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                                Psalm 68:22 (KJB)

The word "Bashan" means "a soft, rich soil." The name "Bashan" means one of the regions in Canaan that the Israelites had to conquer so that God could give it to them. Deuteronomy 3:1-3 (KJB). By implication, the word "Bashan" could mean the earth itself, as God used that word in this verse. King David used the word "Bashan" in his prophecy about the crucifixion of Jesus. God probably meant that all the people of the earth are responsible for Jesus' suffering and death on the cross. Psalm 22:12 (KJB). All humans are God's people because He creates them all in His image. Genesis 1:27 (KJB). This could mean that when God used the phrase, "I will bring again from from Bashan," He symbolically meant that He will resurrect all of His people confined to the regions of death under the earth, just as He liberated the Israelites from Egypt, and He will give them "the soft, rich earth" of a new life on His recreated earth just as He gave the region of Bashan to His people the Israelites. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

God also relates in this verse that He will bring His people "from the depths of the Sea." The Bible relates that there are three distinct regions of Hell: the Sea, Death, and a burning Hell. Revelation 20:13 (KJB). The Bible uses the word "Hell" as a general term for all three regions of the dead. The Apostle John prophesied that Christ will appear to all humans "on the earth, under the earth, and such as are in the Sea...," and He will cause them all to worship Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). The Raptured Church in Heaven will also join in this worship because they were already saved by the Lamb of God. This fact of equal worship can only mean that Christ will cause all of His people confined to the regions of death to repent of their sins and return to the faith that He put into them when He created them so that He can save them and resurrect them alive from the regions of death and give them a new life on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB).

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                                Psalm 90:3 (KJB)

The phrase in this verse, "Thou turnest man to destruction..." happens to be true of all humans to some extent. Words like "destruction" or "perish" in the Bible never mean an annihilation. God's physical laws that govern the universe reflect this fact. All of God's creations form a part of His Word. Psalm 19:1-14 (KJB). Matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed except by God. The weight of a log burned in a fire equals the weight of the gases and ashes emitted from it. This happens to be  what God means by such words as "destruction" or "perish." John 3:16 (KJB).

God must consign the souls and spirits of humans not saved by grace to one of the three regions of death when they die. John 8:23-24; Hebrews 9:27 (KJB). But in the end of the world, Christ will visit them and cause them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will then use His fiery wrath against evil to destroy them; that is, He will dissolve their lives to melt them down to purify them. His fiery wrath will separate their repentant, good natures that Christ created and loves from their evil natures injected into them by the Devil so that He can save their good natures from eternal death and cast their dead and evil natures into an eternal lake of fire. Psalm 75:3; Matthew 13:36-43; I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). All of this means that their old selves will perish, but God will recreate their good natures with new bodies to be the meek that will inherit God's new earth. Matthew 5:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

God's destruction even happens to a much lesser extent to even humans who become saved by grace. Humans saved by grace immediately pass from eternal death to eternal life which is the life of Christ Himself. John 5:24; Galatians 2:19-20; Colossians 3:4 (KJB). In other words, the Spirit of God destroys the earthly lives of humans saved by grace to create an eternal life within them. God sends the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths of humans saved by grace into the Sea of forgetfulness which is also one of the three regions of death. Micah 7:19; Revelation 20:13 (KJB). In the end of the world, God will eliminate this Sea by a method not revealed. Revelation 21:1 (KJB). God will destroy the earthly lives of humans saved by grace the moment they repent and believe in Christ as their Savior. John 5:24 (KJB). The Spirit of Christ will then cleanse their souls and spirits of all sin and evil with the blood Christ shed on the cross, and He will recreate their souls and spirits to be pure and holy and unable to sin. I Corinthians 6:11; II Corinthians 5:17; I John 3:9 (KJB). But humans saved by grace will still retain their fleshly natures which can cause them to sin. Romans 7:18 (KJB). Yet as they daily repent of their sins, God will wash them clean with the water that Jesus shed on the cross. John 13:1-13; I John 1:9 (KJB). Even so, God's creative powers are so great that He can destroy the earthly lives of humans saved by grace, but at the same time, He can recreate them in such a way that they will retain their same identities and much of their same personalities. John 12:25 (KJB). The recreated lives and identities of humans whom God raises from the dead will be quite different from their former lives that they lived on the former earth. John 12:25 (KJB).

The phrase in this verse, "Return, ye children of men," refers to the fact that although God will to some extent destroy all men, He will nevertheless recover and recreate all men. This phrase happens to be very similar to Romans 11:36 which describes the fact that God's creations go out from Him and form the universe and all life in it, including all human life, and then He recovers and recreates it all having purged it all of all sins, evil, and spiritual death. Romans 8:18-25; Colossians 1:15-23; I Corinthians 15:20-26 (KJB).

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                               Psalm 100:1-5 (KJB)

Why would the Psalmist enjoin all lands and all people to "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord..." when he knew that most lands knew nothing about the Lord and that only some people in the nation of Israel knew the Lord? The only good answer must be that God gave the Psalmist a prophecy that a day will come when all lands and all people will worship and praise God.

The Psalmist further relates that all of these people who worship the Lord will be "the sheep of His pasture." The word "pasture" symbolizes the world. In John 10:1-4, Jesus taught that the "good Shepherd" calls His own "sheep" out of the "sheepfold" which contains other "sheep." The "sheep" that the "good Shepherd" calls out of the "sheepfold" symbolizes all of His living humans who become saved by His grace. But the "sheep" that remain in the "sheepfold" are still God's "sheep" who are protected by God from "the thief and a robber" who symbolize all the forces of evil. The "sheep" who "enter in" by "the door," who is the "good Shepherd," become saved and protected by the "Shepherd," but not to the greater extent that He saves and protects His "sheep" that He calls out of the "sheepfold" into the "pasture." John 10:9 (KJB). But according to the Psalmist prophecy, "the sheep of His pasture" can only mean all living humans that God ever creates and loves. This prophecy can only mean that God will eventually save His entire, living human race, some by His grace and all others with a lesser form of salvation.

All these people of all lands will "enter into His gates"and "into His courts" to worship God. These are God's "sheep" who "enter in" into a salvation which will be a recreated life on a recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). These people are God's recreated meek who will inherit the new earth. Matthew 5:5 (KJB).

The Psalmist further assures that God's "mercy is everlasting" and that "His truth endureth to all generations." The phrase "all generations" can only mean every living human that God ever creates and loves. And His "truth" can only mean His Word which will never "pass away." Matthew 24:35 (KJB). If any of God's living humans ever becomes cast into a lake of fire, then God's Word will pass away from them. But since God's truth endures to all of His created humans, then God will save His entire, living human race, some by His grace and all others in the end of the world.

God creates all of His living humans to be good. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:27 (KJB). This means God must put faith in Him into all of His created humans. But no living human can be saved from eternal death except by faith. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). God's Son came to earth to suffer on a cross and rise from the dead to gain victory over eternal death for all of His living humans. John 6:33; II Timothy 1:10; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). Jesus proclaimed that He had gained "the keys of death and of Hell" period, not just for some humans. Humans saved by grace gain eternal life when they repent of their sins while still alive in the flesh, and they return to faith that only Christ can save them from their sins, evil, and eternal death. John 5:24; Luke 13:3 (KJB).

But God does not forget the rest of His living humans confined to the regions of death because they failed to repent and believe in Christ while they were still alive in the flesh. Because of His Love and compassion for them, Christ will appear to them in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him so that He can save their souls and spirits from eternal death and recreate them with new bodies to an eternal life on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). Psalm 100 prophesies that God will save all His living humans.

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                                Psalm 86:9 (KJB)

The phrase, "All nations whom thou hast made,..." can only refer to every living human that God ever creates. This interpretation has to be true because there are certainly no humans that God did not create. This verse happens to be a prophecy that God will save His entire, living human race because they all have to be alive to worship Him. Some will worship and praise God because they have been saved by His grace, and all others will worship and praise God because Christ appeared to them within the bowels of the earth, and He caused them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will save all of His living humans that He created in His image, and in the end of the world, He will cast only their dead natures into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).

This verse agrees with many other scriptures in the Bible, even from the beginning of the Bible. God never cursed Adam and Eve or any of their descendants. The Devil cursed the human race, but God did not. God cursed only the Devil and the ground that holds the regions of death. God promised Eve that she would be "the mother of all living," and Luke 20:38 assures that all humans live in His sight. Genesis 3:14-21 (KJB). In order for God to keep His promise to Eve and His assurance of it in Luke 20:38, then He will never cast His living humans into an eternal lake of fire. In fact, God will cast only the dead natures of His living humans into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). In order for God to keep His promise in Revelation 21:5, "Behold, I make all things new," then He must save and recreate His entire, living human race.

When God called Abram to become the father of the Hebrews, and to this day, the father of the Jews, He gave Abram some promises. The phrase "And I will bless them that bless thee..." means that God will give special rewards to all humans who help and protect the Jews whenever they need it. The phrase "and curse him that curseth thee..." does not mean a permanent curse. This phrase means that God will severely punish any humans who hate the Jews and causes them harm. This prophecy has certainly come true in the history of the world. But the phrase "and in thee shall all of the families of the earth be blessed" can only mean that God will save every living human that He ever creates. Abram could certainly be no blessing to any living human within a lake of fire. This verse cannot mean that God will bless some humans and cast the rest into a lake of fire. This verse can only mean that God will save from eternal death all of His living humans that He creates in His image. Genesis 12:1-3 (KJB).

The Bible happens to be replete with scriptures that affirm that God will save His entire, living human race from eternal, spiritual death through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Here are just some of them: Genesis 1:27; Genesis 1:31; Genesis 3:14-21; Genesis 8:20-21; Genesis 12:1-3; Psalm 75:3; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8; Matthew 13:36-43; Luke 3:6; Luke 20:38; John 1:29; John 5:24; John 5:28-29; John 12:31-32; John 12:47-48; Romans 8:18-25; I Corinthians 3:11-15; I Corinthians 4:5; I Corinthians 15:20-28; Philippians 2:9-11; Colossians 1:15-23; I John 2:2; I Timothy 4:10; II Timothy 1:10; II Peter 3:9-13; I Timothy 2:4; Revelation 4:11; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; I Corinthians 13:8 (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 relates that if a person rejects Christ until physical death, then that person will be cast into an eternal lake of fire.

Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                 Psalm 76:9 (KJB)

The prophets, and Jesus Himself, often spoke in the eternal sense; that is, they sometimes spoke of future events as if they had already happened. John 17:4 (KJB). Psalm 76:9 prophesies about God's final judgment in the end of the world as if it had already happened.

This verse also prophesies that at that time God will "save all the meek of the earth." Who are these meek? Jesus prophesied that the meek shall inherit the earth. Matthew 5:5 (KJB). Jesus also prayed to His Father that His Will be done on earth to the same extent that His Will will be done in Heaven. Matthew 6:10 (KJB). These meek cannot be humans saved by grace because they inherit eternal life in Heaven. John 17:24 (KJB). But since the Father's Will must be the same for earth as it is for Heaven, then these meek must inherit an eternal life on the earth.

The sin that God hates the most is the sin of pride. Since this sin can only be a deliberate sin, then it is also evil. Proverbs 6:16-17 (KJB). Evil pride stems from the spiritual death that the Devil has injected into the inner beings of all humans. Genesis 3:15 (KJB). Evil pride causes humans to either ignore God or to outright reject Him. Evil pride is allied with Satan in rebellion against God. Romans 1:18-32 (KJB). When humans hear or read the gospel, pride, more than any other sin, causes most of them to reject God's salvation by His grace. They can only deliberately choose to reject God's Love.

When any human hears or reads the gospel that Jesus suffered and died on a cross and was resurrected from the dead to save him from all sin, evil, and eternal death, then the first sin that that person must repent of is the sin of pride. I Corinthians 15:1-4; I Peter 5:5 (KJB). That person must humble himself to God, repent of his sins, which means he learns to hate his sins and no longer wants them, puts his faith in the fact that only Christ can save him from his sins, and he submits his life to the service of Christ forever. Galatians 2:19-20 (KJB).

Since all humans retain their sinful pride, except for those who become saved by grace, then there can be no special class of people called the meek. When all prideful people die, Christ must consign their souls and spirits to one of the three regions of death because they retain their sins, especially the sin of pride. Hebrews 9:27; John 8:23-24; Revelation 20:13 (KJB). Christ allows humans saved by grace to go straight to Heaven. II Corinthians 5:5-9 (KJB).

But God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). This fact can only mean that God has devised a plan to save all of His living humans that He has created and loves from the regions of eternal death. Christ will appear to them in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent, humble themselves to Him, and put their faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will then use His fiery wrath to separate their repentant, living natures from their spiritual deaths. When they humble themselves to Christ, He will use His fiery wrath against evil to purge their sinful pride which is a part of their spiritual deaths that He will cast into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB). In this way, Christ will save from eternal death all of His living humans confined to the regions of death, and He will recreate them all to be the meek that will inherit His new earth. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).

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                               Psalm 75:3 (KJB)

This verse can only be a prophecy about that which God will do in the end of the world. God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve everything on the surface of the earth, but He will spare the interior of the earth. This verse agrees precisely with II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). God will use His fiery wrath to dissolve and cleanse the earth and the heavens because it all has been tainted with evil. God will also dissolve all living humans "on the earth and under the earth." I Corinthians 3:11-15 describes exactly how God will dissolve every human "on the earth and under the earth" at that time. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). God will use His fiery wrath against evil at that time to dissolve every living human "on the earth and under the earth" to separate their living natures that He created and loves from their dead and evil natures that He will cast into the lake of fire. Matthew 13:36-43; John 5:28-29; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB).

Every human has a good and living nature created by God, but they also have an evil and dead nature injected into them by the Devil. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:27; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). The "seed" of the woman is against the "seed" of the Devil. God creates every human because of His Love and by the power of His faith. Galatians 5:6; Hebrews 11:3 (KJB). God creates every human to be good which means He creates every human to have faith in Him. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:27 (KJB). To have faith is to have life. But humans can allow sin and evil that comes from their spiritual deaths to temporarily overpower their goodness and faith so that God must consign them to the regions of death when they die. John 8:23-24; Hebrews 9:27 (KJB). In the end of the world, Christ will appear to all of His living humans on the earth and confined to the regions of death, and He will cause them all to repent of their own free will and return to the faith that He put into them, and they will all worship Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). God will fulfill His promise that He "will make all things new," including all of His living humans. Luke 20:38; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; I Corinthians 4:5; I Corinthians 15:22; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB).

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                                Psalm 69:27-28 (KJB)

The meaning of Psalm 69:27-28 results from the context in which king David wrote it. In Psalm 69:21, God gave king David a brief prophecy about an evil that would happen when Jesus would hang on a cross. Matthew 27:34,48 (KJB). God gave king David this prophecy while he was praying about his own troubles. This revelation caused king David to have only a vague understanding of what this prophecy meant. But king David became incensed because he knew that his prophecy was about some Godly person in the future who would be abused just as he was being abused. David's anger caused him to turn to an imprecatory prayer that God would utterly destroy those who will abuse that Godly person. Psalm 69:22-26 (KJB).

The result of king David's prayer was that God gave him another prophecy about that which will happen to evil humans in the end of the world. Psalm 69:27-28 (KJB). David's prophecy matches Christ's final judgment in the end of the world exactly. Christ will "add iniquity to their iniquity" because he will cast them into the lake of fire. Christ will blot their names out of "the book of the living" because they all will be separated from the living by His fiery wrath against evil. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Matthew 13:36-43; Psalm 75:3 (KJB). Every human has a good life in them created by God, and every human also has an evil spiritual death injected into them by the Devil. Genesis 1:27; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve every human confined to the regions of death in order to separate their good, living natures from their dead and evil natures. Christ will appear to them and cause all of His living humans to repent so that He can save them. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will cast only the separated, spiritual dead into the lake of fire, and He will save all of His living humans whom he created and loves. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 22:11-12; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). God can never lose anything He has ever created, and His Love can never fail. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB).

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                                 Psalm 68:18 (KJB)

Every believer whether saved by grace or by Christ's appearance to them in the end of the world will take part in the ascension of Christ or of the Holy Spirit. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). In Psalm 68:18, the phrase "thou hast led captivity captive" can only refer to God's plan to save the entire human race. Every human is born into captivity to the Devil because the Devil injects spiritual death into every human which causes every human to sin and/or commit evil acts except for those who die before they can sin. Nevertheless, spiritual death, by itself, could cause eternal death in every human unless Christ saves them. Romans 5:12-14 relates that although God does not hold humans accountable for their sins who are ignorant of His Law, they nevertheless suffer spiritual death inside of them which could become an eternal death. Even today, God does not hold humans accountable who have never heard of God's Law or the gospel of Christ, but when they die, their spiritual deaths cause them to descend into one of the regions of death where they will remain forever unless Christ comes to rescue them. But God's Word assures every human that He will save them either by His grace or by His lesser form of salvation. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Romans 5:18; I Corinthians 15:22; I Timothy 4:10; II Timothy 1:10; Romans 11:36; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). God will lead all humans in "captivity" to become "captive" to God's grace or to His lesser form of salvation.

The phrase in this verse, "thou hast received gifts for men" refers to the fact that God has given His Son the power to deliver His gifts of salvation to all living humans whether saved by grace or by His lesser form of salvation. Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 5:18 (KJB). God will also give rewards to all of His living humans whether saved by His grace or by His mercy. Matthew 5:10-12; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).

The phrase in this verse, "yea, for the rebellious also" refers to the fact that God will save even those humans who practiced rebellion against God in their lives on the former earth. Any human can be overcome by temptation and fall into sin because of their weakness, but when any human knows fully well that they will disobey God but commits that sin anyway, that happens to be an evil act which is always rebellion against God. When king David fell in love with several women and married them, the evidence shows that those were sins of weakness. But when king David planned to commit the sins of adultery and murder, the evidence shows that that was a sin of rebellion against God. II Samuel 12:1-7 (KJB). When the Apostle Peter denied the Lord, the evidence shows that that was a sin of weakness, but when the Apostle Paul disobeyed God and went to Jerusalem instead of going to Rome, the evidence shows that that was a sin of rebellion. Romans 1:10-13; Acts 21:4 (KJB). All through the Bible, humans committed sinful acts in weakness and rebellious acts that were evil. But both king David and the Apostle Paul were saved by grace. When any human commits evil and cruel acts against their fellow humans, deep within themselves they know they are being evil despite whatever philosophy or religion they have that tells them they were right. Evil acts happen to be far more serious that sinful acts of weakness because evil acts cause a person's spiritual death to come much closer to eternal death. But God has a plan to save all of His living humans from all sin and evil and their spiritual deaths that causes it. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).

The phrase in this verse, "that the Lord might dwell among them" refers to the fact that God will dwell among all saved humans either in Heaven and/or on His recreated earth. When Christ ascended into Heaven, he raised all of His Old Testament saints saved by His grace, and the Paradise where they were, to Heaven with Him. Matthew 27:51-53; I Peter 3:18-22 (KJB). The New Testament reference to Psalm 68:18 expands its meaning to include the ascension of the Old Testament saints, the Rapture of the Church, and the resurrection from the dead of all of God's repentant living humans confined to the regions of death. Ephesians 4:7-10 (KJB). Ephesians does not refer to the resurrection of the Tribulation saints because if any of them committed any act of rebellion against God, that would nullify their salvation by grace because they will not possess the Holy Spirit within them who would ensure their eternal salvation by grace. Revelation 20:4-6 (KJB).

Ephesians 4:7-10 further expands the meaning of Psalm 68:18 to include all living humans confined to the regions of death, Their salvation is based on the descent of the Holy Spirit into Hell, which is a general term for all three regions of death, to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of all humans not saved by grace that Jesus bore on the cross. The Holy Spirit then ascended immaculate from the dead to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus so that He could rise from the dead with complete victory over all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil. I John 2:2; Acts 2:25-31; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). Because of the work of the Holy Spirit that cleanses all living humans not saved by grace of all of their sins and evil, Christ will appear to all of His living humans confined to the regions of death to cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). The salvation that the Holy Spirit makes possible, Christ will make actual. When they repent, Christ will activate their salvation supplied to them by the Holy Spirit. Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to melt them down to separate their cleansed, living natures from them for Him to recreate to live forever on His new earth, and He will cast their spiritual deaths into the eternal lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB). God will "reconcile all things unto Himself." Colossians 1:20 (KJB).

The phrase in Ephesians 4:10, "that He might fill all things" refers to the fact that Christ will purge all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil from His entire creation so that He will have full control over all of it. At present, the Devil has his own kingdom of evil in the world, but Christ will purge it all from His world and recover and recreate His entire creation, including all of His living humans. Revelation 21:1-5; II Corinthians 4:4; Romans 8:18-25 (KJB). God promised in the beginning that He would crush the head of the Devil, and God always does a thorough job. Genesis 3:15 (KJB).

Forgiveness

 Jesus prayed from the cross, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." Luke 23:34 (KJB). God would never fail to grant Jesus' plea. God would certainly answer His Son's prayer, and He would have forgiven all the sins and evil of the entire human race that nailed Jesus to the cross. This prayer of Jesus ensures that God has forgiven the sins and evil of the entire human race.

In Mark 11:25-26, Jesus taught His followers that when they pray, they should forgive everyone that had wronged them, even if they had not asked for forgiveness. Since God would never command humans to do anything He would not do Himself, then Jesus' teaching in this verse provides evidence that God has forgiven every human whose sins and evil nailed His Son to the cross. In verse 26, Jesus did not mean that God would never forgive those who refuse to forgive others, but only that God would temporarily withhold His forgiveness from those who do not forgive. Eventually, God will purge all sins, evil, and spiritual deaths from all of His living humans, some by His grace and all others in the end of the world, and that will cause them all to become completely meek and righteous so that they all will forgive every wrong that has ever been done to them. Genesis 1:27; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). The fact that God has already forgiven the entire human race ensures that He will eventually save the entire human race.

The fact that Jesus would call Judas Iscariot His "friend" when Judas came with a mob to arrest Jesus provides almost irrefutable evidence that Jesus had already forgiven him. Matthew 26:50 (KJB). God forgives every human who has wronged Him because He intends to save every human who has wronged Him. When Christ appears to all of His living humans confined to the regions of death in the end of the world, and He causes them all to repent and return to the faith that He put into them when He created them in His image, He will save them all from their sins, evil, and spiritual deaths to a recreated, eternal life on His recreated earth, including Judas Iscariot. Matthew 26:50; John 15:13; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). In His final judgment, Christ will cast only the separated, spiritual deaths of those living humans into the eternal lake of fire. Mark 9:43-48; Isaiah 66:22-24; Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB).

Forgiveness of sins and evil is not the same as the remission of sins and evil. God has forgiven the entire human race because He intends to save the entire human race, but He does not make that salvation actual until He has remitted; that is, has purged all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths from all humans. Repentance means to turn from one's sins because one hates evil, and one turns to a desire to love and serve Christ. Repentance engenders God's compassion for His living humans He has already forgiven so that He can purge all their sins, evil, and spiritual deaths from them. God must purge all sins, evil, and spiritual deaths from all of His repentant, living humans so that He can recreate them all to be meek and righteous. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB).

When a human alive in the flesh hears the gospel, repents and believes that Christ has saved him, then the Holy Spirit purges his soul and spirit of all of his spiritual sins and evil by His use of the blood Jesus shed on the cross, annuls his spiritual death, and recreates his soul and spirit by giving him the perfect righteousness of Christ Himself so that God can accept him into Heaven to live there forever. I Corinthians 6:11; John 5:24; I Corinthians 5:21; Revelation 1:5 (KJB). That person saved by God's grace will love God, and he will no longer be able to commit any spiritual sins such as disbelief in God or a hatred of goodness. I John 3:9 (KJB). However, that saved person will still retain his fleshly nature that will cause him to be able to commit sins of the flesh such as adultery or thievery. But God will cleanse him of such sins as he daily repents of them with the water that Jesus shed on the cross. But unless a saved person happens in a moment to be overcome by temptation, he will have no desire to commit such sins. I John 1:9-10; John 13:1-13; Romans 7:18 (KJB). The very fact that Jesus could describe salvation by grace as having "passed from death unto life" proves that every living human that God creates and loves also has a spiritual death within them injected into them by the Devil. Genesis 3:15; John 5:24 (KJB). The Devil hopes that that spiritual death, and all of the sins and evil that results from it, will be able to utterly destroy the spiritual life of at least one human so that the Devil can prove that God's Love can fail. Job 1:11-12; Job 2:5-6; Job 2:9 (KJB). But God's Love for all of His living humans can never fail. Job 13:15-16; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB).

Humans who do not become saved by grace will still retain all of their sins and evil and their spiritual deaths. When they physically die, Christ will not be able to accept them, and so He will judge them and consign them to one of the three regions of death. John 8:23-24; Hebrews 9:27 (KJB). According to Revelation 20:13, there are three regions of death: the Sea, Death, and Hell. Although no one has the right to speculate on how Christ will judge any individual, as a general rule, one can suppose that humans who have led good and moral lives Christ will cast into the Sea; those who have led immoral lives Christ will cast into the region of Death which is the same as the bottomless pit, and those who have led cruel and evil lives Christ will cast into a burning Hell. But God has already forgiven them all, and since God can never lose anything He has ever created, then Christ will come to them in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior so that He can raise them to live on His recreated earth. Luke 23:34; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

God has two methods of salvation. He uses the blood and water Jesus shed on the cross to save by His grace, and He uses His fiery wrath against evil to save by His mercy. The Old Testament sin offering symbolizes His salvation by His grace, and the Old Testament burnt offering symbolizes His salvation by His use of His fiery wrath against evil. Leviticus 4:1-8; Leviticus 5:10; Genesis 3:20-21 (KJB). God will use His fiery wrath against evil to melt down every living human confined to the regions of death, and upon their repentance and faith in Christ, He will use His fire to separate and purge all of their sins, evil, and spiritual deaths from them so that He can save their repentant, living natures and condemn their spiritual deaths to the eternal lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3 (KJB).

I Corinthians 3:11-15 describes the salvation by the fire of God. These verses use the phrases "every man" and "any man," not believers saved by grace. Every man's evil and sinful works will be burned, and he will be rewarded for his good works.
"Any man" will be saved "by fire." Humans saved by grace cannot be saved by fire because they have already been saved by the blood and water that Christ shed on the cross. Genesis 8:20-21; Psalm 75:3; I Corinthians 4:5; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 22:11-12; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB).

Commentary on Selected Psalms

                               Psalm 68:1-3 (KJB)

Psalm 68:1 prophesies that God will scatter His enemies. Who are God's enemies? In the beginning, God never cursed Adam and Eve or any of their descendants. God cursed only the Devil and the ground which holds the evil regions of death. God gave Adam and Eve and their descendants temporary punishments for their sins and evil, and He sentenced them to have to suffer physical death, but He promised Eve that she would be the mother of all living humans, and He will never allow even one of them to ever suffer eternal death. Genesis 3:14-21 (KJB). All humans are alive to God and remain alive, even those whom He has to consign to the regions of death after they die. Luke 20:38; Hebrews 9:27 (KJB).

When Adam and Eve sinned, the Devil became able to inject spiritual death into the inner beings of them and all future humans. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). The Devil planted his "seed," which is spiritual death, into the inner beings of all living humans in his attempt to utterly destroy the living image of God within them and thereby prove that God's Love can fail. Job 2:5-6; Job 2:9; I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). But God promised His living human race that He would send the "seed" of the woman, who would be Christ the Savior, who would utterly crush the Devil and all of his evil works, not His living humans. The only enemies of God are the Devil, spiritual death, sin, and evil, not His living humans whom He loves.

The New Testament bears record that Christ will utterly destroy only the Devil and all of his evil works, not His living humans. John 12:31-32; John 12:47-48; John 11:25-26; I Corinthians 15:26; II Timothy 1:10; I John 3:8; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). The New Testament also bears record that Christ will save from spiritual death and all evil His entire, living human race. Revelation 5:11-14; John 5:24; John 11:25-26; John 5:28-29; I Corinthians 15:22; I Timothy 4:10; II Peter 3:9; Revelation 21:5 (KJB). Revelation 21:5 happens to be an inescapable promise of Christ, "Behold, I make all things new..." This ineluctable promise can only mean that Christ will recreate everything He has ever created, including all of His living humans.

The first part of Psalm 68:2 relates that God will use His fire to drive away like smoke those who hate Him; that is, His enemies. The second part of Psalm 68:2 relates that God will use His fire to melt down the "wax," which means His living humans confined to the regions of death, in order to separate their wickedness and spiritual death from their living natures so that He can save their living natures and cause their spiritual deaths to "perish." John 5:28-29; II Peter 3:9-13; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 20:5 (KJB).

Psalm 68:3 relates that the "righteous," meaning every living human that God creates in His image, will rejoice and be glad when Christ liberates them from spiritual death and all evil by the grace and/or mercy of God. Christ liberates some by His grace, and he will liberate the rest of His living humans by His mercy. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). God's "mercy endureth for ever." Psalm 136:1 (KJB).

Commentary on Selected Psalms

                               Psalm 67:1-7 (KJB)

Psalm 67:1-7 can only be a prophecy about how God will rule the earth after He has recreated it. God will rule all nations, and "all the people" will praise Him. The phrase "all the people" can on refer to the entire living human race that God raises from the dead in the general resurrection in the end of the world. Christ will appear to "all the people" "on the earth and under the earth," and He will cause them all to repent and return to the faith that He put into them when He created them. Genesis 1:27; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will recreate all of His repentant, living humans, and He will recreate them all to be meek and righteous, and they all will inherit His recreated earth. Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). Living humans saved by grace will inherit Heaven, but God will save the rest of His living humans to inherit His new earth because God can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB).

God loves all of His living humans that He creates, and He can never lose anything that He loves. I Corinthians 13:8 (KJB). Psalm 67 describes a perfect earth with a perfect society ruled by a perfect God. Habakkuk 2:14 (KJB). God considers all of His living humans that He creates in His image to be alive even when He has to consign them to the regions of death because they still retain the sins and evil that they refused to repent of when they lived on the former earth. Hebrews 9:27; Luke 20:38; John 8:23-24 (KJB). Jesus told those unbelievers that they would "die in their sins," but He did not say that they would be dead forever. God possesses an Almighty Love and an Almighty Intellect which means He can and has devised a plan to save His entire, living human race by causing them all, sooner or later, to choose of their own free will to return to the faith in Him that He put into them when He created them. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Psalm 36:6 (KJB).

The Devil holds a claim on the lives of all humans because he has injected spiritual death into their inner beings which causes them to commit sins and do evil acts. The Devil planned that that spiritual death would eventually annul the good image of God in at least some humans and cause God to lose them to an eternal death in an eternal Hell. Job 2:5; Job 2:9 (KJB). Romans 5:12 teaches that sin causes spiritual death, and spiritual death, in turn, causes sin. This fact constitutes a vicious cycle from which humans have no hope of escape on their own. Romans 5:6 (KJB). Humans cannot save themselves from eternal death, but God can. God came into the world as a perfect human so that He could not be charged with sin, and He suffered the eternal deaths of all humans, and all of the sins and evil that causes it, on a cruel cross, and He rose from the dead victorious over spiritual death and the Devil by turning eternal death into temporary death. Christ accomplished this salvation for all of His living humans, some by His grace and all others in the end of the world. Hebrews 4:15; Hebrews 2:9-18; I Corinthians 3:11-15; John 12:31-32; John 12:47-48; John 5:28-29; I John 2:2; Revelation 1:17-18; I John 3:8; John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 22:11-12; II Peter 3:9; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB).