Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                Psalm 62:12 (KJB)

Would God just ignore the good works of humans who do not become saved by grace? If God casts all living humans not saved by grace into an eternal lake of fire, would He not also destroy their good works? Since the good works of all humans comes from God, would not God destroy His own good works if He casts living humans not saved by grace into an eternal lake of fire? John 3:27 (KJB). But Revelation 20:11-15 clearly teaches that God casts only dead humans into the eternal lake of fire. Dead humans can do no good works. Since spiritual death, also called original sin, happens to be inside of the beings of every human and causes them to commit sinful and evil acts, then those sinful and evil acts would cling to spiritual death and also be destroyed by the lake of fire. Genesis 2:17 (KJB). All of this can only mean that God must separate the good and living natures of all humans not saved by grace from their dead natures and resurrect them all to a new life on a new earth in the end of the world. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5 (KJB).

Psalm 62:12 teaches that God judges every human "according to his work" because of His mercy. If God casts all living humans not saved by grace into an eternal lake of fire, He would show them no mercy. But Christ holds a judgment in the end of the world, and a judgment is a trial that seeks justice tempered with mercy. Revelation 20:5-15; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Revelation 5:11-14 prophesies that Christ will appear to all of His living humans that He creates in His image who are "on the earth, and under the earth" near the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent, worship Him, and return to the faith He put into them that He is the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 20:5 reveals that Christ will raise these repentant, living humans back to life from the regions of death in His final judgment. The reference to the "first resurrection" in Revelation 20:5-6 means Christ's resurrection of His Tribulation saints in the beginning of His millennial reign on the earth.

Revelation 20:11-15 prophesies that Christ will judge all of the spiritually dead humans that He separated from His repentant, living humans according to their sinful and evil acts. Christ will judge them according to the Word of God and according to the Book of Life just as Jesus prophesied in John 12:47-48. Jesus judged no human while He was on the earth in physical form. Jesus reserved all of His final judgment of humans until the end of the world. Although living humans saved by grace will be at this final judgment, Christ will judge them to have already been thoroughly cleansed of all sin and evil by the blood and water he shed on the cross, and He will have made them perfectly righteous by the presence of His Spirit in their hearts. John 5:24; I Corinthians 6:11; II Corinthians 5:21 (KJB).

Revelation 20:13 reveals that Christ will raise all the dead humans from three separate regions of death: the Sea, Death, and Hell. In the Bible, Hell is a general term for all these three regions of death. Revelation 5:13 relates that Christ will reveal Himself also to those who are "in the sea." Revelation 6:8 reveals that Hell follows the pale horse that represents Death. These revelations can only mean that there must be three regions of death.

Matthew 25:31-46 describes Christ's final judgment. Every human will be judged according to their works except those who are saved by grace. The "sheep" which represents all living humans, and the "goats" which represents all the spiritual dead humans will be inside of every human before they are raised from the regions of death. Christ will separate His sheep from the goats according to verse 41. Christ will cast only the separated "cursed" into the eternal lake of fire that God created only for the Devil and his angels. God never cursed Adam and Eve or any of their descendants. Genesis 3:14-21 (KJB). This can only mean that according to verse 46, only the evil, dead humans will be cast into the lake of fire, and the repentant, righteous humans will be saved to eternal life. Christ will recreate these righteous humans to be meek and inherit the new earth. Matthew 5:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

According to Revelation 20:14, Death and Hell will be cast into the lake of fire, and according to Revelation 21:1, God will eliminate the Sea. Thus God will thoroughly purge all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil from His entire creation so that He can recreate it all to be righteous. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). The second death will be the elimination of all dead humans from God's creation.

According to Revelation 20:15, the Book of Life records the names of every living human that God ever created in His image. God will give every recreated human a new name. Revelation 2:17 (KJB). This fact means that the names of the dead humans will not be found in the Book of Life, and so Christ will cast them all into the lake of fire.

Revelation 22:11-12 records that all unjust and filthy humans will be separated from all righteous and holy humans. This is the result of Christ's final judgment. The righteous humans will all receive rewards from Christ. Only living humans can receive rewards. The dead humans cannot receive rewards. I Corinthians 4:5 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB).

Psalm 62:12 happens to be a prophecy that God will make His final judgment according to His mercy. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 (KJB).