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).