Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                  Psalm 1:1-6 (KJB) II

In Psalm 1:1-6, God describes the difference between the Godly person and the ungodly person. The Godly person rejects his ungodly nature within him and chooses to believe in God and has reverence for His laws and statutes. He chooses to be a good person, but that does not mean that he is not a sinner. Many of God's people in the Old Testament loved God and honored His laws, but inevitably they all sinned. I Kings 8:46 (KJB). The first three verses of Psalm One happens to be about these kinds of people, but many of them forgot, as many do today, that they are still sinners whom only God can save. In verse three, God relates that these kinds of people will be rewarded with a good life on a new earth and not with a home in Heaven which only those who trust in God to save them from their sins will inherit.

The last three verses in Psalm One describes the ungodly person. The ungodly person deliberately chooses to be evil. Even a good person who is an atheist is nevertheless an evil person because he rejects God who is the source of all goodness and truth. The ungodly person deliberately chooses to adhere to the evil, spiritual death within him, and he rejects God's laws and even His being. God describes the ungodly as being "like the chaff which the wind driveth away." God's description of the ungodly happens to be very similar to John the Baptist's revelation that when Jesus baptizes with fire, He will burn the "chaff" and save the "wheat." Luke 3:16-17 (KJB). In other words, in the end of the world, Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve every living human on the earth and confined to the regions of death in order to separate their Godly natures from their ungodly natures so that He can save their Godly natures alive that He created in His image, and He will condemn their ungodly natures to the eternal lake of fire. Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). But in order to use His fiery wrath in this way, Christ will appear to all of His living humans on the earth and under the earth to renew their faith in Him and love for Him that He put into them when He created them. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). The Bible clearly teaches that the only enemies of God and His creations are evil and the Devil, and therefore, God will utterly destroy only the Devil and all evil, not any of His creations that He loves. I John 3:8; Ephesians 6:10-13 (KJB). Only the Devil and all evil are the enemies of all living humans and can therefore be the only enemies of God.

The revelation in Psalm One that "the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment" completely agrees with John the Baptist's prophecy that "He will thoroughly purge His floor." Luke 3:17 (KJB). "Floor" symbolizes God's entire creation. In other words, Christ will completely purge His world of all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil, and He will recover and recreate all of His righteous people that He created and loves. John 5:24; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). The "righteous" in Psalm One means all of the living humans that God ever created in His image. Even the most evil human who ever lived, who was probably Judas Iscariot, has a Godly nature within him that has done some good. Jesus taught that even the smallest good that any person does will be rewarded. Matthew 10:42 (KJB). Only living humans can be rewarded. Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB). Jesus taught that He will show the greatest Love possible when He will "lay down His life for His friends." John 15:13 (KJB). Jesus called Judas Iscariot "friend" when Judas came with a mob to arrest Jesus. Matthew 26:50 (KJB). God can never lose anything he has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB).