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Isa 24:19-23  The Lord Shall Punish the Host of the High Ones On High and the Kings of The Earth Upon the Earth

Isa 24:19  The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
Isa 24:20  The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Isa 24:21  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
Isa 24:22  And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
Isa 24:23  Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

These last five verses of this 24th chapter of Isaiah have a more universal, all-inclusive tone than do the preceding verses of this chapter. Being all-inclusive means that while these verses have a primarily personal application, these verses also include all "the host of the high ones on high".

The end of this chapter and the next two chapters concern themselves with the resurrection of the dead, which has not been the focus of this 24th chapter up to this point. Notice how prominent to this point is "the earth" in this 24th chapter of Isaiah. "The earth" or "the land" are mentioned in:

Isa 24:1  Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

"The land" is the subject of verse 3, and "the earth" is the subject of the next three verses:

Isa 24:3  The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
Isa 24:4  The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
Isa 24:5  The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
Isa 24:6  Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

That is the subject and the tone of this entire chapter including the first two verses of today's study:

Isa 24:19  The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
Isa 24:20  The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

Now we go beyond the fact that the kingdom of our old man "shall fall, and not rise again".

Notice how Peter refers to this time:

2Pe 3:11  Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
2Pe 3:12  Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

Judgment begins at the house of God, but it builds to a consummation, as it did with Job, with King David, and with our Lord and His Christ. The flesh of all men is doomed because it was tailor "made... for the of evil" in every one of us:

Pro 16:4  The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

This is not some one else who is being called "the wicked". We are all "the wicked... man of sin" as the apostle Paul tells us:

2Th 2:3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Th 2:4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

That is "the wicked... made [by] the Lord... for Himself... for the day of evil".

King David knew this and told us exactly who this man of sin is from our birth:

Psa 51:4  Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
Psa 51:5  Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

We were shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin for this express purpose.... "that Thous might be justified when you speak and be clear when you judge [us]".

David goes on to explain:

Psa 75:7  But God is the judge: he putteth down one [our "old man"], and setteth up another ["the new man, the last Adam"].
Psa 75:8  For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

And exactly who is "the wicked of the earth" who must drink of the cup of the Lord's wrath? This is not a guessing game, the answer is made super clear:

Psa 53:3  Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Rom 3:12  They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

We must acknowledge our spiritually dead composition before the process of the Lord's judgment can begin in our lives:

Heb 9:27  And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Heb 9:28  So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

Does not this verse tell us that Christ's body of flesh was itself, as sin offering which could not inherit the kingdom of God and had to be relinguished as an offering for our sins? Are we not also being told that when Christ comes into our lives He is right at that time "appear[ing] the second time without sin unto salvation"? Yes, that is what we are being told if we are given eyes that see and ears that hear "the things of the spirit" (1Co 2:14). It is at that time that He enters into His own temple, and we begin to enter into His temple "which temple [we] are" (1Co 3:16). None of this can take place until the seven plagues of the seven angels have been fulfilled withing our lives:

Rev 15:7  And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
Rev 15:8  And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple ["which temple we are"], till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled [within our lives]"

​We begin to see the inward, heavenly application of all these words, when we are informed:

Isa 24:21  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

This is the verse which demonstrates that the spirit realm is raised up to be judged along with those who were before in the natural realm because this verse states clearly "...in that day, the Lord will punish the host of the high ones on high AND the kings of the earth upon the earth". These words accord with:

Rev 20:10  And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Rev 20:11  And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Rev 20:12  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Rev 20:13  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

Clearly the spirit realm, "the high ones on high", is there "together with the kings of the earth upon the earth." They are not raised up at different times to be judged.

Making this very point, earlier in this same prophecy we are told:

Isa 13:11  And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

It is the Lord's anger with which He punishes us and "the high ones on high" for our evil and our iniquity:

Deu 32:22  For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

'The invisible things of God are understood by the things that are made' (Rom 1:20), so the principle of punishing evil is just as true in the heavens as it is on the earth:

Job 15:15  Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

The New Testament makes this same assertion:

Heb 9:23  It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Heb 9:24  For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

It is in "the heaven itself" that the ultimate struggle for our hearts and minds takes place:

Eph 6:12  For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens. (NET)

That is "the heavens" where the Lord dwells:

Psa 11:4  The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

What do 'the eyes of the Lord trying the children of men' have to do with the Lord being in His temple in heaven? It has everything to do with His temple because, Stephen, the first martyr after Christ's death and resurrection, tells us that Isaiah's words...

Isa 66:1  Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?

...are informing us that "the Most High does not even dwell in temples made with hands":

Act 7:47  But Solomon built him an house.
Act 7:48  Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Act 7:49  Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me?

If "the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands", and yet "the Lord is in His holy temple... in heaven", where, then, is His true 'temple", and exactly where is 'heaven'?

Here is the Biblical answer to both of those questions:

1Co 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1Co 3:17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

The physical temple was never the temple of God. It was merely a type and shadow of the true temple, which is within us. Likewise, the physical heavens are not the true heavens. The physical heavens and the limitless nature of those heavens are just a type and shadow of the endlessness of the kingdom of God within the spiritual realm of the heavens within us.

This incredible revelation is repeated in second Corinthians:

2Co 6:16  And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

King David informed us:

Psa 11:4  The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

"The Lord is... purifying... the heavens themselves [by] trying the children of men... in the temple of God... [where we] as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing [our]self that [we are] God".

2Th 2:4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

It is as we saw earlier in the book of Job:

Job 15:15  Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

These are the defiled heavens in which we live before the Lord appears to us to begin to devour our old man "with the brightness of His coming" with the light of His Truth. This is the realm of the confounded 'sun' and the "dark[ened] moon" which will be "dissolved" and will no longer exist.

Jeremiah is speaking to us about this very process of the Lord cleansing His temple when he warns us:

Jer 7:8  Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. [The trinity, the immortality of the soul, eternal hell fire, substitutionary atonement, free will, etc.]
Jer 7:9  Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
Jer 7:10  And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

Our flesh proclaims that it does not murder others, does not commit adultery, does not tell lies or swear falsely, does not burn incense to Baal and does not walk after other gods. But who among us has not hated another person, has not believed the lies of Babylon and has never taught those lies to others? Who among us has never prayed to another God thinking we were praying to the true God of heaven, all the while living by the doctrine of "another Jesus"? We have all done all of those things in various ways and at different times, and therefore we are all guilty of murder, adultery, falsely swearing, burning incense to another Jesus and living out the false doctrines of that false Messiah.

All these lying false doctrines we have all believed, and by which we have lived and conducted our lives, are "the high ones on high", the "spiritual wickedness in the heavens", which are even now being judged and punished in the work of the Lord's wrath as He pours out His judgments upon His own house, which is within us in our own lives.

Eph 6:12  For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens. (NWT)

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

"Not against flesh and blood" means that our ultimate battle is not really in this physical realm. It appears to be that way, but the Truth is that we are warring against a spiritual realm which directs and guides every event taking place in this physical realm, as the apostle Paul makes so very clear:

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinatedaccording to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

The Hebrew word translated as 'delivered' in the phrase, "we are delivered to do all these abominations" is the same Hebrew word translated as 'saved' in:

2Sa 19:9  And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved [H5337 natsal] us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.

"Delivered" is a perfectly good translation, but 'saved' is also an acceptable translation of the Hebrew word 'natsal'. In other words, we are all guilty in our own time of believing that we are saved so we can continue on in our sins. We actually convince ourselves "we are delivered to do these abominations" (Jer 7:10). However, the Lord is not mocked, and we do reap what we sow, as Jeremiah warns in this same seventh chapter:

Jer 7:20  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
Jer 15:14  And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.

The anger and fury of the Lord is poured out upon "this place", and "this place" means His own house, His own temple, meaning His own people:

Jer 7:9  Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
Jer 7:10  And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

Once the Lord's "fire is kindled... upon [us]", and once it is in the process of burning up all the wood, hay and stubble within us, then the Lord Himself begins to take up His abode within us.

Isa 57:15  For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

"The high and holy place" the Lord dwells in is "with him... that is of a contrite and humble spirit". That is where the Lord dwells:

Isa 66:1  Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
Isa 66:2  For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look [as a house and a place of rest], even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

1Co 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

"The spirit of God dwells in you... in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit".

Our old man has his own 'moon' and his own 'sun', and everything he considers to be his 'light' is really nothing more or less than a minister of Satan", masquerading "as an angel of light", and this is what we are told of him and His 'light':

Mat 6:23  But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

2Co 11:13  For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
2Co 11:14  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
2Co 11:15  Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

We are told "the kingdom of God [with its temple and its cities] is within you":

Luk 17:20  And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luk 17:21  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

"The kingdom of God is within [us]" but only in "earnest", only in down-payment form at this time. That is the form in which we are now the sons of God, and that is the way it will remain "until the inheritance of the purchased possession", meaning 'until the first resurrection' when the actual physical "kingdoms of this world are become the kingdom of our Lord and His Christ":

Eph 1:12  That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
Eph 1:13  In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
Eph 1:14  Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

This is "the redemption of the purchased possession":

Rev 11:11 And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. [Rise up from the dead]
Rev 11:12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

Rev 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
Rev 11:16  And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
Rev 11:17  Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.

The death of our flesh must take place before we can know resurrected life. Death is a prison for all flesh, and without a resurrection even the dead in Christ are perished in that prison (1Co 15:18), as our final verses in this chapter tell us:

Isa 24:22  And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

As we saw in last week's study, the shaking of the olive tree and the fig tree are one and the same, and they are ours to live and to experience in our own way, as are "all things" for all men:

Ecc 9:2  All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

1Co 3:21  Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
1Co 3:22  Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; [Ecc 9:2]

"All things" includes being "shut up in the prison" which we all experience inwardly as being dead in our sins until Christ comes and delivers us out of our prison of spiritual death:

Psa 146:7  Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:

Isa 42:6  I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
Isa 42:7  To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

Isa 49:8  Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
Isa 49:9  That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

Isa 61:1  The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
Isa 61:2  To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

That all of this refers to Christ and His Christ is made clear in the gospel of Luke:

Luk 4:17  And there was delivered unto him [Christ] the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
Luk 4:18  The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luk 4:19  To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Luk 4:20  And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
Luk 4:21  And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

Christ said this of Himself: "he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord". It is given to very few to realize the depth of the truth of these words:

Joh 20:21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

The Old Testament reads "Bring out the prisoners from the prison", and when Christ reads these words in the synagogue in Nazareth, He tells us "This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears", because He Himself has come to bring us forth out of the prison of sin which is in our members making us do the things we don't even want to do, but we are prisoners to "the law of sin which is in our members" (Rom 7:17-25).

Job tells us that there is also a dispensational application to these words. In his longing to die and be relieved of his misery, he speaks of the rest to be had in the grave in these words:

Job 3:18  There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

Here in our study we are told that the dead are held in this prison "together":

Isa 24:22  And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

The implication here is that the dead are gathered together in the grave and are all visited together "after many days", meaning "in the end of days", at the great white throne judgment which follows the short season of rebellion against the "rod of iron", the rulership of the saints of God during the millennium.

At that time the sea will give up its dead, and death and the grave will give up the dead in them, and they will all be judged according to their works. In Revelation 20 we are given the time line of events leading up to the destruction of death, "the last enemy to be destroyed" (1Co 15:22-28):

Rev 20:1  And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
Rev 20:2  And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
Rev 20:3  And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

Rev 20:7  And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, ["a little season"]
Rev 20:8  And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Rev 20:9  And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. ["the nations in the four quarters of the earth"]
Rev 20:10  And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Rev 20:11  And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Rev 20:12  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Rev 20:13  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Rev 20:14  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Rev 20:15  And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

"Death and [Greek: hades, the grave] were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death". In other words, "the second death" is the destruction of death. As we are told earlier in 1Co 15:

Joh 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

1Co 15:25  For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26  The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

1Co 15:50  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

All bodies of flesh and blood must be destroyed to be replaced with resurrected spiritual bodies:

1Co 15:44  It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

A million sermons to the contrary will not change the truth that all resurrected bodies are "raised a spiritual body... a quickening [Greek: life giving] body", no longer subject to death.

When all of this becomes known to us:

Isa 24:23  Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

These are the moon and the sun of the old heavens which are being replaced  [because] the first heaven and the first earth were passed away". The new heavens and the new earth will not need a sun and moon.

Rev 21:1  And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
Rev 21:2  And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Rev 21:3  And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
Rev 21:4  And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Rev 21:5  And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

The new heavens with the new Sun and the new moon will never be confounded or ashamed. The old 'sun' and the old 'moon' will no longer even be needed. There is no more sea, the symbol of all flesh (Rev 13:1), and "the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed" because neither will there be any more sun or moon:

Rev 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

In our next study, if the Lord wills, we will rejoice in the fact that death is swallowed up in victory:

Isa 25:1  O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
Isa 25:2  For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Isa 25:3  Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
Isa 25:4  For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Isa 25:5  Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
Isa 25:6  And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
Isa 25:7  And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
Isa 25:8  He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
Isa 25:9  And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Isa 25:10  For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
Isa 25:11  And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
Isa 25:12  And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.