Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                Psalm 102:18-22 (KJB)

The first phrase of Psalm 102:18 identifies this verse and those that follow to verse 22 as being a prophecy. The second phrase of this verse prophesies that eventually all humans that God ever created will one day worship Him. Since God wrote the Bible in the eternal sense, the Psalmist prophesies as if this event has already happened. This verse actually prophesies that God will save the entire human race in the end. God's promise in Revelation 21:5, "Behold, I make all things new," verifies this prophecy.

Verse 19 affirms that God eternally observes the earth and all of its inhabitants.

In verse 20, God hears "the groaning of the prisoner." The Devil injects spiritual death into the inner beings of all humans which causes humans to sin and commit evil acts. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). This fact makes all humans prisoners of the Devil since the Devil aims to use spiritual death to utterly destroy the good natures of all humans that God creates. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:27; Job 1:11; Job 2:5; Job 2:9 (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). God Himself has liberated all of the Devil's "prisoners" because He came to earth in human form to take all of their eternal deaths, and all of the sins and evil that causes it, on Himself on a cruel cross and turned that eternal death into a temporary death by rising alive from the dead. When the Apostle Paul wrote, "Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him," He meant that all Christians have suffered only three days of death, but when Christ rose from the dead, He gives His own eternal life to all Christians. Romans 6:7 (KJB).

But God has a second method to liberate "those that are appointed to death." When Jesus died on the cross, He commended His Spirit to the care of His Father which meant that the Holy Spirit possessed the entire power of God when He descended into Hell. Luke 23:46 (KJB). The Holy Spirit had a reason to descend into Hell, and that was to cleanse God Himself of all sin, evil, and spiritual death that Jesus took upon Himself on the cross. Psalm 16:10; Acts 2:25-31 (KJB). Since the Holy Spirit happened to be completely innocent of all sins and evil, then Hell could not hold Him. The Holy Spirit left behind in Hell all of the sins, evil, and spiritual deaths that Jesus bore for all humans, and He rose to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus so that He could rise from the dead victorious over all sin, evil, and spiritual death. I Peter 3:18; II Timothy 1:10; Revelation 1:17-18 (KJB). Jesus purchased the salvation by grace of all believers when He shed His blood and water on the cross, but the Holy Spirit must activate that salvation when every believer saved by grace repents and puts their faith in Christ. I Peter 1:18-19; I Corinthians 6:11 (KJB). In like manner, the Holy Spirit saved all living humans confined to the regions of death, but Christ must activate that salvation when He appears to all of His living humans confined to the regions of death and causes them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14; I Corinthians 3:11-15 (KJB). When they all repent and believe, Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their cleansed, living natures from their dead and evil natures. II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3 (KJB). Christ will recover and recreate their living natures to a new life on His recreated earth, and He will cast all of their separated dead natures into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). The Old Testament burnt offerings symbolized this form of salvation. Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB).

In verses 21 and 22, God will be praised by all His people in Zion, which is Heaven, and in Jerusalem on the earth. God will save from spiritual death all His living humans to serve Him in Heaven and on His recreated earth. John 6:33; John 6:51; Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; Matthew 6:10 (KJB).