Adventistische Schriften über: "How is Isaiah 65:20 to be understood, where someone who dies at a hundred years old is still called a boy, even though a new heaven and a new earth have been described earlier? Wouldn't there be no more death there?"

On the newly created earth there will be no more death or weeping, which is in harmony with the overall context of Isaiah 65 and parallel passages such as Revelation 21. The mention of death in Isaiah 65:20, according to the historic‑Adventist understanding, refers to dying in the present, mortal world before entering eternal life, or it clarifies that children who die early will appear at the resurrection in full maturity. On the renewed earth itself there is perfect, eternal life without curse or mortality.

No Death on the New Earth and the Exit from the Mortal World

»The only passage in this section of Scripture that seems to contradict a literal interpretation is verse 20: “There shall be no more child of days, nor an old man that shall not fill his days; for the boy shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner, a hundred years old, shall be cursed.” Some imagine that this indicates that there will be death in the condition described here, but a strictly literal interpretation will eliminate this objection. ... The context therefore shows that the mentioned death must refer to our exit from this world at the transition to the next. This view is confirmed by parallel parts of Scripture. ... and John assures us that there will be “no more death.”«

1 - Signs of the Times [J.V. Himes], The Advent Herald, and Signs of the Times Reporter [Himes], vol. 6 (HST January 25, 1843, page 151.23)

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Deliverance from Death through the Renewal of the Earth

»“There shall be no more child of days nor an old man that shall not fill his days” [on the new earth]; for the curse is removed, and there will be no more death. The child will grow up like a “weaning calf,” and no person in that land of life will ever die. Before the earth is renewed, the child dies at a hundred years, and the sinner will be cursed. Over there they have access to the tree of life, drink from the water of life, and live forever.«

2 - Stephen Nelson Haskell, The Story of the Seer of Patmos (SSP 356.1)

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The Mortal State versus the State of the Resurrection

»In the [description] of John there will be no more death. Then the death mentioned in [Isaiah 65] must be here, in this mortal state; and there those who die here in the tenderest infancy will be a hundred years old or without age.«

3 - Josiah Litch, Prophetic Expositions, vol. 1 (PREX1 204.2)

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