Isaiah 24:23

The moon and sun, the most glorious rulers of human life, in the physical sense, will be ashamed by the appearance of an even more glorious ruler (cf. Revelation 21:23). The sun and the moon were important gods in the ancient Near East, but no god can stand beside Yahweh. Isaiah’s is a poetic description of relative glory. Isaiah did not use the astronomical words for moon and sun here but poetic equivalents, the "white" and the "hot." Yahweh Almighty will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem (cf. Isaiah 2:2-4; Micah 4:1-5; Zechariah 14:9; Revelation 21:2; Revelation 21:10). Some amillennialists believe these are not real places but earthly names for the place from which God presently rules: heaven. Young wrote the following:

"Both Zion and Jerusalem are . . . figures of the seat of the eternal kingdom." [Note: Young, 2:182.]

Other passages reveal that Yahweh will reign in the person of Messiah (e.g., Revelation 20:4). Amillennialists believe that this will not be Messiah’s rule over the earth; He will have no earthly rule in their view. But what Isaiah intended to reveal was that His spiritual rule, which has been in existence since Christ’s first coming, they believe, will be all embracing. [Note: See ibid.] His elders (vice regents) will be there and will behold His glory, as the elders of Israel beheld Yahweh’s glory on Mount Sinai (Exodus 24:9-11; cf. Revelation 4:4; Revelation 4:9-11; Revelation 19:11-16).

"In each of the heavenly throne scenes there are other beings surrounding Yahweh’s throne. Isaiah 6:2 calls them . . . ’seraphs.’ 1 Kings 22:21 calls them . . . ’spirits.’ Job 1:6 calls them . . . ’sons of god.’ Here they are called . . . ’elders’ (Revelation 4-19 passim). They all seem to refer to the same beings who have the same functions." [Note: Watts, p. 330.]