RRB notes on Psalm 96
Psalms 96 KJV
1. O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth. [a]
[a] See notes on Psa. 9:11, 10:16, 20:8, 27:10.
2. Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day.
3. Declare his glory among the heathen, [b] his wonders among all people.
[b] Second Advent (Acts 15:17).
4. For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods. [c]
[c] Psa. 95:3.
5. For all the gods of the nations are idols: [d] but the LORD made the heavens.
[d] Cf. note on Psa. 82:1.
6. Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
7. Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
8. Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts. [e]
[e] See note on Psa. 84:1.
9. O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
10. Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: [1] the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
[1] Here, the Lord is on the ground reigning over the United Nations (as in vs. 13). He’s not sitting in Heaven at the White Throne Judgment; the passage has nothing to do with the last judgment. God judges the nations on this ground, on the earth (Matt. 25:31-36), 1,000 years before any “last judgment” takes place (Rev. 20:11-15).
11. Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; [f] let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
[f] Rom. 8:20-22; Isa. 11:6-9; Acts 3:19-21; also see comments on Matt. 19:28.
12. Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice
13. Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth. [g]
[g] Psa. 98:9.
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Notes on Psa. 9:11 KJV
Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: [1] declare among the people his doings.
[1] He’s not “dwelling in Zion” right now at all. All the apostates had to convert that “Zion” into “the Church” in order to get God to “dwell there.” This threw out the entire revelation. God dwells there literally at the Second Advent (Ezek. 48:35). They just don’t want Him to come back, but He will (Isa. 2:3-4, 24:23; Zech. 2:11).
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Notes on Psa. 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).
[e] Second Advent (Psa. 18:43, 33:10, 47:8, 79:6, 96:10).
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Notes on Psa. 20:8 KJV
They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright. [1]
[1] None of the verse has been fulfilled literally yet. Throughout the Psalms, the reader is constantly put into the following positions: 1) make a liar out of the Holy Spirit and reject what the text says, 2) spiritualize the passage and make it figurative so that it applies to a generation that it does not fit, or 3) place the verse prophetically in the future in the Tribulation and the Second Advent when God will fulfill it literally to the letter. Count on the scholars to pick the first two and cut their spiritual jugular veins in the process.
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Notes on Psa. 27:10 KJV
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. [2][g]
[2] Many of these verses can be applied spiritually to a Christian, but you can’t assume that means that they’ve been fulfilled and are not to be applied historically and literally (see note on Psalm 2:8).
[g] Isa. 66:13.
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Note on Psa. 82:1 KJV
God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods. [1] [a]
[1] The “gods” are not just statues. There are plenty of them around (1 Cor. 8:5), and God has told them what He’s going to do with them (Jer. 10:11). Mohammed (supposedly a devout monotheist) blows his whole fake show by telling you that Allah is only the “best of the creators” (Sura 37:125). When the most brilliant Arabic scholar of the Koran (Maulana Muhammed Ali) hits this Sura, he gets lockjaw and doesn’t comment on it. What’s the matter, sonny? “Camel got your tongue?”
[a] Psa. 95:3.
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Note on Psa. 84:1 KJV
How amiable are thy tabernacles, [1] O LORD of hosts!
[1] The word “tabernacles” is used because God’s dwelling place had been one Tabernacle in the wilderness, then one sanctuary under Solomon, another Temple under Herod, and then in the Millennium, it will be a rebuilt Temple (Ezek. 40-46) containing “courts” (plural; vs. 10 cf. Ezek. 40:19-20) and “altars” (plural; vs. 3 cf. Ezek. 40:39-42, 41:22, 43:19-27).
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Comments on Matt. 19:28 KJV
And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, [8] ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. [9]
[8] “The throne of his glory” is never a reference to any throne in Glory (Heaven). It is the throne of David in Jerusalem which will sit on the place where the Dome of the Rock now stands (Jer. 3:17, 14:21, 29:16; 1 Chron. 29:23). It is the place where Jehovah God put His name (Exod. 20:24; 1 Chron. 22:10, 19, 28:3, 29:16; 2 Chron. 6:6, 32-34, 7:16).
[9] This verse is the source for selecting twelve jurors to try a case, for here is a judgment that takes place at the Second Advent, and it has twelve people judging (cf. Psa. 149:6-9).
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