Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                Psalm 16:8-11

Although king David was saved by grace, he did not understand that. God gave king David a prophecy about a suffering Messiah when king David wrote Psalm 22, but in all of king David's writings, he provides no clear understanding of what that meant. Thus king David assumed that when he died, he would go to Hell like everyone else who died. All through the Bible, Hell happens to be just a generic name for three different places where unbelievers go when they die. Revelation 20:13 clearly teaches that there happens to be three different places for the dead which are the Sea, Death, which is the same as the bottomless pit, and a burning Hell that God created only for the Devil and his angels, not for living humans that God creates and loves. Matthew 25:41 (KJB).

Unknown to king David, he would not go to Hell when he died, but he would go to a place called Paradise located under the earth next to Hell where he would not suffer but be comforted. He would wait there, with all the other Old Testament saints saved by grace, for the Spirit of Christ to come and preach the gospel to them and cause them to fully understand the mission of the suffering Messiah. I Peter 3:18-19 (KJB). When Christ rose from the dead, He effected a Rapture of all His Old Testament saints when He bodily raised them all and carried them all, with Paradise itself, to Heaven. Matthew 27:51-52; II Corinthians 12:4; Ephesians 4:8-10 (KJB). This means that although king David was mistaken as to where he would go when he died, he was not mistaken in the fact that God would raise him from the dead to an everlasting life. Psalm 16:9-11 (KJB).

But contained within God's promise to king David, God gave king David a prophecy that God would not allow His "Holy One to see corruption." Psalm 16:10 (KJB). This prophecy can only refer to the descent of the Spirit of Christ into Hell after Jesus died on the cross to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of all living humans who do not become saved by grace. When Jesus suffered on the cross, He shed His blood and water for the salvation of all living humans who would become saved by His grace because His shed blood and water would wash away all of their sins and evil. Revelation 1:5; I John 1:9 (KJB). But since Jesus bore the sins and evil of the entire human race on His cross, then He had to have had a way to cleanse Himself of all that sin and evil so that He could rise immaculate from the dead. I John 2:2 (KJB). When Jesus died on the cross, He committed that task to His Spirit. Jesus knew that His Father would give His power to His Spirit to descend into Hell and leave behind there all of the sins and evil of all His living humans who do not become saved by His grace. Luke 23:46 (KJB). All of the Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized this form of salvation. Genesis 8:20-21; Leviticus 5:10 (KJB). The Holy Spirit ascended immaculate from the regions of death to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus and raise Him from the dead victorious over all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). Since Jesus has "the keys of Hell and of death," then He certainly has the power to open Hell and death to liberate all of His living humans who are confined there.

Jesus actually suffered and died on the cross to purge His entire creation of all sin, evil, and the Devil and save all of His living humans that He created in His image, some by His grace and all others by the descent of His Spirit into Hell. John 12:31-32; John 12:47; John 16:11 (KJB). Christ will eventually cause all of His living humans to return to faith in Him. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). When the Holy Spirit inspired John the Baptist to say, "Behold, the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world," he meant exactly that which he said. John 1:29 (KJB). When Jesus appears to all of His living humans confined to the regions of death, He will cause them all to return of their own free will to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). When the Apostle John wrote that the same propitiation of God that saves sinners by grace also saves the whole world, he meant exactly that which he wrote. I John 2:2 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB).