Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                 Psalm 98:9 (KJB)

This verse declares that God will be fair when He makes His final judgment of the world. God will judge the world according to His own righteousness. God puts a small part of His righteousness into all humans because he creates all humans in His image. Genesis 1:27 (KJB). God gives every human some good works to do through His good image within them. Isaiah 26:12 (KJB). Even the most evil human who ever lived has done something good in their lives. Jesus taught that even the slightest good work will be rewarded. Matthew 10:41-42 (KJB). Evil humans refuse to do most of the good works that God put into them to do, but they cannot avoid doing some good works. James 4:17 (KJB). One would think that since God has to be fair, then He would never cast any human, and his good works that he has done, into an eternal lake of fire. In fact, the Bible teaches that God will cast only dead humans, who are totally evil, into an eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB).

The New Testament provides many examples of the fact that God will raise all of His living humans from the regions of the dead because of their good works when Christ judges the world. In Jesus' explanation of the parable of the tares and wheat, the wheat which represents the good natures of humans, will be saved, but the tares, which represents the evil natures of humans injected into them by the Devil, will be cast into the fire. Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB). In Jesus' parable about false prophets, He taught that only the evil trees that bear no good fruit whatsoever are cast into the fire. Matthew 7:15-19 (KJB). Jesus taught a Pharisee, who could not have been saved by grace, that he would be rewarded for his good works "at the resurrection of the just." Luke 14:12-14 (KJB). Jesus directly taught that in His final judgment, He will raise all that have done some good from their graves back to life, and He will condemn all total evil. John 5:28-29 (KJB).

God's only enemies are the Devil and all of the spiritual deaths and evil that he has injected into all of God's good and living humans. John 12:31-32; I John 3:8 (KJB). Whatever God creates can never become His enemy. In the end of the world, Christ will appear to all of His living humans confined to the regions of death, and He will cause them all to freely choose to return to faith in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). "The just shall live by his faith." Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB). At that time, Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve the beings of all those living humans in order to separate their repentant, living natures for Him to resurrect and recreate to live on His recreated earth, from their dead and evil natures that He will cast into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; II Peter 3:9-13; Psalm 75:3; I Corinthians 3:11-15 (KJB). Revelation 22:11-12 reveals that in the end of the world, the "unjust" and the "filthy" will be left behind, but the "righteous" will be saved and rewarded for their good works.

The entire 98th Psalm happens to be a prophecy that the entire, living human race who has inherited God's new earth will rejoice and praise God for their salvation.