A Lexi o Devina on “Isaiah, 65:17-25”
“Lo, I am about to create [the] New Heavens and the
New Earth; [thus] the things of the past shall not be remembered or
come to mind”(Isaiah, 65:). The Lord said this to Isiah as the old
man slumbered. Then the Lord went on to say to Isiah: “instead
there shall always be rejoicing and happiness in what I create; for I
create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight”
(Isaiah, 65:18). In “The Exorcist Conicals,” the author
uses the term “New Jerusalem,” in reference to Heaven. For it is
written in “Isaiah,” that the Father, “will rejoice in
Jerusalem and exult in [his] people” (Isaiah, 65:19). Further, the
Father says through his prophet, Isaiah, “no longer shall the sound
of weeping be heard there {in his new creation}”(Isaiah, 65:19). We
know that through the Pascal Sacrifice, that the vial between heaven
and earth has been lifted. So we can assume that Heaven and Earth are
as one, when he comes again.
As Isaiah goes on, or rather God tells us that “no
longer shall there be in [the New Jerusalem] an infant who lives but
a few days, or an old man who does not round out his full
lifetime”(Isaiah, 65:20). This was the model of which Anthony
Antolic uses for his literary depiction of the New Jerusalem, in all
five books of “the Exorcist Conicals.” However, Antolic
goes even further in his description of the New Jerusalem, after one
of its suburbs is destroyed by Lucifer''s Dark Resistance.
At which
point Antolic quotes Isaiah, 65:21-22, as the out Village of Avalon
begins to rebuild their homes. Antolic uses his sense of irony to and
humor to the situation, by saying:
As I work along side these men and women who have been
thrust into same same position by this conflict, I could not help but
see some humor in the passage in Isaiah that says:
They shall live in the houses they built them selves,
and eat the fruit from the vineyard they planted; and they shall not
build houses for others to live in, or plant for others to
eat.(Isaiah, 65:21-22)
I know many who still reside in the land of the living
who might misunderstand this passage, thinking that it sounds
contradictory to what Heaven is supposed to be.(Part Two, of The
Exorcist Conicals)
With out going into, too much of another book, I would
venture to say that Antolic makes some good points about how people
may misread or read into the bible''s text.