Israel During the 1000 Year Reign of Christ

The book of Isaiah gives a prophetic beautiful picture of how God loves Israel. How He regards them as His children who are disobedient at times and must be taught correctness. There are times that God allows their punishment by Satan to show Israel that He is needed as a savior and guide. (The same is true for all those believing in and have put their lives under the control of Christ. However, not all tribulation is for punishment. Sometimes it is for testing to make a person grow stronger spiritually.) Non-the-less God’s love, covenants and promises endure and a joyous ending is described when Christ is finally seen as their savior at His second coming to earth where He reigns for 1000 years and then for eternity in Heaven.

Isa 40:1 Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God.
Isa 40:2 Speak lovingly to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is done, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received of Jehovah’s hand double for all her sins.

This doubling of all that was lost is also mentioned in 61:7 below. The fact that Israel’s warfare is done only occurs after Christ’s second coming to earth as a ruling king.

Isa 41:8 But you, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, My friend;
Isa 41:9 whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called you from its sides. And I said to you, You are My servant; I have chosen you, and not cast you away.
Isa 41:10 Do not fear; for I am with you; be not dismayed; for I am your God. I will make you strong; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.
Isa 41:11 Behold, all those who were angered against you shall be ashamed and confounded; they shall be as nothing. And those who fight with you shall perish.
Isa 41:12 You shall seek them, and shall not find them; men warring against you shall be as nothing, and as ceasing.
Isa 41:13 For I, Jehovah your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, Do not fear; I will help you.
Isa 41:14 Do not fear, worm of Jacob and men of Israel; I will help you, says Jehovah, and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

Isa 44:21 Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for you are My servant; I have formed you; you are My servant; O Israel, you shall not be forgotten by Me.
Isa 44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins; return to Me; for I have redeemed you.

God has forgotten all the past times of Israel’s disobedience and turning from Him. He has finished their training and has changed the bad for good. Israel has been redeemed and will be united with God, their creator, forever. The enemies of Israel have been destroyed.

Isa 48:6 You heard; see it all; and will you not declare? I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, and you did not know them.
Isa 48:7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when you did not hear them; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.
Isa 48:8 Yea, you did not hear; yea, you did not know; yea, from the time that your ear was not opened; for I surely know that you will betray and trespass; from the womb it was called to you.
Isa 48:9 For My name’s sake I will put off My anger, and for My praise I will hold back for you, that I do not cut you off.
Isa 48:10 Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
Isa 48:11 For my sake, for My sake I will do it; for why should My name be defiled? And I will not give My glory to another.
Isa 48:12 Listen to me, O Jacob and Israel, My called; I am He; I am the first, I also am the last.

As with a disobedient child God still loves Israel but must allow affliction to train His people. It was He who always has been their God from the time of Adam to forever.

Isa 52:1 Awake! Awake! Put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy city. For never again shall come to you uncircumcised and unclean ones.
Isa 52:2 Shake yourself from the dust; rise up! Sit, Jerusalem! Free yourself from your neckbands, O captive daughter of Zion.
Isa 52:3 For so says Jehovah, You were sold for nothing; and you shall not be redeemed with silver.
Isa 52:4 For so says the Lord Jehovah, My people went down before into Egypt to stay there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
Isa 52:5 Now therefore, what have I here, says Jehovah, that My people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule make them howl, says Jehovah; and without ceasing My name is blasphemed every day.
Isa 52:6 Therefore My people shall know My name; So it shall be in that day, for I am He who speaks; behold, it is I.

Isa 54:6 For Jehovah has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you were rejected, says your God.
Isa 54:7 For a little moment I have left you; but with great mercies I will gather you.
Isa 54:8 In a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you, says Jehovah your Redeemer.

Israel will know Christ when He comes again (the second time) and God will again look upon them and guide them in love.

Isa 59:20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob, says Jehovah.
Isa 59:21 As for Me, this is My covenant with them, says Jehovah; My Spirit that is on you, and My Words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed’s seed, says Jehovah, from now on and forever.

Christ will come a second time to Israel. They will recognize Him as savior this time. They will turn from their sins and be led by Christ, as was intended when He first came to them.

Isa 60:1 Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of Jehovah has risen on you.
Isa 60:2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Jehovah shall rise on you, and His glory shall be seen on you.
Isa 60:3 And the nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawning.
Isa 60:4 Lift up your eyes all around, and see. All of them gather themselves; they come to you. Your sons shall come from far, and your daughters shall be nursed at your side.
Isa 60:5 Then you shall fear and become bright, and your heart shall throb and swell for joy; because the abundance of the sea shall turn to you, the wealth of the nations will come to you.
Isa 60:6 A host of camels shall cover you, the camels of Midian and Ephah. All of them from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall proclaim the praises of Jehovah.
Isa 60:7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you; the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you. They shall come up on My altar pleasing Me, and I will glorify the house of My glory.
Isa 60:8 Who are these who fly like a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
Isa 60:9 Surely the coastlands shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, to the name of Jehovah your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He has glorified you.
Isa 60:10 And the sons of strangers will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you; for in My wrath I struck you, but in My favor I had mercy on you.

All the past thefts from Israel will be restored and the all the hosts of Heaven will come to serve Israel bringing riches and doing work for the people and Christ.

Isa 60:11 Therefore your gates will always be open; they will not be shut day nor night, to bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings may be led.
Isa 60:12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you will perish. Yes, those nations will be completely wasted.
Isa 60:13 The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of My sanctuary; and I will make the place of My feet glorious.
Isa 60:14 Also the sons of your afflicters shall come bowing to you; and all your despisers will bow down at the soles of your feet. And they will call you, The city of Jehovah, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 60:15 Instead of being forsaken and hated, so that no one passes through, I will make you for everlasting majesty, a joy of many generations.

Everlasting indicates the eternity of Heaven.

Isa 60:16 You will also suck the milk of nations, and suck the breast of kings; and you will know that I Jehovah am your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Isa 60:17 For bronze I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver; and for wood I will bring bronze, and for stones, iron. I will also make your overseers to be peace, and your rulers to be righteousness.
Isa 60:18 Violence will no more be heard in your land, wasting nor ruin within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
Isa 60:19 The sun will no more be your light by day; nor the brightness of the moon give light to you; but Jehovah will be to you for everlasting light, and your God your glory.
Isa 60:20 Your sun will no more go down, nor your moon withdraw; for Jehovah will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will be ended.
Isa 60:21 Your people also will all be righteous; they will inherit the land forever, the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.
Isa 60:22 A little one will become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I Jehovah will hasten it in its time.

This shows that God, in the last days, will again show the world that He promised the land of Israel to His people and that no other will again lay claim to it. The description of Jesus being their light matches the description of Heaven where God’s Holy Glory will light all continually. See also the lesson on Heaven for more discussion on this.

Isa 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on Me; because Jehovah has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
Isa 61:2 to preach the acceptable year of Jehovah and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;
Isa 61:3 to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the mantle of praise for the spirit of heaviness; so that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that He might be glorified.
Isa 61:4 And they will build the old wastes, they will raise up the ruins of former times. And they will repair the waste cities, the ruins of many generations.
Isa 61:5 And strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the stranger will be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
Isa 61:6 But you will be named the priests of Jehovah; it will be said of you, Ministers of our God; you will eat the riches of the nations, and you will revel in their glory.
Isa 61:7 For your shame you will have double; and for disgrace they will rejoice in their portion; therefore in their own land they will possess double; everlasting joy will be theirs.

God is now willing to comfort and bless Israel for all their losses. This sounds similar to Job who was recompensed 10 times over for his losses.

Isa 61:8 For I Jehovah love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Isa 61:9 And their seed will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them will acknowledge them, that they are the seed Jehovah has blessed.
Isa 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul will be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the robes of salvation, He covered me with the robe of righteousness like a bridegroom adorns himself with ornaments, and like a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Isa 61:11 For as the earth comes out with its bud, and as the garden causes that which is sown to grow; so the Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to grow before all the nations.

Isa 62:1 For Zion’s sake I will not be silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until its righteousness goes out as brightness, and her salvation as a burning lamp.
Isa 62:2 And the nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory; and you will be called by a new name, which the mouth of Jehovah will name.
Isa 62:3 You also will be a crown of glory in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
Isa 62:4 You will no more be called Forsaken; nor will your land any more be called Desolate; but you will be called My Delight is in her, and your land, Married; for Jehovah delights in you, and your land is married.

God did forsake Israel for a time when they rejected Him. He turned His back in anger. Vs 54:8

Isa 62:5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so will your sons marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so will your God rejoice over you.
Isa 62:6 I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, who will not always be silent all the day nor all the night; you who remember Jehovah, do not be silent.
Isa 62:7 And give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Isa 62:8 Jehovah has sworn by His right hand, and by the arm of His strength, Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and the sons of strangers will not drink your wine for which you have labored.
Isa 62:9 But its gatherers will eat it and praise Jehovah; and they who collected it will drink it in My holy courts.
Isa 62:10 Pass! Pass through the gates; prepare the way of the people. Raise up! Raise up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a banner for the peoples.
Isa 62:11 Behold, Jehovah has sent a message to the end of the earth, Tell the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes. Behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him.
Isa 62:12 And they will call them, The Holy People, The Redeemed of Jehovah; and you will be called, Sought Out, a city not forsaken.

Isa 63:1 Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah, this One adorned in His clothing, bending down in His great power? I who speak in righteousness, great to save.
Isa 63:2 Why is Your clothing red, and Your garments like one who treads in the winepress?

This is as though God had turned His back on Israel and did not even see their troubles.

Isa 63:3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no man with Me; for I will tread them in My anger and trample them in My fury; and their blood will be sprinkled on My garments, and I will stain all My clothing.
Isa 63:4 For the day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed has come.
Isa 63:5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was no one to uphold; therefore My own arm has saved for Me; and My fury upheld Me.
Isa 63:6 And I will tread down the people in My anger, and make them drunk in My fury, and I will pour their juice to the earth.
Isa 63:7 I will mention the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah, the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah has benefited for us, and the great good to the house of Israel by which He benefited them according to His mercies, and according to the multitude of His loving‑kindnesses.
Isa 63:8 For He said, Surely they are My people, sons that will not lie; so He was their Savior.
Isa 63:9 In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them; in His love and in His pity He redeemed them; and He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
Isa 63:10 But they rebelled, and troubled His Holy Spirit; therefore He was turned to be their enemy, and He fought against them.
Isa 63:11 Then He remembered the days of old, Moses and His people, saying, Where is He who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of His flock? Where is He who put His Holy Spirit within him;

Time and again Israel had turned away from God and God became angry as with Israel as with a disobedient child. The last straw came with the rejection of Jesus who had been sent to guide Israel. That rejection hurt God terribly and He turned away from His people for a time.

Isa 63:12 who led them by the right hand of Moses with His glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make Himself an everlasting name?
Isa 63:13 He led them through the deep, like a horse in the wilderness, so that they would not stumble.
Isa 63:14 As a beast goes down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah caused him to rest. So You led Your people, to make Yourself a glorious name.
Isa 63:15 Look down from Heaven, and look down from the place of Your holiness and of Your glory; where is Your zeal and Your strength, the multitude of Your tender affections and of Your mercies toward me? Are they withheld?
Isa 63:16 For You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O Jehovah, are our Father, our Redeemer; Your name is from everlasting.
Isa 63:17 O Jehovah, why have You made us wander from Your ways. You harden our heart from Your fear? For Your servants’ sake, return the tribes of Your inheritance
Isa 63:18 The people of Your holiness have possessed it but a little while; our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.
Isa 63:19 We are from forever; You never ruled over them; Your name was never called on them.

Isa 64:1 Oh that You would tear the heavens and come down, that mountains would quake before You,
Isa 64:2 as the brushwood fire burns, the fire causes water to boil, to make Your name known to Your foes, that the nations may tremble at Your presence!
Isa 64:3 When You did dreadful things which we did not look for, You came down, the mountains flowed down at Your presence.
Isa 64:4 And from forever they have not heard, nor did they listen. Eye has not seen a God except You, who works for him who waits for Him.

Isa 64:5 You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember You in Your ways. Behold, You were angry, for we sinned. In them is eternity, and we will be saved.
Isa 64:6 But we are all as the unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as a menstruation cloth. And we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Isa 64:7 And there is no one who calls on Your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us, and have melted us away because of our iniquities.
Isa 64:8 But now, O Jehovah, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our Former; and we all are the work of Your hand.
Isa 64:9 Do not be grievously angry, O Jehovah, nor remember iniquity forever. Behold! Look, please; all of us are Your people.
Isa 64:10 Your holy cities are a wilderness; Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem is a ruin.
Isa 64:11 The house of our holiness and our beauty, where our fathers praised You, has become a burning of fire; and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Isa 64:12 Will You restrain Yourself over these things, O Jehovah? Will You be silent and sorely afflict us?

God did not look upon Israel during their chastisement period when He allowed Satan to buffet them with trials and problems.

Isa 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth. And the things before will not be remembered, nor come to mind.
Isa 65:18 But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Isa 65:19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and I will rejoice in My people; and the voice of weeping will no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying be heard in her.
Isa 65:20 There will not be an infant, nor an old man that has not filled his days. For the child will die a hundred years old; but the sinner who is a hundred years old will be despised.
Isa 65:21 And they will build houses and live in them; and they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Isa 65:22 They will not build, and another live in them; they will not plant, and another eat. For like the days of a tree are the days of My people, and My elect will long enjoy the work of their hands.
Isa 65:23 They will not labor in vain, nor bring forth for terror. For they are the seed of the beloved of Jehovah, and their offspring with them.
Isa 65:24 And it will be, before they call I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
Isa 65:25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the food of the snake. They will not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, says Jehovah.

Zec 13:2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land. 

Zec 13:3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth. 

Zec 13:4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive: 

Zec 13:5 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth. 

Zec 13:6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. 

Zec 14:8 And it shall be in that day, living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them shall go toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea. In summer and in winter it shall be. 

Zec 14:16 And it shall be, everyone who is left of all the nations which came up against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of Hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 

Zec 14:17 And it shall be, whoever will not come up from all the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of Hosts, even on them shall be no rain.

Zec 14:18 And if the family of Egypt does not go up, nor come in, they shall have no rain, but the plague with which Jehovah shall strike the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 

Zec 14:19 This shall be Egypt’s offense, and the offense of all the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 

This section appears to be a mix of what it will be like during the 1000 year reign on earth and when Heaven replaces earth. People will only die when they are not spirit during the 1000 year reign. When Heaven is ushered in, there will be no more death. It has been cast into the lake of fire.

And the people will realize that they had killed their savior and they shall be so ashamed that they shall put to death any child that prophesies. Waters of life will flow from Christs throne. All people will be required to pay homage to Christ and Israel yearly or they will receive no rain and their crops and they will thirst and suffer. And the holy glory of Christ shall light the land.