Commentary on Selected Verses in Isaiah

                                Isaiah 26:11-19 (KJB)

These verses happen to be about all humans whom God has to consign to the regions of death because of their unrepentant sins, particularly about those whom God had to send to a burning Hell. God created Hell for the Devil and his angels, therefore, no living human belongs there, at least not forever. Matthew 25:41 (KJB).

When God's hand of mercy is lifted up for the people, most will not see it, but eventually they will see it, and when they do see it, they will be ashamed of themselves because they envied God's people who saw it and believed in it. Yet, the fire that God meant for His enemies will consume them in Hell.

God will eventually give His peace to all humans that He has created in His image. God creates every human for a purpose. Therefore, God gives every living human that He creates some good works for them to do in their lives. Evil humans will do very few of the good works that God has given them to do, but they will do some. God creates all of His living humans to be righteous and good which means they all will do some good in their lives. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:27 (KJB).

The Devil and all tyrants that have been inspired by him have, through earth's history, had dominion over most of earth's people, but God's people, the Hebrews and Christians, have been inspired by God to witness that He lives.

The fact that all humans do some of the good works that God has given them to do attests to the fact that all humans possess a good, spiritual nature that God has given them. But the fact that all humans will also do some sinful and evil acts attests to the fact that all humans also possess a dead, spiritual nature that has been injected into them by the Devil. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:7; Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). Verse 14 teaches that God will cause the dead natures of all humans to be dead forever within the final region of death called the lake of fire. The phrase "they will not rise" implies that the good and living natures of humans will rise from the regions of death. And this event will happen when God visits all of His living humans confined to the regions of death. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).

God will increase the nations of the earth when He raises all of His repentant, living humans from the dead, and God will scatter them over the whole of His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

When Christ visits His living humans in the regions of death, they also will visit Him with their prayers of repentance when they see His face with all of its tremendous Majesty and Love for them. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).

Verses 17-18 happens to be about how the human race has suffered greatly in its history because of its sin and evil, but it has miserably failed to deliver itself from the terrible effects of sin and evil. Yet, the human race has not been completely destroyed by sin and evil because all of God's living humans live forever in His sight, and Christ came to earth to save them all from eternal death. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; I Peter 3:18; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB).

Verse 19 happens to be a prophecy about God's final resurrection in the end of the world. God will separate all of His repentant, living humans from all of their dead natures so that He can save their living natures from eternal death, and He will cast all of their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). His living humans can only "awake and sing" if He makes them alive. "The earth shall cast out the dead" into the lake of fire. In this final resurrection, God can only reward living humans for their good works. Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB). Because God never gave Isaiah any direct revelation about His prior resurrections of all His saints saved by His grace, Isaiah assumed that he would be raised back to life in this final resurrection. But Isaiah was saved by grace, and God raised his body back to life when Jesus rose from the dead. Matthew 27:51-53 (KJB).