Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                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).