?
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Gog should have known that heavenly fire would incinerate them because Yahweh just said that he told the prophets in the former times. Doesn’t anyone still have a Bible in the millennial kingdom? Or have the nations destroyed their Bibles since Jesus is Messiah ruling from Jerusalem? Israel repopulated the earth maybe thinking they would all follow Yahweh but is it possible those people who left Israel to inhabit other nations didn’t want to aline with Yahweh, so they don’t know the prophecies?
Ezk 38:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, in the day when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God,
Ezk 38:19 that my wrath and my jealousy shall arise, I have spoken in the fire of mine anger, verily in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
Ezk 38:20 and the fish of the sea shall quake at the presence of the Lord, and the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the field, and all the reptiles that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are on the face of the earth; and the mountains shall be rent, and the valleys shall fall, and every wall on the land shall fall.
Yahweh will shake the land of Israel, and then what happens? Gog’s people will fight against themselves. The demons who have all been bound for one thousand years all have host homes in the people of Gog’s armies. They will influence people against one another.
Ezk 38:21 And I will summon against it even every fear, saith the Lord: the sword of every man shall be against his brother.
Ezk 38:22 And I will judge him with pestilence, and blood, and sweeping rain, and hailstones; and I will rain upon him fire and brimstone, and upon all that are with him, and upon many nations with him.
Ezk 38:23 And I will be magnified, and sanctified, and glorified; and I will be known in the presence of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Remember Israel has no weapons at this time. They are powerless except for Yahweh. This is when Israel will come to know Yahweh. At this point there was one thousand years where people lived, had children, and died. At the end of one thousand years we could say that there were at least ten generations since Israel was brought back to the millennial kingdom. By the time we get to the last generation those people will have always lived in relative peace and security. There will not be anyone who knows how to fight against Gog and his armies.
Ezk 39:1 And thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, Rhos prince of Mesoch and Thobel:
Ezk 39:2 and I will assemble thee, and guide thee, and raise thee up on the extremity of the north, and I will bring thee up upon the mountains of Israel.
Ezk 39:3 And I will destroy the bow out of thy left hand, and thine arrows out of thy right hand, and I will cast thee down on the mountains of Israel;
Ezk 39:4 and thou and all that belong to thee shall fall, and the nations that are with thee shall be given to multitudes of birds, even to every fowl, and I have given thee to all the wild beasts of the field to be devoured.
Ezk 39:5 Thou shalt fall on the face of the field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord.
Yahweh prophesies to Gog that he will be destroyed. This is also an allusion to Satanas, as Yahweh will raise Gog up in the extremity of the north. We know that this hasn’t happened yet because there has never been a time where Israel has lived in peace with no weapons. Satanas is still the god of this world, and there is no Gog, yet. We see that the weapons Gog uses are crude and barbaric, as if they did not have the time to learn the technology between the time Satanas was loosed to the time they went to war against Israel, who doesn’t have walls, bars, or doors.
Ezk 39:6 And I will send a fire upon Gog, and the islands shall be securely inhabited: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Yahweh will incinerate Gog and his armies. Remember, the nations have been living in the millennial kingdom in their own lands along with Israelites who migrated, but they get swayed to make war against Israel. Really it is not Israel they are led to war against but Yahweh Himself who dwells in Jerusalem. Satanas’ ploy with Gog and the nations is that they can do things better, they will not judge people for sin. Sounds great until we realize that that is how we are living now. We have criminals who persecute the innocent, pedophiles who persecute the children, and warmongering politicians who want to enslave the entire world. But the people of that generation will not have experienced life as we are living it today. They will have lived in peace and security, so they will be tempted with lusts and sin to rise against Yahweh.
Ezk 39:7 And my holy name shall be known in the midst of my people Israel; and my holy name shall no more be profaned: and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.
Ezk 39:8 Behold it is come, and thou shalt know that it shall be, saith the Lord God; this is the day concerning which I have spoken.
Everyone on the earth will know that Yahweh incinerated Gog and his armies. Then the Israelites will make another Gehenna fire pit and burn all the weapons. This fire will last for seven years.
Ezk 39:9 And they that inhabit the cities of Israel shall come forth, and make a fire with the arms, the shields and the spears, and bows and arrows, and hand-staves, and lances, and they shall keep fire burning with them for seven years:
Ezk 39:10 and they shall not take any wood out of the field, neither shall they cut any out of the forests, but they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall plunder those that plundered them, and spoil those that spoiled them, saith the Lord.
Ezk 39:11 And it shall come to pass that in that day I will give to Gog a place of renown, a tomb in Israel, the burial-place of them that approach the sea: and they shall build round about the outlet of the valley, and there they shall bury Gog and all his multitude: and the place shall then be called the burial-place of Gog.
Somehow the weapons will burn without wood for seven years. It can’t be anything explosive or flammable as those things would burn rather quickly. Whatever metals they used are going to burn. Then the Israelites will plunder Gog’s armies’ nations. They will bury all the dead armies of Gog and make a monument type cemetery. This is the last war. The last and final war. The last test before the new heaven and new earth.
Ezk 39:12 And the house of Israel shall bury them, that the land may be cleansed in the space of seven months.
Ezk 39:13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a place of renown in the day wherein it was glorified, saith the Lord.
Ezk 39:14 And they shall appoint men continually to go over the land, to bury them that have been left on the face of the earth, to cleanse it after the space of seven months, and they shall seek them out.
Ezk 39:15 And every one that goes through the land, and sees a man's bone, shall set up a mark by it, until the buriers shall have buried it in the valley, the burial place of Gog.
Ezk 39:16 For the name of the city shall be Burial-place: so shall the land be cleansed.
This time frame from when the people were stirred up against Israel, they marched on Israel, and Gog’s armies’ annihilation, is seven months. After this there will be a cleaning of the earth. Yahweh settled the war once and for all time. Now Yahweh wants Ezekiel to prophesy to the birds.
Ezk 39:17 And thou, son of man, say, Thus saith the Lord; Say to every winged bird, and to all the wild beasts of the field, Gather yourselves, and come; gather yourselves from all places round about to my sacrifice, which I have made for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, and ye shall eat flesh, and drink blood.
Ezk 39:18 Ye shall eat the flesh of mighty men, and ye shall drink the blood of princes of the earth, rams, and calves and goats, and they are all fatted calves.
Ezk 39:19 And ye shall eat fat till ye are full, and shall drink wine till ye are drunken, of my sacrifice which I have prepared for you.
Ezk 39:20 And ye shall be filled at my table, eating horse, and rider, and mighty man, and every warrior, saith the Lord.
Ezk 39:21 And I will set my glory among you, and all the nations shall see my judgment which I have wrought, and my hand which I have brought upon them.
The earth will be cleansed when the birds eat the flesh and drink the blood of princes and mighty men. This tells us that in those last days of the millennial kingdom the princes and mighty men will turn against Jesus and follow Satanas and Gog.
Ezk 39:22 And the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, from this day and onwards.
Ezk 39:23 And all the nations shall know that the house of Israel were led captive because of their sins, because they rebelled against me, and I turned away my face from them, and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.
Ezk 39:24 According to their uncleannesses and according to their transgressions did I deal with them, and I turned away my face from them.
Now at the end of the Gog and Magog war Israel will know that Yahweh is their Elohim. We wonder why it had to take so long, but again this is the last test before the new heavens and new earth. The earlier generations were gathered to Israel, but the later generations did not experience a life where they were burdened by the sins of their forefathers. They were living the benefits of their believing forefathers in the millennial kingdom, but they did not live under bad kings and invading Philistines. They had always lived peacefully and comfortably. This is why they rebel at the end of the millennium when Satanas is loosed. Satanas lures the nations the same way he lures people today.
Yahweh now recaps the present. He says he will turn back captivity in Jacob. At this time Ezekiel was in captivity in Babylon. Ezekiel was part of the second wave of captives. Yahweh says that he will have mercy on them.
Ezk 39:25 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Now will I turn back captivity in Jacob, and will have mercy on the house of Israel, and will be jealous for the sake of my holy name.
Ezk 39:26 And they shall bear their reproach, and the iniquity which they committed when they dwelt upon their land in peace. Yet there shall be none to terrify them
Ezk 39:27 when I have brought them back from the nations, and gathered them out of the countries of the nations: and I will be sanctified among them in the presence of the nations.
Yahweh is reminding them of what he has said to other prophets like Moses and Isaiah, then he will bring the heirs of Jacob out from all the nations they were scattered in.
Ezk 39:28 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, when I have been manifested to them among the nations.
Ezk 39:29 And I will no more turn away my face from them, because I have poured out my wrath upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.
This is when Israel will finally know that Yahweh is their Elohim.
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Israel is like anyone of us who has children. We who are Christians and serve the Lord bring our children up learning about Jesus. We take them to church, Sunday school, and church activities. But when they are older they have to develop their own relationship with Jesus Christ. They have to learn to love Him and serve Him on their own. We can lead them to Jesus but we cannot make them love Him or serve Him. This is Israel.
Abraham learned about Yahweh and serving him from Noah and Shem. Abraham sent Isaac to Shem’s school in Jerusalem. Jacob served in Shem’s school and the Tents of Yahweh for fifty years. But Jacob could not force his children to love Yahweh Elohim. Jacob could be an example, but his example seems to have impacted Joseph more than the other sons. While Jacob’s heirs finally came back to the land of Israel they did not know Yahweh very well. They experienced him in the desert when he came to meet with them, but they did not all pursue Yahweh. Some did and some did not. As the years went on, fewer people worshipped and served Yahweh, so Yahweh gave them what they wanted, life like the other nations. Yahweh came to earth as a man, healing all their sicknesses and casting out their demons, but many people did not accept him. After the Messiah came the majority of religious leaders rejected him and led the people away from Jesus Messiah. They were driven out of Jerusalem in 70 AD.
Yahweh will bring them back. He will then physically rule over the Israelites from Jerusalem for one thousand years. No demons, no Satanas or Drakōn. At this time the Christians who received Jesus are as Jesus told us, like angels, in the heavens in some form of service, or on the earth in service to Jesus as kings and priests. We already have eternal life. This millennial kingdom is for those who do not already have eternal life.
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Amos sees the small nation of Israel at the precipice of war in the millennial. Gog’s grasshopper army of people has devoured the land. Amos is concerned that Israel cannot fight for herself.
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Gog’s armies are devoured. Yahweh’s fire hasn’t come down from heaven since Sodom and Gomorrah. We know that this event has not happened yet as we would have noticed fire from heaven devouring an entire army of people.
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Yahweh assures Amos that Israel will not be devoured. He was shown the end of the millennial kingdom, the last war. The last test. Amos is then comforted that Yahweh will not let Israel, the northern kingdom, become desolate. He is also assured that Yahweh will deal with the idols and false places of worship.
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The diabolos Satanas, was then thrown into the lake of fire. There will be a white throne judgment and every being will be judged as to the works they have done.
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Remember, these are people who did not believe on Yahweh Elohim or Jesus Messiah according to the age they lived in. These are people who either willfully rejected Him or simply never considered believing in him. They will be judged by their works.
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Who are the dead that the sea gives up? The sinful people at the time of the flood, the hybrids, the heirs of the Nephil and the Grigori. These humans and half humans died in their sins. After the flood through to the millennial kingdom, people have either entered death or Hades. These were also unbelievers of Yahweh Elohim/Jesus Messiah.
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These are the events that wrap up the millennial kingdom. We can suspect that it will take at least seven years to judge all the dead as that is how long the weapons will burn after Gog and his armies are annihilated. Isaiah tells us that there will be a new heaven and a new earth. No one will remember the former earth.
Isa 65:17 (Brenton) For there shall be a new heaven and a new earth: and they shall not at all remember the former, neither shall they at all come into their mind.
Isa 65:18 But they shall find in her joy and exultation; for, behold, I make Jerusalem a rejoicing, and my people a joy.
Isa 65:19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and will be glad in my people: and there shall no more be heard in her the voice of weeping, or the voice of crying.
Finally Jacob’s heirs will be able to live without people trying to kill them. They will live without demons attacking them and Satanas and Drakōn goading them. They will know Yahweh Elohim personally and completely.
Revelation 21:1 G2532 And G1492 I saw G3772 [2heaven G2537 1a new], G2532 and G1093 [2earth G2537 1a new]; G3588 for the G1063 G4413 first G3772 heaven G2532 and G3588 the G4413 first G1093 earth G3928 passed away; G2532 and G3588 the G2281 sea G3756 is no G1510.2.3 G2089 more.
2 G2532 And G3588 the G4172 [2city G3588 G39 1holy], G* new Jerusalem, G2537 G1492 I saw G2597 coming down G575 from G3588 G2316 God G1537 out of G3588 the G3772 heaven, G2090 being prepared G5613 as G3565 a bride G2885 being adorned G3588 for G435 her husband. G1473
3 G2532 And G191 I heard G5456 [2voice G3173 1a great] G1537 from out of G3588 the G3772 heaven, G3004 saying, G2400 Behold, G3588 the G4633 tent G3588 G2316 of God G3326 is with G3588 the G444 men, G2532 and G4637 he shall pitch a tent G3326 with G1473 them, G2532 and G1473 they G2992 [2his people G1473 G1510.8.6 1will be], G2532 and G1473 God himself G3588 G2316 G1510.8.3 will be G3326 with G1473 them.
4 G2532 And G1813 he shall wipe away G3588 G2316 G3956 every G1144 tear G575 from G3588 G3788 their eyes, G1473 G2532 and G3588 G2288 death G3756 will not be G1510.8.3 G2089 any more, G3777 nor G3997 mourning, G3777 nor G2906 crying, G3777 nor G4192 misery -- G3756 it shall not be G1510.8.3 G2089 any more, G3754 for G3588 the G4413 first things G565 departed
No more sadness for the heirs of Jacob. People will live a long time. The people who have already made Jesus Lord and Messiah today already have eternal life. We chose early and wisely, but Yahweh has a heart for Jacob’s heirs. He wants them to come to know him. The choice is always their own.
Isa 65:20 Neither shall there be there any more a child that dies untimely, or an old man who shall not complete his time: for the youth shall be a hundred years old, and the sinner who dies at a hundred years shall also be accursed:
The new earth will still have sin and death. Lifespans will increase so that if a child is one hundred years old that child is still considered young. If a sinner dies at one hundred years old they will be epikataratos, “upon” epi, “downward”, kata, “cursed” ara, upon downward cursed. This tells us that the curse comes from heaven to earth upon the sinner. There is still sin in the new earth but the sinner wears his own curse and dies quickly. Those who already have eternal life are in the new heaven. Those who chose Yahweh during the millennial kingdom will either be in the new heaven or new earth. As Israel repopulated the earth, the millennial born Israelites have to also make the decision to receive Yahweh Elohim. Therefore if there are people who didn’t fight against Yahweh but didn’t really receive him they will be in the new earth outside the city where their sins bring a curse upon themselves.
Revelation 22:14 G3107 Blessed are G3588 the ones G4160 observing G3588 G1785 his commandments, G1473 G2443 that G1510.8.3 [2will be G3588 G1849 1their authority] G1473 G1909 unto G3588 the G3586 tree G3588 G2222 of life, G2532 and G3588 by the G4440 gatehouses G1525 they should enter G1519 into G3588 the G4172 city.
15 G1854 Outside G3588 are the G2965 dogs, G2532 and G3588 the G5333 administers of potions, G2532 and G3588 the G4205 fornicators, G2532 and G3588 the G5406 murderers, G2532 and G3588 the G1496 idolaters, G2532 and G3956 every one G5368 being fond of G2532 and G4160 committing G5579 a lie.
There will be an “inside” and an “outside” in the new earth. The entrance to the tree of life by the gatehouses are “inside” the city. The “outside” will have questionable people who still commit sin. There will be dogs, magicians, fornicators, murderers, idol worshippers and liars “outside" the city. However the redeemed of Israel will live inside the city. There will be no sinners in the new heavens where people who have eternal life already live.
This then causes one to question, will sin ever be eradicated? It would seem not on the earth or the new earth. There is a reason for this. Jesus will rule and reign forever. When he is coronated in Revelation 11, he will be king over all the kingdoms of the world and he will reign forever. Every being has to choose to want to serve him or not. Every being has to determine how they will live. The difference in our age is that angels sinned, which then caused our genetics to be contaminated. The adam’s sin turned over rulership of the world to Satanas. Manfaced is not in charge of the earth but Satanas and his fallen followers are reigning now. We do not know after the millennial kingdom if there will be any other beings who will sin and rebel but we see that people will choose to sin, which will keep them outside the city. People will choose sorcery, fornication, murder, idol worship and tell lies, in the millennial kingdom and in the new earth. The only thing that gives us pause here is that in order to practice magic or sorcery, there must be a negative spiritual influence they can conjure. Maybe more angels will sin later. But “inside” is where people should want to be.
Isa 65:21 and they shall build houses, and themselves shall dwell in them; and they shall plant vineyards, and themselves shall eat the fruit thereof.
Isa 65:22 They shall by no means build, and others inhabit; and they shall by no means plant, and others eat: for as the days of the tree of life shall be the days of my people, they shall long enjoy the fruits of their labours.
Isa 65:23 My chosen shall not toil in vain, neither shall they beget children to be cursed; for they are a seed blessed of God, and their offspring with them.
Isa 65:24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will hearken to them; while they are yet speaking, I will say, What is it?
Isa 65:25 Then wolves and lambs shall feed together, and the lion shall eat chaff like the ox, and the serpent earth as bread. They shall not injure nor destroy in my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
The millennial kingdom is a time for the people who rejected Yahweh Jesus Messiah to come to know him. For those who want to know Him the millennial will be a wonderful time. While the new earth will have a very blessed inside region, where people will prosper and live in peace and security, there will be an outside for those who are sinful. One thing we see clearly is that Jesus never overrides our freedom to choose. We always have the power to choose what we want. If we want to overcome in this age, be given eternal life, and become kings and priests in the millennial we can choose to serve Jesus now. If people choose Jesus in the millennial they can look forward to a new heaven and new earth. Jesus loves us, but Jesus doesn’t force us to love him. He has told us the future, so we know what to expect, and that is because he loves us.
