worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

 

Zech.14: 1-21(Study All): The destroyers of Jerusalem destroyed. 4: The coming of Christ and the graces of his Kingdom.  12: The plague of Jerusalem’s enemies. 16: The remnant shall turn to the Lord, 20: And their spoils shall be Holy.

 

At the end of God's thousand years Millennium reign, this old earth will be put back anew, the way God intended it to be established before Satan rebelled in that first earth age, and the cause for its ruin today in this second earth age. God created this earth to be inhabited

 

 Isaiah 45:18: For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it: he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord and there is none else.

 

You'll also find at the first of Isaiah 54 that our Father shall be known in the eternity as "...The Holy One of Israel, the God of the whole earth shall He be called." (Isa.54:5). Those few verses haven't happened yet in the eternity sense, as His 'gathering' of His 'bride', His People, also described there hasn't happened yet. This is to let us know that this earth is not going anywhere in the future, and is never going to be destroyed. Let's continue further in Rev.22:

 

Rev.22:2    In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

      We just read about 'The Tree of Life' back in this same Chapter of Genesis (Gen.2:9). That 'Tree of Life' is a symbol for Jesus Christ the Bread of Life. Sounds like God's eternity and this description of the Garden of Eden are similar doesn't it? How about one more reference before we move on:

Ezek 36:33   Thus saith the Lord GOD; 'In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
34    And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
35    And they shall say, 'This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.'

      I know this verse here is not a direct statement like, 'This land that was desolate WILL DEFINITELY become THE garden of Eden again...', but being too literal, missing God's metaphors and symbols in His Word is to miss the deeper spiritual messages that are part of 'eyes to see, and ears to hear'. I mean that in the sense that many misunderstandings of God's Word come from those who take the parts of The Word that are metaphor, and teach them as 'literal', and the literal parts, such as God coming down from heaven back to earth and setting up the third and last earth age, the literalist thinks is metaphor. An example would be man's wrong interpretation of the killing with 'the beasts of the earth' in Rev.6:8 as wild animals attacking people all over the world in the end time. Some people actually believe this. No wonder many are easily fooled into believing that they’re going to be 'raptured' out of here before Satan comes.

 

 We are told in the Book of Daniel that Satan will come in peacefully and prosperously. The 'beasts' of Revelation is a metaphor for the Kenite systems controlling people's minds in the end time (the 'beast' is a political system, i.e., the 'New World Order'), and for that matter, much of the symbols in Revelation are metaphor or symbols. Many use a 'literal' understanding because they