Excerpt - Apocalyptic Commentary of the Book of Isaiah by Avraham Gileadi, Ph.D.

26:12 O Jehovah, you bring about our peace; even all that we have accomplished you have done for us.

The polarization of people prior to Jehovah’s Day of Judgment—in which the righteous increase in righteousness and the wicked increase in wickedness—ultimately leads to the one qualifying for deliverance under the terms of Jehovah’s covenants and the other sealing their own damnation. Still, the righteous take no credit for their righteousness, knowing that by the grace of God they are saved after all they can do. The peace that Jehovah wrought for them—“the price of our peace he incurred” (Isaiah 53:5)—they now inherit in the millennial age (v 3; Isaiah 32:17; 33:20; 54:13–14; 57:2; 66:12).

26:13–14 O Jehovah, our God, lords other than you have ruled over us, but you alone we recall by name. They are dead, to live no more, spirits who will not rise up; you appoint them to destruction, wiping out all recollection of them.

Jehovah’s elect celebrate his lordship as the millennial age begins, acknowledging him alone as “our God”—their covenant Lord. From his manifesting himself to them in response to their invoking his name (vv 7–9; Isaiah 41:25; 52:6; 56:6), they know him personally. The oppressive “lords” who had hitherto ruled them, on the other hand, are dead, powerless to “live” or “regenerate” (yihiyu); “spirits” or “ghosts” (repa’im) unable to “rise up” or “resurrect” (yaqumu) from the dead. Appointed to destruction, they and the memory of them are wiped out as if they had never existed (Isaiah 14:20).


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