Commentary on Selected Verses in Isaiah

                                 Isaiah 14:9-17 (KJB)

These verses describe Lucifer's rebellion against God and how he became Satan whom God will eventually cast alive into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:10 (KJB). All of the dead kings and tyrants of the earth will be temporarily awakened to full consciousness when they see Satan cast into the lake of fire with them. They will all mock Satan and ridicule him because his excessive pride, like theirs, has been reduced to nothing. In the history of the world, most of the rulers of the people have been cruel tyrants who were used by Satan to cause tremendous repression and suffering to their people. So Satan will be mocked by those same tyrants that he had used in such cruel ways. While the full consciousness of these tyrants will fade back into semi-consciousness, God will provide Satan with a full consciousness of the torture of the flames of the lake of fire forever. Full consciousness is the same as intelligent life. But Satan's mind will be so fully occupied with such terrible pain that he will be unable to even think of any way to ever rebel against God again. God will have purged all evil from His creation.

When God casts Satan alive into the lake of fire, he will be covered by worms, and they will also be under him. Worms possess a very low level of consciousness, so God used the word "worms" to represent the semi-consciousness of all of the dead and evil humans confined to the lake of fire. No living human that God creates in His image and whom He loves will be in the lake of fire. In the end of the world, Christ will appear to all of His living humans confined to the regions of death, and He will cause them all to repent and return to the faith that He put into them when He created them. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). But these living humans will also have a spiritual death within them. But when they repent and believe in Christ as their Savior, He will use His fiery wrath against evil to melt them down to separate their repentant, living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can save their living natures forever and cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). Christ will resurrect all of His repentant, living humans back to an eternal life on His recreated earth, and He will cast all of their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire where they will be like "worms" forever. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). God will purge all evil from His creation so that He can recreate it all to be fully righteous. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:5 (KJB).

When the Psalmist David prophetically wrote about the suffering of Jesus on the cross, God had him to write, "But I am a worm, and no man..." Jesus thought that while on the cross because He had taken all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all His living humans on Himself on the cross in order to liberate them all from eternal death. Psalm 22:6-22 (KJB). Jesus tasted death for all humans because, like taste, He made it only temporary. Christ rose from the dead victorious over all spiritual death, and all of the sins and evil that causes it, to rescue all of His living humans from the danger of eternal death. II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; Hebrews 2:9-18; I John 3:8; I Corinthians 15:26; John 12:31-32; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). These verses teach that Jesus came to earth to utterly destroy the Devil and all of his evil works, not any of His living humans that He creates and loves. Genesis 1:27 (KJB).

When Isaiah prophesied about God's salvation of all of His living humans, God had him to write that all of His living humans would be able to look into the lake of fire and see their "worms" which would be their former, semi-conscious spiritual deaths squirming in the lake of fire. Isaiah 66:22-24; Luke 3:6 (KJB). Jesus referred to Isaiah's prophecy when He taught that only the "worms" of all of His living humans would be in the lake of fire. Mark 9:43-48 (KJB). Jesus further taught that all of His living humans "shall be salted with fire." Mark 9:49 (KJB). In other words, all of His living humans confined to the regions of death or on the earth when He appears to them will be preserved forever by His use of His fiery wrath against evil. II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Psalm 36:6 (KJB).

But when Jesus taught that, He meant all of His living humans who would not be saved by His grace. All of His living humans who become saved by grace will be forever preserved by being washed clean of all sins, evil, and spiritual deaths by His blood and water He shed on the cross. John 5:24; Revelation 1:5; John 13:1-13 (KJB). When Jesus used the phrase "Have salt in yourselves," He meant that living humans should become saved by His grace and be preserved by the Holy Spirit forever. Mark 9:50 (KJB).