Yet we are taught that God intended the Gospel message for all people of all time. This also includes the Gentiles of the Old Testament. God makes this clear to us as well as to the Israelites in the Psalms. In the Psalms we see that God has not forgotten the Gentile--and neither has he allowed the psalmists to forget them. We will first look at the judgment against the Gentiles in the Psalms. Then we will study God's grace extended to the Gentiles.
First we shall look at what we really deserve. As man, a race that has rebelled against God, we deserve nothing but eternal death and punishment. We are by nature fools, of which Psalm 14 tells us: The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; There is no one who does good. In Psalm 58 we also read: Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward and speak lies. Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears, that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skillful the charmer may be.
Man is by nature sinful. He daily rebels against God. No one deserves anything other than eternal death and damnation as mentioned before. Yet God has not forgotten us. He still deals with us, preserving our race in general physically and spiritually. This grace that God extends to us is for all people--a universal grace. The Israelites were well aware that the Lord (covenant God) intended his plan of salvation to all people, even the Gentiles and Samaritians. We too know God's will to preach the Good News to all nations. So lest we get caught up in the punishment and/or banishment of the Gentiles or heathen, remember that we also have a duty as Christians to take the Gospel to our fellow man. If they do not have the opportunity to hear His word, how can they know God's will and grace?
God did set apart his people, Israel. God also put his people in the land of Canaan, where the detestable Canaanites lived. With these wicked and perverse people all around tormenting God's chosen race, it follows that in the psalms we would find Israel asking for assistance against their enemies. The Psalms show the Gentiles as the enemies of Israel. First, recall the Egyptians as we see them in Psalm 68:
