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).