Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                 Psalm 22:26-31

Psalm 22 relates the suffering, death. burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and that He did that to save the entire human race. Jesus shed His blood and water on the cross to save by His grace all humans who would repent and believe in Him while still alive in the flesh. John 5:24; Revelation 1:5; I John 1:9 (KJB). But the last part of this Psalm also relates that Jesus will save the rest of the human race from eternal spiritual death. Psalm 22:26-31 (KJB)

Jesus clearly taught that the meek shall inherit the earth. Matthew 5:5 (KJB) Humans saved by grace inherit Heaven, so who are these meek that "shall inherit the earth? These meek will "praise the Lord," and their hearts "shall live forever." These meek will live forever on the earth, and they will "eat and be satisfied." Psalm 22:26 (KJB)

"All of the kindreds of the nations" will worship the Lord. This quoted phrase can only refer to the entire, living human race because every human has "kindreds" that go all the way back to Adam and Eve. Psalm 22:27 (KJB)

The kingdoms of the Lord happen to be in both Heaven and earth. God's Will will be accomplished on earth to the same extent that His Will will be accomplished in Heaven. Matthew 6:10 (KJB) Jesus also told some Pharisees that "the kingdom of God is within you." Since these Pharisees were not saved by grace, then Jesus could have only referred to the living image of God that He had created them to be. Genesis 1:27; Luke 17:20-21 (KJB) The same "all" who die in Adam will be resurrected by Jesus. I Corinthians 15:22 (KJB) Jesus informed a hostile Pharisee that he will be resurrected with the "just." In this case, the word "just" can only refer to the living image of God that He puts into all humans. Luke 14:12-15; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB) Jesus exists as "the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe." The phrase "especially of those who believe" refers to all living humans saved by grace, but Christ will save the rest of humanity in another way. I Timothy 4:10 (KJB) God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB) No verse in the entire Bible teaches that if a person rejects Christ's salvation by grace until that person physically dies, then that person will be lost from God forever.

Psalm 22:29 can only be a prophecy that Jesus will appear to all His living humans confined to the regions of death, and He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior so that He can resurrect them all and recreate them all to be meek and cause them all to live forever on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Philippians 2:9-11; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB) Philippians 2:9-11 cannot possibly mean that Christ will simply ignore the worship and repentance of all living humans on the earth and under the earth and send them all to an everlasting Hell anyway. Such an interpretation goes directly against the Almighty Love and compassion of God for all of His living humans. The prophecy of Christ in Revelation 21:5 that "Behold, I make all things new" can only be true if He resurrects all of His repentant, living humans from the regions of death.

"A seed shall serve Him" which will be a "generation." The word "generation" in this verse can only mean the entire, living human race that God creates and loves. Psalm 22:30 (KJB) In Genesis 3:15, the phrase "the seed of the woman" has a double meaning. It means the perfect human, Jesus, who will save the entire human race. But the word "seed" means that which is planted to bring forth life. Since God never cursed Adam and Eve or any of their descendants, and God promised Eve that she would be the "mother of all living," then the "seed of the woman" must also be the recreated life that Christ will give to His entire living human race, some by His grace and all others in the end of the world. Luke 20:38; I Corinthians 15:22; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB)

The word "seed" in Genesis 3:15 also means the spiritual death that the Devil plants into the inner beings of all living humans that causes them to sin and commit acts that are evil. The Devil will cause Jesus to suffer on the cross, but the Devil will not be able to murder God. Jesus voluntarily laid down His life on the cross to purge the "seed" of the Devil from the lives of every human, and He rose victorious from the dead over all of death and Hell. John 10:17-18; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB) Christ "shall bruise thy head" can only mean that Christ will thoroughly crush and purge the Devil and all spiritual death, sin, and evil from his entire creation. John 12:31-32; John 16:11; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB) Jesus cannot "draw all men unto me" without saving them all. God's Almighty Love and compassion would not allow Him to lose them. Whatever God does, He does thoroughly and completely. God never does anything halfway. God may do some things in stages, but he gets it all completely done.

Psalm 22:31 simply means that the salvation that Christ will provide will be preached to all future generations.