Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                Psalm 121:1-8 (KJB)

This Psalm happens to be about how God will save the entire nation of Israel. The Lord will keep Israel, protect Israel, and preserve Israel forever. This Psalm agrees with the prophecy of Ezekiel that God will use His fiery wrath against evil to melt down the entire "house of Israel" to separate its silver from its dross. Exekiel 22:17-22 (KJB). The silver symbolizes the living image of God in every Jew that God created them to be. This Psalm also agrees with Ezekiel's prophecy that God will raise "the whole house of Israel" from their graves to live in the land that he had promised to give them. Ezekiel 37:11-14 (KJB). The Apostle Paul also prophesied that "all Israel shall be saved," but he could not have meant salvation by grace because he also wrote that only a remnant of the Jews would be saved by grace. Romans 11:26-27; Romans 11:4-5 (KJB).

But Jesus prophesied that God will extend His salvation in the general resurrection of all humans not saved by grace to the entire human race. John 5:28-29 (KJB). Jesus could not have meant the Rapture of the Church because those saints will be only some humans in their graves. Jesus also could not have meant that this salvation in the general resurrection would be by God's grace because grace happens to be given by God solely apart from any good works, but Jesus said that these humans would be raised back to life because of their good works. Jesus clearly taught that salvation by grace happens immediately after a person alive in the flesh believes that God has the power to save them from sin and eternal death. John 5:24 (KJB). This immediate salvation can only be a free gift. Joel agrees with Jesus that a time will come when God will "pour out my Spirit upon all flesh." Joel 2:28-29 (KJB).

All through the Bible, it teaches that God has and will save millions by His grace and provide them with a home in Heaven, but the Bible also teaches that God will provide a lesser form of salvation for His good image that He puts into all humans that causes them all to do some good works, and God can never lose anything He has ever created. Genesis 1:27; Ecclesiastes 3:14; John 5:28-29; Revelation 21:5; John 10:34-36; Psalm 36:6 (KJB). If God ever loses His image in even one human to an eternal lake of fire, then He will not have preserved that living human. Luke 20:38 (KJB). That human would be eternally dead, but every living human is alive to God forever. God will cast only dead humans, whom He has separated from His living humans, into an eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15 (KJB).