RRB Notes on Psalm 22

Psalms 22 KJV

To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David

1. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

2. O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

3. But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

4. Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

5. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

6. But I am a worm, [a] and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

[a] See note on Job 17:14 and comments on John 3:14, Mark 9:44, 46.

7. All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

8. He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. [b]

[b] Vss. 7-8 cf. Mark 15:29-31.

9. But thou art he that took me out of the womb: [c] thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.

[c] Isa. 44:1-2; 49:5.

10. I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.

11. Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

12. Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. [d]

[d] Obviously figurative (Psa. 68:30; see note on Job 12:7).

13. They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

14. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

15. My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; [e] and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

[e] John 19:28-30.

16. For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. [f]

[f] Zech. 12:10.

17. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. [g]

[g] Matt. 27:36.

18. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. [1][h]

[1] (22:18) The chapter is a detailed, prophetic account of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, given over 1,000 years before the event took place (see vss. 1, 7, 8, 16, 17, and here). There are 48 such historical prophecies about the First Advent, and not one of them was recorded any later than 400 years before He was born. This is scientific, mathematical proof, according to the laws of statistical probability, that no man could have written The Holy Bible (see Peter Stoner’s book Science Speaks, referred to in the “Introduction to the New Testament” of this work). In comparison, the Koran is a joke. In 114 Suras, Mohammed was not able to give three historical prophecies. (See Appendix 77).

[h] John 19:23-24.

19. But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

20. Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling [i] from the power of the dog.

[i] “Darling,” popular expression meaning literally “only,” “lonely,” or “singly.”

21. Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. [j]

[j] Psa. 92:10; App. 55.

22. I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. [k]

[k] Heb. 2:10-12.

23. Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

24. For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

25. My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

26. The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

27. All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. [l]

[l] Second Advent (Psa. 2:10-12; Isa. 2:2-4; Mal. 1:11; Zech. 14:16-19).

28. For the kingdom is the LORD’s: and he is the governor among the nations.

29. All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

30. A seed [m] shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

[m] The corrupt modern versions get rid of the word :seed: so you won’t make the cross-reference to Isa. 53:10.

31. They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, [n] that he hath done this.

[n] The New Birth (John 1:13, 3:5).

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Note on Job 17:14 KJV

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, [2] Thou art my mother, and my sister.

[2] The verse is more than a dramatic, figurative statement, as the BIble-correcting scholars and teachers pretend. They forgot that Jesus Christ called Himself the same thing in Psalm 22:6 and warned about being the condition of a man in Hell (Mark 9:44, 46, 48). Jesus extended the classification to a “serpent” in John 3:14. Jesus Christ warned that a man had better not lose his soul (Mark 8:36). When God made Christ to become sin (2 Cor. 5:21), He “lost” His soul (Isa. 53:10); it was made “an offering for sin” (John 18:11; Heb. 5:7).

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Comments on John 3:14 KJV

¶ And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, [d] even so must the Son of man be lifted up: [6]

[d] Num. 21:8-9.

[6] If you join this verse with Galatians 3:13 and 2 Corinthians 5:21, you will see that Jesus Christ not only bore your sins and took away your sins, He was actually turned into sin itself (singular as well as plural) to take your punishment for sin Himself. In view of 1 Thessalonians 5:23 and Isaiah 53:10, this means that Christ lost His bodily shape by becoming sin when He took the place of a lost sinner in Hell (Psa. 22:6; Mark 9:44, 46, 48; see note on Matt. 26:38). This is what Jesus was praying about in the Garden of Gethsemane (John 18:11), not just death on the cross.

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Comments on Mark 9:44 KJV

Where their worm [j] dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. [3]

[j] See App. 92.

[3] Verses 43-48 deal with “hell”; naturally they will be changed in all the corrupt new “Bibles.” To “lessen the blow” for all their thin-skinned, easily offended readers, they’ve gotten rid of the “worms” from verses 44, 46, 48. The NIV simply removes all three of those verses, while the RSV only knocks out verse 44. The silly thing about the matter is that they still retain the KJV verse numbers, even though there are no verses 44, 46, and 48. “Hell” is mentioned fifteen times in the four Gospels (Matt. 5:22, 29-30, 10:28, 11:23, 16:18, 18:9, 23:15, 33; Mark 9:43, 45, 47; Luke 10:15, 12:5, 16:23). The new versions left the word untranslated in Matthew 11, 16, and Luke 10, 16; as well as Acts 2:27, 31 and Revelation 1:18, 6:8, 20:13-14. The Bible revisers try to draw a distinction between Hell (hades) and the Lake of Fire (gehenna) that is meaningless (see Rev. 20:14).

Mark 9:46 KJV

Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

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Appendix 92 — E.T. : The Holy Maggot

The “Divine Maggot” had a prior existence before coming to earth (Prov. 8:22-29; Isa. 43:13).

 RRB notes on Psalm 51

Psalms 51 KJV

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.

1. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. [a]

[a] A great penitential prayer (see note on Neh. 1:5).

2. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

3. For I acknowledge my transgressions: [1] [b] and my sin is ever before me.

[1] Sins against God should be confessed to God, sins against individuals should be confessed to those individuals, and sins against a congregation should be confessed to the local congregation (Matt. 18:15-17; 1 Cor. 5:1-13; 1 Tim. 5:20).

[b] 1 John 1:9; Prov. 28:13.

4. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, [2] and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

[2] According to the greatest Moslem professional teachers of the “Holy” Koran, David would never have to confess any sins (Sura 4:111) because he was not only “pure” (Sura 19:13) but “sinless” (Sura 19:14, footnote 15:35). Religious garbage!

5. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

6. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

7. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

8. Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

9. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

10. Create in me a clean heart, [c] O God; and renew a right spirit [d] within me. [3]

[c] Figurative, not the literal organ.

[d] A right attitude.

[3] The verse has nothing to do with the New Birth by the Holy Spirit, as can be seen by verse 11.

11. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. [4]

[4] This verse runs completely contrary to the “historic position” of Fundamental Baptists who pervert the entire Old Testament to prove eternal security in all dispensations. The truth is that David could have lost the Holy Spirit but didn’t (2 Sam. 12:13). His predecessor, Saul, did (1 Sam. 16:14). Before Saul, Samson lost the Holy Spirit (Judg. 16:20) but got Him back again (Judg. 16:28-30 cf. Heb. 11:32).

12. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

13. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

14. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

15. O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

16. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: [5] thou delightest not in burnt offering.

[5] David knew that no sacrifice could pay for the sins of adultery and murder. They were (in the Old Testament) what a Catholic would call “mortal sins.” (Rome created an ungodly mess by stealing the Old Testament material in an attempt to create a fake Israeli theocracy – the Roman Catholic State-Church.) In the Old Testament, when a man committed murder, the lamb on the altar did him no good at all: the “shed blood of the lamb” couldn’t pay for that sin (see note on Exod. 29:37).

17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

18. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. [6]

[6] Notice, again, how the Psalm switches from an individual (David) to the nation of Israel (see notes on Psa. 25:16, 28:7).

19. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. [e]

[e] A Millennial reference that has no application to the Church Age (Col. 2:14-17 cf. Ezek. 43-46).

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Note on Nehemiah 1:5 KJV

And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments: [2]

[2] This is one of those penitential prayers, like Ezra’s prayer (Ezra 9:5-15), Daniel’s prayer (Dan. 9:3-19), and David’s prayer (Psa. 51).

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Note on Exodus 29:37 KJV

Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, [h] and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy. [9]

[h] Ezek. 43:25.

[9] See Exodus 30:29 and notice the remarkable illustration of this verse in 1 Kings 2:28-34 dealing with Joab. He ran to the altar because it was “holy,” but he forgot that the burnt lamb on the altar of offering cannot pay for the sins of murder or adultery (Num. 35:31; Lev. 20:10). This is why David was in such a sweat in Psalms 51. He knew what he had coming to him.

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Note on Psalms 25:16 KJV

16. Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted. [2]

[2] Verses 16-22 again illustrate that the doctrinal content of Psalms is aimed at Israel while the spiritual, devotional content can be applied to a Christian. Verses 16-21 are requests that any Christian can make to God spiritually, but when you hit verse 22, that is an individual Jew praying for his nation.

22. Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

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Note on Psalms 28:7 KJV

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: [3] therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

[3] Notice, again, the double application where an individual's prayer for help (here) turns out to be a prayer for the nation (vs. 9).

9. Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.