Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                Psalm 107:41 (KJB)

In this verse, God promises the poor that He will raise them above their poverty. But most poor people in this world live and die in poverty. But God wrote the Bible in the eternal sense which means all human problems have an eternal solution, and since God never does anything halfway, then this verse can only mean that God will raise all poor people who ever lived to a higher state of prosperity in eternity. All humans live in a state of poverty, either spiritual poverty or economic poverty, or both, in this world. Humans who recognize that they are "poor in spirit;" that is, those who realize that they have a sinful nature that keeps them from enjoying all the blessings that God desires for them to have, will be those who become likely to repent and believe in Christ while still alive in the flesh so that He can give them eternal life and a home in Heaven with God forever. Matthew 5:3; John 5:24 (KJB).

Jesus also promised that "the meek shall inherit the earth." Matthew 5:5 (KJB). This can only be a lesser form of salvation than that of grace. Since Jesus prayed that His Father's Will be done on earth to the same extent that His Will be done in Heaven, then Christ must have a way to change the sinful pride of all humans who do not become saved by grace to a state of meekness and humility so that they can inherit the earth. Matthew 6:10 (KJB). Christ will accomplish this salvation when He visits all of His living humans confined to the regions of death in the end of the world, and He will cause them all to repent and believe in Him as the Lamb of God their Savior so that He can separate all of their living natures that He creates and loves from their dead and evil natures. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will resurrect and recreate His repentant, living humans to be the meek who will inherit an eternal life on His recreated earth. II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).

In the second part of this verse, God "maketh Him families like a flock." This phrase can only mean that God will provide a higher and a lesser form of salvation for all of His living humans because they all are His flock of sheep. God considers every human He ever created as being one of His sheep. Psalm 100:3 (KJB). When Jesus related His parable of the sheepfold, the sheep that He calls out who follow Him represent all humans saved by grace, but the sheep left in the sheepfold represent the rest of humanity. Jesus promised that He will save all of His sheep. John 10:9-11 (KJB). When Jesus saw the multitude "as sheep having no shepherd," He considered them all as being His sheep who had not as yet accepted Him as their Shepherd. Jesus also healed them all. If the multitudes that followed Jesus represent the entire human race, then Christ will heal and save all of His sheep, some by His grace and all others with a lesser form of salvation. Matthew 9:35-36 (KJB). Whenever God becomes moved with compassion, He always heals and saves all.