Commentary on Selected Psalms

                               Psalm 111:7-8 (KJB)

Psalm 111:7-8, along with Ecclesiastes 3:14, assert the eternal truth that everything God does and everything He says will last forever. This means everything God has ever created and every commandment He has ever made can only be a part of His Word. Every physical and spiritual law in God's creation will last forever. Psalm 19:1-4; Matthew 24:35 (KJB). God created man in His image. Genesis 1:27 (KJB). This image of God in every human will last forever.

Sin and evil gained access to God's creation beginning with the rebellion of Lucifer in Heaven. Isaiah 14:12-17 (KJB). God dissolved Lucifer's system, recovered all of the good elements He had put into his creation of him, and God cast his wholly evil, negative and destructive consciousness to earth as a devil called Satan. Ezekiel 28:13-19 (KJB). Satan has the same goal that Lucifer had. He wants to murder God and take His place. John 8:44 (KJB).

With Satan's desire to torture Job, he revealed his plan to accomplish his goal. Satan believed that if he could cause Job to curse God to His face, then he could turn the good image of God in Job to total evil, and thereby, Satan would be able to annul a part of God's creation and prove that God's Love can fail, which would also prove that God is not Almighty, and that knowledge would eventually open a way for Satan to find a way to murder God and take His place. God allowed Satan to do his worst to Job, but God told Satan that he could not take Job's life. Job 2:6 (KJB). God's message to Satan was that although Satan could do his worst to Job, Satan would never be able to annul the good image of God in Job and the faith in Him that was a part of that goodness. Although Job, like all humans, was a sinner, God related that Job was as morally good as a sinner could be. Job 1:1; Job 7:20 (KJB). God's message to humanity in this was that although God would allow Satan to do his worst to humanity, God would never allow Satan to utterly destroy the image of God, which is morally perfect, in any human.

Being the first written book of the Bible, Job relates God's and Satan's plans for humanity. God will allow Satan to do his worst to humanity to prove that His Love can never fail, but Satan will never be able to utterly destroy the good image of God, and the faith in God within that image, in even one human. While it is true that all humans have sinned, and some humans have committed terrible evil acts, all of that happens to be the Devil's fault since he can do his worst to humanity. Nevertheless, all humans must take responsibility for their own choices. God cursed only the Devil in Genesis 3:14-15. God never cursed Adam and Eve or any of their descendants. While it happens to be true that some humans have hated God and cursed Him, that cannot destroy God's Love for them. God knows exactly how to cause all humans to return to faith in Him of their own free will so that He can cleanse, recover and recreate every image of Himself that He has put into every human that has become sullied by sin and evil. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). God told Job, and Adam and Eve, that He would become the Redeemer who would sacrifice Himself to purge all of the sin, evil, and spiritual death that the Devil has injected into the inner beings of all humans in his attempt to utterly destroy the good nature of at least one human. Genesis 3:15; Job 19:25-27 (KJB).

God allowed Satan to remain within His creation. Why? God could have summarily purged Satan and all evil from His creation after He had dissolved Lucifer's being. But He did not. God has a perfect Intellect. He never makes mistakes. God always gets His decisions right. God knew that Lucifer's rebellion had caused all of God's angels to realize that they could use their free will that God had given them to choose to be sinful and evil. In fact, one third of all angels decided to follow Lucifer in his rebellion. This realization that free will could be misused caused doubt about God's Love to remain within God's creation. Perhaps God's Love could fail to protect His creation, and therefore, God might not be Almighty. If God had summarily purged Satan and all evil from His creation, the doubt would remain and would become an open door for evil to again and again invade God's creation to cause fear and rebellion. God had to devise a plan to permanently purge all sin and evil from His creation to prove beyond all doubt that His Love is Almighty and that free will can never be misused to the extent that it can utterly destroy any part of His creation. So God devised a plan to create a human race on earth with free will which the Devil could influence to cause them to misuse to commit sin and evil that would allow the Devil to inject spiritual death into them. But God also created them to have faith in Him that He put into His image within them. God would then prove His Almighty Love for them by sacrificing Himself to take away their sins, evil, and spiritual deaths that the Devil put into them that threatened to utterly destroy them forever. God could then activate their faith and cause every one of them to choose of their own free will to return to faith and love for Him so that He could save them all from eternal spiritual death. God would also prove that love and faith that are freely chosen can only be a real love that can never be doubted.

God would cause some humans to return to faith in Him while still alive in the flesh, and He would save them by His grace. John 5:24 (KJB). God also knew exactly how to cause the rest of humanity confined to the regions of death to return to faith in Him of their own free will when Christ will appear to them in the end of the world and cause them all to repent and return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). After all this, God will then be able to thoroughly purge all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil from His entire creation because He will have proven that His Love is Almighty and cannot be doubted. II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; I John 3:8 (KJB).