Isaiah
26:14
14 They are dead [muwth], they shall not live [chayah]; they are deceased [rapha'], they shall
not rise [quwm]: therefore hast thou visited [paqad] and destroyed [shamad]
them, and made all their memory [zeker] to
perish ['abad]. KJV-Interlinear
14 They are dead, they will not live; they
are shades, they will not arise; to that end you have visited them with
destruction and wiped out all remembrance of them. ESV
When history runs
its course, then evil will cease to exist.
Dead means just that.
The dead do not
live. The dead cannot cause trouble.
Deceased, simply
re-emphasizes that the dead are not living, but also they are gone from his
world. They are gone to the land of the
dead.
Between the land of
the living, and the land of the dead is a great gulf across which the dead
cannot return. Not on their own anyway.
So dead means not
living as is the manner of living creatures.
Deceased means gone from his world.
Evil, once
obliterated, cannot raise its ugly head ever again, cannot rule, cannot cause
or be the cause of trouble.
And it is God who
visited the evil ones, and it is God who judges, and it is God who issues the
final execution order, and it is God who sends and removes evil out of life.
And it will be God
who will remove evil from all memory, and the memory of evil will be no more.
Who wants to leave
this world and this universe and carry with them the ugly things of the old,
into the new?
God will not bring
anything of the old into the new, and certainly not evil.
Eternity will begin
with perfection, just as this original universe when it was created, was
perfect, and the Garden when it was restored, was perfect, but the new universe
will not cease in its perfection. Evil will
no longer exist, to taint it.
