RRB notes on Psalm 98

Psalms 98 KJV

A Psalm.

1. O sing unto the LORD a new song; [a] for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, [b] and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.

[a] See notes on Psa. 20:8, 27:10.

[b] Ezra 8:18, 22.

2. The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.

3. He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

4. Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. [c]

[c] Millennium (Psa. 97:1, 96:1-2, 95:1-2.

5. Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.

6. With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.

7. Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

8. Let the floods clap their hands: [d] let the hills be joyful together

[d] Figurative (see note on Psa. 6:6; App. 104).

9. Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.

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Note 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. 6:6 KJV

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; [1] I water my couch with my tears. [a]

[1] Notice the figurative language (see note on Job 21:24). Figurative speech is very common in the Bible, and our language is rich with it (see App. 104). The hermeneutical rule is solid: always take the Bible absolutely literally if it’s possible to take it literally; if a passage is absolutely impossible to take literally, then and only then can you take it figuratively (Matt. 26:27-28).

[a] Like Job (Job 7:3-4, 13-15, 16:16, 20, 23:2).

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Appendix 104 – Figurative Expressions

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 Proverbs Chapter 7

Proverbs 7 KJV

1. My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

2. Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

3. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

4. Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

5. That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

6. ¶ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

7. And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

8. Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

9. In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: [a]

[a] A picture of the Tribulation (see vs. 10 and note on Prov. 2:16).

10. And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

11. (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

12. Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

13. So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

14. I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

15. Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

16. I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

17. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

18. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

19. For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

20. He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

21. With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

22. He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

23. Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

24. ¶ Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

25. Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

26. For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

27. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

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Notes on Prov. 2:16 KJV

To deliver thee from the strange woman, [3] [d] even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

[3] “The strange woman” is not merely a woman of another race (1 Kings 11:1; Neh. 13:26), but a harlot (Prov. 5:20, 6:32, 7:9-27). This leads you straight to “THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS” in Revelation 17:5. The Jew in the Tribulation is commanded to “come out of her” (Rev. 18:1-5). She is connected with “Death” and “Hell” (Rev. 6:8), just as “the strange woman” of Proverbs is (Prov. 5:5).

[d] Neh. 13:24-27; Judg. 11:2.