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).