4. The Millennial Covenant

Because three categories of people live into the earth’s millennial age, they experience lesser or greater covenant blessings and divine empowerment. These correspond with three spiritual levels that Isaiah identifies:

1. Zion/Jerusalem, which keeps the terms of the Sinai Covenant;
2. God’s sons/servants, who keep the terms of the Davidic Covenant on behalf of themselves and their dependents;
3. and seraphs/saviors, who keep the terms of the Abrahamic Covenant, many of whom are translated beings.

God’s Millennial Covenant incorporates the positive features of his former covenants. Like the Sinai Covenant, it is a collective covenant—made with a new nation of his people. Unlike the Sinai Covenant, however, it is an unconditional covenant, made with those who have proven loyal in keeping the terms of whichever covenant they operated under—Sinai, Davidic, or Abrahamic. The world’s wicked inhabitants, on the other hand—those who didn’t repent of doing evil—entirely perish from the earth.

In God’s Millennial Covenant, the blessings of a promised land, enduring offspring, and God’s protection that are common to each of his covenants are transformed to (1) a promised land endowed with a paradisiacal glory as in the days of Adam and Eve; (2) enduring offspring imbued with God’s Holy Spirit as in his covenant with the Levites; (3) protection afforded by God’s own presence with his people; and (4) a covenant made after a cataclysmic worldwide destruction on the scale of the Flood.

Isaiah 54:2–3

Expand the site of your tent; extend the canopies of your dwellings. Do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes. For you shall spread abroad to the right and to the left; your offspring shall dispossess the nations and resettle the desolate cities.

Isaiah 54:9–10

This is to me as in the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would no more flood the earth. So I swear to have no more anger toward you, never again to rebuke you. For the mountains shall be removed and the hills collapse with shaking, but my charity toward you shall never be removed, nor my covenant of peace be shaken, says Jehovah, who has compassion on you.

Isaiah 59:21

This is my covenant with them, says Jehovah: My Spirit which is upon you and my words which I have placed in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your offspring, nor from the mouth of their offspring, says Jehovah, from now on and forever.

Isaiah 60:17–18

I will make peace your rulers and righteousness your oppressors: tyranny shall no more be heard of in your land, nor dispossession or disaster within your borders; you will regard salvation as your walls and homage as your gates.

Isaiah 65:25

The wolf and the lamb will graze alike, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; as for the serpent, dust shall be its food: there shall be no harm or injury done throughout my holy mountain, says Jehovah.

Isaiah 12:4–6

In that day you will say, Give thanks to Jehovah; invoke his name. Make known his deeds among the nations; commemorate his exalted name. Sing in praise of Jehovah, who has performed wonders; let it be acknowledged throughout the earth! Shout and sing for joy, O inhabitants of Zion, for renowned among you is the Holy One of Israel.