RRB notes on Psalm 84

Psalms 84 KJV

To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.

1. How amiable are thy tabernacles, [1] O LORD of hosts!

[1] The word “tabernacles” is used because God’s dwelling place had been one Tabernacle in the wilderness, then one sanctuary under Solomon, another Temple under Herod, and then in the Millennium, it will be a rebuilt Temple (Ezek. 40-46) containing “courts” (plural; vs. 10 cf. Ezek. 40:19-20) and “altars” (plural; vs. 3 cf. Ezek. 40:39-42, 41:22, 43:19-27).

2. My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. [a]

[a] The psalm is mainly devotional, without much doctrine or prophecy.

3. Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, [b] O LORD of hosts, my King, [c] and my God.

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

[c] “King,” the Jewish designation; “head” (Eph. 5:23) and “Lord,” the Christian designation.

4. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.

5. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. [2]

[2] Here’s a place where the apostates try to make a passage literal (a journey or pilgrimage to the Temple) because they do not understand the spiritual dealings of the heart. “The man” of this verse is “blessed” because in his “heart” are “the ways” of the people who served the Lord in the Temple (vs. 4). Those kind of people were characterized by continual praise (vs. 4) and reliance on God for strength (vs. 7), despite their circumstances. In the New Testament, the Christian who can believe and claim Romans 8:28, can turn his tears into refreshing water (vs. 6). 

6. Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

7. They [d] go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

[d] “The man” of vss. 5-6.

8. O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

9. Behold, O God our shield, [e] and look upon the face of thine anointed.

[e] 2 Sam. 1:21; 1 Sam. 17:7; Eph. 6:16; 1 Chron. 12:24.

10. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. [3] I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

[3] The prophetic application is to the Millennial “day” (2 Pet. 3:8) when Jesus Christ is reigning as King in the Temple (Ezek. 43:1-7). The devotional application is that it is better to meet with God’s people and hear the word of God preached and taught than it is to be anywhere else. Sunday with Lester Roloff is better than 25 Super Bowls. A service with Maze Jackson or Billy Kelly is better than thirty nights with Madonna, Presley, Crosby, or Sinatra.

11. For the LORD God is a sun [f] and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. [g]

[f] Mal. 4:2; Psa. 19:4-5.

[g] The New Testament equivalent of this promise is 2 Cor. 9:8, but that promise is conditioned on not being stingy in your giving (2 Cor. 9:7).

12. O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

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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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 RRB notes on Psalm 83

Psalms 83 KJV

A Song or Psalm of Asaph.

1. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

2. For, lo, thine enemies [a] make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

[a] See App. 58 for vss. 2-3.

3. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

4. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; [b] that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

[b] Ezek. 23:24; Zech. 12:2-3, 14:2; Isa. 29:8.

5. For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate [1] against thee: [c]

[1] The “confederacy” of verses 6-11 is made up of the descendants of Ham (whose seed was cursed by God – see note on Gen. 9:25) and the rejected sons of Abraham. The list includes Esau (Gen. 36:1; Mal. 1:2), Ishmael (Gen. 21:9-10), Amalek (Gen. 36:12; Exod. 17:14-16), the Philistines (Gen. 10:6-14), the Zidonians (Gen. 10:15; Judg. 10:12; 1 Chron. 22:4), the Assyrians (Gen. 10:6-11; Ezra 4:2), Midian (Gen. 25:1-6, 37:27-28), the Canaanites (Gen. 10:6-18; Judg. 4:2), and Moab and Ammon, the bastard sons of Lot (Gen. 13:10-17, 19:37-38; Deut. 23:3}.

[c] Israel is the only member of the UN with no military ally (see note on Num. 23:9; App. 63).

6. The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

7. Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

8. Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

9. Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

10. Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.

11. Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

12. Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

13. O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. [d]

[d] Vss. 13-17 are a prayer for Mal. 4:1-3 to take place. See also Dan. 2:35.

14. As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; [e]

[e] Second Advent (Ezek. 20:47-49).

15. So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm. [f]

[f] Isa. 28:2, 30:30; Job 27:20-21; Psa. 11:6.

16. Fill their faces with shame; [g] that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

[g] Second Advent (Dan. 12:2).

17. Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: [h]

[h] Second Advent (Ezek. 38:199-23).

18. That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, [i] art the most high over all the earth.

[i] Exod. 6:3 (see App. 1).

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Appendix 58 – Israel and Israel’s Enemies

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Note on Num. 23:9 KJV

For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations. [1]

[1] This dramatic verse is another notice about the end of the United Nations exactly as it is prophesied in Zephaniah 3:8. This says that Israel cannot be a member of the United Nations. The people cannot be “reckoned among the nations.” At present, they are. To fulfill this prophecy, Israel must be kicked out  of the United Nations by all the nations who take the “anti-Semitic” position on Israel (Lev. 20:24, 26; Deut. 4:7, 7:6, 14, 10:15, especially 26:19, 33:28).

Israel is not going to be simply restored; Israel is going to take over 191 +/- nations, and they are going to serve Israel according to the prophet (Isa. 60:12) who wrote a whole chapter on the blood atonement of Jesus Christ (see Isa. 53).

These Old Testament passages are telling you clearly that God is going to obliterate the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican State, the United Nations, the CIA, Islam, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Levitical Judaism, Humanism, the NEA, the NAACP, the CFR, UNESCO, and all democratic, socialistic, communist, republican, monarchial, and dictatorial forms of government in less than twenty-four hours.

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Appendix 63 – God Versus the United Nations

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 RRB notes on Psalm 82

Psalms 82 KJV

A Psalm of Asaph.

1. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods. [1] [a]

[1] The “gods” are not just statues. There are plenty of them around (1 Cor. 8:5), and God has told them what He’s going to do with them (Jer. 10:11). Mohammed (supposedly a devout monotheist) blows his whole fake show by telling you that Allah is only the “best of the creators” (Sura 37:125). When the most brilliant Arabic scholar of the Koran (Maulana Muhammed Ali) hits this Sura, he gets lockjaw and doesn’t comment on it. What’s the matter, sonny? “Camel got your tongue?”

[a] Psa. 95:3.

2. How long will ye judge [2] unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? [b] Selah.

[2] The “judges,” here, were not Israel’s judges, as all the commentators state. The “gods” were in Genesis 3:5 (see note on Job 38:7). It was “the sons of God” who became the rulers and judges in Noah’s days (Gen. 6:4).

[b] See App. 94.

3. Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

4. Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

5. They know not, neither will they understand; [3] they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

[3] The semicolon in verse 5 separates Noah’s Flood from Genesis 1:2 (see comments under 2 Pet. 3:4-6). The two are given backwards, exactly as the First and Second Comings of Christ are given backwards in Psalm 89:22-45.

6. I have said, Ye are gods; [c] and all of you are children of the most High. [4]

[c] See comments on John 10:34-35.

[4] “The sons of God” in Genesis 6:2 were not “the sons of Seth”; they were “children of the most High.” They were spirits directly created by God (Heb. 1:7), but were not “begotten” as Christ was (Heb. 1:5).

7. But ye shall die like men, [5] and fall like one of the princes.

[5] “The sons of God” in Genesis 6:2 did not die as “gods”, they drowned “like men” (Gen. 6:13). Their spirits are chained in Hell right now (2 Pet. 2:4), and they will come up at the White Throne Judgment (Jude 6) where the new “sons of God” (John 1:12) will judge them (1 Cor. 6:3).

8. Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations. [6]

[6] Obviously a Second Advent reference, for God has never “judged the earth” and “inherited the nations” yet. When He “inherits” them, His Son inherits them according to His own words (Psa. 2:8). The Roman Catholic, imperialistic State-Church, has always taught that God is judging the earth and inheriting all nations now. Eventually, everybody will be converted to Roman Catholicism without Christ coming back. Mohammed taught exactly the same thing, except he substituted Islam for Roman Catholicism and himself for Jesus Christ (see The Holy Scriptures vs. The Holy Koran, Bible Baptist Bookstore, 2003, pp. 21, 43, 63-64, 66, 82-83, and 131).

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Note on Job 38:7 KJV

When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? [2]

[2] Verse 7 proves that the “sons of God” in Genesis 6:2 were not the “sons of Seth.” It proves that above “the morning stars,” was “the bright and morning star” (Heb. 1:5-13; Rev. 22:16). It further proves the Devil is such a close imitation of Jesus Christ that the NIV took Jesus’ title away from Him and gave it to Satan (Isa. 14:12). The AV translators, having at least three times the intelligence of the NIV translators, translated Isaiah 14:12 as “son of the morning.” The “bright and morning star” is the Son of God; the “son of the morning” is Satan. Finally, it shows that Mohammed and his 600-winged angel were nothing but two big liars. Here, you are told that God not only had a begotten “Son,” but created “sons” (see note on Job 1:6).

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Appendix 94 – The Nine Ole’ Reprobates: The Supreme Court

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Comments on John 10:34-35 KJV

34. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? [6]

[6] The quote is from Psalm 82:6. All the commentators make these “gods” the Levitical judges of Israel (see Exod. 4:16, 22:28). But there is an obvious double application, because the context of Psalm 82:6 is the “sons of God” before the Flood (see notes on Psa. 82:1, 2, 6, 7).

35. If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

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 RRB notes on Psalm 81

Psalms 81 KJV

To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.

1. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

2. Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

3. Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

4. For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

5. This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I [1] understood not. [a]

[1] The passage poses a problem so rough that all the new “Bibles” change the verse. The “I” of verses 6-12 is God. But who is the “I” of verse 5? Either it is Joseph’s testimony when he was sold into slavery in Egypt (Gen. 39:1), or it is the Lord putting Himself into Israel’s “shoes” (which He certainly did – Lev. 25:23) in the person of Joseph.

[a] Psa. 114:1.

6. I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. [b]

[b] Psa. 68:13.

7. Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. [c] Selah.

[c] Num. 20:13.

8. Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;

9. There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

10. I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

11. But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

12. So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

13. Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

14. I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

15. The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.

16. He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

 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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 RRB notes on Psalm 78

Psalms 78 KJV

Maschil of Asaph.

1. Give ear, O my people, [a] to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

[a] Jews, not Christians.

2. I will open my mouth in a parable: [1] I will utter dark sayings of old:

[1] An abbreviated history of the nation of Israel (from Exod. 7 to 2 Sam. 10) is given as a “parable” in this chapter. Naturally, the commentators all change the word because they don’t understand it, and they successfully break the cross references to Matthew 13:13 and John 10:6.

3. Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

4. We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come [b] the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

[b] 2 Tim. 2:2; 1 Cor. 4:1-2.

5. For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: [c]

[c] Deut. 11:19-20, 4:9, 17:18-19.

6. That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

7. That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

8. And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

9. The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. [2]

[2] The verse is not an accurate record of Ephraim’s conduct at all (Judg. 3:27, 5:14, 7:24, 10:1, 12:15; Josh. 17:14-18; 1 Sam. 1:1); therefore, it is obviously a prophecy about Ephraim’s future conduct in the Tribulation. Ephraim becomes “desolate . . . among the tribes of Israel” (Hos. 5:9) and is omitted from the roster of tribes in the Tribulation (Rev. 7:4-8).

10. They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

11. And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.

12. Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

13. He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. [d]

[d] Exod. 15:8.

14. In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. [e]

[e] Exod. 13:21-22.

15. He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

16. He brought streams also out of the rock, [f] and caused waters to run down like rivers.

[f] Exod. 17:5-6; Num. 11:4-6.

17. And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

18. And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. [g]

[g] Exod. 16:3-8; Num. 11:4-6.

19. Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

20. Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?

21. Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

22. Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

23. Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

24. And had rained down manna upon them to eat, [h] and had given them of the corn of heaven.

[h] Exod. 16:14-35.

25. Man did eat angels’ food: [i] he sent them meat to the full.

[i] See note on Psa. 74:14.

26. He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.

27. He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: [j]

[j] Exod. 16:12-13; Num. 11:31-32.

28. And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.

29. So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

30. They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

31. The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

32. For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

33. Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

34. When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God. [k]

[k] Vss. 33-34 cf. Judg. 2:11-19, 3:15, 4:3, 6:6.

35. And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

36. Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

37. For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

38. But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

39. For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

40. How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

41. Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

42. They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

43. How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:

44. And had turned their rivers into blood; [l] and their floods, that they could not drink.

[l] Vss. 44-51 recount the plagues of Exod. 7-12.

45. He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

46. He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

47. He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.

48. He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

49. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

50. He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

51. And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

52. But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

53. And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. [m]

[m] Exod. 15:4-5.

54. And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased. [3]

[3] The word “purchased” shows you that God’s choice of Mt. Zion is directly connected to the blood atonement made by Christ on Mt. Calvary (Exod. 15:16-18 cf. Acts 20:28; Eph. 1:14, 5:25). Naturally, the Scholars’ Union changes the word to eliminate the revelation.

55. He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

56. Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

57. But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

58. For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

59. When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

60. So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

61. And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.

62. He gave his people over also unto the sword; [n] and was wroth with his inheritance.

[n] 2 Kings 17:20; Lam. 2:21.

63. The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

64. Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. [o]

[o] There is a 2,800-year gap between vss. 64 and 65.

65. Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, [p] and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

[p] Second Advent (Psa. 35:23, 59:5, 44:23; Isa. 51:9).

66. And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. [q]

[q] A prophecy on the Second Advent that has not yet been fulfilled.

67. Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

68. But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. [4]

[4] Double application. Verses 68-72 historically refer to the installation of David as king back in 1100 B.C., but in Ezekiel 43:7, this takes place again (after A.D. 2008) permanently.

69. And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

70. He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

71. From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

72. So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

>>>>>>>Additional Notes<<<<<<<

Note on Psa. 74:14

Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. [5]

[5] The reference is obviously to the “great red dragon” of Revelation 12:3 (see notes on Job 41:1, 41:31). In Ezekiel 29:3, Pharoah is given as a picture of this “dragon.” The problem is how could one of the heads of this dragon be “wounded to death” (Rev. 13:1-3) and that wound be converted into “manna” to feed a bunch of Jews in the wilderness? (See note on Exod. 16:20.) No one has ever explained the text, but in the Disney movie “Sleeping Beauty,” you’ll see a dragon being cut in the throat by a sword and bleeding “hoar frost” (Exod. 16:14; Rev. 12:14)!

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