RRB notes on Psalm 80

Psalms 80 KJV

To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-eduth, A Psalm of Asaph.

1. Give ear, O Shepherd [a] of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. [b]

[a] Isa. 40:11, 63:11.

[b] Vs. 3; Psa. 31:16, 67:1; Isa. 60:1; Dan. 9:17.

2. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.

3. Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

4. O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? [c]

[c] Psa. 79:5; Lev. 26:19; Deut. 28:23.

5. Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

6. Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

7. Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

8. Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

9. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

10. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. [d] 

[d] Gen. 49:22; a description of Israel’s prosperity under David and Solomon.

11. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.

12. Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, [e] so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

[e] The Jew in the Tribulation, as pictured by Job (Job 1:10-11; see also Isa. 5:5-7).

13. The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

14. Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

15. And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, [f] and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

[f] Matt. 21:33-46; also see note on 1 Kings 21:8.

16. It is burned with fire, [g] it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

[g] Lam. 2:3-4, 4:11.

17. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, [h] upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.

[h] Jesus Christ (see note on Ezra 7:28).

18. So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.

19. Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; [i] and we shall be saved. [j] 

[i] Vss. 1, 3; Num. 6:25.

[j] Rom. 11:26.

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Note on 1 Kings 21:8

So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth. [2]

[2] Notice how Naboth follows the path of Jesus Christ almost “to the letter” in regards to his death. Christ was murdered at a religious festival (vs. 9) and had false witnesses against Him (vs. 10). He was betrayed by the religious and political leaders (vs. 11), accused of blasphemy (vs. 13), killed outside the city (vs. 13), and presumed to be dead (vs. 15). He only misses the “stoning” because of the Scriptures (John 19:36-37). For another type like this, see Daniel 6.

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Note on Ezra 7:28 KJV

And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God [6] was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

[6] Notice the expression, “the hand of . . . God,” used here as it is found again in Ezra 8:18, 22. The “right hand of God” is used many times in the Bible to represent Jesus Christ Himself (Psa. 17:7, 20:6, 21:8, 45:4, 48:10, 108:6, 110:5, 138:7, etc.).

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 RRB notes on Psalm 79

Psalms 79 KJV

A Psalm of Asaph.

1. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. [a]

[a] Double application: A.D. 70 and Tribulation (Zech. 14:1-2).

2. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. [1]

[1] Nothing in verses 1-4 took place during Asaph’s lifetime. He is prophesying about the events that took place in Jeremiah 39 and Lamentations 2-5, and what will take place in the Tribulation.

3. Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; [2] and there was none to bury them.

[2] The ones who shed the blood of Jews are identified in the Scriptures as Europeans (Ezek. 38:2), Asiatics (Rev. 16:12), and Africans (Ezek. 38:5). Those three races cover every major nation in the UN (see App. 58).

4. We are become a reproach to our neighbours, [b] a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

[b] Vss. 4-5 are a description of the Jews in the Church Age.

5. How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

6. Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, [3] and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. [c]

[3] This prayer for the destruction of the United Nations includes all the religions of the heathen as well: Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, etc.

[c] “Thy name” – Jehovah in the Old Testament; Jesus in the New Testament. Never Allah.

7. For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. [d]

[d] Vss. 6-7 are laid out in opposite chronological order. Vs. 6 is the Second Advent; vs. 7 is the Tribulation.

8. O remember not against us former iniquities: [e] let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

[e] Rom. 11:26-27; Acts 3:19-20; Jer. 33:8; Ezek. 37:23.

9. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge [4] away our sins, for thy name’s sake.

[4] The NIV destroys the sense of the verse by changing “purge” to “atone” so you’d think everything in the passage was fulfilled in Matthew 27, when it wasn’t (Heb. 8:10-12; Acts 3:19-21; Rom. 11:26-27).

10. Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed. [f]

[f] Rev. 6:9-11.

11. Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die; [g]

[g] Psa. 88:15; see also notes on Psa. 44:7, 56:1.

12. And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. [h]

[h] Tribulation (Psa. 74:10, 18, 22; Rev. 16:10-11).

13. So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations. [5]

[5] The Liberty Bible Commentary illustrates the muddled incoherency of Jerry Falwell’s long-tenured apostates, who write, “The psalmist’s concern is that the name of God would be blasphemed among the heathen if Jehovah didn’t rescue His own.”  1)  Jehovah did not “rescue HIs own” (Lam. 2-5),  2) “the heathen” did blaspheme His name and still do (2 Kings 19:3-4; Psa. 74:10; Rev. 13:6), and 3) in the New Testament, Paul compelled Jews who hadn’t trusted Christ to blaspheme (Acts 26:11).

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Appendix 58 – Israel and Israel’s Enemies

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Note on Psa. 44:7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, [d] and hast put them to shame that hated us. [1]

[d] Second Advent (Luke 1:70-74).

[1] Verses 5-7 have no application to any Jew between A.D. 33 to 2008. The present condition of the Jew in the Church Age and Tribulation is described in verses 9-16. As we’ve said before, if you put yourself in the place of an orthodox Jew in Sobibor, Auschwitz, Dachau, Treblinka, Madjanek, or Buchenwald and then tried to read your Bible at night for comfort, you’d turn into an atheist. Imagine watching your sons getting tortured to death, your daughters being gassed, and you being starved to death while trying to “claim” Psalms 44:7, 91:7, 107:19-20, 115:14-15, 116:6-9, and 118:10-13!

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Note on Psa. 56:1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. [a]

[a] See notes on Psa. 27:5 and 44:7 in regards to vss. 1, 7, 9, 13.

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