Commentary on Selected Verses in Isaiah

                               Isaiah 30:27-33 (KJB)

These verses describe how God uses His fiery wrath against evil within the history of the human race. None of these verses relate that God ever uses His fiery wrath against evil to eternally destroy any living human whom He creates and loves. These verses relate that God uses His fiery wrath against evil to forever destroy only the Devil and all evil.

The Devil controls the human race like a rider on a horse. The "bridle" that he uses symbolizes the spiritual death that he injects into all human who sin. Like a horse that throws its rider, humans can rebel against this control by the Devil, but just as the rider always regains control of the horse, the Devil always regains control of humans. While humans cannot be responsible for the Devil's control, they are responsible for submitting to that control. But God will use "His tongue as a devouring fire," and His fiery "breath" to "sift the nations with the sieve of vanity." Sin and evil cause a feeling of emptiness inside of humans, but God will use the "sieve" of His fiery wrath against evil to divide the nations from their emptiness that will go through the "sieve." But since the "sieve" is also described as being "vanity," then one could conclude that God will divide the nations from their "vanity" by the emptiness of the "sieve." In either case, God intends to forever save His entire human race from sin, evil, and eternal death. Hebrews 2:9-18; II Timothy 1:10 (KJB).

All humans whom God has saved by His fiery wrath will come to worship Him with songs and great joy. They all will "come into the mountain of the Lord" in Jerusalem in the end of the world. Isaiah 66:13; Isaiah 66:23 (KJB). At that time, the Lord will cause His voice "of a devouring flame" to utterly destroy all sin and evil and the Devil who causes it. Revelation 20:7-10 (KJB). Isaiah used the word "Assyrian" to symbolize all evil because the Assyrians had attacked Jerusalem and had mocked God. Isaiah 37:4-7 (KJB).

God used the phrase "grounded staff" to symbolize His Almighty Power. The power of God was in the staff of Moses. God will give His power to the Messiah, and everywhere He goes there will be the joy of "tabrets and harps." The Messiah will use the power of God to battle evil, and He will shake all evil from His new earth and from all the living humans within it. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB).

God used the word "Tophet" to symbolize His creation of the lake of fire which His fiery breath will kindle. Tophet was the name of the place near Jerusalem where idol worshipers burned their own children in the idol's fires. But God will use the lake of fire to burn only its "king" and all evil. Since the Bible calls the Devil "the god of this world," and since the Devil tempted Jesus by offering Him "all the kingdoms of the world," then Isaiah could not be wrong to call the Devil the "king." II Corinthians 4:4; Matthew 4:8-10 (KJB). God has prepared the lake of fire only for the Devil and for all of the evil and dead natures of all humans, not for any of His living humans whom He creates and loves. Matthew 25:41 (KJB). God never cursed Adam and Eve or any of their descendants because they all are His living humans that He creates and loves. Genesis 3:14-21; Luke 20:38; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 20:5; John 5:28-29; John 11:25-26; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB).