The Paradise Adam and Eve inherited informs us of the Paradise their descendants may inherit in the earth’s millennial age of peace. A regeneration of the earth and its inhabitants begins with God’s elect who return to Zion. Wild animals turn tame as disharmony in God’s creations disappears. Zion’s beauty surpasses all previous experience as the earth’s millennial inhabitants partake of glorious promises God makes to those who prove loyal to him through the evil time.
Isaiah 51:3Jehovah is comforting Zion, bringing solace to all her ruins; he is making her wilderness like Eden, her desert as the garden of Jehovah. Joyful rejoicing takes place there, thanksgiving with the voice of song.
Isaiah 65:23–25They shall not exert themselves in vain, or bear children doomed for calamity. For they are of the lineage of those Jehovah has blessed, and their posterity with them. Before they call I will reply; while they are yet speaking I will respond. 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 33:20, 24Behold Zion, the city of our solemn assemblies; let your eyes rest upon Jerusalem, the abode of peace—an immovable tent, whose stakes shall never be uprooted, nor any of its cords severed. . . . None who reside there shall say, I am ill; the people who inhabit it shall be forgiven their iniquity.
Isaiah 60:17, 19–21In place of copper I will bring gold, in place of iron, silver; in place of wood I will bring copper, in place of stones, iron. . . . No longer shall the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon your illumination at night: Jehovah will be your everlasting light and your God your radiant glory. Your sun shall set no more, nor your moon wane: to you Jehovah shall be an endless light when your days of mourning are fulfilled. Your entire people shall be righteous; they shall inherit the earth forever— they are the branch I have planted, the work of my hands, in which I am glorified.
