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Originally Posted by VoiceInWilderness
Ps 91 seems to be about eternal life. Ps 34 from the context, and from the way Peter quoted it, seems to be this life.
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I understand your point about context, but Psalm 91 is arguably about this life, as well: "He'll give His angels charge concerning you, lest you strike your foot against a stone." The stones in Psalm 91 are found in this life, just like the unbroken bones in Psalm 34 are in this life. Yet there's an unseen, eternal world behind the visible (see e.g. 2 Cor 4:18). We all know this. There are various levels of reality to be perceived in scripture, which levels WL seemed determined to ignore, in examining the Psalms. At times he had to strain to ignore them! It's puzzling that a merchandiser of the word, with an opportunity to generate life study messages ("I could give a conference on this one verse!" he'd tell us) just dismissed the whole thing out of hand. In his entire Psalm 34 exegesis he said that the Psalmist was selfish, thinking about his own well-being on earth, and suddenly in verse 20 the psalmist a "squirrel!" moment and perceived the coming Christ: "Not one of His bones will be broken." Then, according to WL, the psalmist immediately went back to "fallen" and "natural" concepts. And that's it - no shadows, no types, no signs. Nothing spiritual to be discerned. No hidden treasure.
For example, in Psalm 91:16, the RecV cross-references "long life" back to Psalm 21:4, which promises the psalmist "length of days, forever and ever". Psalm 21 was also panned by WL as "natural". Yet there, his RecV has a cross-reference to Revelation 11:15, where it says of Jesus, "his kingdom will be forever and ever." This theme of course runs through the scripture prophecies, from Daniel to Isaiah. Here's the angel speaking to Mary in Luke 1:30-33:
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But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”
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Yet WL said there's no connection with the "many long days" promised to King David in Psalm 34; that, he said, was merely human concepts, natural and vain. To which I paraphrase 2 Samuel 22:27: "To the pure You show yourself pure, but to the shallow You show yourself shallow."