Hi, I'm new to this forum but have found the material very interesting and sometimes helpful in developing my own understanding of the Scriptures but in all the discussions and papers available to read on the site here regarding the different views about the Millennium this verse in Isaiah 65 "There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed." is never explained.
I do believe that Christ died once for all and that there can never be a return to the OT style sacrificial system that could deal with peoples sins because that is what the Bible teaches us. Nevertheless this verse and others (e.g Is 11.8)do seem to suggest that there is going to be a period in Earth's history following this one where death still reigns, people however live far longer (as they in fact did pre- and just post flood)and the natural enmity between the animals will cease, yet sin still exists.So, a period of partial restoration but not total, so not heaven.

Many writers of pieces that are critical of the Dispensational view don't seem to appreciate that it is possible for God, at a time of His choosing, to remember promises made to His ancient people and at the same time do for them as a nation what He has done for us gentiles and Jews who believe during this present time and birth in them the desire to know God and enable them to come to know Him through Christ.

I am not persuaded at all by the argument that Satan is currently bound and unable to deceive the Nations.
I am more persuaded by the argument that a period will come when he will be bound and his evil influence will not be felt but the very much less than good influences of peoples own hearts will be left to influence events (all in accordance with the will of God of course). The world will see then that even with Satan out of the way, man is still not able to come close to God and that salvation and true righteousness will still only be found through faith in Jesus.

I also struggle to reconcile the different treatments Jesus meted out to the disciples if there is to be no physical restoration of Israel. I am thinking of Peter being told "Get behind me, Satan" when he demonstrated a lack of understanding about what was going on and Jesus reply to the disciples who asked after Christ's ressurection "Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?" Acts 1.6 Surely, they meant a physical restoration job, not a spiritual one? If they did mean a physical one, Jesus would have known, and the question would have elicited a different response than the one He gave, "It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power", if it wasn't to be physical.

So when, do people think, was or will be the fulfilment of verses Is 11.8 and 65.20

Or, if someone can suggest other threads to go to for answers to this that would be great.


Also, some versions of the KJV have what I think are paragraph marks in them but who put those there and are they useful for rightly dividing the verses and passages?