CLAIM: In the Millennial Kingdom and beyond, God’s people have profound joy.
Mixed.
This begins by speaking of God revealing Himself to the Gentiles, and the rejection of the Jews. The end speaks of the New Heaven and New Earth in Isaiah 65. Isaiah 66 however speaks again of the current situation. Today, whoever slaughters an ox (for sacrifice) is as one who kills a man, and the one who offers a lamb (again, sacrifice is in view) like the one who breaks a dog’s neck (a cruel thing). This does not speak of the Millennium, but that God’s perfection never included the sacrifice of animals, and with the blood of Jesus, to continue to do such is as detestable as murder or as cruel as killing a dog.