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).