June 27th Daily Bible Study: Psalm 7 - 9

Psalm 7

A Psalm of david:  A petition for protection

      1 O Lord my God, in You do I put my trust:  save me from all them who persecute me, and deliver me (David more than likely wrote this Psalm [song] while Saul was attempting to kill him; however, in a greater way, this Psalm refers to the suffering of the Messiah in sympathy with the elect remnant of Israel under the persecution of the Antichrist.

        I think it would be obvious in all of these Psalms written by David that his personal experiences and moral character were much below the language of the Psalm.  It is, therefore, prophetic of the Messiah):

      2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver (all of this answers to these some twenty-one attempts of Saul to kill David [I Sam. 18:1-26:2]).

      3 O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands (David was accused by Saul of seeking the kingdom and the opportunity to kill the king; David denies these charges here before God, offering to lay down his life if such be true);

      4 If I have reward evil unto him who was at peace with me; (yes, I have delivered him who without cause is my enemy [David denies that he has either injured a friend or requited evil to a foe]:)

      5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yes, let him tread down my life upon the Earth, and lay my honour in the dust.  Selah.

      6 Arise, O LORD, in Your anger, lift up Yourself because of the rage of my enemies:  and awake for me to the judgment that You have commanded (in other words, “Lord, I desperately need Your help”).

      7 So shall the congregation of the people compass You about:  for their sakes therefore return You on high (“Lord, come down and do something, and then return to Heaven”).

      8 The LORD shall judge the people:  judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity that is in me (our Faith in Christ gives us His Righteousness and His Integrity).

      9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just:  for the righteous God tries the hearts and reins (it is not so much the removal of the wicked, but the removal of their wickedness, that David desires).

    10 My defence is of God, Who saves the upright in heart (one can be “upright in heart” only by trust in Christ!).

    11 God judges the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day (God’s Anger continues against the wicked as long as their wickedness continues [I Pet. 4:17]).

    12 If he turn not, He will whet His sword; He has bent His Bow, and made it ready (every new transgression sets a fresh edge to God’s sword).

    13 He has also prepared for him the instruments of death; He ordains His arrows against the persecutors (what one sows, one will reap [Gal. 6:7]).

    14 Behold, he (the persecutors) travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood (in particular, it pictures Saul and, in general, the Antichrist).

    15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made (the fall of both Saul and the Antichrist).

    16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate (this was fulfilled in Saul when he died fighting the Philistines, and will be fulfilled in particular when the Antichrist is subdued by Christ at the Second Coming [Ezek., Chpts. 38-39]).

    17 I will praise the LORD according to His Righteousness:  and will sing praise to the Name of the LORD Most High (the phrase, “Most High,” in the Hebrew, is “Elyon,” which means “Possessor of Heaven and Earth; the dispenser of God’s Blessings in the Earth”; it is one of the titles of the Messiah as “Most High” over all the Earth).

PSALM 8

A psalm of david:  the sovereignty of the son of man

      1 O Lord our LORD, how excellent is Your Name in all the Earth!  who has set Your Glory above the heavens (this Psalm pictures the happiness that is to fill the Earth when, after the destruction of the Antichrist and his followers, the Messiah will establish His Kingdom of Righteousness and Peace, and His Right to ascend the Throne).

      2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have You ordained strength because of Your enemies, that You might still the enemy and the avenger (the word “babes” is figurative and portrays the redeemed; the redeemed will praise Him because He has “stilled the enemy and the avenger” — namely Satan).

      3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your Fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained (the argument of Verses 3-8 is the amazing Love of Christ in coming forth from the Highest Glory to redeem a being so insignificant as man);

      4 What is man, that You are mindful of him?  and the son of man, that You visit him?  (God became man and went to Calvary in order to redeem fallen humanity.  The price that was paid for that Redemption proclaims to us the worth of man, which, in fact, is God’s highest Creation.)

      5 For You have made him a little lower than the Angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor (the Hebrew word “Elohim” here translated “Angels” should have been translated “God” or “Godhead,” for that’s what the word actually means; there is no place in the Old Testament where “Elohim” means “Angels”; this means that man was originally created higher than the Angels, and through Christ will be restored to that lofty position [Rom. 8:14-17]).

      6 You made him to have dominion over the works of Your Hands; You have put all things under His Feet (in their fullness, these words given here are only true of the God-Man, Jesus Christ [Mat. 28:18]; Christ has been exalted to a place higher than Angels or any other being except the Father; redeemed man is to be raised up to that exalted position with Him [Eph. 2:6-7]):

      7 All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field;

      8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas (man was made to have dominion over all this).

      9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is Your Name in all the Earth!  (Christ is the Head of the Church, which is His Body; ultimately, that which is given by Promise will, upon the Resurrection of Life, be carried to its ultimate victorious conclusion.)

PSALM 9

A psalm of david:  praise to god, the great deliverer

      1 I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all Your marvelous Works (David praises the Lord for victory; however, the greater fulfillment is praise to the Lord for the victory of Christ over the Antichrist in the coming Battle of Armageddon).

      2 I will be glad and rejoice in You:  I will sing praise to Your Name, O You Most High (Possessor of Heaven and Earth).

      3 When my enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at Your Presence (once again, proclaims the defeat of the Antichrist).

      4 For You have maintained my right and my cause; You sat in the Throne judging right (it is the Lord Who decided the victory!).

      5 You have rebuked the heathen, You have destroyed the wicked, You have put out their name for ever and ever (once again, victory over the Antichrist).

      6 O you enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end:  and you have destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them (“you, the Antichrist, will destroy no more”).

      7 But the LORD shall endure for ever:  He has prepared His Throne for Judgment (the beginning of the Kingdom Age, which will commence immediately after the defeat of the Antichrist).

      8 And He shall judge the world in righteousness, He shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness (the government of the world will be upon His shoulder [Isa. 9:6]).

      9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble (the “oppressed” will no longer be oppressed).

    10 And they who know Your Name will put their trust in You:  for You, LORD, have not forsaken them who seek You (the Lord forsakes not His Saints; we are preserved forever [Ps. 37:28]).

    11 Sing praises to the LORD, Who dwells in Zion:  declare among the people His Doings (this is the Kingdom Age, when the Lord reigns supreme from Jerusalem).

    12 When He makes inquisition for blood, He remembers them:  He forgets not the cry of the humble (God will eventually avenge all the righteous and punish oppressors and criminals; this will take place at the beginning of the Kingdom Age).

    13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them who hate me, You Who lifts me up from the gates of death (the Lord will deliver Israel from the Antichrist when they are at the very “gates of death”):

    14 That I may show forth all Your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion:  I will rejoice in Your Salvation (Israel will then accept Christ as Saviour and Lord [Zech. 13:1]).

    15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made:  in the net which they hid is their own foot taken (the Antichrist will set a trap for the whole of Israel; however, he will be snared in his own “net”).

    16 The LORD is known by the judgment which He executes:  the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.  Higgaion.  Selah.  (The last two words speak of meditation on what has been said.)

    17 The wicked shall be turned into Hell, and all the nations that forget God (every nation that sides with the Antichrist will, in effect, have turned their back on God, and as well will be “turned into Hell”).

    18 For the needy (Israel) shall not alway be forgotten:  the expectation of the poor (Israel) shall not perish for ever (in the midst of the Battle of Armageddon, the Lord will come to the rescue of Israel).

    19 Arise, O LORD; let not man (the Antichrist) prevail:  let the heathen be judged in Your sight.

    20 Put them in fear, O LORD:  that the nations may know themselves to be but men.  Selah.  (Despite the fact that the Antichrist and his followers will strut like gods, the truth is, they are but men; and up beside the Power of God, they are nothing!)