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).