Continue with The Promise of a Secure Future

In our day, there has been a fulfillment of this prophecy. Jehovah's people came forth from spiritual exile in 1919 and began restoring their "land," or realm of activity and worship.  They built congregations and cultivated spiritual  fruitfulness. As a result, even now Jehovah's people enjoy a spiritual paradise and God-given peace.  We can be sure that such peace will continue into the physical Paradise. We cannot even begin to imagine what Jehovah will accomplish with the willing hearts and hands of his worshipers in the new world.  What a joy it will be to build your own home and then to live in it!  Under Kingdom rule, there will be no shortage of satisfying work.  How rewarding it will be always to "see good" for the fruits of your own labors!  (Ecclesiastes 3:13)  Will we have ample time to enjoy to the full the work of our hands?  Yes, indeed!   the unending lives of faithful humans will be "lie the days of a tree"-thousands of years, and more!

Jehovah describes more blessings that await the returning exiles:  "They will not toil for nothing, nor will they bring to birth for disturbance, because they are the offspring made up of the blessed ones of Jehovah, and their descendants with them." (Isaiah 65:23) Those restored Jews will be blessed by Jehovah, so  will not labor in vain.  Parents will not bring forth children merely for those to suffer an early death.  The former exiles will not be alone in enjoying the blessings of the restoration; their offspring will with them.  So eager is God to fulfill his people's needs that he promise:  "It will actually occur that before they call out I myself shall answer, while they are yet speaking, I myself shall hear." -Isaiah 65:24.

How will Jehovah fulfill these promise in the coming new world?  We will have to wait and see.  Jehovah has not provided all the details, but we can be sure that faithful humans will never again "toil for nothing."  The great crowd of Armageddon survivors and any children who may be born to them will have the prospect of a very long and satisfying life-everlasting life!  Those who come back in the resurrection and who choose to live in harmony with God's standards will also find joy in the new world.  Jehovah  will hear and respond to their needs, even anticipating them. Indeed, Jehovah will open his hand and satisfy the proper "desire of every living thing." -Psalm 145:16.

Next time: Conclusion of The Promise of a Secure Future

From the Book Isaiah's Prophecy Light for all Mankind, Volume II, 2001