June 28th Your Daily Bible Study

June 28th Your Daily Bible Study:

Psalm 10 - 12:

PSALM 10

An appeal to punish the wicked

      1 Why do You stand afar off, O LORD?  Why do You hide Yourself in times of trouble?  (This is referring to “Jacob’s trouble,” speaking of the Great Tribulation [Jer. 30:7].)

      2 The wicked (the Antichrist) in his pride does persecute the poor (Israel):  let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined (they imagined destroying Israel, but instead they will be destroyed).

      3 For the wicked boasts of his heart’s desire, and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors (Paul referred to the Antichrist as “the wicked” [II Thess. 2:8]).

      4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God:  God is not in all his thoughts (in the pride of the Antichrist, he will declare that there is no God, or that, if there is, He takes no interest in human affairs).

      5 His ways are always grievous; Your Judgments are far above out of his sight:  as for all his enemies, he puffs at them (the Antichrist will declare that the Judgment of God cannot reach him).

      6 He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved:  for I shall never be in adversity (the Antichrist will think himself unbeatable, unstoppable, and immovable).

      7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud:  under his tongue is mischief and vanity (all his faculties will be employed in his efforts to destroy Israel).

      8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages:  in the secret places does he murder the innocent:  his eyes are privily set against the poor (refers to his efforts to destroy the “holy people,” Israel).

      9 He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den:  he lies in wait to catch the poor:  he does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net.

    10 He crouches, and humbles himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones (all of this to destroy Israel; the Antichrist will think to do what Haman, Herod, and Hitler could not do!).

    11 He has said in his heart, God has forgotten:  He hides His face; He will never see it (Daniel said, “And He shall speak great words against the Most High” [Dan. 7:25]).

A petition for help

    12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up Your Hand:  forget not the humble (the “humble” refers to Israel in the Battle of Armageddon, when it seems as if she will suffer total loss).

    13 Wherefore does the wicked contemn God?  he has said in his heart, You will not require it (the Antichrist will think himself above God).

    14 You have seen it; for You behold mischief and spite, to requite it with Your Hand:  the poor commits himself unto You; You are the Helper of the fatherless (at long last “the poor” [Israel] will commit herself unto the Lord; this is the primary purpose of the Great Tribulation — to bring Israel to Christ).

    15 Break You the arm of the wicked and the evil man:  seek out his wickedness till You find none (“Lord, destroy the Antichrist”; and that’s exactly what will happen).

    16 The LORD is King for ever and ever (not the Antichrist):  the heathen are perished out of His land (the Antichrist and his army will be destroyed in Israel, and taken out [Ezek., Chpts. 38-39]).

    17 LORD, You have heard the desire of the humble:  You will prepare their heart, You will cause Your ear to hear (at that time, the Battle of Armageddon, Israel will call upon the Lord, and He will hear):

    18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the Earth may no more oppress (the apparition of the Messiah will so effectually destroy the Antichrist that he will be no more [Rev., Chpt. 19]).

PSALM 11

A psalm of david:  the lord is our faithful defender

      1 In the LORD put I my trust:  how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?  (Even though there is no sure way of knowing, this Psalm was probably written when Saul was constantly threatening David with death.  To the Lord Alone could David look.)

      2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart (as this possibly represented Saul in his effort to destroy David, even more so it represents the Antichrist, who will make every effort to destroy Israel; it will be during the time of the Great Tribulation [Jer. 30:7]).

      3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?  (World law, whether the participants realize it or not, is based at least in part on the Bible; however, the Antichrist will do all within his power to abolish these foundations of law and replace them with lawlessness.  Righteous men will then have no legal remedy.)

      4 The LORD is in His Holy Temple, the LORD’s Throne is in Heaven:  His eyes behold, His eyelids try, the children of men (even during the times when it seems as if the Lord is doing nothing, He sees all, both good and bad).

      5 The LORD tries the righteous:  but the wicked and him who loves violence His soul hates (the Faith of the righteous must be tested, and great Faith must be tested greatly).

      6 Upon the wicked He shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest:  this shall be the portion of their cup (true, in general, but particularly to the Antichrist).

      7 For the righteous LORD loves Righteousness; His Countenance does behold the upright (“Righteousness” is simply that which is “right”; however, its standard is God’s standard and not man’s).

PSALM 12

A psalm of david:  The righteous are delivered

      1 Help, LORD; for the Godly man ceases; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.  (This Psalm as well was probably written during the time of persecution by Saul.  Violence and falsehood are Satan’s two greatest weapons against the servants of God.  The violence of the false messiah is the theme in the previous Chapter, with falsehood being the theme in this Chapter.)

      2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour:  with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak (whenever the Bible is displaced by human teaching, a logical result is that righteous men will be persecuted).

      3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things (all who do not believe the Word of God will ultimately be “cut off”):

      4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own:  who is lord over us?  (In the Great Tribulation when the Antichrist prevails, false teachers will abound.  They will boast that they are their own masters controlled by no God of the Heavens.  They will say that their lips are their own; that their teaching originates with themselves.)

      5 For the oppression of the poor (Israel), for the sighing of the needy (Israel), now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him who puffs at him (speaks of David, but more than all of the Lord’s protection of Israel in the coming Great Tribulation).

      6 The Words of the LORD are pure words:  as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times (the Word of God is perfectly pure).

      7 You shall keep them, O LORD, You shall preserve them from this generation for ever (the time of the Great Tribulation will be Israel’s greatest trial; they will be preserved by the Second Coming, and thereby forever [Mat. 24:21]).

      8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted (pertains to Saul, but more than all to the Antichrist).

Romans 1 - 2:

CHAPTER 1

(A.D. 60)

INTRODUCTION

      1 Paul (the only Bible writer who discarded his Jewish name [Saul] for his Gentile name [Paul]), a servant (a voluntary Bondslave) of Jesus Christ, called to be an Apostle (he puts “Bondslave” ahead of Apostle), separated unto the Gospel of God (means that Paul was separated by God from all mankind for his Apostleship),

      2 (Which He (God) had promised afore by His Prophets in the Holy Scriptures,)  (He promised the Redeemer, Who would be the Lord Jesus Christ.)

      3 Concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord (speaks of Jesus being the Core Message of the Old Testament), which was made (signifies entrance into a new condition) of the Seed of David (through the family of David) according to the flesh (the Incarnation, God becoming man);

      4 And declared to be the Son of God with power (He was the Son of David regarding His Humanity, and the Son of God regarding His Deity), according to the Spirit of Holiness (presents another Name for the Holy Spirit), by the Resurrection from the dead (the Jews Crucified Jesus because He claimed to be the Son of God; God Resurrected Him because He was the Son of God):

      5 By Whom (by God) we have received Grace (unmerited favor) and Apostleship (the Call), for obedience to the Faith (Jesus Christ and Him Crucified) among all nations (one Gospel for the entirety of the world), for His Name (He is the One Who has purchased our Redemption, by and through the Cross of Calvary);

      6 Among whom (all Believers) are you also the called of Jesus Christ (every person who is saved has been called of the Lord from something to something):

      7 To all who be in Rome, Beloved of God, called to be Saints (“to be” was improperly supplied by the Translators; every person who is saved is a Saint, and made so by Jesus Christ and what He did at the Cross):  Grace to you (which comes through the Cross) and Peace (Sanctifying Peace) from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ (presents the Trinity, with the Holy Spirit inspiring these words to be written).

THANKSGIVING

      8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world (speaks of the Roman Empire).

      9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit (his human spirit) in the Gospel of His Son (Jesus Christ and Him Crucified), that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers (Paul had a strong prayer life);

    10 Making request (has to do with seeking the Lord about a certain thing, in this case the privilege of ministering to the Church at Rome), if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the Will of God to come unto you (Acts, Chpts. 27 and 28, record that journey; it was very prosperous spiritually, but not prosperous in other ways).

    11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift (does not mean, as some think, that Paul could impart one or more of the nine Gifts of the Spirit, but rather speaks of explaining to them more perfectly the Word of God), to the end you may be established (spiritual Gifts, as valuable as they are, do not establish anyone; it is the Truth of the Word which establishes, and that alone [Jn. 8:32]);

    12 That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me (carries the idea of a mutual strengthening brought about by his Ministry among them, and their Love shown to him).

    13 Now I would not have you ignorant, Brethren (a phrase often used by Paul), that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) (something hindered) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles (he knew that his teaching concerning the Cross would help them to grow in Grace).

    14 I am debtor (true of every Believer) both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise (to all people, whomever they might be, and wherever they might be).

    15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the Gospel to you who are at Rome also.

THE POWER

    16 For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ (is said in reference to the Cross):  for it is the Power of God unto Salvation to every one who believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek (through the Cross, and the Cross alone, man is reconciled unto God).

    17 For therein (through the Cross) is the Righteousness of God (Right with God) revealed from faith to faith (“from Faith” relates to God as the Provider and “to Faith” relates to man as the receiver):  as it is written, The just shall live by Faith (proclaims Paul showing that Righteousness by Faith is no new idea, but found in the Prophets [Hab. 2:4]).

GUILT

    18 For the Wrath of God (God’s Personal Emotion with regard to sin) is revealed from Heaven (this anger originates with God) against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men (God must unalterably be opposed to sin), who hold the truth in unrighteousness (who refuse to recognize Who God is, and what God is);

    19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them (speaks of the universal objective knowledge of God as the Creator, which is more or less in all men); for God has showed it unto them (means that His Signature is in Creation).

    20 For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen (explains Verse 19), being understood by the things that are made (Creation demands a Creator), even His Eternal Power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse (the Creation tells us of the Eternal Power of God, and is obvious to all):

APOSTASY

    21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God (if men do not understand God in the realm of Creation, they will not understand Him in anything else), neither were thankful (refusing to honor Him resulted in a lack of gratitude for His Gifts); but became vain in their imaginations (presents the only direction that fallen man can go, considering he has rejected God), and their foolish heart was darkened (speaks of the rejection of Light).

    22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools (lays waste to all so-called wisdom which is not of God),

    23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God (presents the sin of the ages, and points not only to the heathen of old, but also much of modern Christendom) into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things (proclaims the degeneration of man, which is the opposite of evolution).

RESULTS OF APOSTASY

    24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts (not merely permissive, but God judicially delivered them over), to dishonour their own bodies between themselves (speaks of every type of immorality):

    25 Who changed the Truth of God into a lie (refers back to Verse 23, which speaks of spiritual and sexual uncleanness), and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator (this refers to man worshiping the creation of his own hands, which means that he is worshiping something less than himself), Who is blessed forever.  Amen (should have been translated “Bless-ed” [two syllables], because it refers to the One doing the blessing, in this case the Lord).

    26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections (the Lord removed His restraints and, therefore, gave them unimpeded access to their desires):  for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature (in short speaks of Lesbianism):

    27 And likewise also the men (homosexuality), leaving the natural use of the woman (speaks of the sex act which is performed between the man and his wife), burned in their lust one toward another (raging lust); men with men working that which is unseemly (specifies its direction, which is total perversion), and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet (refers to the penalty attached to wrongdoing).

    28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge (carries the idea of the human race putting God to the test for the purpose of approving or disapproving Him), God gave them over to a reprobate mind (Light rejected is Light withdrawn), to do those things which are not convenient (which are not fitting);

APOSTATES

    29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

    30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

    31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful (these things listed are the end results of forsaking God, which is the reason for all the strife in the world):

    32 Who knowing the judgment of God (in essence saying, “do Your worst, and it will not stop us”), that they which commit such things are worthy of death (Divine Judgment is implied), not only do the same, but have pleasure in them who do them (proclaims the result of the “reprobate mind”).

Chapter 2

(A.D. 60)

CRITICS

      1 Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whosoever you are who judges (presents this segment as directed to the Jews):  for wherein you judge another, you condemn yourself (in effect, says that God judges one who judges another in the same manner in which he himself has judged, hence, “condemning himself” [Mat. 7:1-2]); for you who judge do the same things (in effect, says that the Jews were no better than the Gentiles, whom they constantly berated).

GOD’S JUDGMENT

      2 But we are sure that the Judgment of God is according to Truth (proclaims that which is never of presumption) against them which commit such things (proclaims a perfect Judgment, because it comes from Truth).

      3 And do you think this, O man, who judges them which do such things, and do the same (you, the Jew), that you shall escape the Judgment of God?  (Many Jews thought the privilege of birth as a Jew would of itself insure his entrance into the Kingdom [Mat. 3:8-9].)

      4 Or despise you the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering (presents the Jew as holding these things in contempt, thinking that they were worthy of such); not knowing that the goodness of God leads you (trying to lead you) to Repentance?

      5 But after your hardness and impenitent heart (speaks of a hardness toward God, with a refusal to repent) treasured up unto yourself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the Righteous Judgment of God (Judgment was building up, and ultimately exploded over the Jews; we speak of A.D. 70);

      6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds (we reap what we sow!):

      7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing (portrays those who are not trusting in place or position for their Salvation, but rather in Christ) seek for glory and honour and immortality, Eternal Life (this speaks of that which comes exclusively from God):

      8 But unto them who are contentious (carries the idea of contending with God), and do not obey the Truth (attempt to devise a way other than Christ and Him Crucified), but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath (the opposite of Truth),

      9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man who does evil (presents the natural results of the unnatural act of sin), of the Jew first (held more responsible), and also of the Gentile (will answer as well!);

NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS

    10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man who works good (presents God’s logic, which proclaims if certain things are done, certain things will follow), to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile (is given again to show the place of prominence respecting the Jew, but which they forfeited):

    11 For there is no respect of persons with God (literally translated, the Verse reads, “for there is not a receiving of face in the Presence of God”; it means that God doesn’t receive or accept anyone’s face, irrespective as to whom they might be).

    12 For as many as have sinned without Law shall also perish without Law (while the Lord will not hold the Gentiles accountable to the Law of Moses regarding Old Testament times, this in no way means that He will not hold them accountable for their sin; the fact of sin is not abrogated in any case respecting ignorance):  and as many as have sinned in the Law shall be judged by the Law (in effect, places the Jew in a more responsible and even fearful situation);

    13 (For not the hearers of the Law are just before God (the mere having of the Law, or even hearing the Law, saves no one), but the doers of the Law shall be justified (is used by Paul in this manner to make a point; he is not meaning that the keeping of the Law of Moses could actually bring Justification; in fact, due to man’s fallen condition, he could not keep the Law).

    14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the Law (Law of Moses), do by nature the things contained in the Law (their conscience told them some semblance of right and wrong), these, having not the Law, are a Law unto themselves (at the Great White Throne Judgment, God will Judge the Gentile world which existed before the Law according to that which they did know; once again, this has nothing to do with Salvation; ignorance has never brought Salvation):

    15 Which show the work of the Law written in their hearts (means that no one, whomever they might be and wherever they might be, is absent of all Light), their conscience also bearing witness (but which can be seared), and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another (conscience does not prove a reliable guide, as is proclaimed here);)

    16 In the day when God shall Judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ (lays to rest any idea that Judgment will be on any other basis; while many other things, such as conscience, may be a witness, still Jesus Alone is the criteria) according to my Gospel (Jesus Christ and Him crucified).

GUILT

    17 Behold, you are called a Jew (implying special favor from God), and rest in the Law (presents the picture of a blind and mechanical reliance on the Mosaic Law which could not save, and had never been meant to save), and make your boast of God (glorying in who they were),

    18 And know His Will (Israel had the literal Word of God, which no other Nation in the world had at that time), and approve the things that are more excellent (they had proved the Word over and over), being instructed out of the Law (in essence means that they were instructed by the very Mouth of God);

    19 And are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind (the Jews were meant by God to be the guides of the Gentiles, to lead them to the Lord), a light of them which are in darkness (it was always God’s Will that His Word, Will, and Way, be given to the entirety of mankind),

    20 An instructor of the foolish (the Gentile world was foolish in their worship of their gods of human invention), a teacher of babes (presents the Holy Spirit looking at Greek Philosophers as no more than infants), which have the form of knowledge and of the truth of the Law (the Jews had the Word of God, which put them light years ahead of the balance of mankind).

    21 You therefore which teach another, do you not teach yourself? (The Jews made fun of the Gentile world, but little applied themselves to the Law, at least as they should have.) you who preach a man should not steal, do you steal?  (Most of them did!)

    22 You who say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? (Many did!)  you who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?  (In a sense, the Holy Spirit through Paul is placing Israel in the same state as the Gentile world.)

    23 You who make your boast of the Law, through breaking the Law you dishonor God?  (In other words, due to having the Law and not keeping the Law, they were dishonoring God, even more than the Gentiles were.)

    24 For the Name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you (proclaims the Jews bringing reproach upon the Lord by living in open contradiction to their own profession), as it is written (Isa. 52:5).

    25 For Circumcision verily profits, if you keep the Law (in other words, Circumcision profited nothing if they were breaking the Law of God):  but if you be a breaker of the Law, your Circumcision is made uncircumcision (proclaims the fact that religious rites, no matter how much God-given, contain no properties of Salvation).

    26 Therefore if the uncircumcision (Gentiles) keep the Righteousness of the Law (through Jesus Christ), shall not his uncircumcision be counted for Circumcision?  (This proclaims that one’s trust in Jesus satisfies the demands of the Law and, thereby, secures the “Righteousness of the Law,” which, in fact, is the only way it can be secured.)

    27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the Law, judge you (proclaims the obvious results of the changed life upon Faith in Christ), who by the letter and Circumcision do transgress the Law?  (This speaks of the Jews who, outside of Christ, try to keep the letter of the Law by engaging in all of its Rituals, but continue to transgress the Law.  In other words, what they are doing doesn’t change their lives.)

DEFINITION

    28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly (completely destroys national Salvation); neither is that Circumcision, which is outward in the flesh (the mere Ritual is no true Circumcision at all, and spiritually affords nothing):

    29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly (it is only the work carried out by Christ inwardly which constitutes Salvation); and Circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit (refers to the “heart” of the individual being changed, which is done in one’s spirit and speaks of being “Born-Again”), and not in the letter (refers to the rules and regulations of the Law of Moses, or even such in the Church); whose praise is not of men, but of God (keeping religious Rituals garners the praise of men, but not of God; men can truly praise God only when they truly accept Christ, which means to truly trust Christ and not men’s religious Rituals).

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