RRB notes on Psalm 19

Psalms 19 KJV

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

1. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. [a]

[a] Heb. 1:10-12.

2. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. [1] [b]

[1] “Day” and “night” preach. They “speak” (vs. 2) with a “voice” (vs. 3), and their “language” (vs. 3) is called “their line” (vs. 4), like the expression “handed him (or her) a line.”

[b] Job 12:8.

3. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. [2]

[2] This means that the main truths of the Bible are demonstrated twenty-four hours a day, and nobody has to learn anybody’s language to learn them. Among these are the Sun as a type of Christ. When the sun “dies” in the west, it’s blood red. The sun is a type of Christ because when He comes in the morning, His garments are “blood red” (Isa. 63:1). The sun travels against the world as Christ does. The moon (a type of the Bride of Christ, the Church) reflects the light of the sun, although she’s a dead planet (see App. 5), or if you want to get technical about it, a “satellite” (Song of Sol. 6:10). The moon follows the sun against the world, and when the world (earth) comes between the moon (a type of the Body of Christ) and the sun (her Redeemer), you have an “eclipse.”

4. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, [c]

[c] See note on vs. 3 and App. 11.

5. Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, [d] and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

[d] A type of the Second Advent (Isa. 61:10-11; Joel 2:15-16; Matt. 9:15; John 3:29).

6. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, [3] and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

[3] There are seven items found in the psalm: 1) “the heavens” (vss. 1-6), 2) “the law of the LORD” (vs. 7), 3) “the testimony of the LORD” (vs. 7), 4) “the statutes of the LORD” (vs. 8), 5) “the commandment of the LORD” (vs. 8), 6) “the fear of the LORD” (vs. 9), and 7) “the judgments of the LORD” (vs. 9).

7. The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: [e] the testimony of the LORD is sure, [f] making wise the simple.

[e] 2 Chron. 34:18-28; Gal. 3:25.

[f] Testimonies like that of Moses and Elijah (Rev. 11:6) and Christ’s (Psa. 50:7, 81:11-16; Mark 13:2; 1 Tim. 6:13). 

8. The statutes [4] of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment [g] of the LORD is pure, enlightening [h] the eyes.

[4] The “statutes” are in Exodus – Deuteronomy. The first mention id found in Genesis 26:5 in connection with Abraham. “Statutes” are legal decrees set up as standards.

[g] Lev. 4:22, 5:17.

[h] Psa. 119:130; Eph. 1:18.

9. The fear of the LORD [i] is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. [j]

[i] Job 28:28; see comments on Phil. 2:12.

[j] Judgments (Gen. 18:25).

10. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

11. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

12. Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.

13. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: [5] then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. [6]

[5] In the Old Testament, if a person ever let sin “have dominion” over him so that he sinned “presumptuously,” he would get in the condition described in John 12:40. Spiritual blindness was the result (Acts 28:26-27; Rom. 11:8). When Jesus Christ showed up, Israel was in the condition of Matthew 13:11-15.

[6] The last clause is a prophetic statement, exactly as Romans 4:7. “The great transgression” is a transgression of the first and second commandments (Exod. 20:3-6). It could not be committed until Jesus Christ, “the image of God” (2 Cor. 4:4; Col. 1:15, 3:10; Heb. 1:3), showed up. It was finally committed by a nation for rejecting that “image” (Matt. 12:31-32) as her “King” (John 19:15).

14. Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

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SEE ALSO:

Appendix 5 – The Moon

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Appendix 11 – The Tabernacle

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Comments on Philippians 2:12 KJV

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation [i] with fear [j] and trembling.

[i] The Christian should “work out” what God has “worked in.”

[j] Eph. 6:5; Psa. 119:120: Mal. 2:5; also see note on Job 28:28.

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Note on Job 28:28 KJV

And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, [5] that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

[5] “The fear of the LORD” is never “godly reverence,” as all the Fundamental, Premillennial scholars say. Those two things are separate things (Heb. 12:28). “The fear of the LORD” is illustrated in Exodus 20:18-20, 23:27; Job 4:14; Philippians 2:12, and is manifest to all in Revelation 11:11. It is not “reverential trust.” “Understanding” is “to depart from evil.” Those definitions have never been taught in any Christian College or University which perverted the “fear of God” or the “fear of the LORD” into a “reverential trust.”

 RRB notes on Psalm 48

Psalms 48 KJV

A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah.

1. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

2. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. [1] 

[1] Verse 1 could have reference to earthly Jerusalem on earthly Mount Zion, but verse 2 could not possibly be under any circumstances. There are no “palaces” (vs. 3) on Mount Zion in earthly Jerusalem. The “mount Zion” of verse 2 is not in Palestine; it is “on the sides of the north,” which is located above the clouds and the stars (Isa. 14:13-14). “The city of the great King” is the “mount Sion” of Hebrews 12:22, where “the heavenly Jerusalem” is located “above” (Gal. 4:26) in “the third heaven” (2 Cor. 12:2). There are two Mount Zions and two Jerusalems in the Scriptures, and if you aren’t “rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15), you will end up a destructive critic of the Bible instead of a “workman that needeth not to be ashamed.”

3. God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

4. For, lo, the kings were assembled, [a] they passed by together.

[a] Second Advent (Psa. 2:2; Rev. 16:12-14).

5. They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.

6. Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

7. Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

8. As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

9. We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

10. According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

11. Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

12. Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

13. Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

14. For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.