II Samuel 22:8-9, 13
Being a prophet, king David often received visions and poems from God. II Samuel chapter 22 happens to be a vision and a poem about when God will use His fiery wrath to burn the world to purge it of all evil, and He will recreate it all to be righteous. II Peter 3:9-13; II Samuel 20:8-9; II Samuel 22:13 (KJB). Although king David happened to be saved by God's grace, he never seemed to indicate that he understood exactly what that meant. God did give him, and Isaiah, visions about the coming of the suffering Messiah, but they never indicated that they understood exactly how Christ's suffering applied to them. Psalm 22:1-21 (KJB).
God wrote the Old Testament to the Hebrew people to whom He promised to save in a general resurrection. Being a Jew, king David believed that he would be saved in that general resurrection. Daniel 12:2-3; Ezekiel 37:1-14 (KJB). God knew that He would resurrect king David with all of the Old Testament saints saved by His grace when He resurrected Jesus, but God did not need to make king David, or any of the Old Testament saints understand that. Matthew 27:51-53 (KJB). King David only needed to know that one day God would save him from the regions of death. King David had a fear of the regions of death. II Samuel 22:1-7 (KJB). But he also had faith that God would raise him from Hell, along with the Holy One, even though he did not know that that would be the resurrection of Jesus. Psalm 16:9-11 (KJB). King David never went to Hell, but he did go to a place called Paradise that God had located next to Hell. Luke 16:19-21 (KJB). King David also imagined that God would resurrect him from "many waters" which was his vision of that region of death called the Sea. II Samuel 22:17 (KJB). Hell is actually divided into three regions of death: the Sea, Death, and the burning Hell. Revelation 20:13 (KJB).
Jesus taught about the general resurrection. John 5:28-29 (KJB). Jesus assured a Pharisee, who could not possibly 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 taught that, "Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up." Matthew 15:13 (KJB). His teaching can only mean that a day will come when God purges all evil from His entire creation so that He can recreate it all to be righteous. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). In Jesus' explanation of His parable of the tares and wheat, He explicitly declared, "The field is the world," and the "good seed" can only be all humans that God creates to be good. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). The "tares" are the evil, spiritual deaths that the Devil has planted into the hearts of every human. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). In "the end of the world," Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to purge all sin and evil from the hearts of all His repentant, living humans so that He can save them from eternal death which sin and evil causes, and He will cast their separated, dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. Matthew 13:24-30; Matthew 13:36-43 (KJB). Jesus taught that God would reward even the least good works. Matthew 10:41-42 (KJB). Even the most evil human who ever lived has done something good in their life. Only a live human can receive a reward. A dead human cannot. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14; Revelation 22:11-12 (KJB).
King David further revealed that he believed God would save him "according to my righteousness," which can only mean the righteousness that God put into him when He created him. II Samuel 22:21-25; Genesis 1:31 (KJB). This has to be a lesser form of salvation than that of grace because salvation by grace never happens because of good works. Ephesians 2:8-9 (KJB). In salvation by grace, God freely gives the perfect righteousness of Christ to the believer so that He can accept him into Heaven to live with Him there forever. II Corinthians 5:21; John 17:24 (KJB). The Father and Jesus taught about a lesser form of salvation for all living humans because of their good works. Psalm 50:23; John 5:28-29 (KJB). The Father and the Son also taught that every living human would have to return to repentance and faith in Christ in order to be saved by grace or with a lesser form of salvation. John 5:24; Revelation 5:11-14; Habakkuk 2:4 (KJB).
King David bragged that he had "kept the ways of the Lord," when in actuality, he had committed many sins and had done some evil. II Samuel 22:22-25 (KJB). Nevertheless, since king David had relied on the sin offerings and the burnt offerings made by the priests on his behalf, then he had demonstrated that he had faith in the mercy and forgiveness of God. Leviticus 5:5-10 (KJB). In the end of the world, Christ will cause all of His living humans "on the earth, and under the earth" to repent and return to faith in Him as their Savior so that He can save them all from eternal death by His mercy. Christ will cast only their separated, eternal deaths into the lake of fire. God's fiery wrath only purges sin, evil, eternal death, and the Devil from His creation so that He can recreate it all to be righteous. Revelation 5:11-14; Philippians 2:9-11; II Peter 3:9-13; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:1-5 (KJB).
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