RRB notes on Psalm 68
Psalms 68 KJV
To the chief Musician, A Psalm or Song of David.
1. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: [a] let them also that hate him flee before him.
[a] Second Advent (Psa. 3:7, 7:6; Isa. 14:22, 28:21; Joel 3:16).
2. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. [b]
[b] Mal. 4:1-2; 2 Thess. 1:7-9.
3. But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
4. Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens [c] by his name JAH, [1] [d] and rejoice before him.
[1] The word is “JAH,” not “YAH.” If you call Jesus “Yeshua” and Jehovah “Yahweh,” you have simply refused to translate the text. Yod in Hebrew and iota in Greek may both be pronounced as a “y,” but you are reading an English text, not a Greek or Hebrew text. If you want to see how silly this really is, be consistent and say “Yames” and “Yohn” for the disciples. Can you imagine “Yohn the Baptist”?
[d] An abbreviation for “Jehovah,” not “Yahweh” (see App. 1).
5. A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
6. God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land. [e]
[e] Isa. 26:10; Zech. 14:17.
7. O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; [f] Selah:
[f] Vss. 7-9 are a reference to the path of the Second Advent, not the wanderings in Exodus and Numbers. See notes on Deut. 33:2 and Judg. 5:5.
8. The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9. Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, [g] whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
[g] Second Advent (Hos. 6:3; 1 Kings 18:41-46; 2 Sam. 23:3-4).
10. Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor. [h]
[h] A reference to “the poor” during the Tribulation (James 1:9-11, 2:5-7, 5:1-8).
11. The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it. [2]
[2] Here’s a good verse for devotional application. The Holy Bible (in whole or part) has been “published” in over 2,400 languages and has gone out to the tune of six billion copies since Gutenberg. Over thirteen million copies of the King James Bible are sold every year, and that number doesn’t count the numbers distributed for free by organizations like the Gideons, Bearing Precious Seed, and the Trinitarian Bible Society. That means that somewhere there are more than one billion Authorized Versions in circulation. All the other versions and all the other languages (2,399) put together make up the other five billion copies. No other book comes close to the publication of the King James Bible – in spite of efforts of “Christian” scholarship to do away with it.
12. Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
13. Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove [i] covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold. [3]
[i] Figurative language (see Appendix 104).
[3] The Jews graduated from being slaves in Egypt to being rich folks (Exod. 12:35-36). In this age, they have been slave laborers to the Gentiles (Deut. 28:48; Rev. 11:1-2; Joel 3:6), but they will again become rich, and the Gentiles will pay them (Zech. 14:14; Rom. 11:12).
14. When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow [j] in Salmon.
[j] Exod. 16:14; Job 38:22-23.
15. The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.
16. Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.
17. The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: [k] the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
[k] Jude 14-15; Deut. 33:2; Song of Sol. 6:10-13.
18. Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; [l] yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
[l] Eph. 4:8.
19. Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
20. He that is our God [m] is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
[m] Vss. 19-20 cf. Matt. 6:9 (see notes on 1 Chron. 29:10-11).
21. But God shall wound the head of his enemies, [n] and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
[n] Second Advent (Gen. 3:15; Hab. 3:13), not Calvary or the Church Age (Rom. 16:20).
22. The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:
23. That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, [o] and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
[o] Literal at the Second Advent (Isa. 63:14; Rev. 19:11-13).
24. They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
25. The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
26. Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.
27. There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
28. Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us. [p]
[p] See note on vs. 20.
29. Because of thy temple at Jerusalem [q] shall kings bring presents unto thee.
[q] See App. 18.
30. Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
31. Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
32. Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; [r] O sing praises unto the Lord; Selah:
[r] A reference to the United Nations (Rev. 11:15).
33. To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
34. Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
35. O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. [s] Blessed be God.
[s] No doctrinal application to the Christian. “His people” are Jewish tribes (vs. 27).
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Appendix 1 – The Hebrew Names for God in the Old Testament
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Notes on Deuteronomy 33:2 KJV
And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: [c] from his right hand went a fiery law for them. [1]
[c] Path of the Second Advent — Judg. 5:4; Hab. 3:3.
[1] All apostate Fundamentalists, Conservatives, and Evangelicals apply verses 2-3, doctrinally, to the events recorded in Exodus and Numbers. They are 100% in error. Both references are references to the Second Advent.
Back in Exodus and Numbers, God certainly did not rise up from Mount Seit at all. Mount Seir is in Edom where “Teman” and “Paran” are (Hab. 3:3). God certainly did not go out of Seir when He marched “out of the field of Edom” (Judg. 5:4). He did not go anywhere in Edom or out of it in Exodus or Numbers. He went around it (Num. 20:14-21). No “saints” came with the Lord at all when God came from Sinai (Exod. 20), let alone 10,000; they certainly did not sit “down at (His) feet” (Deut. 33:3); and they were told to get away from the mountain or they would get shot (Heb. 12:20-21).
This shows you the length to which Conservatives, Evangelicals, and fundamentalists will go to get rid of anything in the Bible they do not understand. They would reject all the verses if they felt like it (see notes under Matt. 4:4, 4:15, 16:18, 17:18; John 2:21, 21:22; etc.).
Watch these Bible-correctors when you ask them to show you where the big rain was (Judg. 5:4) when God “rose up from Seir” and came “from mount Paran.” And Sinai no more “melted . . . before the LORD” (Judg. 5:5) than Mount Paran or Mount Seir did. They are all Second Advent references.
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Note on Judges 5:5 KJV
The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai [1] from before the LORD God of Israel.
[1] No mountains “melted” anywhere at Mount Sinai (Exod. 19-20), and the heavens did not “drop” one drop of water the whole time they were there. The rain that will fall on Mount Sinai falls in Psalm 68:8-9 at the Second Advent (see comments on Deut. 33:2; Psa. 68:8-9, 12, 14, 17, 21, 23).
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Appendix 18 – The History of Jerusalem
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Notes on 1 Chronicles 29:10-11 KJV
10. ¶ Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, [1] for ever and ever.
[1] This verse settles, once and for all, finally and forever, the matter of “national sonship” versus “individual New Birth sonship” (Exod. 4:22; Matt. 6:9, 14, 18). Jesus never called God “Our Father” a time in His life, and David never called God “his Father” a time in his life. The “father” of verse 10 is the father of a nation, who gave that nation birth (Deut. 32:18).
11. Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, [2] and thou art exalted as head above all.
[2] Now you know the source of the “ending” of “The Lord’s Prayer” (Matt. 6:13). It came from here, showing you that “our father” (vs. 10) has no business in the prayers of a born again child of God. That’s why the Roman Catholic made it a “Christian” prayer and called it “The Lord’s Prayer,” when it wasn’t. It was the “Disciple’s Prayer.” When a disciple prays it, Jesus puts the addition from 1 Chronicles 29:11 onto Matthew 6:13 to show you that the entire passage is Jewish for the Jews. No Catholic owned any part of it. No Roman Catholic has any part in “the kingdom” at any time, any place, anywhere, under any condition. It also explains why the new “Bibles” removed the ending on Matthew 6:13 from the prayer. They all lined up with the Roman Catholic Church and tried to make it a Gentile prayer to a Christian, when it wasn’t.
