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).