Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                 Psalm 65:2-4 (KJB)

Since God creates all humans in His image, and since God can never lose anything that He ever creates, then Psalm 65:2 can only be a prophecy about how God will recover and recreate every living human that He ever created. Genesis 1:27; Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). In Isaiah 66:22-24, the prophet prophesied that at the time that God recreates His heavens and His earth, then "shall all flesh come to worship before me..." This prophecy can only mean that in the general resurrection in the end of the world, God will resurrect all of His living humans from the regions of death  and recreate them all to worship and serve Him. These resurrected and recreated humans will be able to look into the lake of fire and see their own sinful and evil natures that God has purged from them squirm in the fire like "worms." Mark 9:43-48; Luke 3:6 (KJB).

But God will save no living human until such a time as they return to the faith in Him that He put into them when He created them. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). God will immediately save by His grace every human who repents and puts their faith in Christ's sacrifice for them while they are still alive in the flesh. John 5:24 (KJB). But God has also devised a plan to save from eternal death all of the rest of His living humans confined to the regions of death after their physical deaths. Hebrews 9:27; Hebrews 2:9 (KJB). Christ will appear to all of His living humans confined to the regions of death near the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent of their own free wills and return to the faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). God will resurrect all of His repentant, living humans from the regions of death, and He will recreate them to live forever on His recreated earth. Psalm 65:2; Isaiah 66:22-24; Luke 3:6; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

Psalm 65:3 prophesies that God will purge all sins and evil from the lives of all His living humans. The sins and evil of all humans are caused by the spiritual death that the Devil injects into all humans. All humans who are alive in the flesh are both alive and dead at the same time except those who are saved by grace. John 5:24 (KJB). The spiritual deaths within every human threatens to be eternal. But God came in human form to suffer eternal, spiritual death on the cross and made it temporary by His resurrection from the dead so that He can bring back to eternal life all of His living humans that He loves and can never lose to eternal death. Ecclesiastes 3:14; John 5:24; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

John the Baptist prophesied when he saw Jesus that He would "take away the sin of the world." John 1:29 (KJB). John did not say that Jesus would take away only the sins of those who become saved by grace. John said and meant only that which the Holy Spirit gave him to say. Jesus also prophesied that any human who is physically dead who believes in Him will be raised back to life. Jesus said that just before He raised Lazarus from the dead. John 11:25 (KJB). Jesus also taught that any person alive in the flesh who believes in Him "shall never die," which means Christ will annul his spiritual death the moment he believes. John 11:26 (KJB). Jesus also prophesied that in the general resurrection in the end of the world, God will resurrect back to life all humans who "have done some good" which means all of His repentant, living humans that God created in His image, and God will condemn the separated, spiritual deaths of those same humans to the eternal lake of fire. John 5:28-29; Isaiah 66:22-24; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; I Corinthians 15:22 (KJB). Every human has done some good and has committed some sins in their lives except for those who die before they ever get a chance to do good or to sin. But God must save even innocent humans from the threat of eternal, spiritual death. Jesus has abolished spiritual death itself, along with the Devil and all sins and evil that causes it through His death, burial, and resurrection. I Timothy 1:10 (KJB).

Psalm 65:4 could well be a prophecy about all living humans who become saved by grace. They have been chosen by God to live with Him in Heaven. John 15:16 (KJB). The phrases "he may dwell in thy courts" and "thy holy temple" probably refer to Heaven. Although king David was inspired by the Holy Spirit as he wrote his Psalms, he probably had only a vague understanding of some of it, such as this verse.