KNOWING the True God from the PSALMS
He made everything - He will come to earth!
by
Keith Hunt
PSALM 91 If you are called and are willing to dwell in the secret place of the Lord, you shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. God can be our refuge and fortress. He has the power to deliver you from the enemy and from all other troubles. Sometimes you must remember that the deliverance is by death, just as Daniel's three friends said, when they faced the fiery furnace for not bowing down to an idol. God meant to them that live or die they would obey and serve the Eternal One, no matter how He delivered them. Many times God does cover His people with His feathers and under His wings (an analogy of love and care - not that God has literal feathers and wings). Then also what defends us is the Lord's TRUTH, it is our shield and buckler - with it we need not fear what the enemy and the deceiver can throw at us. A thousand demons can throw a thousand deceptions at us, and they will fall to the ground and will not get through to you. And one day you will indeed see the reward of the wicked given out; as we have seen in other Psalms, the wicked will die and will not inherit the earth or eternal life. As Revelation 20 says, they will be thrown into the second death of the lake of fire (verses 1-9). The Lord gives us a general statement in the next four verses (10-13). He can and often does protect His children from the plague, from accidents (the times He has protected me from my errors of driving cars and riding horses is numerous), even protecting from wild animals, sometimes when we had no idea protection was given us. Yes, it is possible for the Almighty to do all this for us. This was the verses Satan threw at Jesus when telling Him to jump off the top of the certain part of the Temple. Jesus answered by saying it is also written "You shall not tempt the Lord your God." Like many other verses in the Bible, these verses must be taken into context of the whole Bible. Hebrews 11, the faith chapter as it is called - sometimes it must be that some of God's people in standing with the shield of truth, the dart of the enemy strikes us down because of the truth. The apostles Paul and Peter and others, finally had to face a martyrs death. Yet in it all, we can know God has set His love upon us. Then often the Lord does deliver and can give long life to those who really know what He is all about. The apostle John was one individual who was delivered and lived a long life to bear much fruit in the work of the Lord (verses 10-16). PSALM 92 What a Psalm to show that when all is worked out within the plan of God, all who come to know the true God and are faithful to Him, will see the end of the wicked - they are like the grass, they may for a while continue in their works of iniquity and wickedness, but they will finally be destroyed. And the saints of God will be as the horn of the unicorn, anointed with oil. The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that will plant themselves in the house of the Lord shall flourish - they will ever increase with the fruit of the Spirit. The Lord is upright, He is a solid rock, to those building their house upon Him. And there is no unrighteousness in Him. PSALM 93 The Lord Eternal reigns - it is He who has the strength to rule and establish this earth and the universe - nothing can be moved without He first must allow it. His throne is from everlasting. The human mind cannot comprehend everlasting. They say they have now looked into the heavens with their space telescopes and can know the universe is BILLIONS of light years in expansion. Light travels at 186,000 miles a SECOND - BILLIONS OF LIGHT YEARS ... the human mind cannot fathom such a distance. We have the power of water - storms of it - floods of it - waves of the sea of it - the power of water is as nothing to the power of the Everlasting One. His testimonies are very sure, and HOLINESS is the substance of His house. PSALM 94 The Lord knows the heart of man. It is a blessing to be corrected by God, and to be taught "out of thy law." A pit will be dug for the wicked, but the Lord will preserve His people. We see again the truth of Romans 6:23 - the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. The righteous can delight in God, but the wicked and all who practice iniquity (who will not repent) shall be one day cut off for eternity (verses 15-23). That is the bottom line of the character of a Holy God. PSALM 95 Those who do know the true God, are to sing and praise Him for all His mighty works, and we are to not harden our heart as the ancient Israelites did. God will see and He will reward accordingly. PSALM 96 The Eternal is the Almighty, there is no God beside Him, all other "gods" are mere idols that mankind has formed from their darkened minds. One idol that comes to mind right away is the idol of "evolution" now being taught as if it was fact. TV news casts and interviews with "scientists" just talk as if it is known fact that we evolved over billions of years. The latest on a news program is that chickens have descended from the Dinosaur. Some of the interior of Dinosaur bones have the same likeness as chickens, and chickens walk on two legs and the dinosaur upper arms became the wings of the chicken, and the head of some Dinosaur turned into the head of a chicken. They now say that when the Dinosaur was obliterated en mass, some few kinds escaped, and the chicken came from them. They never stop to think there was ONE creator behind all physical beings. Just because the fruit fly as nearly as many genes as the human, does not mean we evolved into a human while the fruit fly never became anything but a fruit fly. All physical creatures are made form the dust of the earth, the physical matter. So some things that science can see and figure out can be, and indeed are found in the fruit fly and humans or the cat and dog or horse and etc. and etc. Why there are bones in the cat and bones in the horse and bones in the human. All that shows is ONE Master mind behind it all. The day will come when all kindreds of people will give God the glory; the heathen will be literally ruled by Him. He will come to judge the earth, and He will personally in the form of Jesus Christ, come to judge the world in righteousness, and the people with His truth. The day will come when people will see in full color the man made "god" and "idol" of evolution, is nothing but utter trash from a demonic mind-set. PSALM 97 The day will come when the words of this Psalm will be LITERAL; when Jesus the Messiah comes it will be with clouds and darkness, with fire before Him, to burn up His enemies. Mighty lightnings, the earth trembling, the hills melting as if wax heated by the fire. Those who serve man made images of different kinds of idols, will have to worship Him as the true God. Those that love the Lord, are to hate evil. And His saints will be delivered from the wicked. It will be a time of light indeed for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart. PSALM 98 The Lord will come to save and to shown His salvation. He will give mercy and truth to the House of Israel. All people and all created things should in a figure of speech, make a joyful noise unto the Lord, for He comes to judge the earth: with righteousness shall He judge the world, and the people with equity. PSALM 99 The Lord will come to reign in Zion. He is HOLY. He did reveal Himself in many mighty ways to people like Moses, Aaron, Samuel. He gave them laws and testimonies and ordinances; they observed them. He showed them His mercy and forgiveness. He is a God that is HOLY. PSALM 100 The Eternal God is the ONE who made us, not we ourselves. He wants us to know we did not evolve from tiny ... whatever, from the sea, then into ... whatever, and then into the monkey and ape, and finally into human kind, over billions of years. We are to know that the Lord is God: we are the sheep of His pasture. He is good, and His mercy is everlasting. And His TRUTH stays solid to generation and generation. ...... The truth of God's law, the truth of His Ten Commandments, the truth of the little observed FOURTH commandment (which people in mind and practice believe is the least of the commandments, and can be cast aside), is TRUTH, and that truth will be for all generations. As Psalm 100 says, serve the Lord with gladness: come before His presence with singing: enter His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise: be thankful unto Him, and bless His name. ........................... To be continued |
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