Commentary on Selected Psalms

                               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.