Which Zion? Isaiah 51:16, Joel 2 and the New Jerusalem | From Death To Life | Part 34

Which Zion? Isaiah 51 names Zion three times, and Jack Scott makes the case that all three — verse 3, verse 11 and verse 16 — are the new Jerusalem, not Sinai. Part 34 of From Death to Life: Resurrection from the Ground Up stays in Isaiah 51 and then follows Zion out across the prophets. Zion is used well over a hundred times in the Old Testament. Isaiah 51 uses it three times, and two of those are beyond dispute: verse 3 is the Zion whose wilderness is made like Eden, and verse 11 is the Zion the ransomed return to with everlasting joy, where sorrow and sighing flee away. So what would make verse 16 a different Zion? Jack's position is that the chapter will not carry that reading. He grants openly, more than once, that the grammar of verse 16 is genuinely disputed among translators. But where grammar is contested, context decides — and the context of Isaiah 51 is righteousness, salvation, comfort, and the end of the fear of death. Sinai delivered none of that. Sinai codified the law. Paul calls that a ministry of death written and engraved on stone. The rest of the study tests that reading against everything around it: Isaiah 2 and the mountain of the Lord's house, the nations of Isaiah 13-34 described as heavens and earths, the shaking of Isaiah 24, the feast and the torn veil of Isaiah 25, and then Joel 2 and 3 — the chapter Jack says set the dominoes falling for him back in 1983 — answered by Peter at Pentecost with three words: this is that. IN THIS STUDY Why a covenant that is everlasting and without end cannot have last days, and Israel can Out of Zion shall go forth the law: Isaiah 2 does not say out of Sinai Nations and powers spoken of as heavens and earths in Isaiah 13, 19 and 34 Nobody reads Isaiah 19 as God literally riding a cloud into Egypt — so what does coming with the clouds mean? Isaiah 24-26: the earth emptied, the covering destroyed, death swallowed up Joel 2 read straight through, and the question Jack keeps asking of it: when? Acts 2 — this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel Joel 3, the valley of decision, and what is actually being decided there CHAPTERS 0:00 Guests, and picking Zion back up 1:55 An old Zion and a new Zion 3:16 The question from last week: is verse 16 Sinai? 4:20 Verses 1-3: Abraham, Sarah, and a wilderness like Eden 5:21 Death as separation, not biology 9:36 Verse 6: a heaven and earth that vanishes like smoke 9:59 Does this make Sinai unimportant? No 10:44 Hebrews contrasts two orders, from the beginning 13:10 What Sinai actually accomplished 14:36 A ministry of death engraved on stone 17:18 Where grammar is disputed, context is king 18:11 Everlasting does not have an end 20:28 Isaiah 13-34: nations as heavens and earths 24:35 Isaiah 2: the mountain of the Lord's house 25:57 The last days of what? 28:34 Knocking on the door, or walking straight in 30:46 God rides a swift cloud into Egypt 32:39 Isaiah 24: the earth made empty 39:20 The covering destroyed, death swallowed up 41:23 Joel 2, and 1983 43:46 Blow the trumpet in Zion 47:39 The wedding of Revelation 19-22 49:31 This is that 52:58 The valley of decision SCRIPTURES REFERENCED (in order of the argument) Isaiah 51:1-16 · Hebrews 12 · Genesis 1-3 · Romans 5:12 · Romans 5:20 · Hebrews 11 · 1 Corinthians 15 · Romans 15:4 · Hebrews 1:1-2 · Jeremiah 31 · Hebrews 10:16-19 · Hebrews 10:37 · Hebrews 11:35 · Hebrews 11:40 · Hebrews 12:1 · Romans 5:13 · 2 Corinthians 3:7 · Romans 7:7 · Philippians 3 · Revelation 21:4 · John 8:51 · Acts 15:18 · Isaiah 13 · Isaiah 19 · Isaiah 34 · Revelation 20-21 · Isaiah 65-66 · Isaiah 52:1 · Isaiah 52:7 · Romans 10:15 · Isaiah 2:1-4 · Romans 15:8 · Isaiah 24 · Matthew 24 · Isaiah 25 · Isaiah 26:1 · 2 Corinthians 3 · Hebrews 10:19 · Joel 2 · Acts 2:14-21 · 2 Corinthians 11:2 · Revelation 19 · Revelation 21 · John 5:24 · Matthew 23 · Joel 2:28-32 · Matthew 16:27-28 · Luke 21:22 · Joel 3 · Revelation 14 · 2 Timothy 3:15-17 Scripture quoted from the New King James Version. — The Heart of It All Broadcast is a verse-by-verse Bible teaching ministry from our home church in Kalispell, Montana, studying the resurrection, the last days, and the fulfilled work of Christ in AD 70. If you do not have a fellowship where these things can be studied openly, you are welcome here. New studies weekly. Subscribe, and leave your questions in the comments. #Zion #Isaiah51 #Joel2 #FulfilledEschatology #Preterism #CovenantEschatology #AD70 #NewJerusalem #LastDays #Isaiah2 #Acts2 #Revelation21 #ResurrectionFromTheGroundUp #TheHeartOfItAllBroadcast #JackScott