tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8197073836261375612024-03-19T01:47:48.953-07:00Fred Widdowson's BlogFrederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.comBlogger3770125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-89734864390385730932024-03-18T04:20:00.000-07:002024-03-18T04:20:18.200-07:00Bible Study with Fred, #740: Ephesians 2:10-12; we are his workmanship<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/CXqeAJIbNcY?si=InqK-zGY9C8lRd9Q" frameborder="0"></iframe>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-87802974860002528272024-03-17T04:51:00.000-07:002024-03-17T04:51:55.798-07:00Bible Study with Fred, #739: Ephesians 2:8,9; saved through faith<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/shB-36MfLeo?si=KV6vJf2u3kR7pSCW" frameborder="0"></iframe>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-45080781167042421602024-03-16T05:15:00.000-07:002024-03-16T05:15:01.593-07:00Bible Study with Fred, #738: Ephesians 2:6,7; so we will know who did this<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/gP4MZ9bgu8E?si=_xyFEwc3F9pbJRDJ" frameborder="0"></iframe>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-63209149001953749332024-03-15T04:13:00.000-07:002024-03-15T04:13:42.288-07:00Bible Study with Fred, #737: Ephesians 2:4,5 ; God who is rich in mercy<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/29bCNlPSzcg?si=KUpZqC_r3Kutlene" frameborder="0"></iframe>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-81963350201873498842024-03-14T06:07:00.000-07:002024-03-14T06:07:10.547-07:001Samuel 29 comments<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPfUg_tSXZh-Jntpa7tbzHeHhwq7O5ZItlmdXv-2d2aAj9xy0d-5qcujJTPgXADunM5UyrGaXO5P_cBXD2Ca3UsBa31i5UJ5d4LgVRAkqPGqF1LbZcIMYX_XPBihhuJ-qo-mnIm1twmwcsqvTH4SiXCXAJjmePjdVmHr2fpPhD4_bLu0jtEp9HbkMyAX0/s1242/Samuel.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1242" data-original-width="1036" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPfUg_tSXZh-Jntpa7tbzHeHhwq7O5ZItlmdXv-2d2aAj9xy0d-5qcujJTPgXADunM5UyrGaXO5P_cBXD2Ca3UsBa31i5UJ5d4LgVRAkqPGqF1LbZcIMYX_XPBihhuJ-qo-mnIm1twmwcsqvTH4SiXCXAJjmePjdVmHr2fpPhD4_bLu0jtEp9HbkMyAX0/s320/Samuel.png" width="267" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1Samuel 29:1 ¶<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now the
Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites
pitched by a fountain which <i>is</i> in Jezreel. 2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the lords of the Philistines </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men
passed on in the rereward with Achish. 3
Then said the princes of the Philistines, What <i>do</i> these </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hebrews <i>here</i>? And Achish said unto the princes of the
Philistines, <i>Is</i> not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel,
which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault
in him since he fell <i>unto me</i> unto this day? 4 And the princes of the Philistines were wroth
with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow
return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and
let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to
us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? <i>should it</i>
not <i>be</i> with the heads of these men? 5
<i>Is</i> not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances,
saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">At this point the other lords of the Philistines mightily object
to having a noteworthy champion of their enemies, the Israelites, with them.
They demand that Achish send David away. He is not to be trusted. It has been
suggested that since Achish and his company were bringing up the rear that he
was the overall commander and that David and his men were only intended to be
his personal bodyguard.</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1Samuel 29:6 ¶<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Achish
called David, and said unto him, Surely, <i>as</i> the LORD liveth, thou hast
been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host <i>is</i>
good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming
unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not. 7<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that
thou displease not the lords of the Philistines. 8<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And David said unto Achish, But what have I
done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee
unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
9<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Achish answered and said to David,
I know that thou <i>art</i> good in my sight, as an angel of God:
notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up
with us to the battle. 10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wherefore now
rise up early in the morning with thy master’s servants that are come with
thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.
11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So David and his men rose up early to
depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the
Philistines went up to Jezreel.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So Achish, leader of the Philistines, feels compelled politically
to send David and his men packing. They return to Philistine territory. David
now must wait for news of the battle and we know that in spite of any protestations
his heart lies with Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-89662061325763663832024-03-14T04:06:00.000-07:002024-03-14T04:06:37.280-07:00Bible Study with Fred, #736: Ephesians 2:2,3; the children of wrath<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/I7tfjL01olM?si=N0O7MAvU9c1As3kf" frameborder="0"></iframe>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-57481070406164282272024-03-13T06:12:00.000-07:002024-03-13T06:12:38.902-07:00Psalm 60 comments<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq9eI_4P5MDlIiOp_jT1mQF3_NYS8Z17yg7pQk8Zw0HdYMCzil2foPOobgcVRq1VYduZgovsnznv8VIiW-iR4dtJ-U8YS7rUixZLsrxO_kj4eMFXTECRAUyLugv3x9DouG6bW33WfAZMaU2xnefJs2PBS3cubGwpQ9BU0NPUi6bDZ4CJVPSVk9soxRh5k/s3026/king_david_harston.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2076" data-original-width="3026" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq9eI_4P5MDlIiOp_jT1mQF3_NYS8Z17yg7pQk8Zw0HdYMCzil2foPOobgcVRq1VYduZgovsnznv8VIiW-iR4dtJ-U8YS7rUixZLsrxO_kj4eMFXTECRAUyLugv3x9DouG6bW33WfAZMaU2xnefJs2PBS3cubGwpQ9BU0NPUi6bDZ4CJVPSVk9soxRh5k/s320/king_david_harston.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 60:1 ¶<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>«To the chief
Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with
Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the
valley of salt twelve thousand.» O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast
scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again. 2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou
hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh. 3<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou
hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment. 4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thou hast given a banner to them that fear
thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah. 5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That thy beloved may be delivered; save <i>with</i>
thy right hand, and hear me.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Gill reported that famed Rabbi Aben Ezra thought that <i>Shushaneduth</i>
was a known tune that this Psalm would have been sung to although he admitted
that others thought it was a musical instrument, long forgotten. The <i>Michtam,
</i>he wrote, was a “Golden Psalm of David.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It is hard to contrast this victory with victories in
cross-reference like…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2Samuel 8:13<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And David gat <i>him</i>
a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, <i>being</i>
eighteen thousand <i>men</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">…because, as ancient Rabbis said, there were several battles and
multiple events of slaughter of different numbers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">David’s lament here refers to the difficulties Israel was facing
with its neighbors and enemies and the constant warfare that would make David a
warrior-king. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We can see also here a prophecy of the Jews in their several
dispersals or disaporas. Specifically, though, we can see this as what happened
in the 2,000 years after the Jews rejecting of Jesus of Nazareth as their
Messiah and Saviour. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">John 19:15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they cried
out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I
crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Matthew 27:25<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then answered
all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Scattered and persecuted, even hunted like animals by their
enemies who were the tools of Satan, with their suffering permitting the
survival of the nascent Christian church, God’s beloved, also a reference to
Christ Himself. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1Thessalonians 2:16<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill
up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Note Paul’s lamentation for the people of his birth nation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Romans 9:1 ¶<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I say the
truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy
Ghost, 2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That I have great heaviness and
continual sorrow in my heart. 3<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For I
could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen
according to the flesh: 4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who are
Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants,
and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; 5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whose are the fathers, and of whom as
concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now see the use of <i>beloved</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mark 1:11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And there came a
voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Romans 1:7<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To all that be
in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God
our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ephesians 1:6<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the praise
of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">John then uses the word <i>beloved</i> as an address to the
Christians he is talking to over half a dozen times. But for David in context
this is a plea for deliverance and victory. This is about a war for survival
much like modern-day Israel has faced several times and even, at this writing,
is embroiled in with a vicious enemy. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 60:6 ¶<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God hath
spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the
valley of Succoth. 7<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gilead <i>is</i>
mine, and Manasseh <i>is</i> mine; Ephraim also <i>is</i> the strength of mine
head; Judah <i>is</i> my lawgiver; 8<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Moab <i>is</i> my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia,
triumph thou because of me. 9<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who will
bring me <i>into</i> the strong city? who will lead me into Edom? 10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Wilt</i> not thou, O God, <i>which</i>
hadst cast us off? and <i>thou</i>, O God, <i>which</i> didst not go out with
our armies? 11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Give us help from
trouble: for vain <i>is</i> the help of man. 12<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Through God we shall do valiantly: for he <i>it is that</i> shall tread
down our enemies.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here David exalts in the victories he believes will come through
God’s help and by His will and at the same time delivers a prophecy of a
triumphant Christ. This is repeated in Psalm 108.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">See also<i> 2Samuel 8:2 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground;
even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep
alive. And so the Moabites became David’s servants, and brought gifts.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Note Christ’s victory in Revelation as He takes control of what’s
left of the kingdoms of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Revelation 11:15 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the
seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The
kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ;
and he shall reign for ever and ever.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the context it is God that is proclaiming what He will do and
it is David who is, while lamenting that God might not have helped them as the
struggle is great, confident that God will use Israel to accomplish His ends. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">God will use nations to accomplish His ends as He uses people to
do so, even those who are His enemies, even those who don’t believe He exists.
What a blessing it is to believe, trust in, and obey God and be used for His
purposes as opposed to moving blindly doing His will and then spending eternity
in destruction. Do we have confidence, do we pray even, that God will use us to
accomplish His will?<o:p></o:p></span></p>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-63626855345196944972024-03-13T03:59:00.000-07:002024-03-13T03:59:26.464-07:00Bible Study with Fred, #735: Ephesians 2:1; made alive<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/m_-8SthYDbM?si=gLRZ2SC_BbXzO3Ye" frameborder="0"></iframe>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-3127436867450049822024-03-12T06:11:00.000-07:002024-03-12T06:11:25.882-07:00Bible Study with Fred, #734: Ephesians 1:13-23; the gospel of your salva...<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/aB7MPn_DwLI?si=yt5qNL4VE-TaIEBc" frameborder="0"></iframe>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-14336198948069961412024-03-11T04:32:00.000-07:002024-03-11T04:32:33.377-07:00Bible Study with Fred, #733: Ephesians 1:9 - 12; all things in Christ<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/IzbSzn390sI?si=uXqVe5l_qr-h7bLi" frameborder="0"></iframe>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-71683251915741581102024-03-10T04:57:00.000-07:002024-03-10T04:57:04.215-07:00Bible Study with Fred, #732: Ephesians 1:7,8; through His blood<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/wIO3EoVXCgU?si=niWTSERS3k6CJksh" frameborder="0"></iframe>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-45447169547623190072024-03-09T04:02:00.000-08:002024-03-09T04:02:18.989-08:00Bible Study with Fred, #731: Ephesians 1:6; the simplicity of eternal sa...<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/zfkbBO4ilIk?si=o7B5WbRF5Dma6UL3" frameborder="0"></iframe>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-66000488641442968722024-03-08T03:19:00.000-08:002024-03-08T03:19:19.077-08:00Bible Study with Fred, #730: Ephesians 1:4,5; predestination<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/Mdrdoj0CaqM?si=GH_xl9XZN01c44qd" frameborder="0"></iframe>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-62180575596882322482024-03-07T03:51:00.000-08:002024-03-07T03:51:35.321-08:00Bible Study with Fred, #729: Ephesians 1:3; spiritual blessings<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/cNCYjLE2dBU?si=XpqfUH9vv3SGyY0m" frameborder="0"></iframe>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-51514926256805886422024-03-06T06:28:00.000-08:002024-03-06T06:28:33.875-08:00Psalm 59 comments<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicOloKzFV3HJjjK1RRVDxkhtJhOc8RvHtEiQ1ogz8f8sZTMTzAg40hA2jiMOHCqZi0RFjTh70feZvGrjIbaieyXfGa2w_C6Z65f0YMuvmheRKeMCMEhgwRVyPma4v0An8hkBUV99rxRHEg3BL1w0Xw0hRGpJ1B4Fyv9jxU6Ip8oEWzCoZVmAuFMfoBxts/s3026/king_david_harston.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2076" data-original-width="3026" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicOloKzFV3HJjjK1RRVDxkhtJhOc8RvHtEiQ1ogz8f8sZTMTzAg40hA2jiMOHCqZi0RFjTh70feZvGrjIbaieyXfGa2w_C6Z65f0YMuvmheRKeMCMEhgwRVyPma4v0An8hkBUV99rxRHEg3BL1w0Xw0hRGpJ1B4Fyv9jxU6Ip8oEWzCoZVmAuFMfoBxts/s320/king_david_harston.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 59:1 ¶<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>«To the chief
Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the
house to kill him.» Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them
that rise up against me. 2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deliver me
from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men. 3<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the
mighty are gathered against me; not <i>for</i> my transgression, nor <i>for</i>
my sin, O LORD. 4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They run and prepare
themselves without <i>my</i> fault: awake to help me, and behold. 5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God
of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked
transgressors. Selah. 6<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They return at
evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. 7<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Behold, they belch out with their mouth:
swords <i>are</i> in their lips: for who, <i>say they</i>, doth hear?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1Samuel 19:11 ¶<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saul also
sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the
morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to
night, to morrow thou shalt be slain. 12<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and
escaped. 13<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Michal took an image,
and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and
covered it with a cloth. 14<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when
Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick. 15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Saul sent the messengers again to see
David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him. 16<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when the messengers were come in, behold,
there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster. 17<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou
deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal
answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>18 ¶<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So David fled, and escaped, and came to
Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel
went and dwelt in Naioth.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">David has had a close call with the agents of Saul but Saul’s
daughter, David’s wife, saves him from certain murder. I think about this from
Christ’s experience and from the experience of those persecuted Christians in
countries like Nigeria where they are hunted like beasts. Like David we might
pray ourselves one day for deliverance from wicked men. In fact, I think of
this when I consider some of the people operating in our own country today. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">John 15:25<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this cometh
to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They
hated me without a cause.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 59:8 ¶<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But thou, O
LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision. 9<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Because of</i> his strength will I wait
upon thee: for God <i>is</i> my defence. 10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see <i>my desire</i>
upon mine enemies. 11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Slay them not,
lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord
our shield. 12<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>For</i> the sin of
their mouth <i>and</i> the words of their lips let them even be taken in their
pride: and for cursing and lying <i>which</i> they speak. 13<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consume <i>them</i> in wrath, consume <i>them</i>,
that they <i>may</i> not <i>be</i>: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob
unto the ends of the earth. Selah. 14<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And at evening let them return; <i>and</i> let them make a noise like a
dog, and go round about the city. 15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let
them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied. 16<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will
sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and
refuge in the day of my trouble. 17<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unto
thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God <i>is</i> my defence, <i>and</i> the
God of my mercy.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 2:4 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He that sitteth
in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 37:13 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord shall
laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Proverbs 1:26 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also will
laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">David has an abundance of faith and trust in God, who <b>will</b>
deliver him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Isaiah 40:31<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they that
wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings
as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not
faint.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In verse 10 to prevent
means to pre-event, to go on before. See how it is used elsewhere with that
meaning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1Thessalonians 4:15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and
remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In verse 11 David seems to be praying for those enemies that they
not be killed but that their plans be destroyed as an example to others, that
they be scattered. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">David also prays for his enemies, those that seek to kill him, are
frustrated as they search for him. Notice the metaphors and analogies he uses
regarding scavenging dogs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And yet in verse 13 David says something that sounds an awful lot
to me like something Paul noted in 1Thessalonians about the end.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2Thessalonians 2:8 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then
shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of
his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This can be a prayer in the Tribulation to come for those
suffering believers who flee the Beast’s wrath unless, of course, you believe
that there will be no followers of Christ left alive in the Great Tribulation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Revelation 18:20 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rejoice
over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged
you on her.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It may also be our prayer in times of trouble to come as enemies
seek to destroy those who follow Christ here, as they do in other countries
even now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 9:9 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The LORD also
will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 46:7 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The LORD of
hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-30746298493932918142024-03-06T04:08:00.000-08:002024-03-06T04:08:30.307-08:00Bible Study with Fred, #728: Ephesians 1:2<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/HXB8pWQAD20?si=cIBrUQOlgs8b993S" frameborder="0"></iframe>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-24960517551031120762024-03-05T03:55:00.000-08:002024-03-05T03:55:48.189-08:00Bible Study with Fred, #727: Ephesians 1:1<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/Tt8vI57-5Rw?si=IVSiVQQyqaxMynho" frameborder="0"></iframe>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-59785837350523991742024-03-04T07:31:00.000-08:002024-03-04T07:31:03.239-08:001Samuel 28 comments<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSIh_VJd6Eg5ekEGddn5EcSh0ITq4lB-hzjheznbuthxDA3jA-XlJNklIFtgY_3I1L7S7G2Hrrf55LI7n1K4UjjRWm0nf3O47l-vZmNdVDcGAKOp1fPKjDZ91lxkj8gQ2a-pRJiLOA1JJOwr1wVAFsAifjzRNUBVHyfIwGeDukdA3ncBgxz9kMepRc408/s1242/Samuel.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1242" data-original-width="1036" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSIh_VJd6Eg5ekEGddn5EcSh0ITq4lB-hzjheznbuthxDA3jA-XlJNklIFtgY_3I1L7S7G2Hrrf55LI7n1K4UjjRWm0nf3O47l-vZmNdVDcGAKOp1fPKjDZ91lxkj8gQ2a-pRJiLOA1JJOwr1wVAFsAifjzRNUBVHyfIwGeDukdA3ncBgxz9kMepRc408/s320/Samuel.png" width="267" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1Samuel 28:1 ¶<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it came
to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for
warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly,
that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men. 2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt
know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make
thee keeper of mine head for ever. 3<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now
Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even
in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the
wizards, out of the land. 4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the
Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and
Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa. 5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when Saul saw the host of the
Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled. 6<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD
answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Philistines are gathering together for a campaign against King
Saul and Israel. Achish wants David to accompany him to fight against David’s
own people who have, he thinks, rejected him. Achish is so convinced that David
is a traitor to the Israelites and trusts him so much that he wants to make him
the captain of his own personal bodyguard. David has done a good job of
convincing this leader of the five kings of the Philistines that he has
completely turned. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Samuel had died and Saul had created strict rules against the
occultic priests and practitioners. Saul was terrified, as well, by the might
of the Philistines against him. So, he will do what any hypocritical leader
will do, and look for someone he has declared forbidden who he believes can
help him. Saul will violate his own rules and the law given to Moses. Why?
Because he feels abandoned by God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Leviticus 20:27<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A man also
or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put
to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Just imagine a politician who rails against abortion assisting his
own daughter with getting one or a politician who rants against social media’s
pernicious influence having a profile on one of those sites which he uses when
he likes. Saul is desperate as we are about to see. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1Samuel 28:7 ¶<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then said
Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may
go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, <i>there
is</i> a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor. 8<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Saul disguised himself, and put on other
raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by
night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and
bring me <i>him</i> up, whom I shall name unto thee. 9<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou
knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar
spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare
for my life, to cause me to die? 10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, <i>As</i> the LORD liveth, there shall
no punishment happen to thee for this thing. 11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring
me up Samuel. 12<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when the woman saw
Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why
hast thou deceived me? for thou <i>art</i> Saul. 13<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the king said unto her, Be not afraid:
for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of
the earth. 14<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he said unto her, What
form <i>is</i> he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he <i>is</i>
covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it <i>was</i> Samuel, and he
stooped with <i>his</i> face to the ground, and bowed himself.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In a bizarre twist Saul seeks out someone whose life he has
condemned. Strangely, also, his servants are quick to refer someone to him. It
seems that perhaps in spite of his draconian decree that his people are not on
board. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
Saul asks for Samuel to be contacted, Samuel who is dead, the woman realizes
that it is King Saul, the one who has condemned her and her kind who is asking.
Here follows an important point. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Abraham is said to be eminent in Paradise,
the garden of God, when it was in the heart of the earth, separated from Hell,
and called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Abraham’s bosom</i> (see Luke
16<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i>) Paradise comes from a Persian
word meaning a walled garden or a hunting preserve. The garden of God, called
Eden, was once on the earth but, after Adam’s fall, was hidden by cherubim (see
Genesis chapters 2&3, Ezekiel 28:13, 14; 31:8,9). Jesus went to the heart
of the earth, to Paradise, Abraham’s bosom, the garden of God, to preach after
the Cross. (see Luke 23:43; Matthew 12:40; 1Peter 3:19; 4:6). Paradise was
separated from Hell and is now taken up into Heaven because of Christ
(Revelation 2:7) which we can see because Paul went “up” there as stated in
2Corinthians 12:4.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Why is Paradise
called Abraham’s bosom? Because Abraham represents all of those who believe
God. Salvation is predicated upon believing what God said. It is as clear as a
bell. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Greeks,
flowering as an intellectual culture much later around the 5<sup>th</sup>
century BC, had great contact with the Ancient Near East as mercenaries,
traders, and settlers before that and derived their concept of Hades from the
Hebrews. Greek philosophers stated that they did not know the origin of their
mythology but the first mention of Hades is in Homer, writing perhaps in the 9<sup>th</sup>
century BC, nearly a thousand years after Abraham’s life and three hundred to
four hundred after Moses’ put the account in writing. The 9<sup>th</sup>
century BC is also the time when most scholars believe that the Greeks derived
their alphabet from the Phoenicians whom we have seen derived it from the
Hebrews who got it from God at Mount Sinai. Before then, picture writing was
used by the cultures of the world, from the Sumerians on the plain of Shinar,
called Cuneiform, to the Egyptians, called Hieroglyphics, to China, and even down
to the civilizations of South and Central America over two thousand years
later.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As an example of
Greek involvement in the Near East, when Nebuchadnezzar and Pharaoh Necho’s
armies fought at Carchemish (Jeremiah 46) both sides used Greek mercenaries
extensively. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>In addition, a prophet lamented how Hebrew
children had been taken as slaves to Greece (Joel 3:6). There were Greek
cultural influences in the Near East and Greek language influences as well.
However, the Greeks who wrote about Hades wrote after this period of time and
were influenced by what they learned from the Hebrews as they were by what they
learned about other cultures’ practices and beliefs. The Greeks themselves even
admitted they learned a great deal in Egypt and the Near East. In the later
Greek myth, Hades was a place for not only the wicked but the good persons’
souls to abide after death while Tartarus was where their supreme god, Zeus,
cast the Titans, giants, and there were different places for enjoyment and
punishment based on a person’s behavior in life as well as their relationship
to the gods. In the Ancient world, then, it was understood that the abode of
the dead, good or bad, was in one location.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This is why Samuel can be called UP. Saul then bows himself in
reverence to Samuel. To a mortal human the appearance of one dead is like gods,
lowercase g, coming up out of the earth. It must have been a terrifying sight
to behold. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1Samuel 28:15 ¶<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Samuel
said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I
am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is
departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams:
therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall
do. 16<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then said Samuel, Wherefore then
dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine
enemy? 17<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the LORD hath done to him,
as he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and
given it to thy neighbour, <i>even</i> to David: 18<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the
LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done
this thing unto thee this day. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">19<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moreover the LORD will
also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow <i>shalt</i>
thou and thy sons <i>be</i> with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of
Israel into the hand of the Philistines.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">No one would want to leave Paradise, a place of rest and peace
from the difficulties and pain of mortal existence, a place that would one day
be removed to Heaven itself. Samuel objected to being disturbed. Clearly this
was God’s will as we know no so-called witch actually has the power, even
today, to bring God’s blessed dead back from their eternity with God without
His direct will involved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Saul is asking for Samuel’s wisdom as God seems to have abandoned
him. Samuel gives Saul the worst sort of news. The Philistines will win and
tomorrow Saul’s dynasty will end with him. This is what Saul feared anyway,
losing the kingdom. But now he will also lose his life for his disobedience to
God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1Samuel 28:20 ¶<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Saul
fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the
words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread
all the day, nor all the night. 21<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him,
Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my
hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me. 22<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also
unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee;
and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way. 23<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But
his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto
their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed. 24<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the woman had a fat calf in the house;
and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded <i>it</i>, and did
bake unleavened bread thereof: </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">25 And she brought <i>it</i>
before Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and
went away that night.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So, King Saul’s “séance” ends. The dread that hangs over him must
be heavy as he knows that not only has he lost his kingdom and not only is his
dynasty going to be destroyed, but he himself and his sons are going to die. I
am sure he went away from this encounter with the supernatural with a heavy
heart. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-72343897739499097202024-03-04T03:39:00.000-08:002024-03-04T03:39:29.392-08:00Bible study with Fred, #726: Galatians 6:11-18; conclusion<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/eMlP8m-eofE?si=gKy9MTVxSObPUv-R" frameborder="0"></iframe>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-62251936399002887862024-03-03T04:01:00.000-08:002024-03-03T04:01:20.885-08:00Bible study with Fred, #725: Galatians 6:1-10; if we faint not<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/_fAPAn-lmzI?si=_9MxCNb7EtcoQYEx" frameborder="0"></iframe>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-3058136087317673452024-03-02T04:11:00.000-08:002024-03-02T04:11:51.101-08:00Bible study with Fred, #724: Galatians 5:19-25; pt. 2; proof or fruit of...<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/jzg3prYdd7w?si=ZOhMvHbilKVoGZx4" frameborder="0"></iframe>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-16617348040396943122024-03-01T04:19:00.000-08:002024-03-01T04:19:35.779-08:00Bible study with Fred, #723: Galatians 5:19-25; pt. 1, works of the flesh<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/S-avlC9MPNE?si=NWa1Eo7LiyIYwta6" frameborder="0"></iframe>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-33836463255174246902024-02-29T03:40:00.000-08:002024-02-29T03:40:59.759-08:00Bible study with Fred, #722: Galatians 5:1-18<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/1av7HYjSUc8?si=pXNU5tddWp4JZHbX" frameborder="0"></iframe>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-84746270696216987602024-02-28T08:19:00.000-08:002024-02-28T08:19:16.979-08:00Psalm 58 comments<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW2Jka_WWk9vrdStjpc3arORvn33QWmQNFh9EPLIiGS4RUDNOjVlgerxyAqtMeJkkX4P6HDvndCmo8N3BbKbT4UKVy8POG_fpkgli7UewrTGs3sbjgDWuRJ1nDxof_y-aNqUcNl7zo50H4bP9jDg6Cx2FWYv_OS2_74uDtNfonB7xG0ZUXHGPZT7wWHaQ/s3026/king_david_harston.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2076" data-original-width="3026" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW2Jka_WWk9vrdStjpc3arORvn33QWmQNFh9EPLIiGS4RUDNOjVlgerxyAqtMeJkkX4P6HDvndCmo8N3BbKbT4UKVy8POG_fpkgli7UewrTGs3sbjgDWuRJ1nDxof_y-aNqUcNl7zo50H4bP9jDg6Cx2FWYv_OS2_74uDtNfonB7xG0ZUXHGPZT7wWHaQ/s320/king_david_harston.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 58:1 ¶<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>«To the chief
Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.» Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O
congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? 2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh
the violence of your hands in the earth. 3<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they
be born, speaking lies. 4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their poison <i>is</i>
like the poison of a serpent: <i>they are</i> like the deaf adder <i>that</i>
stoppeth her ear; 5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which will not
hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">David is asking a question sarcastically it would seem. Do the
people indeed just in a righteous manner? Are not their hearts filled with sin?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We’ve expressed this sentiment in our hearts about people who act
like they were born bad. In fact, our modern culture almost uplifts and praises
those who act that way. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Isaiah 48:8<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yea, thou
heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not
opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called
a transgressor from the womb.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have read that the ancients, particularly the Romans, regarded a
child’s personality as indicative of how they would turn out as an adult. If
they were a bad child they most likely would be a rotten adult.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ecclesiastes 10:11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surely
the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The wicked are like a serpent who will not listen to the
snake-charmer. We can look at India today to see those men who seem to
mesmerize a snake. But the people that David is referring to will not listen to
the charmer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The words of the wicked are likened to the bite of a venomous
snake in several places.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 5:9<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For there is no
faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat
is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 140:3<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have
sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips.
Selah.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Which the Holy Spirit through Paul quotes;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Romans 3:13<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their throat is
an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps
is under their lips:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In fact, the tongue itself is a dangerous thing for all of us. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">James 3:8<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the tongue
can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Could this perhaps be one of the attributes of the Beast of
Revelation, popularly called the Antichrist?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Psalm 58:6 ¶<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Break their
teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O
LORD. 7<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let them melt away as waters <i>which</i>
run continually: <i>when</i> he bendeth <i>his bow to shoot</i> his arrows, let
them be as cut in pieces. 8<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a snail <i>which</i>
melteth, </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">let <i>every one of them</i> pass away: <i>like</i> the untimely
birth of a woman, <i>that</i> they may not see the sun. 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he
shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in <i>his</i> wrath.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he
seeth the </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 So that a man shall say, Verily <i>there
is</i> a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the
earth.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Consider some cross-references from Job as a similar sentiment
here in verse 6. Saul is the old lion and his followers are the young lions, probably.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Job 4:10 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The roaring of the
lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are
broken. 11 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The old lion perisheth for
lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Job 29:17 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I brake the
jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">David calls on God to take away the ability of his enemies to hurt
him. He wants them discouraged and destroyed, taken like a miscarriage or as a
snail that has had salt applied to it making it die looking like it is melting.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For verse 9 see this verse in Ecclesiastes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ecclesiastes 7:6 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For as the
crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is
vanity.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dry thorns would burn quickly but he wishes the wicked would be
taken away faster than the pot can feel the heat of burning thorns. In their health
and full strength David wishes them taken away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">David yearns to see the destruction of the wicked, those who oppress
him, but wants God to make it happen. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We can imagine this prayer made by some of the followers of Christ
in the Tribulation. We can imagine this prayer to have their persecutors
destroyed by God. When we think of the Holocaust most people picture the
Germans and their camps like Auschwitz. However, it was not just them. Ordinary
people in every country in Europe murdered their Jewish neighbors or turned
them over to be murdered. In shock, many of the Jews walked submissively to
their deaths. It would not be hard to imagine praying for God to destroy these
beasts Himself before they could do their will. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819707383626137561.post-24866861343641042222024-02-28T03:41:00.000-08:002024-02-28T03:41:20.382-08:00Bible study with Fred, #721: Galatians, chapter four<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/fi35uwoIdcs?si=N_cV_xjHiycOJwp3" frameborder="0"></iframe>Frederick Widdowson http://www.blogger.com/profile/08537857482905135211noreply@blogger.com0