RRB notes on Psalm 76

Psalms 76 KJV

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.

1. In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel. [1]

[1] The Lord’s name is not “great in Israel” right now. The average modern Jew today is a practical atheist.

2. In Salem [2] also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.

[2] “Salem” is another name for Jerusalem. The word means “peace” (as in Shalom and Solomon). Jerusalem means “city of peace.” The irony is that the city is attacked nine times in the Old Testament (three of those by Nebuchadnezzar), four times during the intertestamental period, once by Titus (A.D. 70), fourteen times during the Middle Ages, Allenby “liberated” it in 1917, and then the Arabs, Moslems, and Palestinians took over with the American and European new media to help them out (see App. 58). But God calls it “the city of peace” because when He brings peace to this earth, it will come at that city (vs. 3; Psa. 46:7-9; Hag. 2:7-9).

3. There brake he the arrows of the bow, [a] the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.

[a] Hos. 2:18; Zech. 9:10.

4. Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.

5. The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.

6. At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. [3] [b]

[3] Figurative; the machines (chariots) are in “a dead sleep” just like the horses. In my generation, we called the cars “chariots.” To this day, a motor is said to “die” when it cuts off. And what are 21st-Century machines doing having “horsepower”? Imagine the utter hypocrisy of the scholars criticizing the “archaic” language of the King James text and then using 17th-Century English to describe their vehicles!

[b] Zech. 12:4; 2 Kings 19:35.

7. Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

8. Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

9. When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. [c] Selah.

[c] Vss. 5-9 are Second Advent references (Psa. 3:7, 7:6, 9:19).

10. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

11. Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.

12. He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth. [d]

[d] Psa. 2:2-5; Isa. 24:21).

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 RRB notes on Psalm 75

Psalms 75 KJV

To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.

1. Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare. [1]

[1] The Psalm is connected with the Second Advent. The speaker is Jesus Christ in verses 2-6. In verses 8-9, David speaks for himself and Christ, but verse 10 is Christ alone, again.

2. When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.

3. The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: [a] I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

[a] At the end of the Tribulation (Isa. 24:1-5; Jer. 4:23-27).

4. I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

5. Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

6. For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

7. But God [2] is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

[2] Notice the substitution of the word “God” for “north” (vs. 6). This advanced revelation identifying the location of New Jerusalem (Psa. 48:1-2; Isa. 14:13; Heb. 12:22-24), has been obliterated by all the scholars since 1880. Notice how often the Scripture mentions God coming from the north: Job 26:7, 37:22; Isaiah 41:25; Ezekiel 1:4. 

8. For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them. [3]

[3] This verse reveals the unbelieving stupidity of John R. Rice. Rice thought the “cup” was a reference to physical death. He didn’t know what he was talking about (see comments on Heb. 5:7; Matt. 26:39, 42; John 18:11).

9. But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

10. All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

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Comments on 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 heard [f] in that he feared;

[e] See note on Matt. 26:42.

[f] Cf. Isa. 49:8.

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Comments on Matthew 26:39 KJV

And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.

Matthew 26:42 KJV

He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup [10] may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.

[10] 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.

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Comments on John 18:11 KJV

Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it? [c] 

[c] See note on Matt. 26:42.