Commentary on Selected Verses in Isaiah

                                Isaiah 66:20-24 (KJB)

In the end of the world. after God has recreated the heavens and the earth, all recreated, living humans on the earth will at times travel to Jerusalem, the capitol of the world, to worship God. Every one of them will come as a "clean vessel" which means that God will have recreated them all to be wholly righteous.

God will make some of them "priests" and "Levites," which means He will keep some of them in Jerusalem for whatever purposes He has for them.

All of this can only happen after the general resurrection in the end of the world because God will not recreate the heavens and the earth until after the general resurrection. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). God assured the Jews that just as surely as He will recreate the heavens and the earth, He will recreate "your seed" which means every Jew who ever lived.

But not only will all Jews confined to the regions of death be saved and resurrected in the general resurrection, but "all flesh" will come to Jerusalem to worship God. Joel 2:27-29; Luke 3:6 (KJB). Christ will appear to all of His living humans confined to the regions of death and on the earth in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can save all of His living humans and recreate them with righteous lives to live on His recreated earth, and He will cast their separated, dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Luke 3:16-17; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; Psalm 75:3; Psalm 36:6; John 5:28-29 (KJB).

God will allow all of His resurrected, living humans to look back into the lake of fire and see their own "worms" squirming in its eternal flames. These "worms" will be their own dead and evil natures that God separated from them so that He could forever save their repentant, living natures. Jesus referred to Isaiah's prophecy when He taught that only the "worms" of His living humans will burn in the lake of fire forever. Mark 9:44, 46, 48 (KJB). Jesus then taught that "every one shall be salted with fire" which means that every living human not already saved by His grace, He will save and preserve by the use of His fiery wrath against evil.

Living humans saved by God's grace will not be in the general resurrection. All of these living humans will be completely saved forever in previous resurrections. The Old Testament saints were resurrected after Christ's resurrection, and He took them all to Heaven when He ascended. Matthew 27:51-53; I Peter 3:18-22 (KJB). The Church Age saints will be resurrected to live in Heaven with the Lord in the Rapture of the Church. Ephesians 5:25-27; I Thessalonians 4:13-18 (KJB). The Tribulation saints will be resurrected immediately following Christ's return to save Israel from destruction by an evil army. Revelation 20:4 and 6 (KJB). But Revelation 20:5 clearly teaches that "the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished." The general resurrection will follow Christ's millennial reign on the earth. In this general resurrection, Christ will save all of His repentant, living humans whom He did not save by His grace. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5 (KJB).

Commentary on Selected Verses in Isaiah

                                 Isaiah 65:17-25 (KJB)

In verse 17, God gave Isaiah a sublime prophecy that He will recreate the earth and the heavens, and all of the evils of the former earth will be forgotten because God will purge all evil and the Devil from His new creation which will be wholly righteous. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB).

But beginning in verse 18, God did not give Isaiah a prophecy about what His new heavens and earth will be like, but He gave Isaiah a prophecy about what Christ's millennial reign will be like. God mentions a recreated Jerusalem, but He does not mention the New Jerusalem that He will recreate to govern His recreated earth. Revelation 21:2 (KJB). Christ's reign will be one of great peace and joy that will fill the earth. All of the people will enjoy great prosperity and happiness. Yet, God will not completely purge sin and evil from His millennial reign. Most of the people will have very long lives. They will live as long as trees which would be about one hundred years to a thousand years. Isaiah 65:22 (KJB). But a child could still be a child if he dies at a hundred years old. But there will be some sinners who will be accursed at a hundred years old. Isaiah 65:20 (KJB). Toward the end of Christ's reign, sin and evil will grow rapidly among the people until they form an army to attack Jerusalem in an attempt to overthrow Christ's reign. And all the while this is happening, Satan will be bound in his prison. Revelation 20:1-3 (KJB).

Since God will not completely purge sin and evil from Christ's millennial reign, then He must have a purpose for leaving sin and evil in Christ's reign. Christ's millennial reign happens to be quite similar to God's reign in Heaven just before Lucifer's rebellion. Ezekiel 28:13-19 (KJB). Ezekiel seems to indicate that Lucifer was suddenly overcome by sin and evil that caused him to rebel against God. Ezekiel 28:15 (KJB). Somehow, sin and evil invaded Heaven and entered into Lucifer and caused him to rebel against God.

All of God's creations are good and beneficial  and beautiful. Genesis 1:31 (KJB). But God is also innocent, and when He created the Heaven and the earth, He must have left behind a great void of which He was unaware. Genesis 1:1-2 (KJB). God is still Omniscient. He knows everything that can be known about all that is good and beneficial and beautiful, but He knew nothing about sin and evil until Lucifer's rebellion. Habakkuk 1:13 (KJB). God is also wholly honest, and He can feel guilt. He therefore admits that He accidentally created a void from which evil emerged at the same time that He created the Heaven and earth. Isaiah 45:7 (KJB). But in the next verse, God proclaims that He will provide a salvation for His entire creation that will purge all sin and evil from His new creation. Isaiah 45:8 (KJB).

The void can only be an absolute nothingness. Yet, in some mysterious way that no positive consciousness, not even God's, can understand, this void can form negative consciousnesses which are totally evil and destructive. II Thessalonians 2:7 (KJB). God calls them devils. These devils somehow emerged from the void, somehow invaded Heaven, and caused Lucifer to rebel against God.

Although Christ's millennial reign will be one of great joy, peace, and creativity, God's purpose in Christ's reign will be so that He can learn how these devils emerge from the void to invade His creations to the extent that some of them form an evil army that desires to rebel against Christ. God will make sure that this emergent evil cannot come from Satan because He will be chained in the bottomless pit. After God learns how devils can emerge from the void to influence some people to become evil, He will allow Satan to be loosed from the bottomless pit to lead this evil army in its rebellion against Christ. All of this will allow God to be able to use His fiery wrath against evil to utterly destroy and purge all sin, evil, and the Devil himself from all of His creations at the same time. Revelation 20:7-10 (KJB). God will then be ready to cast the dead and evil natures of all of His living humans into the lake of fire, and He will then recreate His Heaven and earth, and all of His repentant living humans, to be wholly righteous. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

Commentary on Selected Verses in Isaiah

                                Isaiah 60:10-22 (KJB)

In the end of the world when God recreates the Heaven and the earth, He will make Jerusalem the capitol of the world. Two cities of Jerusalem will exist. The earthly Jerusalem will be rebuilt by humans, and it will be exceedingly beautiful and glorious. Isaiah 60:9; Isaiah 60:13 (KJB). God will create the New Jerusalem that will hover in space above the earthly Jerusalem, and it will be stupendous in beauty and glory. Isaiah 60:19-20; Revelation 21:9-27 (KJB). Only those humans who have been saved by grace will be allowed to live in the New Jerusalem. The people of the earth will be allowed at times to visit New Jerusalem , but God will not allow them to live there. Revelation 21:23-27 (KJB).

All of the Gentiles who ever lived will come to the earthly Jerusalem to worship God. Christ will bring them all back to faith in Him as their Savior, and He will resurrect them all, and the believing Jews, to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:28-29 (KJB). God will not allow any nation who were the former enemies of Israel to ever exist again. Isaiah 60:12 (KJB). All of the recreated humans who were the former enemies of the Jews will come to the earthly Jerusalem, and they will humble themselves to the Jews, and they will worship God. Isaiah 60:14-15 (KJB). The fact that God will save and recreate these former haters of the Jews proves that He will have saved and recreated the entire, living human race that He created in His image. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 3:20 (KJB). The entire, recreated nation of Israel and all of the recreated Gentiles will worship Christ as their Savior and Redeemer. Isaiah 60:16; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). God will abolish all war and violence, and the whole world will live in peace. Isaiah 60:18 (KJB).

But God will allow only those living humans who believed in Christ while still alive in the flesh to live in His New Jerusalem and have constant fellowship with Christ because they will walk in His Light forever. Isaiah 60:19-20; Revelation 22:17 (KJB).

God will recreate all of His people that He created in His image to be righteous. God can never lose anything He has ever created. Isaiah 60:21; Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). Jesus tasted death for every human. Hebrews 2:9 (KJB). This means that He took the eternal deaths of all humans on Himself on a cross and suffered that death in their place, but He turned that eternal death into a temporary death when He rose from the grave victorious over all evil and all of the works of the Devil. Taste is only a temporary experience. Hebrews 2:9-18 (KJB). In these verses that follow, Christ refers to all humans saved by His grace as being His "brethren." But Christ refers to the rest of humanity as being His "children." Christ will not only save His "brethren," He will save His "children" as well. Hebrews 2:13 (KJB). Since all humans are "partakers of flesh and blood," then Christ died in the place of all humans in order to destroy the Devil and his power of eternal death. II Timothy 1:10; Hebrews 2:14 (KJB). Since all humans have "a fear of death," then Christ must "deliver" them all from eternal "bondage" to the Devil. Hebrews 2:15 (KJB). When Christ made "reconciliation for the sins of the people," He saved the entire, living human race. Hebrews 2:17; Colossians 1:20 (KJB). Since all humans are "tempted," then Christ must save all of His living humans that He creates and loves. Hebrews 2:18 (KJB). All living humans saved by God's grace will live forever in His New Jerusalem, and all of the rest of His recreated humans will live forever on His new earth, and they will come at times to the earthly Jerusalem to worship God. Isaiah 60:10-22 (KJB). Christ will save all of His living humans that He creates and loves when He causes them all to return to faith in Him as their Savior. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). He will save some by His grace, and all others in a great worship service in the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Philippians 2:9-11 (KJB).

Speculations about Intelligent Consciousness

 Sometimes, when a person has a brain operation, the doctors will set up a mirror for him so that he can see the doctors operate on his own brain. If it is true that only consciousness can collapse a wave function to a particle and make a person able to view the physical world, then that person's consciousness must be causing the physical properties of his own brain. If that is true, then consciousness has to be something other than brain function. Perhaps consciousness and brain function work together to cause a person to be able to experience the physical world as being material.  

In addition, as the operation proceeds, that person views his brain in that fleeting moment of the present called the "now." The "now" persists, but the operation moves from the future through the "now" into the past. His expectation that the doctors will perform the operation correctly, and his remembrance of the work they have already done forms the passage of time for him. His expectation of the future, and his remembrance of his past forms his being in time, but his being in time must pass through his "now" for it to form. If he dies on the operating table, his "now" disappears and so does his being in time, at least as it passes through his body is concerned.

All of this can only mean that an active consciousness must always be limited to the "now" with the future and the past in the periphery of the "now." Consciousness has to be stationary, and only the world and all of human experience moves through the "now." The expectation of the future and the remembrance of the past is locked into the "now." The future can change and the past remains the same, but both can only be apprehended by the stationary consciousness that is the human present.

But humans are also intelligent. As the changeable future passes through the stationary consciousness of the "now," it becomes the past which has also been made stationary by consciousness. Because of this, human consciousness can use its experiences to form stationary ideas which it can manipulate to form systems of ideas which can be very useful and beneficial for oneself and others. But humans can only be creative because they possess free will in the "now."

But what about a universe in which no conscious "now" exists? Such a universe could possess no future or past. At best, it could only be a potential universe; that is, a singularity with no time or space. This means that if any universe exists in time, space, and reality, it must possess an intelligent Consciousness that can establish a stationary "now." But such a universe could not depend on a limited consciousness, like that of a human, to remain in reality because an unknown in the changeable future could extinguish that consciousness. In order for such a universe to maintain an eternal reality, it must possess an Infinite Consciousness that has already passed its entire future into a stationary past, and therefore, knows absolutely everything that can be known. But at the same time, this Infinite Consciousness passes through its "now" to form an eternal reality. God must exist. Hebrews 11:3 (KJB).

Commentary on Selected Verses in Isaiah

                                  Isaiah 40:23-26 (KJB)

In verses 23-24, God declares that He has the power to reduce humans to vanity; that is, absolute emptiness. But in verses 25-26, God assures that not one thing that He has ever created can fail. In other words, God will preserve absolutely everything He has ever created. Do these verses contradict each other?

These verses do not contradict each other because these verses can only be about how God will make His final judgment of the human race. All humans possess a good and living nature created by God, but all humans also possess a spiritual death caused by sin and evil. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:17 (KJB). In God's final judgment in the end of the world, God "shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble." God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve the beings of every human "on the earth, and under the earth" so that He can separate their dead and evil natures, which has some conscious ability to be destructive, from their good and living natures so that He can burn their dead and evil natures like "stubble" in a lake of fire which will reduce them toward absolute nothingness, but He will save their good and living natures whom He will cause to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Psalm 75:3 (KJB).

Not one good and living human whom God ever created can fail because God will preserve them all forever. Psalm 36:6; Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). God will purge all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil from His entire creation so that He can recreate it all to be righteous. Revelation 20:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:10; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB). All through the Bible, God speaks of sin and evil as being "stubble," "chaff," "tares," and "thorns," that will be burned. But God also speaks of His good and living humans as being "wheat" that will be preserved. Isaiah 33:10-12; Matthew 13:24-30; Matthew 13:36-43; Matthew 3:10-12; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Luke 3:6; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38 (KJB).

Commentary on Selected Verses in Isaiah

                                Isaiah 48:1-12 (KJB)

In these verses, God explains to Israel that He gave them prophecies that come true in order to cause them to have faith in Him and not in idols that cannot predict the future. When God gave them prophecies that came true, then they knew that only God could predict the future because the false prophets of the idols often made predictions that did not come true.

In verse 7, God declares that He can change the course of history as it unfolds, and the changes that He makes become prophecies that come true. This verse does not contradict the revelation that God knew the entire history of the human race from the beginning of its creation. Acts 15:18 (KJB). In the doctrine of predestination, God knows the entire history of the human race from the beginning, and He knows every choice that humans will make. In the doctrine of free will, God allows every human to make their own choices, and He responds accordingly. But the history of the human race actually happens to be similar to a chess game. God makes His moves, and the Devil makes his counter moves, and then God counters those moves. But God is destined to win the game because He has an infinite number of moves while the Devil has only a finite number of moves. When Lucifer rebelled against God, he must have thought that God had made a mistake in giving free will to him and the angels. Lucifer must have reasoned that as long as angels and humans have free will, then choices to do evil will always persist, and therefore, the forces of evil will acquire an infinite power that will equal God's Infinite Power. That event would give the Devil and the powers of evil a chance to eventually defeat God and take His place. Isaiah 14:12-17 (KJB). But what Lucifer forgot to take into account was that the number of choices to do evil would always be finite while God's creative choices would always be infinite.

But the seeming contradiction between history being based on predestination or free will can be resolved in the following speculative manner. The present history of the human race was previously planned by God in its entirety, but only on a spiritual and intellectual level. God created the world and the human race in His image to be good, but He also gave them free will. The Devil countered that move by causing humans to choose to sin and do evil. When humans became sinful, then the Devil acquired the power to inject spiritual death into every human who would come into the world except for those who would die in childhood before they could sin. Genesis 2:17 (KJB). The entire human race made the same mistakes that Adam and Eve made. Sin causes spiritual death, and spiritual death, in turn, causes sin and evil. Romans 5:12 (KJB). The Devil reasoned that God's gift of free will would ensure that the fallen condition of the human race would last forever, and therefore, the Devil would acquire an infinite power that would equal God's Infinite Power, and that condition would weaken God to the point that the Devil would eventually become able to defeat God and take His place. Isaiah 14:12-17 (KJB). But God countered the Devil's move by the Infinite Power of His Almighty Love. God promised the human race that He would send them a Savior who would suffer the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of all humans caused by the Devil, and He would also utterly crush the Devil and rescue His entire, living human race from all sin, evil, and spiritual death. Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:20 (KJB). But the Devil did not know that all of this was but God's intellectual plan, not His actual material creation. When God made His material creation, all of the choices that the Devil and humans had made were locked in and could not be changed.

This intellectual war between God and Satan became the actual history of the human race. Satan would cause humans to choose to commit sins and evil in the hope that spiritual death would become permanent and eternal. God allowed humans to make their own choices to do good or evil. But God countered every evil move by the Devil by either His wholesale destruction of large groups of evil people, or by His ability to work within every sinful and evil system to turn it eventually into a good system. This meant God had to make changes in history as it went along, but every change would come true as a prophecy. In His intellectual war with the Devil, God would prove that He could always outmaneuver and defeat the Devil sooner or later. But God's final defeat of the Devil occurred in His material world when His Son sacrificed Himself on a cross to suffer the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of every human, and He rose from the dead to turn eternal spiritual death into only a temporary death so that He could liberate all of His living humans from the power of the Devil. Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; Hebrews 2:9-18; Colossians 1:20; Revelation 21:1-5; II Timothy 1:10; I Timothy 4:10; I John 3:8 (KJB).

God has proven to all doubters in His creation that His Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). The Devil could never use free will to destroy God because free will, like God, is also eternal. God can make it always to return to the choice for good. The number of choices that humans can make to do sin or evil is always finite. But God holds the eternal power to cause all of His living humans whom He creates and loves to return of their own free will to faith in His Son as their Savior. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 21:5 (KJB).

All of this means that the doctrine of predestination is true because God's plan to save all of humanity wins in the end. But the doctrine of free will is also true because every human simply repeats the choices that he made as God planned the history of the human race. No matter what choices humans make, God holds the power to cause them all to choose to return to faith in Him. In a sense, as the history of each individual unfolds, free will obtains. But in another sense, predestination rules because God has already in eternity completely crushed the Devil and all evil out of existence. Genesis 3:15; II Peter 3:9-13; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 21:5 (KJB).

Commentary on Selected Verses in Isaiah

                                 Isaiah 47:14 (KJB)


Taken in context, this verse happens to be about what will happen to humans who practice total evil, who become sorcerers and atheists, who make themselves the enemies of God. But this verse is not about any living human whom God creates and loves ever being burnt forever in a lake of fire.

This verse states that those who practice evil will be burned like "stubble." In other words, only their evil natures will be burned in eternal flames, not their good natures that God created. This verse agrees completely with what Jesus taught in Matthew 13:24-30 and in Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB). Jesus taught that in the end of the world, God will separate the "tares," which the Devil has sown into the the hearts of every human, from the "wheat" which God puts into the hearts of every human He creates in His image. Genesis 3:15; Genesis 1:27 (KJB). God will burn the "tares," which represents their evil natures, but He will save the "wheat" which represents their good and living natures that He created. John the Baptist taught that Jesus will employ two different forms of salvation. Jesus will "baptize you with the Holy Ghost" which means He will save some humans by His grace, but He will also baptize "with fire." In the end of the world, God will use His fiery wrath against evil to separate His "wheat" from the Devil's "chaff" so that He can save the "wheat," which represents the good and living natures of all humans, from the "chaff," which represents the evil natures of all humans, so that He can save the "wheat" and burn the "chaff." Matthew 3:10-12 (KJB). The Apostle Paul taught about the salvation of "every man," which can only mean all living humans who do not become saved by grace. Paul taught that his evil works will burned, and his good works will be rewarded. He will be saved by the fiery wrath of God against evil. Since humans saved by grace are never saved by God's fiery wrath but by the blood and water that Jesus shed on the cross, then Paul had to have meant that God will save the rest of humanity by His fiery wrath against evil. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Psalm 36:6; I Corinthians 4:5; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB).

Whenever the Bible speaks about God's fiery wrath against evil, He always burns the "chaff," "stubble," "lime," and "thorns." He never burns His good and living humans whom He creates and loves. Isaiah 33:10-12 (KJB). God burns only "trees" that bear no fruit at all. Matthew 3:10; Matthew 7:15-20 (KJB). Jesus cursed a fig tree, and it withered because it bore no fruit at all. Mark 11:12-14; Mark 11:19-21 (KJB). Jesus taught that His Father will root up everything that He has not planted. Matthew 15:13 (KJB). God plants His image into every human He creates, and the Devil plants evil into the hearts of every human, Genesis 1:27; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). Jesus had to have meant that God will save and preserve everything He has ever created. No matter how evil any human may become, they will still retain at least a spark of that goodness that God put into them when He created them, and God intends to save that spark because He created it and He loves it.

In the end of the world, Christ will appear to every human "on the earth, and under the earth," and He will cause them all to repent and return to the faith that He put into them when He created them. Romans 1:16-17; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). In the end of the world, God will "reconcile all things to Himself," and He will "make all things new." Colossians 1:20; Revelation 21:5 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13;8 (KJB).

Commentary on Selected Verses in Isaiah

                                 Isaiah 45:17-25 (KJB)

These verses clearly teach that God will save the entire nation of Israel, and He will extend that salvation to the entire human race. Romans 11:26-36 (KJB).

God created the earth to be inhabited forever. Isaiah 45:18 (KJB). God will recreate the Heaven and the earth, and all of the nations that are saved in the end of the world shall walk in the light of the new city of Jerusalem. Revelation 21:24 (KJB). This salvation of the nations to inhabit the earth has to be a different form of salvation than that of grace because God will allow only those humans saved by grace to live in the new Jerusalem. Revelation 21:23-27 (KJB). God will allow the nations of the earth to visit the new Jerusalem, but they will not live there. When God recreates the Heaven and the earth, He promised, "Behold, I make all things new." Since God created all things, then He must recreate the entire human race who do not become saved by His grace to inhabit His new earth forever. Revelation 21:1-7 (KJB). Every human who ever lived thirsts for God in their spirits and souls, and God will make sure that they all will repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior so that He can satisfy their thirst with His living water. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).

The people of Revelation 21:8 are not God's living humans that He creates in His image. This verse describes the totally evil and dead natures of all humans that God will separate from His repentant, living humans by His use of His fiery wrath against evil so that He can save their good natures, and He can cast their dead and evil natures into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is called the second death because it follows the initial spiritual death of all humans. Revelation 4:11 informs that God created all things for His pleasure. This fact can only mean that God must recreate the entire human race for His pleasure because God could certainly find no pleasure if He must cast some of His living humans that He creates and loves into an eternal lake of fire.

Even all of the atheists and those who hate God will eventually repent and call on God for their salvation. Isaiah 45:19-21; Isaiah 45:24 (KJB).

Isaiah 45:22-23 must be taken together to inform that God will save the entire human race when He will eventually cause all humans to bow to Him and believe that He is their Savior. Philippians 2:9-11; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). All humans who become saved by grace will bow and believe while still alive in the flesh. All other living humans "in the earth and under the earth" will bow and repent to Christ as their Savior in the end of the world. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Since God's Love is Almighty and "His mercy endureth forever," then His great compassion will certainly cause Him to forgive and save every living human who ever repents and believes in Christ as their Savior whether they are "on the earth or under the earth." Psalm 136:1; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). So much for the doctrine that God will not save any unbeliever after they physically die. John 11:25-26; John 5:28-29 (KJB).

In this last verse, God assures that He will save "all of the seed of Israel" which can only mean every Jew who ever lived. Isaiah 45:25 (KJB). Jesus assured an unsaved Pharisee that he would be rewarded for his good works "at the resurrection of the just." Luke 14:12-15; John 5:28-29 (KJB). All of the rest of these verses assure that God will extend His merciful salvation to the entire human  race. Isaiah 45:17-25 (KJB).

Commentary on Selected Verses in Isaiah

                                Isaiah 40:17 (KJB)

This verse, read in context, cannot mean any of God's creations. God's creations are certainly more than nothing. When God said, "All nations before Him are as nothing," He had to have been speaking about pure evil. God spoke about those nations that have idol worshipers in them, which are all nations.

Humans must have the idea of nothing in order to be able to tell the difference between something and nothing. Nothingness, by itself, cannot be known to be nothing. Humans must be aware of both something and nothing at the same time in order to obtain the idea of nothing. God must have meant that the people of all nations have feelings of dread within them that at times makes them aware that they also possess a spiritual death within them that causes them to practice sin and evil, such as a love for money and power over others, which, in turn, causes them to realize that they are being reduced toward nothingness. But also at times humans become aware that they possess a spirit within them that was created by God. Genesis 1:27 (KJB). Thus all humans possess an internal consciousness of something and nothing.

But this verse goes even further when it declares that God judges all nations as being "less then nothing, and vanity." Vanity must mean whatever happens to be less than nothing. How can anything, including the idea of nothing, be less that nothing? This happens to be a concept that is impossible for humans to grasp. Yet, in light of Lucifer's rebellion against God, vanity can be described as an excessive pride which God reduced to an absolute nothingness. This happens to be exactly that which God did to Lucifer. God stripped Lucifer of all the goodness that He had put into his system, and He exiled him to earth as a totally empty and evil being called Satan. God even had Ezekiel write "and never shalt thou be any more" which has to be a condition that is less than nothing. Ezekiel 28:13-19 (KJB). Yet, Satan retained a negative consciousness which is totally evil and destructive. In God's positive creations, the consciousness of something and nothing and of the passage of time constitutes reality, and yet, a negative consciousness which can only be "less than nothing" below reality can influence human reality to practice sin and evil which is wholly destructive. To even God's positive consciousness, this condition happens to be a complete mystery. II Thessalonians 2:7 (KJB).

When God judged that all nations are "less than nothing, and vanity," He had to have meant that the people of all nations have been influenced by the Devil to rebel against God and seek independence from God's authority, which only tends to reduce them toward an absolute nothingness. Isaiah 41:29; Romans 1:18-32 (KJB). But even though the negative consciousness of devils is a mystery even to God, He has devised a perfect plan to return the spirits of all humans to faith in Him as their Savior who sacrificed Himself in their place and rose from the dead to purge them all of sin, evil, and spiritual death. God will save some of His living humans by His grace, and He will save all others when He appears to them in the end of the world. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). God will purge all sin, evil, and spiritual death from His entire creation, cleanse it all with the fire of His wrath against evil, and He will recreate it all to be wholly righteous and pure. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 21:5; I Timothy 2:3-4; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB).

Commentary on Selected Verses in Isaiah

                                Isaiah 33:7-24 (KJB)

These first three verses describe an earth that is tired and worn out. Everything has fallen into decay, and many people just wander around in the wilderness. These verses describe an earth that is ready to be burned and recreated.

At that time the Lord will decide to burn the earth and all of the people in it, and He will exalt Himself and purge the world of all sin and evil. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). When the Lord burns the people on the earth and under the earth, He will burn only their "chaff," "stubble," "lime," and "thorns." He will dissolve their beings with the fire of His wrath, but He will burn only their sin and evil, not their living natures that He will preserve. Psalm 75:3; Psalm 36:6 (KJB). This will be God's salvation by the fire of His wrath against evil, which the Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized and which Jesus and John the Baptist and the Apostle Paul prophesied would come. Genesis 8:20-21; Matthew 13:36-43; Matthew 3:10-12; I Corinthians 3:11-15 (KJB).

Isaiah then asks God a very important question: Will God burn the people with "everlasting burnings?" The verses that follow supply the answer. God will save the righteous natures of all of these people that He created in His image. Genesis 1:27 (KJB). Their good works will attest to the fact that they all still retain their righteous natures that God created them to be. John 5:28-29 (KJB). Jesus taught that even the smallest good work will be rewarded. Matthew 10:42 (KJB).

Christ will appear to all of His living humans confined to the regions of death and on the earth, and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). He will then burn them with the fire of His wrath to separate their good and living natures from their dead and evil natures so that He can raise their recreated, good natures to "dwell on high;" that is, to live on His recreated earth, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the lake of fire. Matthew 13:36-43; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB).

All of these people on the earth and under the earth will "see the king in His beauty," and they will see His recreated earth where they will live forever. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).

All of the recreated people of the earth will no longer see any "fierce people" because all war will be abolished.

Jerusalem will be the capitol of God's new earth, and all of the people at times will go to Jerusalem to worship the Lord. Isaiah 66:20-24. The world will be filled with peaceful "broad rivers and streams" where no ships of commerce will sail. The people will not need commerce and greed.

The Lord will be the king and lawgiver of His recreated earth, and He will be the Savior of all of His living humans on His new earth. The Devil and his kingdom of greed and power over others will be abolished. All of the people will share the world's wealth, and the "lame;" that is, God's recreated meek people will share their wealth with others. Matthew 5:5-9 (KJB).

None of these recreated people will ever be sick again, and God will completely forgive them all of all their sins and evil. Isaiah 33:24 (KJB).