RRB Notes on Psalm 22

Psalms 22 KJV

To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David

1. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

2. O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

3. But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

4. Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

5. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

6. But I am a worm, [a] and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

[a] See note on Job 17:14: 

The verse is more than a dramatic, figurative statement, as the BIble-correcting scholars and teachers pretend. They forgot that Jesus Christ called Himself the same thing in Psalm 22:6 and warned about being the condition of a man in Hell (Mark 9:44, 46, 48). Jesus extended the classification to a “serpent” in John 3:14. Jesus Christ warned that a man had better not lose his soul (Mark 8:36). When God made Christ to become sin (2 Cor. 5:21), He “lost” His soul (Isa. 53:10); it was made “an offering for sin” (John 18:11; Heb. 5:7).

 and comments on John 3:14 (Num. 21:8-9). 

 Mark 9:44, 46.

7. All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

8. He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. [b]

[b] Vss. 7-8 cf. Mark 15:29-31.

9. But thou art he that took me out of the womb: [c] thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.

[c] Isa. 44:1-2; 49:5.

10. I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.

11. Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

12. Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. [d]

[d] Obviously figurative (Psa. 68:30; see note on Job 12:7).

13. They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

14. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

15. My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; [e] and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

[e] John 19:28-30.

16. For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. [f]

[f] Zech. 12:10.

17. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. [g]

[g] Matt. 27:36.

18. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. [1][h]

[1] (22:18) The chapter is a detailed, prophetic account of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, given over 1,000 years before the event took place (see vss. 1, 7, 8, 16, 17, and here). There are 48 such historical prophecies about the First Advent, and not one of them was recorded any later than 400 years before He was born. This is scientific, mathematical proof, according to the laws of statistical probability, that no man could have written The Holy Bible (see Peter Stoner’s book Science Speaks, referred to in the “Introduction to the New Testament” of this work). In comparison, the Koran is a joke. In 114 Suras, Mohammed was not able to give three historical prophecies. (See Appendix 77).

[h] John 19:23-24.

19. But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

20. Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling [i] from the power of the dog.

[i] “Darling,” popular expression meaning literally “only,” “lonely,” or “singly.”

21. Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. [j]

[j] Psa. 92:10; App. 55.

22. I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. [k]

[k] Heb. 2:10-12.

23. Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

24. For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

25. My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

26. The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

27. All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. [l]

[l] Second Advent (Psa. 2:10-12; Isa. 2:2-4; Mal. 1:11; Zech. 14:16-19).

28. For the kingdom is the LORD’s: and he is the governor among the nations.

29. All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

30. A seed [m] shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

[m] The corrupt modern versions get rid of the word :seed: so you won’t make the cross-reference to Isa. 53:10.

31. They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, [n] that he hath done this.

[n] The New Birth (John 1:13, 3:5).

 RRB notes on Psalm 21

To the chief Musician, a Psalm of David

Psalms 21 KJV

1. The king [a] shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

[a] Double application: David here and Jesus Christ in vs. 4.

2. Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.

3. For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head. [b]

[b] Double application: Solomon (Song of Sol. 3:11) and Jesus Christ (Psa. 45:11).

4. He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever. [c]

[c] See comments on Tit. 1:2; Heb. 5:7.

5. His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.

6. For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.

7. For the king [d] trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

[d] Double application: David in vss. 7-8 and Jesus Christ in vss. 9-10.

8. Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

9. Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. [e]

[e] Mal. 4:1-3; 2 Thess. 1:8; Matt. 3:10-12.

10. Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. [f]

[f] Isa. 14:20; Job 18:19.

11. For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform. [g]

[g] Matt. 21:38; Acts 3:14-15, 2:22-24.

12. Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows [h] upon thy strings against the face of them.

[h] Second Advent (Psa. 18:14).

13. Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.

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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:

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).

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Hebrews 5:7 KJV

Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death,e and was heardf in that he feared;

RRB Comment:

e See note on Matt. 26:42.

(26:42) John R. Rice has this “cup” being the Devil trying to kill Christ in the garden. Going to Hebrews 5:7, he has this prayer being answered in the affirmative and the Lord not having to drink the “cup.” Christ’s prayer was indeed “heard” and answered – with a “NO!” The “cup” was the wrath of God (Psa. 75:8; Isa. 51:17, 22; Jer. 25:15, 17, 28, 49:12; Ezek. 23:31-33), and the Lord did drink it (John 18:11). John R. Rice didn’t know what he was talking about.

f  Cf Isa. 49:8.