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).