The morning Manna
will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Psalms
in the SSnet.org series Lesson 1, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to
your heart.
The Topic today
is: “How to read the Psalms and also how not to read the Psalms”.
The Opening Hymn
will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God."
The Sabbath School
Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on pages
5-17.
The SSnet.org site
allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose your
own language to see God speaking also to your heart.
Why do you not
click on this now?
https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/pdf.php?file=2024:1Q:TE:PDFs:ETQ124_01.pdf
---Psalms do not span the time between David
and Ezra or the 10th century and the 5th century BC. ---Psalms starts with Moses in 1460 BC in
Midian writing Psalm 90. ---The correct view is that the Psalms span
the time between 1460 BC and Ezra in the 5th century BC. Thanks.
Both the SS teacher and the Teacher’s help from Montemorellos stands under
review here. ---It appears to me from the first chapter
of our lesson book, that you will have to download my Guide to Psalms and use
it additionally to prepare the lessons. ---Why? Psalm 110 is not a “Royal Psalm”. It
is “Messianic”. Adventists do not believe that it is referring to the kingship
of David but to the enthronement of Christ by the Father as the New Testament
repeatedly pointed out. It has nothing to do with David. ---In my Guide online I provided 10
non-Adventist views of Psalm 110 shortly. I am not promoting myself. I am
asking Adventists to be Adventists and not AI mirrors. ---Do not mirror Catholic books or Jewish
books on Psalms for us. ---Do not play around with Chiasms between
Psalms. As if Psalm 15 and Psalm 24 forms a chiasm for entrance hymns. And that
in the center is Psalm 19 for Revelation: Creation and Torah. ---In the time of Jewish Mysticism in the 17th
century AD, the Kabbala movements were counting the letters or verses of the
Old Testament to find all kinds of messages beyond the written word. Keep in
the text please. https://archive.org/details/scholem-gershom-gerhard-major-trends-in-jewish-mysticism_202308 ---The Psalms are not chronological but what
the Montemorelos professor want to say, is that the collections of Psalms were
added on by scribes chronologically in their times successively. If this is
true one should not find near Psalm 150 a Psalm of David from the 10th
century BC. Correct? ---What the two Adventist teachers did not
mention is the language of the Psalms. There are hapax legomena or rare words in the Psalms. ---M. Dahood tried to use Ugaritic to
discover their meanings. He also tried to find phrases similar in the Baal cycles
at Ugarit of ritual text found near the Dagon temple to see correlations for a
better understanding. We call it not better. It is Ugaritic-mania. ---What happened is that when Israel arrived
at the Jordan, there were religious and secular Habiru together. So the
religious Habiru entered Canaan in 1410 BC and settled in Israel. ---The secular Habiru went up to Rash Shamra
or Ugarit and settled there for business reasons. But, in their “pockets” were
Moses “hymns” and liturgical knowledge that rubbed-off by intermarriage on the
heathens and similar hymns than in the collected Psalms that we study can be
seen sometimes. Not exactly but phrases here and there. Plagiarized Hebrew
Moses hymns as Baal hymns in Ugaritic language. ---The Ugaritic texts dates between 1405 BC
to 1250 BC. Israel entered Jordan at the year of Moses’ death in 1410 BC. Hello
Dahood. ---There are sometimes Phoenicianisms in the
Psalms. That is, that a Phoenician linguistic item or spelling is used instead
of a Hebrew or Aramaic one. ---There are Aramaisms in the some Psalms. ---What our teachers missed in their
explanation is that Zion is not Jerusalem hill of David. Zion in the Psalms is “heavenly Zion”. Jerusalem is “Heavenly Jerusalem” sometimes. ---When it is talking of the dwelling place
of God, it is not the physical hill in current Jerusalem. It is heavenly Zion.
There is a heavenly mountain on which God’s throne is. See the Great
Controversy Theme in Isaiah 14:12-14 touching on this issue of the mountain. ---Please consult also H. LaRondelle’s book
on Deliverance in the Psalms. He also fell victim to the concept of making
things Davidic at times and said that Christ plagiarized Davidic Psalms and
then converted them into Messianic to apply to Himself. Be careful of those
statements of LaRondelle. Otherwise he is good information. ---Consult please also the SS archive on
Psalms since 1895-2023. Look at older SS books dealing with Psalms. ---Adventists have a special message given
by God to them and their understanding of the Prophecies are also extrapolated
from the Psalms. Do not miss the eschatological charts in the Psalms. ---The Psalms are wisdom, music, worship,
letters, prayers, hymns, emotional laments, prophecies, history, poetry,
narrative from God and narrative from humans. These are all mixed at times with
a selective approach of here a little and there a little. ---So what should we do? Study. Study.
Study. It is rewarding for the soul. ---Study Guide necessary for a proper
Adventist view of Psalms https://www.academia.edu/38164578/Psalms_Devotional_and_Academic_Commentary