Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                Psalm 102:25-28 (KJB)

In the beginning, God created the earth and the universe. God created them, and God has the right to destroy them. God will destroy His entire creation, including all of His living humans, because it all has been tainted with evil which emerged from a non-existent realm of absolute nothingness or chaos. God described this absolute nothingness this way: "And the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep..." Genesis 1:2 (KJB). God described the evil that infects the nations as "less then nothing, and vanity;"that is, complete emptiness. Isaiah 40:17 (KJB). All evil has emerged from this realm of absolute nothingness to infect Lucifer and caused him to rebel against God, and from that rebellion, evil spread to all of God's creations. Ezekiel 28:14-15 (KJB). But God has turned that absolute nothingness into a lake of fire, and in the end of the world, He will cast the Devil and all evil into that eternal lake of fire and so forever torment them to prevent them from ever being able to infect His new creations again. Deuteronomy 32:22; Matthew 25:41 (KJB). God will cast the beast, the false prophet, and the Devil "alive" into the lake of fire which means He will attach some measure of positive consciousness to them so that they will be able to feel the burning sensations of the flames. That will certainly occupy their minds forever. Revelation 19:20; Revelation 20:10 (KJB). Chaos can generate negative consciousnesses that the Bible calls "devils," and they are wholly destructive. But the positive and creative Consciousness of God can only create good and creative systems such as humans in His image. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:27 (KJB).

In verse 26, God declares that He will cause His entire creation to "perish." But the rest of this verse indicates that that word cannot mean annihilation. Annihilation only occurs within the non-existent realm of absolute nothingness. In God's positive universe, matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed except by God. When God destroys something, or causes it to perish, that simply means that God dissolves a former system and uses the still existent elements of it to create a new system from which He has purged all of its former negativity; that is, its evil. In the end of the world, God will purge all evil from all of His creations, and He will recreate it all to be wholly righteous. II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB). "Behold, I make all things new..." Revelation 21:5 (KJB).

All of this means that when God used the word "perish" in John 3:16, He did not mean that He will ever cast His living humans, who are unbelievers whom He creates and loves, into an eternal lake of fire and annihilate their lives except for their "worm" which symbolizes their dead, negative natures which will squirm in the fire forever. Mark 9:44; Isaiah 66:24 (KJB). God can never annihilate anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Psalm 36:6 (KJB). God had to have meant by His use of the word "perish" in John 3:16 that He will use His fiery wrath against evil in the end of the world to dissolve the systems of all unbelievers confined to the regions of death in order to purge all sins, evil, and spiritual deaths from their systems so that He can use their remaining living elements to recreate them as new, righteous systems that will inherit His new, recreated earth. But since "the just shall live by faith," Christ must first appear to them and cause them all to repent and believe that He has the power to save them from eternal death. Habakkuk 2:4; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Thus all unbelievers will lose their former, earthly selves, but God will bring them back to faith in Him so that He can recreate them to a new and righteous life on His new earth. John 12:25 (KJB).

Humans who "hate their lives in this world;" that is, those who hate their sins and evil natures and repent of them and put their faith in Christ their Savior, will attain eternal life as a gift from God while still alive in their flesh. John 5:24 (KJB). God will annul their spiritual deaths and wash away their sins with the blood of Jesus, but He will recreate them in such a way that they will still retain their identities and most of their personalities. In other words, they "will keep their lives." But God will somewhat recreate even living humans saved by His grace in their souls and spirits when they repent and believe, and He will give them new bodies when He Raptures His Church. II Corinthians 5:17; II Corinthians 5:1-5; John 12:25 (KJB).

Verse 27 affirms that God is eternal, but He will allow sin and evil to have only a temporary effect on His eternal creations.

In verse 28, the phrase "the children of thy servants shall continue" can only mean that God will save the entire human race since His servants can only be those humans who are saved by His grace.