RRB notes on Psalm 4

Psalms 4 KJV

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David

1. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness:[1] thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

[1] Notice that David appeals to his own righteousness. Salvation in the Old Testament, under the Law, was a combination of faith and works (see Neh. 13:22, 31; Psa. 24:3-5).

2. O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing?[a] Selah.

[a] “Leasing” (כָּזָב), archaic English for “lying” or “acting deceitfully.”

3. But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.

4. Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

5. Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD. [b]

[b] The verse deals with the attitude of the man bringing the sacrifice (Prov. 15:8, 21, 21:27; Isa. 1:10-15).

6. There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. [2]

[2] A Second Advent passage (Psa. 37:6, 43:3-4, 89:15) which deals with the restoration of Israel (Psa.  51:18). That is when “the sacrifices of righteousness” (vs. 5 cf. Psa. 51:19) will be offered. The verse deals with an appearance of the Lord near the end of the Tribulation (Num. 6:26, 10:35; Psa. 7:6, 10:12, 12:5, 17:13, 80:7, 118:27; Isa. 60:1).

7. Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.

8. I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.

 RRB notes on Psalm 34

Psalms 34 KJV

A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed.

1. I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. [1]

[1] There are five mandates, in regards to the Lord, in the first three verses. You are to “bless” Him and “praise” Him (vs. 1), “boast in” Him (vs. 2), “magnify” Him, and “exalt” Him (vs. 3).

2. My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

3. O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. [a]

[a] A great verse for a marriage proposal.

4. I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

5. They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

6. This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. [b]

[b] A great verse for a new convert.

7. The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

8. O taste and see that the LORD is good:[c] blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

[c] 1 Pet. 2:3; Isa. 55:1-3.

9. O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.

10. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

11. Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

12. What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

13. Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

14. Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

15. The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous,[2] and his ears are open unto their cry.

[2] The Old Testament designation “the righteous” only occurs one time in reference to saved people under grace in the New Testament (1 Pet. 4:18). “The righteous” are found here and in verses 17, 19, and 21. These are Old Testament saints whose righteousness is part of their salvation (Deut. 6:25, 24:13). You can’t apply the Baptist “historic position” doctrinally to the Old Testament.

16. The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

17. The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

18. The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

19. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

20. He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken. [d]

[d] John 19:31-36.

21. Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

22. The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

 RRB notes on Psalm 33

Psalms 33 KJV

1. Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.

2. Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

3. Sing unto him a new song; [a] play skilfully with a loud noise. [b]

[a] Ezra 3:11; Neh. 12:43.

[b] 1 Chron. 15:20; Psa. 150:3-6.

4. For the word of the LORD is right; [1] and all his works are done in truth.

[1] “The word of the LORD” is more than that. It’s “pure” (Psa. 119:140), eternal (Psa. 119:89), life-giving (John 6:63), “true from the beginning” (Psa. 119:160), “incorruptible” (1 Peter 1:23), and able to “save your souls” (James 1:21).

5. He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.

6. By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. [c]

[c] Gen. 1:16; Isa. 44:24, 45:5-7, 11-12, 18-21, 48:12-13.

7. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. [d]

[d] Job 41:31-32.

8. Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

9. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

10. The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. [e]

[e] Second Advent (see notes on Psa. 8:1, 10:16).

11. The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

12. Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; [f] and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. [g]

[f] Cf. Psa. 9:17. The immediate reference is to Israel.

[g] Deut. 9:26, 29, 32:9; Isa. 19:25; Jer. 12:14.

13. The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.

14. From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. [h]

[h] Psa. 73:11; Job 22:13.

15. He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works. [i]

[i] Matt. 10:26.

16. There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: [j] a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

[j] Judg. 7:2; 2 Chron. 13:3-18; 2 Kings 19:32-35. See note on 1 Chron. 21:3.

17. An horse is a vain thing for safety: [2] neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.

[2] The “horse” is “vain” if the enemy’s horse is faster than yours, or if the other rider has a bow or gun and you do not, or if your horse stumbles or is crippled, or if your horse tires too quickly, or if you cannot control your horse, etc. The missing factor is “God.”

18. Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him,[k] upon them that hope in his mercy;

[k] See note on Job 28:28 and comments on Phil. 2:12.

19. To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

20. Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield. [3]

[3] Notice, again (Psa. 25:22, 28:9), how the Psalm ends with reference to the entire nation of Israel (“them” in vss. 18-19, “our” in vss. 20-21, and “we” in vss. 21-22).

21. For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

22. Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.

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Note on Psalm 8:1

Psalms 8:1 KJV

O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! [1] who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

[1] The God of Israel has never had an excellent name “in all the earth,” but He will in the Millennium under a military dictatorship where He is the King (Psa. 72:9, 110:1-7; Isa. 2:2-4, 49:22-23; Rev. 2:26-27; App. 63, 110).

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Note on Psalm 10:16

Psalms 10:16 KJV

The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. [1] [e]

[1] The verse is to be taken literally, showing that it never took place. When Jesus came as the “King of the Jews,” He was crucified. He was not their king “for ever” and hasn’t been since. The “heathen” are not “perished” out of the land; the “heathen” took over the land under Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C., and a successive line of heathen (Persians. Greeks, and Romans) took it over and controlled it until Jesus came. After the Romans left, the Arabians took it over until the Turks took it, and then the British got it back in 1917. But the land is “his land,” meaning that the United Nations (in the 21st Century) is doomed. They will perish “out of his land” because it is not their land (see more than thirty references in Genesis and Deuteronomy in Israel: A Deadly Piece of Dirt, Bible Baptist Bookstore, 2003).

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Note on 1 Chron. 21:3

1 Chronicles 21:3 KJV

And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord’s servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?

The objection is based on the fact that: 1) God didn’t tell him to number the people as He did back in Numbers, and 2) “the just shall live by faith” (Rom. 1:17) and not count on military superiority like the United Nations does (1 Sam. 14:6, 17:47; 1 Kings 20:27-28; 2 Chron. 14:11; Psa. 147:10). Two countries, not as big as Texas, whipped the United States to a standstill (North Korea and Vietnam). The third one, not as big as half the United States, is “taking us to the cleaners” right now. Putting “In God We Trust” on your coins doesn’t do any good at all if you’re trusting in your coins.

 RRB notes on Psalm 3

Psalms 3 KJV

A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.

1. LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me. [a]

[a] Double application: David in 2 Sam. 15-20, and Israel at the Second Advent (vs. 7).

2. Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. [b]

[b] See note on 2 Kings 14:7.*

3. But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

4. I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

5. I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

6. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about. [c]

[c] Zech. 12:2-3, 14:2-3.

7. Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

8. Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.

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*Note on 2 Kings 14:7

2 Kings 14:7 KJV

He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah [1] by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.

[1] Here the word “Selah” is [chet-samekh-lamed-ayin]. See Psalm 3:4, 4:2, 4, 21:2, 39:5, etc., for the word “Selah” there [samekh-lamed-ayin]. On a map, it is called Selah-Petra, the “rock city.” There will be a reference to the Second Coming of Christ within two or three verses of the word every time it shows up. It is only recognized by scholars as a pause or musical note. The word means “rock” – the “rock of separations” (1 Sam. 23:28). Otherwise, it is the “Rock” mentioned over and over again in the Song of Moses (Deut. 32), with the entire song dealing with the Second Advent (cf. Psa. 107:4, 7, 36, 108:10, 31:21; Eccl. 10:15). The Jewish remnant will be going south of the Dead Sea into the “rock city” to hide in the last few hours before the Lord returns and saves them “in the nick of time” on a white horse (see App. 99).

 RRB notes on Psalm 2

Psalms 2 KJV

1. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? [1]

[1] The entire passage, with the exception of verse 7, is the Second Advent. It is the double application, again, that throws all the scholars off because when they read Acts 4:25-26, they think that was the fulfillment of Psalm 2. It is not close to it. It misses it by eleven verses. This “double application” is the perennial stumbling block that no Bible critic can avoid; therefore, he will lose half of the revelation every time he hits a passage like this one. (For example, Rom. 10:1 – double application, Rom. 9:25 – double application, Rom. 13:12 – double application, Acts 15:17 – double application.)

2. The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, [2] saying,

[2] The United Nations is gathered together not just against God, but against Jesus Christ. The word “anointed” is the word for Messiah, Christos.

3. Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

4. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: [a] the Lord shall have them in derision. [3]

[a] Prov. 1:26-27.

[3] The reason why God thinks the United Nations is a joke is clearly stated in Isaiah 40:17 (see App. 10, 63).

5. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

6. Yet have I set my king [b] upon my holy hill of Zion. [4] [c]

[b] Isa. 43:15.

[4] Notice “my king” and “my holy hill.” No king has any business on Mount Zion (the Temple Mount where the “Dome of the Rock” is presently located) unless he’s a Jewish king from the tribe of Judah (John 4:22; Rev. 19:16). No Catholic, Protestant, or Moslem has any more business on Mount Zion than any Canaanite (Zech. 14:21), Ishmaelite, Hittite, Jebusite, or Perizzite (Jer. 25:30; Joel 3:17). God’s idea of a “proper king” is given in 2 Samuel 23:3-5.

[c] Psa. 132:13; Isa. 12:6, 31:4, 9.

7. I will declare the decree: [d] the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; [5] this day have I begotten thee.

[d] See App. 47.

[5] This is to settle who the “king” (vs. 6) is going to be. God Almighty tells you it’s going the be His “Son” (Heb. 1:5). Every Moslem will swear God never had a son (see App. 50).

8. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. [6] [e]

[6] John Paton, the great missionary to the New Hebrides Islands, claimed this verse for his ministry. That’s fine if God is willing to honor it when you apply it to win souls, but the verse has nothing to do with anybody getting saved or converted.  It has to do with Jesus Christ establishing a military dictatorship over the remnants of the United Nations during the Millennium. What is written takes precedence over what you think or feel. 

[e] Literal (Zech. 14:9; Psa. 19:1-6, 97:1-5, 67:4, 47:8; Isa. 60:12; Ezek. 43:9; etc).

9. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; [f] thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

[f] Rev. 2:27, 12:5, 19:15.

10. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. [7]

[7] This is a 3,000 year old warning to the United Nations, as well as the “International Court of Justice” with its “judges” (Psa. 98:9). The UN “judges” are going to be judged (James 5:9; App. 63).

11. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. [g]

[g] Phil. 2:12.

12. Kiss the Son, [h] lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

[h] They’ll be kissing HIs feet (Psa. 72:9; Luke 7:45).

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App. 10: The Tower of Babel, Samples of International Unification

App. 63: God versus the United Nations

App. 47: Calvin’s “Eternal Decrees” Overruled

App. 50: Mohammed

 RRB notes on Psalm 32

Psalms 32 KJV

A Psalm of David, Maschil

1. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

2. Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. [1]

[1] Verses 1-2 are quoted by Paul in Romans 4:7-8 in reference to New Testament salvation. They are used by all the apostate Fundamentalists to prove that men in the Old Testament were saved by “looking forward to the cross” and in the New Testament by “looking back”; therefore, they’re identical “salvations.” Of course, this is just unscriptural rubbish. The Old Testament sins were “covered,” but they were not “redeemed” (Heb. 9:15). They were “forgiven,” but God did not “clear the guilty” (Exod. 34:7). Their iniquities and sins were not “taken away” (Heb. 10:4). The verse is a prophecy, although, of course, it would always apply to all minor children. God imputed enough iniquity to David to scare him into thinking he might lose the Holy Spirit (Psa. 51:11) and then made him pay four lives for the life of one man *(see note on 2 Sam. 12:6).

3. When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

4. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

5. I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. [a] Selah.

[a] Psalm 51:1-3

6. For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods [b] of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

[b] “Floods” here is different from that of Psa. 29:10. This one is the “flood” of Dan. 9:26; Rev. 12:15-16.

7. Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

8. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee [c] with mine eye.

[c] Eminently practical. God will “instruct,” “teach,” and “guide” a man.

9. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: [2] whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

[2] Instead of having “horse sense,” the Lord says the horse hasn’t got any sense. He’ll charge into automatic weapon fire; he will not lie still long enough to heal a broken leg; he’ll kill his own master accidentally by kicking him; if he gets scared he’ll buck and throw any rider (and he can be scared by a butterfly or a rolling hat); and a runaway horse hitched to a buckwagon or stagecoach doesn’t have enough sense even to slow down. A mule has more sense than that – but not much more. On a grave north of Rome, you can find a stone slab set up by the United States Army in 1945, after World War II. It says, “Here lies Peggy, an Army mule, who, before she expired, kicked one General, two Colonels, one Major, three Captains, four Lieutenants, and one land mine.”

10. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.

11. Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

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*Note on 2 Sam. 12:6

2 Samuel 12:6 KJV

And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, [1] because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.

[1] Notice that David can quote half of one verse in the Old Testament, by memory, without looking it up (Exod. 22:1). Four lambs have to be paid back. The four lambs are people, just like Bathsheba was “people.” The first lamb to go is the baby (2 Sam. 12:18). The second lamb to go is “Amnon” (2 Sam. 13:29). The third lamb to go is “Absalom” (2 Sam. 18:15). And the fourth one is David’s nephew, “Amasa” (2 Sam. 20:10). 

By a wild coincidence, these four “lamb payments” match David’s sin. One had to deal with sex with a woman (the baby died), one had to do with murder by a pretended friend (Amasa), another one had to do with getting killed during combat (Absalom), and one had to do with abandoning a man so he would get killed (Amnon). “You reap what you sow.”

 RRB notes on Psalm 1

Psalms 1 KJV

1. Blessed [1] is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

[1] The word “blessed” means “happy.” Thus, Job gives you the Unhappy Man, Psalms gives you the Happy Man, Proverbs gives you the Wise Man, Ecclesiastes gives you the Worldly Man, and Song of Solomon gives you the Heavenly Man.

2. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

3. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

4. The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

5. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

6. For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

 RRB notes on Psalm 31

Psalms 31 KJV

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David

1. In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

2. Bow down thine ear [1] to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.

[1] The expression “bow down thine ear”  is what theologians call an “anthropomorphism,” which is a jaw-breaking way of saying that men have to use man’s language when dealing with God, exactly as God uses man’s language about Himself when dealing with men (e.g. Gen. 6:6; Isa. 59:1; Jer. 16:17).

3. For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.

4. Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

5. Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

6. I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

7. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

8. And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

9. Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

10. For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

11. I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me. [a]

[a] As Christ (Mark 14:50).

12. I am forgotten as a dead man [b] out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

[b] Psa. 88:4-5

13. For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, [c] they devised to take away my life.

[c] As Christ (John 11:50-53).

14. But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.

15. My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

16. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake.

17. Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

18. Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

19. Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

20. Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence [d] from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

[d] Post-Tribulation rapture (Isa. 26:19-21).

21. Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.

22. For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

23. O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

24. Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.

 RRB notes on Psalm 30

Psalms 30 KJV

A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David.

1. I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.

2. O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.

3. O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. [a]

[a] Jon. 2:2-9; Acts 2:25-31; see comment on Tit. 1:2.

4. Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

5. For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

6. And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. [b]

[b] Job 29:18; Dan. 4:30; Luke 12:16-19.

7. LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, [c] and I was troubled.

[c] Job 23:9; Psa. 89:46, 55:1, 10:11.

8. I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.

9. What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

10. Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.

11. Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

12. To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.

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Titus 1:2 KJV

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; 1

RRB Comment on Titus 1:2

1 (1:2) This promise is not a promise made to any sinner about salvation; it has nothing to do with election (Eph. 1:4) or God’s “purpose” (1 Pet. 1:20). It is a promise made to the second member of the Godhead, since there was nobody else around “before the world began” to whom to make it. The Father promised the Lord Jesus Christ that if He died for sinners (see Rev. 13:8) that He would be resurrected and given “eternal life” as a man (Psa. 18:4-5, 69:1-3 cf. Psa. 21:4, 49:15; Acts 2:27).