Before Jesus returns, will someone who dies at 100 be considered a youth, as Isaiah 65:20 says?
Robert Sungenis answers no: Isaiah 65:20 is a conditional prophecy of long life promised if Israel obeyed, which was never fulfilled because Israel did not. He notes a brief reprieve after the Babylonian exile under Ezra and Nehemiah, but holds that the promise never flowered, so it does not describe the time before Christ's return.
A viewer asks whether, before Jesus returns, one who dies at 100 years old will be thought of as a youth, referencing Isaiah 65:20.
Answer
No. You are talking about Isaiah 65:20, where it says the child will die at a hundred years and anyone who dies before that will be considered unfortunate. That is one of those prophecies, and there are a few in the Old Testament, that were prophesied as possible but were never fulfilled. What God is saying is, look, if you obey me then I will make your life sweeter, you will live well beyond a hundred years, like they used to in the old days when Methuselah lived 969 years before God chopped that down because of the sin of man, the vegetation would grow better, and all kinds of good things would happen. But did Israel obey? No. So it never happened. There was a brief reprieve after they came back from the seventy-year Babylonian captivity, with Ezra and Nehemiah, but it just did not flower; they were never the same. So Isaiah 65 was never fulfilled, and that is how he would answer that.