Hell is Made Holy

How the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Book of Revelation show that the wicked and hell cease to exist

Clinging to a Counterfeit Cross

By David Aaron Beaty

Visit author’s web site at www.davidaaronbeaty.com

Chapter 4

The Second Coming Fulfills the Old Testament Sacrifices

To begin filling in the details of the synopsis I just provided at the end of the previous chapter, here are some good passages to help demonstrate that Isaiah 34 is in fact a description of the second coming of Christ and His ensuing casting of fire on the earth:

  • Revelation 17:14 - Jesus is the lead General at the second coming, the Lord of lords, the King of kings.

  • Revelation 19:11-16 - Jesus, the Lord of lords, the King of kings can be recognized again battling at the second coming against the nations, with his sword, treading the wine press, while wearing his bloody robe.

  • Isaiah 63:1-6 - Jesus can be recognized again battling against Edom at the second coming, on the day of vengeance, scattering their blood on the ground, treading the wine press, while wearing his bloody robe.

  • Isaiah 34:1-10 - Jesus can be recognized again battling against Edom and the nations, with his sword, at the second coming, scattering their blood on the ground, on the day of vengeance.

  • These passages above demonstrate that Isaiah 34 is the coming of the presence of Jesus/God, similar to how God comes in the tabernacle inauguration in Leviticus 9. In both the second coming description of Isaiah 34 and the tabernacle inauguration we have all six of the elements from the following list. Isaiah 34 and the tabernacle inauguration sharing these six elements demonstrates to us that these phrases in Isaiah 34, "its smoke goes up for generations", "it burns night and day", "it will not be extinguished forever/ eternally/for an age" can of course be the symbolism of the continual morning and evening regular sacrifice which first started at the tabernacle inauguration, because Isaiah 34 is full of other elements from the tabernacle inauguration.

    1. Similar introductory statements by God, with the same Hebrew word being used for "Come near", qarab, Strong's word H7126:

    [Leviticus 9:7 NASB20] 7 Moses then said to Aaron, "Come near to the altar and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering, so that you may make atonement for yourself and for the people; then make the offering for the people, so that you may make atonement for them, just as the LORD has commanded."

    [Isaiah 34:1 NASB20] 1 Come near, you nations, to hear; and listen, you peoples! Let the earth and all it contains hear, and the world and all that springs from it.

    2. Fire comes from God/Jesus to consume the sacrifices at the second coming in Isaiah 34 and at the tabernacle inauguration in the Old Testament.

    [Leviticus 9:23-24 NASB20] 23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting. When they came out and blessed the people, the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people. 24 Then fire went out from the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the portions of fat on the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell face downward.

    3. The types of sacrificed animals in Isaiah 34 being used to represent the wicked are all the same in the tabernacle inauguration of the Old Testament. - Three of the types of animals named in Isaiah 34 (goat, ram, and bull) use the same Hebrew words, found in the types of sacrifices that were done in the tabernacle inauguration parallel accounts in Leviticus 8-9 and Numbers 7. The other two animal types used in Isaiah 34 (lamb and wild oxen) can also be shown to appear in the tabernacle inauguration, but the specific Hebrew words used in Isaiah 34 represent specific subsets of sheep and cattle. I assume that "cattle", as I am using the word, are what we typically call "cows" of any sex or age. The exact Hebrew word for lamb which is used in Isaiah 34 does not appear in the sacrificial system of the Old Testament, but with the use of various academic resources we can see that it is a word for "fat lamb", "lamb raised for slaughter", or "young ram for slaughter" (Tregelles, 1857 | Brown, 1906 | Koehler, 1994-2000 | Harris, 1980). (A young ram is a male lamb.) Lambs are sacrificed in the tabernacle inauguration accounts. Resources to consult in order to confirm the animal facts that I just related are Gesenius Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon, Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon, Hebrew Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, and Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament. The Hebrew word for "wild oxen" in Isaiah 34 also does not appear in the sacrificial system of the Old Testament, but "wild oxen" are a subset of cattle. Cattle do appear in the tabernacle inauguration accounts. Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon defines the Isaiah 34 Hebrew word for "wild oxen" as "wild ox" (Brown, 1906). The Hebrew Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament gives as one of its possible definitions, "wild bull" (Koehler, 1994-2000). "Ox" is just another word for a male cattle that has been castrated specifically to use for work, or can just be used as another word for any cattle.

    4. God is delivering or has just delivered his people by the defeat of a massive army at both the second coming and the tabernacle inauguration. - The second coming by its very nature is the deliverance from the kingdom and evil of the antichrist, satan, and the mass of wicked people. At the tabernacle inauguration God has just delivered his people from the army of the Egyptians, and in Exodus 29 he mentions this deliverance directly in His stated intended symbolism for the entire sacrificial system. This is the same sacrificial system of the tabernacle which is inaugurated in Leviticus 9 and Numbers 7:

    [Exodus 29:38-46 WEB] 38 "Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually. 39 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening; 40 and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering. 41 The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal offering of the morning and according to its drink offering, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh. 42 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you. 43 There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory. 44 I will sanctify the Tent of Meeting and the altar. I will also sanctify Aaron and his sons to minister to me in the priest’s office. 45 I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. 46 They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am Yahweh their God.

    5. All the different types of animal sacrifices defined in the Pentateuch which are done at the inauguration of the tabernacle are represented by at least two elements in Isaiah 34. For every sacrifice type, the two elements appear in the specific instructions in the Pentateuch for that sacrifice type. Those various elements common to Isaiah 34 and the Pentateuch are: fat, blood, smoke going up for generations, kidneys, the correct animal (lamb, goat, ram, ox, bull), burning day and night. The sacrifice types performed at the tabernacle inauguration are: sin offering, burnt offering ("burnt offering" is synonymous with continual morning and evening regular sacrifice), and peace offering. This helps to demonstrate that Isaiah 34 as a whole is not just pointing to any specific single sacrifice type, but is pointing to all of the sacrifice types and generally to the tabernacle inauguration.

    6. The smoke starts to go up from generation to generation and the fire starts to burn night and day in the tabernacle inauguration in Leviticus 9, just as it does in the symbolic sacrifice imagery at the second coming in Isaiah 34. - The burnt offering mentioned in the tabernacle inauguration in Leviticus 9 is the very first iteration of the continual morning and evening regular sacrifice whose smoke goes up from generation to generation, and is burning night and day, just as it is seen in the second coming in Isaiah 34. This again helps demonstrate that Isaiah 34 is pointing to the entire sacrificial system as it is first inaugurated and operated at the tabernacle inauguration. We can be confident that the continual morning and evening regular sacrifice appears in Leviticus 9 in the tabernacle inauguration because of these specific verses below:

    First in the tabernacle inauguration account we see that the burnt offering is "offered according to the ordinance"............

    [Leviticus 9:16-17 WEB] 16 He presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to theordinance. 17 He presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from there, and burned it upon the altar, in addition to the burnt offering of the morning.

    If we skip back a few chapters we see that this "ordinance" that is being referred to in Leviticus 9 above is the defining of the continual morning and evening regular sacrifice. Also notice the fat of the peace offering below going onto the burnt offering to produce loads of smoke, which will go up from generation to generation, forever.........

    [Leviticus 6:8-13 WEB] 8 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 9 "Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it. 10 The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on his linen trousers upon his body; and he shall remove the ashes from where the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar. 11 He shall take off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. 12 The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning. He shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. 13 Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out. "its smoke goes up for generations", "it burns night and day", "it will not be extinguished forever/eternally/for an age"

    So can these phrases above from Isaiah 34 be symbolism from the continual morning and evening regular sacrifice which commenced at the tabernacle inauguration? Of course they can. One can easily see from the six element list that I've just presented above that Isaiah 34 is full of other elements from the tabernacle inauguration.

    If we expand out our net a little bit and look at what similarities exist between the second coming as it is described all over the Bible and the tabernacle inauguration, we find even more similarities between the two. These of course can be used by association to further strengthen the connection between the second coming in Isaiah 34 and the tabernacle inauguration. Strengthening this connection can further help to convince us that of course, the phrases like "its smoke goes up for generations", "it burns night and day", "it will not be extinguished forever/eternally/for an age" in the second coming description of Isaiah 34 are the symbolism of the continual morning and evening regular sacrifice which started at the tabernacle inauguration because the second coming has numerous other similarities to the tabernacle inauguration. Could these phrases in the Isaiah 34 description of the second coming be the symbolism of the continual morning and evening regular sacrifice from the tabernacle inauguration? Of course they could. Isaiah 34 is describing the second coming, and the second coming has numerous other similarities to the tabernacle inauguration. Take a look:

    1. At the Tabernacle inauguration and at the second coming of Jesus, God's presence comes in the morning.

  • Leviticus 9:16-17 - tabernacle inauguration in the morning

  • Malachi 4:1-3 - Jesus the "sun of righteousness" that rises like on a morning

  • Hosea 6:1-3 - Jesus' appearance is the "dawn" with refreshing "rain"

  • 2 Samuel 23:3-7 - Jesus rules like the "light of the morning" after "rain"

  • Psalm 46 - the second coming happens when "morning dawns"

  • Psalm 101 - destruction of the wicked and "dwelling" with God, at the second coming, happens in the "morning"

  • Exodus 12 - Christians are the "firstborn", spared by the blood of the Lamb

  • Hebrews 12:23 - Christians are the "firstborn" from among the dead

  • Isaiah 26 - firstborn from the dead at the rapture are the "dew" of the "dawn"

  • Psalm 110 - the firstborn "dew" are born from the "womb of the dawn". Dawn always happens in the morning.

  • Zephaniah 3 - Jesus returns on the "morning" of the second coming bringing "justice to light"

  • John 4:14 - Jesus is the "fountain" of "living water"

  • Deuteronomy 33:1-3, 26-29 - Jesus, the "fountain", comes from the heavens with His "sword" riding the clouds as in Revelation and Daniel, enters the promise land at the second coming with his army of Christians, "the holy ones", coming from "Seir" in Edom as in Isaiah 63, and "dawns" on His people.

  • Why does Jesus always enter the promise land with his people through Edom, the country that totally denied God's people access to the promise land in the Old Testament?

  • Habakkuk 3 - Jesus comes from "Teman" which is in Edom, like the "sunlight", at the second coming, after the sun and moon are obstructed as seen numerous times in second coming prophecies

  • Isaiah 60:1-14 - Jesus, the "light" comes and "rises" upon his people, some of whom may have just been raptured like a "cloud" of flying "doves". In the Septuagint, verse 8 reads:
    [Isaiah 60:8 CAB] Who are these that fly as clouds, and as doves with young ones to Me?

  • Isaiah 63:1-6 - Who is this?

  • Song of Solomon 6:4,10 - Like Isaiah 63 above, "who is this?", looking "down" as He comes from heaven at the second coming, like the "dawn" with His "army" of saints?

  • Zephaniah 3 - See specifically NIV, ASV, ESV, KJV, NKJV, or WEB - Jesus unleashes the "fire of His jealousy" at the second coming

  • Song of Solomon 8:5-6 - Who is this?, returning at the second coming with the fire of His jealousy, coming up from the wilderness, possibly from the desert land of Edom, with his warrior army bride, the church of the saints just awakened from the dead to birth from their mother Israel?

  • Psalm 90 - Jesus "returns" in the "morning" with "graciousness"

  • Luke 1:76-79 - Jesus, the "Sunrise", returns at the second coming to "visit" His people
  • 2. At the tabernacle inauguration and at the second coming, the priests kill the sacrifices and God/Jesus burns them with fire. - Christians become priests. Christians return as warrior saint priests with Jesus to fight in the battle of Armageddon. As in Isaiah 34, the wicked are a fiery sacrifice at the second coming. Ergo, the priests kill the sacrifices at the tabernacle inauguration and at the second coming.

  • 1 Peter 2:5,9 - Christians are priests

  • Revelation 1:6 - Christians are priests

  • Leviticus 9:24 - God burns the sacrifices at the tabernacle inauguration Isaiah 66:5-20 - Jesus burns the wicked at the second coming

  • Revelation 7:9 - saints in white robes

  • Revelation 19:11-19 - saints in white robes in battle

  • Isaiah 26:19 - raptured and resurrected Saints are "dew"

  • Psalm 110 - See specifically NIV, CSB, or NRSV – the "dew" join in the battle

  • Psalm 149 - the Christians, the "Godly ones", wield "swords" at the second coming to help execute God's "vengeance"

  • Revelation 17:12-14 - See specifically AMP - the Christians, the "chosen and faithful", fight "on His side" at Jesus' second coming

  • Zechariah 14:1-9 - the Christians, Jesus' "holy ones" will return with Jesus at the second coming when He "fights" on a "day of battle"
  • 3. At the tabernacle inauguration and at the second coming, the High Priest and the priests are covered in blood. - Jesus is the High Priest at the second coming. The saints are the priests at the second coming following Jesus into battle.

  • Leviticus 8:30 - high priest and priests are covered with blood

  • Hebrews 3:1; 7:26-27 - Jesus is the High Priest at the second coming and into the millennium, which is why there is no human high priest in Ezekiel's millennial temple.

  • Isaiah 63:1-3 - Jesus at the second coming is covered in blood

  • Revelation 19:11-14 - Jesus at the second coming is covered in blood

  • Ezekiel 45:18-19 - the corners of the altar get covered in blood

  • Zechariah 9:9-17 - See specifically AMP, NRSV, or NKJV God's "people", the priests, get covered in blood like the corners of the altar
  • 4. The priests are consecrated with blood and fitted with new priestly robes before the coming of the presence of God at the tabernacle inauguration and before the second coming. - Christians who are priests at the second coming, are the guests at the wedding feast of the marriage of the Lamb. The saint/priest/guests invited to the wedding feast are consecrated before the feast starts.

  • Leviticus 8:1-30 - Priests consecrated with blood and fitted with new robes

  • Revelation 7:9-14 - Christian priests consecrated with Jesus' blood and fitted with new white robes

  • Zephaniah 1 - God's "guests" at the second coming "sacrifice" have been "consecrated", blending together the language of the second coming and the wedding feast, hinting at the equalness of the two.

  • Revelation 16:13-21; 19:1-6 - Babylon is burned as a part of the second coming. Directly preceding the wedding feast in the Revelation 19 text, the burning of Babylon is described by, "HER SMOKE RISES FOREVER AND EVER", pointing to the second coming "sacrifice" of the wicked in Isaiah 34, hinting that this sacrifice of Babylon in Revelation 16 & 19 may be the sacrifice at the wedding feast mentioned in Zephaniah 1 above.

  • Revelation 19:7-19 - God's guests at the wedding "feast" have been consecrated with Jesus' blood and fitted with new white robes. Directly following the wedding feast in the Revelation 19 text, the birds dining on the bodies of the slain at Armageddon is also called a "feast". This blends the language of the second coming Armageddon battle with the language of the wedding feast hinting at the equalness of the two.

  • Matthew 25:1-13 - The virgins who are the saints must be ready for the coming of the groom for the wedding feast, because they don't know the "day or the hour" of Jesus' second coming.

  • Matthew 22:1-14 - The Christian wedding guests who are accepted into the wedding feast at the second coming must be wearing the proper attire. The proper attire is just the white robes washed in the blood of the lamb in Revelation 7:9-14 just referenced above.

  • 5. The High Priest/high priest wears the crown at the tabernacle inauguration and at the second coming. Aaron the high priest wears the crown at the tabernacle inauguration. Jesus the High Priest wears the crown at the second coming.

  • Revelation 14:14-20

  • Leviticus 8:7-9

  • Hebrews 3:1; 7:26-27
  • 6. With some reasonable interpretation, in both the tabernacle inauguration and at the second coming, two individuals who are major promoters of false religion are burned to death in an isolated targeted judgement from God that is specific to them. In both the tabernacle inauguration and at the second coming they are burned with fire and are also deposited in a place outside the camp. - At the tabernacle inauguration these are Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu. At the second coming these are the antichrist and the false prophet.

  • Leviticus 10:1-7 - Aaron's sons make up their own way to give offerings to God and are burned to death, then carried outside the camp

  • Revelation 20:9 - The Old Testament "camp" is equivalent to Jerusalem in biblical speak, at the time of the second coming

  • Revelation 20:10-15; Matthew 25:40-42; Matthew 18:9 - The "lake of fire" is the sentence for wicked people, the devil, the antichrist, and the false prophet. The place of judgment for people and the devil is the same place. Gehenna is the sentence for wicked people. Ergo, Gehenna is the "lake of fire". The word "hell" with its highly questionable traditionalist connotations is written into the Bible by highly assumptive translation which is instilled with heavy traditionalist interpretation. The real word is "Gehenna" which is a proper place name for the valley of Hinnom, outside the camp, outside the city, on the south and southwest sides of Jerusalem.

  • Mark 9:47-48 - Gehenna, the valley of Hinnom, is a literal cursed valley "where the worm does not die and the fire is not quenched", outside the camp/Jerusalem in Isaiah 66.

  • Isaiah 66:22-24 - Gehenna, the valley of Hinnom, "where the worm does not die and the fire is not quenched", is literally just outside the camp/Jerusalem. People literally walk by it and see the dead bodies of those who have just been judged, just as they would have seen the dead bodies of Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu.

  • 2 Thessalonians 2:8 - antichrist "eliminated" and brought to an "end"

  • Daniel 7:11 - antichrist "killed"

  • Revelation 19:19-21 - This passage very likely describes the annihilation and killing of antichrist and the false prophet outside the camp, outside the city, if we interpret 2 Thessalonians 2:8 and Daniel 7:11 above as annihilation of body and soul. More on this later though. With this interpretation they are deposited outside the camp just like Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu.

  • Revelation 19:19-21; Revelation 20:10 - The antichrist and the false prophet "are" very likely not still in the lake of fire from having been thrown there at the beginning of the millennium. The Greek words do not, with 100% confidence, indicate whether they "had been thrown there" or still "are" or "were" there. There actually is no being verb there, so there is no clearly explicit verb tense. The verb and its tense must be elided or assumed from the context. "Are there" would be a translation which follows only a very rare way that Greek elided verbs are used. "Had been thrown there" or some other synonymous phrase is much more likely to be the correct way to use the elided verb according to a world class expert in Greek, scholar G.K. Beale, who also happens to favor the traditionalist view of hell in which the antichrist and the false prophet typically should "be" in hell for the entire millennium and into eternity. Other world class scholars who are also avowed traditionalists support just using "were there" or "had been thrown" there or something like it. Some world class translators who have done very popular and respected Bible translations choose to use, "were there" or "had been thrown", or something synonymous with these past tense phrases. See sources:

    a. G.K. Beale, 1999, New International Greek Testament Commentary, The Book of Revelation, pgs. 762 & 1031

    b. Andrew Steinman, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, March 1992 Issue, The Tripartite Structure of the Sixth Seal, the Six Trumpet, and the Sixth Bowl, note 18 @ bottoms of pgs. 77 to 78.

    c. Buist M. Fanning III, Clinton E. Arnold, 2020,

    d. Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, Revelation. See their copyright page in the front matter and Chapters 20 & 26 - They do a fresh translation of their own, and put past tense "were". In their commentary on Revelation 20:10 and 14:11 they show that they are avowed traditionalists.

    e. John Christopher Thomas & Frank D. Macchia, 2016, The Two Horizons New Testament Commentary, Revelation, See Preface section & commentary section for Revelation 19:1 to 21:8 - They do a fresh translation of their own of just a short snippet of the verse, mixed in with the lines of the commentary, and put "were cast", and then state plainly that they are traditionalists.

    f. AMPC (Amplified Bible Classic Edition), ESV, NRSV - all translate past tense "were"

    g. NIV - "had been thrown"

    h. A large percentage of all translations italicize the word that they use to translate it, communicating that the word is a nonexistent, assumed elided verb whose tense must be chosen based on contextually based interpretation and not just translation.


  • 7. At the tabernacle inauguration and at the second coming God/Jesus descends to earth and takes up residence in His temple/tabernacle. - God's presence takes up residence in the tabernacle at the tabernacle inauguration. Jesus takes his place on the throne in Ezekiel's millennial temple at the second coming. Ezekiel 43:10-11,18; 40-48 - God gives numerous chapters full of the specific architectural details and instructions for observances and says to "observe its entire plan" and mentions "the day it is built", hinting that this temple is not symbolic only.

  • Ezekiel 43:4-9 - Jesus says he's going to enter the temple from the "east", and live in the temple, the place of his "feet".

  • Isaiah 60:1-17; Isaiah 34; Leviticus 3 - Jesus, the sunrise, "rises" over and "appears" to His people at the second coming. The Jews are "gathered" back together as in many other passages about the beginning of the millennium. The Temple, the "place of his feet", is built and "beautified" and the "altar" becomes active. The "peace" of Jesus' millennial reign begins after the wicked are made to be a peace offering with "fat", "blood", "smoke", "kidneys", "rams", "goats", "lambs" as described in Isaiah 34 at the second coming, and as described in the instructions for the peace offering in Leviticus 3 at the tabernacle inauguration. To see the sameness of the peace offering animals in Leviticus 3 and in Isaiah 34 we need some details about the Hebrew animal words in both passages. The Hebrew word for "herd" in Leviticus 3 is a specific word which means any animal of any age or sex from the herd of cattle, meaning cows, bulls, or calves. The Hebrew word for "flock" in Leviticus 3 is a specific word for any sheep or goat of any age or sex. A "ram" is a male adult sheep. An "oxen" is one of the "herd", possibly intended for the use of work, and possibly castrated (Brown, 1906 | Koehler, 1994-2000). See sources:

    Hebrew Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament
    Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon

  • Ezekiel 47:1, 12 - Water flows from the temple giving life to trees with "leaves for healing"

  • Ezekiel 43:1-4 - Jesus with the "voice" like the "sound of many waters" from Revelation enters Ezekiel's millennial temple from the "east"

  • Revelation 1:12-18 - Jesus the "Son of man" from Daniel 7:13, with "hair white like wool" from Daniel 7:9, with "eyes like a flame of fire", with a "voice like the sound of many waters", with "the sharp two-edged sword coming out of his mouth", who has come back from the dead is identified. This is the same Jesus entering Ezekiel's millennial temple "with the voice like the sound of many waters" as in Ezekiel 43:1-4 above.

  • Zechariah 14:1-9 - Jesus arrives to be the "King over all the earth" at the second coming "battle" with his army of Christians, "holy ones", with his "feet on the Mount of Olives". Jesus arrives "east" of Jerusalem and water begins to flow out of Jerusalem, just as in Ezekiel's millennial temple.

  • Revelation 19:11-19 - The same Jesus, the same "army" of Jesus, and the same rule of Jesus' over the nations are described here in Revelation 19 as are described in Zechariah 14 and Revelation 1 above.

  • Joel 2-3 - At the second coming, Jesus is "in the midst of Israel", "dwelling on Zion", in Ezekiel's millennial house/temple from which, "a spring will go out from the house of the Lord", just as it does in Ezekiel 47:12.

  • Revelation 19:14-15 - It is Jesus who "treads the wine press" at the second coming. This identifies Jesus who treads the winepress in Joel 2-3 above as the One who takes his place in Ezekiel's millennial temple that has water flowing out from it.

  • John 10:11-19; Hebrews 13:20-21; Ezekiel 34:2-28; Ezekiel 37:11-28 - Jesus, the "One Shepherd", who figuratively is "David", at his second coming will take up residence in Ezekiel 's millennial temple/"sanctuary"

  • Zechariah 6:9-14; Isaiah 11:1-16; Jeremiah 23:5-6 - Jesus, "the Branch" will return at the second coming, "build the temple", "sit and rule on the throne", and be the King and "priest". Be extra sure to read these in the NASB 2020 edition, so the meaning is not obscured.

  • Haggai 2:2-9 - The pathetic second temple is not Ezekiel's "glorious" millennial temple which will be rebuilt in a time of "peace" in the millennium after the second coming. The second temple was frequently not "glorious" and never saw "peace".

  • After Jesus' second coming there is an operational system of ongoing sacrifices for sin associated with Ezekiel's millennial temple. The millennial sacrificial system involves the feast of booths which involves sacrifices. The sins still being addressed by the millennial sacrificial system are very likely those of the sinful mortal earthbound remnant of Israel and the nations who physically survive through the tribulation and the fiery second coming. They live on into the millennium as unraptured, unperfected, offspring- producing mortals who are ruled with Jesus' "rod of iron" and with the ruling administrative system of Jesus' perfected raptured immortal saints. The millennial sacrificial system is not the system of the Old Testament, but an altered one with all the things that have been fulfilled by Jesus being eliminated. - Zechariah 12-14; Leviticus 23:34-36; Ezekiel 40:39; 42:14; 44:19-24; 45:17-25; 46:18-24; 47:21-22; Isaiah 65:17-23; Revelation 12:1-6; Jeremiah 31:1-9; Isaiah 13:6-13; Joel 2:30-32; Isaiah 60:10-14; Revelation 3:20-22; Isaiah 45:13-23; Jeremiah 3:14-17; Isaiah 10:16-22

  • Isaiah 19 - After the second coming, the remnant of Egypt comes to the millennial temple to "worship with sacrifice and offering"

  • Jeremiah 33:14-18 - After Jesus' second coming, burnt offerings and grain offerings and sacrifices will be given at Ezekiel's millennial temple.

  • Isaiah 66:15-21 - When Jesus returns at the second coming, He will choose some of the mortal unraptured remnant of Israel to be "priests" and "Levites" serving in Ezekiel's millennial temple, just as in the book of Ezekiel.

  • Note: Ezekiel's millennial temple is often discarded by Bible interpreters as nothing but a symbolic fairy tale which will never really exist. This is frequently due to the fact that the theology of an ongoing sacrificial system and temple does not seem to fit the mainstream of Christian theology. In some sense, this is correct. The New Testament makes it clear that those who have become immortal, perfected, resurrected, and raptured Christians no longer need to make sacrifices. End times prophecy throughout the Bible in numerous places though describes a class of mortal, imperfect people who survive through the tribulation and the second coming. Then they go on to live, die, sin, bear offspring, and repopulate the earth during the millennium. Some of them even take part in a rebellion against God at the end of the millennium in Revelation 20. It is very likely only this unraptured, unperfected, mortal remnant which is also seen in scripture numerous times, having to participate in the ongoing sacrificial system of Ezekiel's millennial temple. It is very likely this unraptured, unperfected, mortal remnant that must be ruled with Jesus' "rod of iron" during the millennium. A careful analysis of Ezekiel's millennial temple shows that numerous items in the Old Testament sacrificial system are eliminated in Ezekiel's millennial temple system. These are just the items that Jesus has fulfilled. Just a few examples may be: the ark of the covenant, the temple veil, the evening sacrifice of the continual morning and evening regular sacrifice, the day of atonement, and the human high priest. This demonstrates that Ezekiel's millennial temple is not a disjointed violation of Christian theology. It is a well thought out continuation of God's plan for the redemption of sinful mankind, even of those who survive through the tribulation as sinful mortals. Degrading Ezekiel's millennial temple down to a symbolic fairy tale also creates a severe conundrum for interpreters who do so. If they completely de-literalize Ezekiel's millennial temple, they must also de-literalize all of the related numerous passages throughout the Bible that I have just shown which repeat all the things described in Ezekiel's millennial temple system. So a consistent de-literalization of Ezekiel's millennial temple and all the numerous related passages would make the rest of end times prophecy crumble like a house of cards into a totally meaningless symbolic black hole which would have no real literal results with any practical worth to anyone. I've shown ample scriptural evidence above to demonstrate the temple/tabernacle parallelism between the second coming and the Old Testament tabernacle inauguration.

  • "its smoke goes up for generations", "it burns night and day", "it will not be extinguished forever/eternally/for an age"

    So could these phrases above from the Isaiah 34 description of the second coming of Jesus be the symbolism of the continual morning and evening regular sacrifice from the coming of God to the tabernacle inauguration? Of course they could. Isaiah 34 is describing the second coming, and the second coming throughout the Bible has numerous other similarities to the tabernacle inauguration and its abundant sacrifices, as you can see from the seven item list I've just shown.

    The numerous parallels that I just showed above between the coming of God to the tabernacle inauguration and the events of the second coming of Jesus make it a lot more believable that the destruction of the wicked at the second coming is actually a parallel reflection of the sacrifices made and begun at the tabernacle inauguration. We might even say that the second coming is not only a parallel reflection of the tabernacle inauguration but an actual physical literal fulfillment of it. The tabernacle inauguration and the sacrificial system which was established along with it, as I have already described, are directly described by God in Exodus 29 as symbolic of God's moral cleansing of His human priests, His Deliverance of His people from the army and rule of Egypt, His togetherness with His people, and His being their God. These are all just the same literal physical characteristics of Jesus' second coming. Jesus literally returns with his newly consecrated and freshly white robed army of Christian priests, literally delivers his people from a wicked army, takes up literal physical residence among his people in the millennial temple, and becomes his people's literal ruling and crowned High Priest King/God in a more physical literal sense. With all these things being considered, we are being almost irresistibly pushed in the direction of understanding the tabernacle inauguration and its sacrificial system as being prophecy about end times events which has its literal physical fulfillment in the events of the book of Revelation. Aside from the numerous painfully obvious symbols of the sacrificial system which appear frequently throughout Revelation (incense altar, altar, lamp stand, sacrificial bowls, temple etc. etc.) there are several more not so obvious pointers in Revelation which indicate that the destruction of the wicked is a sacrifice. These additional pointers to the wicked being a sacrifice help us to gain even more confidence that John in Revelation is using the phrase, "The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever" to point to sacrifice symbolism being applied to the sacrifice of the wicked in Isaiah 34: "its smoke goes up for generations", "it burns night and day", "it will not be extinguished forever/eternally/for an age". Would John use the Revelation 14:11 phrase, "The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever" to point to a symbolic sacrificing of the wicked in Isaiah 34? Of course he would, he's obviously pointing to a symbolic sacrificing of the wicked in several other places in Revelation. Let's look at those now. We'll see that several of these additional pointers are written in a way that only the ancient audience of Revelation would recognize them. We will try to think like an ancient audience and see what we see.


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