Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                Psalm 64:9-10 (KJB)

The Old Testament writers wrote mainly about their understanding of the Pentateuch. Although Moses prophesied about a future prophet whom the people should obey, he did not write that that prophet would be a suffering Messiah. Deuteronomy 18:15-19 (KJB). The Old Testament revealed little about salvation by grace except in hidden forms. Genesis 3:15; Leviticus 4:1-35 (KJB). Although king David and Isaiah prophesied about a suffering Messiah, they themselves did not seem to understand much about what they wrote. The Old Testament Israelites and most Jews to this day believe that their Messiah will be a conqueror. Indeed, their Messiah will come to conquer Israel's enemies and rescue Israel from destruction, but the Jews will be surprised to learn that His name is Jesus. Revelation 19:11-21 (KJB).

When king David, and all the other Old Testament writers, wrote about the righteous and the upright. they meant the image of God that He puts into every human that He creates. Genesis 1:27 (KJB). But the Israelites considered themselves to be the people chosen by God to adhere to their righteous natures so that they would worship and serve the true and living God. They considered all pagans as being people who suppress their good natures and adhere to the worship of idols.

In Psalm 64:9-10, king David prophesied that at some future time, all humans will become wiser, will learn about God's ways, and will come to fear the Lord; that is, come to faith in Him. When that time comes, all humans will be upright and righteous, and they will trust in God and glory in Him.

King David's prophecy will come true. But the Messiah must suffer to cause that event to happen. Christ has suffered, died on a cross, was buried, and rose from the dead to conquer the Devil and all evil to liberate all of His living humans from eternal death by causing it to become temporary. John 12:31-32; Hebrews 2:9-17; I John 3:8 (KJB). The Old Testament sin offering happened to be a prophecy that the Messiah would save some people by His grace. Living humans who come to faith in Christ while still alive in the flesh will be saved forever when the Spirit of Christ washes their souls and spirits thoroughly clean with the blood Christ shed on the cross, and He will save their fleshly natures with the water He shed on the cross as they daily repent or at the Rapture of the Church. I Corinthians 6:11; Revelation 1:5; I John 1:9; Ephesians 5:25-27 (KJB). Christ will give His brethren saved by His grace His own perfect righteousness so that they can be accepted by God to live with Him in Heaven forever. II Corinthians 5:21; John 17:24 (KJB).

The Old Testament burnt offering was a prophecy that Christ will save the rest of humanity by the use of His fiery wrath against evil. Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB). When Jesus died on the cross, He dismissed His Spirit to descend into Hell and use its fire to separate the sinful natures of all living humans confined to the regions of death from their righteous natures so that He could save their good and living natures that He created in His image. Deuteronomy 32:22; Psalm 75:3; II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB). Jesus' Spirit rose immaculate from Hell to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus so that He could rise from the dead victorious over all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. Revelation 1:17-18; Acts 2:25-31; Psalm 16:9-10 (KJB). Since Christ has possession of  "the keys of Hell and of death," then He can liberate all of His living humans from the regions of death. Christ will activate the work of His Spirit when He appears to all of His living humans confined to the regions of death to cause them all to repent of their own free will and return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14; Philippians 2:9-11 (KJB). John 12:31-32 relates that Jesus judged only the Devil and all of his evil works when He suffered and died on the cross, and His passion would draw all humans to Him so that He could save them all from sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. I John 3:8 relates that Jesus will destroy only the Devil and all of his evil works, not any of the living humans whom He creates and loves.

Hebrews 2:9 relates that Jesus "should taste death for every man," which can only mean that He will save every human from eternal death, some by His grace and all others with His lesser form of salvation. Hebrews 2:10-13 relates how Jesus will save His brethren by His grace. But Hebrews 2:14-15 reveals that Christ became human to destroy the Devil and the power of eternal death, not His living humans. Luke 20:38 (KJB). God's living humans are alive to Him even within the regions of death. I Corinthians 15:22; I Corinthians 15:26 (KJB). Hebrews 2:15 relates that Jesus will save all humans who fear death, and all humans fear death except some saved by grace who have overcome that fear. Hebrews 2:17 reveals that Jesus will "make reconciliation for the sins of the people." Colossians 1:20 reveals that Jesus will "reconcile all things unto Himself; by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in Heaven." God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; ICorinthians 13:8 (KJB).