Commentary on Selected Psalms

                              Psalm 22:26-31

Jesus taught that "The meek shall inherit the earth." Matthew 5:5 (KJB). Jesus' prophecy can only mean that a group of people called "the meek" will live on God's recreated earth forever. Psalm 22:26 teaches that these meek people will have enough to eat and will be satisfied with their lives. They will praise the Lord, and they will live forever.

Psalm 22:27 teaches that all of these meek people who inherit the earth will worship the Lord and will be devoted to Him. No one can become meek through their own efforts. No one can become good through their own efforts. Becoming meek and good depends solely on the creative and sanctification powers of God. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31; John 3:27; I Corinthians 15:10 (KJB).

Every human inherits spiritual death from Adam's fall. Genesis 2:17 (KJB). Spiritual death causes the sin and evil of excessive pride within every human. Excessive pride caused Lucifer to rebel against God. Isaiah 14:12-17 (KJB). God used His fiery wrath to utterly dissolve Lucifer, and He cast the empty, negative consciousness of Lucifer to earth who became the totally evil spirit called Satan. Ezekiel 28:13-19 (KJB). At present, Satan has his own evil kingdom on the earth. Matthew 4:8-11 (KJB).

Satan injects spiritual death into every human born into the world, and spiritual death causes excessive pride which, in turn, causes all of the sins and evil that every human commits. Excessive pride causes humans to lust for power, wealth, and control over their fellow humans by fair means or foul. In order to commit these evil acts, humans must break every one of the Ten Commandments. Romans 3:23 (KJB). To break one Law is to break them all. James 2:10 (KJB).

But God implemented a plan to purge all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil from His entire creation. Romans 8:18-23 (KJB). Spiritual death has an eternal claim on every human spirit and soul; it being an eternal separation from God's Love. Romans 6:23 (KJB). But God came to earth in human form to suffer that eternal death, and all of the sin and evil that causes it, in the place of every human so that Christ could liberate all of his living humans that He creates and loves from all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the eternal control of Satan. II Corinthians 5:14-15 (KJB). Christ judged only the Devil and all evil when He suffered and died on the cross. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 3:15; John 12:31-32; John 16:11; I John 3:8 (KJB). From the beginning, Christ prophesied that He would utterly destroy the Devil and all evil. Christ gave only temporary punishments to Adam and Eve because of their sins, and He made Eve the mother of all living humans. Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:16-20 (KJB). Just as He prophesied, Christ rose from the dead victorious over Satan and all evil. Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). God has two forms of salvation for all humans. Those who repent and believe in Christ as their Savior while still alive in the flesh, God will give them the eternal life of Christ Himself the moment they believe and a home with Him in Heaven forever. John 5:24 (KJB). God will cause the rest of humanity, whom He must consign to the regions of death when they die because they will still be in their sins, to repent and believe in Christ when He manifests Himself to them near the end of the world. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). These are the meek who will inherit a recreated life on God's new earth. They will be meek because Christ will purge all of their excessive pride and sin from their lives, and He will recreate them to be meek. Psalm 22:26-27 (KJB).

The first part of Psalm 22:29 is a prophecy that all these recreated meek on the new earth will be prosperous and will always worship God. The second part of this verse happens to be a prophecy that Christ will appear to all living humans within the regions of death, and He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior, and He will raise them all to a new life on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

Psalm 22:30-31 is a prophecy that all humans born to the meek on God's recreated earth will be pure and righteous and free from all evil.