Jeremiah 4:29 ...not a man [left to] dwell therein; –and so it remains during the Millennium, Revelation 20 5 ...until the thousand years are finished.
This earth at that time will be the only “land not inhabited” that Satan has had anything to do with.
This earth at that time will be the only “land not inhabited” that Satan has had anything to do with.
And that this desolated earth is certainly the very “land not inhabited” into which Azazel, the real scapegoat, is led, is made plain by the fact that the word translated “bottomless pit” in Revelation 20:1-3 is the identical word which, in the Septuagint, in
Genesis 1:1, is translated “the deep,” and which refers to this earth in its waste, void, dark, and desolate condition, as it first existed.
The Revised Version translates the word in Revelation 20:1-3 by the term “abyss.”
Jeremiah’s description of the earth in this time makes the connection between Revelation 20:1-3 and Genesis 1:1; for, in describing the earth in the thousand years, Jeremiah uses almost the very words of Genesis 1:1.
Read: Jeremiah 4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Genesis 1:1 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And Revelation 20, using, with reference to the earth in that time, the very word that is used by the Septuagint in Genesis 1:1, not only settles the fact that this earth during the thousand years is in a condition of darkness, wasteness, and desolation comparable to that “in the beginning,” but also settles the fact that it is in this waste and desolated earth that Satan is confined during the thousand years, and that this is “a land not inhabited,” and this is the real Azazel led into it, which were typified in the ceremonies of the earthly sanctuary and priesthood.
And this is the Millennium upon the earth."
A,T. Jones