The World and the Word

                                                            The Wheat and the Chaff

Psalm 37:20-24 teaches and prophesies that God will utterly destroy only the wicked who are His enemies. God's enemies are the Devil and evil itself and the curse that the Devil injected into the beings of all humans when Adam and Eve sinned. Living humans that God created in His image are not His enemies. Evil equals spiritual death. God created a way to purge all sins and evil that adheres to and stains His image in all humans through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son. I Timothy 4:10. Christ provides His highest form of salvation for all humans who repent and believe while still alive in the flesh. Christ washes away their sins that stain His image in them with His blood and water that He shed on the cross and purges them of spiritual death. John 5:24; Revelation 1:5. Christ gives them His own Holy Righteousness by which God can accept them to live with Him in Heaven forever. John 14:16-21; John 17:23-24.

But Christ has also provided a lesser form of salvation for the rest of humanity by His descent into Hell, which is God's fiery wrath against evil itself, where He left all of their sins and evil that He bore on the cross behind there when He rose immaculate from the dead. Psalm 16:10. The image of God within all these humans confined within the regions of the dead will repent, believe, and worship Christ as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. God will use His fiery wrath to cleanse His image in them from all their sins and evil and raise them cleansed from the dead for Him to recreate to live on His recreated earth. God will recreate them to be wholly righteous and immortal, but they will not possess the Holy Righteousness of Christ. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 3:20; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:21; Genesis 8:20-21; John 1:29; John 5:28-29; John 11:25; I John 3:8; I Timothy 1:10; I Corinthians 15:22.

Psalm 37:20 teaches that only the enemies of the Lord, like the fat of lambs, will be consumed by God's fiery wrath. Living humans are not God's enemies. God did not curse Adam and Eve or any of their descendants but only the Devil and the ground which holds all three regions of death. Revelation 20:13. All living humans would have been trapped forever within the regions of death had not Christ come to rescue all His living humans from their sins and evil which would have held them in spiritual death forever. Genesis 3:14-21; Luke 20:38; Genesis 8:20-21; I Corinthians 15:22; I Corinthians 15:26; Luke 17:21; I Timothy 4:10; I Corinthians 13:8. If all humans are alive to God, as Luke 20:38 teaches, then no human can ever be permanently dead, especially since Christ has abolished death itself. I Timothy 6:13; II Timothy 1:10.

In Psalm 37:22, God assures that all who are "blessed of Him," which can only refer to His good image in every human, He promises He will recreate to "inherit the earth." He also assures in this verse that only the "cursed," which can only be the Devil and the evil he injected into all humans, God will purge from all living humans and from His presence forever. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12.

Psalm 37:23-24 teaches that God delights in His goodness that He has put into every human. Many good humans exist who are not saved by grace. God does not delight in humans who deliberately practice evil, but He does delight in the small measure of goodness still left within them. Jesus recognized the small amount of goodness still left in Judas Iscariot when He called him "friend" in Matthew 26:50. Judas displayed that small measure of goodness when he felt remorse for betraying Jesus. Matthew 27:3-5. Psalm 37:24 assures that though all humans fall because the evil within them causes them to sin, God will uphold every one of them in His mercyfull hand. John 3:16; Psalm 50:23; Proverbs 10:12; I Corinthians 13:8.