Devotional Short Note to Psalm 105: The faithful person is asked to thank, make
known, sing, speak, glorify, make people rejoice, seek and remember the God of
miracles and great acts in spiritual Israel’s history (105:1-5). Fear nothing
of the future, says Ellen White, unless you forget how God has led us in the
past. The seed of spiritual Israel are the seed of the faith of Abraham and
children of the faith of Jacob and thus “His chosen ones” (105:6). There are
unfortunately the prevailing view by foreign-Jewish scholars that also attends
the Society of Biblical Literature meetings that in the Old Testament ethnic
Israel was God’s special people and will of course, as Judaism maintained,
always be to keep His promise to Abraham. False. God selected one nation to
bring His revelation to them for the purpose of spreading the Word about Him
around the world: “make known His doings among the peoples” (105:1b). It sounds
as if it is blood and race related, as if it is a God of physical Israel but do
not be fooled. God cannot mix with unfaithful people, read Jeremiah, Ezechiel
and all the other prophets carefully. If your heart is not right you are not a
child of God and if your heart is right you are a spiritual chosen one and thus
part of spiritual Israel. This is the principle in the Old and New Testament.
Jonah could not stand the idea that God favored Assyrians but God looked at the
heart, he learned very quickly, as quickly as Judaism is forgetting that
principle. We are talking about sharing the same source as Judaism but “two men
sat behind bars, the one saw mud the other one stars”. Make your pick. “He is the Lord our God. His judgments
(executive and investigative) are in all the earth” (105:7). He has remembered
His covenant forever (105:8). What covenant? Covenant with Adam, Noah, Abraham-Joseph,
Moses, spiritual Israel, with all faithful called His remnant. “The Word [in Genesis 3:15] which He
commanded to a thousand generations” (105:8b). He promised the Seed to Adam. A
generation is 40 years so 40 x 1000 = 4000 years, He kept his promise by
sending Christ as Messiah to be born in 4 BCE and died in 31 CE. Ellen White in
Desire of Ages said remarkably the same, “about four thousand years.” Let us
look at the list of Creation dates: My own is 4246 BCE by my chronology; Ussher
is 4004 BCE; Judaism gave 3761; the socalled byzantine remnants of the Septuagint
gave 5872 BCE; Jerome said 3491 and Augustine said 5551. No wonder Augustine
and Jerome got into a fight. Said Jerome one time to Augustine: “I may look old
but I can still hit with a strong fist”. A covenant, same one with Adam and Noah,
“which He made with Abraham” when he was 75 years old in 2165 BCE according to
the covenant report in Genesis 12 (105:9a). “and His oath to Isaac” (105:9b). Isaac
was born in 2140. It was when Rebecca was still a honeymoon for him according
to Genesis 26. Jacob was born in 2080 BCE. So this renewal of an old covenant
with Isaac took place before 2080 BCE. “And He established it unto Jacob for a
statute, to Israel [another name of Jacob] for an everlasting covenant” [that
is to spiritual Israel, the faithful ones of all nations, from God’s
perspective] (105:10b). There are protestants, especially in the Reformed
Calvinistic perspective, who claim that the Old Testament is for the Jews as an
ethnic race but the New Testament is for Christians of all countries. False.
God does not speak with two tongues. There are the same scholars who say that a
specific promise was made to David in the Psalms but that Christ took what was
David’s and applied and adapted it to fit Himself. Basically they are
supporting that Christ committed “daylight robbing” or plagiarism. Even some of
our own scholars in New Testament from the South and other scholars from
Andrews claimed in their writings the same “adopt and adapt” theory for Jesus,
Paul, James, Peter and John. Stop the bus. The Holy Spirit built in Christ
referents into all of the Old Testament and never would he intend David but
later change and give it to Jesus. It was Jesus from the first instance and not
David, and we are coming to Psalm 110 where such a toothpick will be needed. When they were a few and wandering from
nation to nation as habiru, and there are many cuneiform texts from nearly
every century showing their presence as habiru here and there (105:12-13), He
took care of them and not allow them to be done harm with. Why? He revealed
Himself to them and some of them were faithful so He protect the faithful. “Touch not Mine anointed ones and do My
prophets no harm” (105:15). That principle is just as applicable today as back
then. In 1946 BCE a famine came over the
Levant until 1939 BCE (105:16). Joseph was sold in 1972 BCE (105:17). He was
imprisoned and tested (105:18-19). “The Word of the Lord tested him” (105:19b).
In 1959 BCE Joseph became ruler and
overseer of properties and real estates (105:21). He had authority to bind the
princes and he was a teacher or professor to the elders teaching them wisdom
and philosophy of the Word of God (105:22). Jacob his father came to Egypt in 1945
BCE (105:23). Many Jewish people went to the USA in 1945 in our century. Egypt
is the same as land of Ham. Noah had three sons: Sem, Ham and Japhet. Hebrews
are semites. Egyptians are hamites. In 1878 Joseph died and in 1850 pharaoh
Sesostris III was ruling with no personal knowledge of Joseph. “He turned their
heart to hate His people” (105:25). There were too many Amorite and Semites in
Egypt in this time (105:24). If you look at a picture of Sesostris III, you can
still see the hatred on his face. People who hate show it in their face. Moses was sent in 1450 BCE with Aaron
(105:26). All the wonders took place in succession in Egypt (105:27-35) and at
midnight that morning in March 1450 the oldest son of Thutmosis III were
killed. He is the one that is the coffin of his father since his father was
never found in the Red Sea. Big disaster, so they placed him instead there and
his next brother placed a citation from the Book of the Dead pleading the worms
not to eat his father. Why? Mummy work was to prevent this. His father was
never found, you see, so he had to be prayed for, especially to the worms. It
was Exodus morning chaos and agony in Egypt’s palace. “Egypt was glad when they departed for
the fear of them had fallen upon them” (105:38). The whole world at that time
heard it and developed “habiru-phobia”. The enemies of Egypt stood in line to
sign up as allies by the dozens. God provided them a strong light as
miracle (105:39). Food (105:40). Water (105:41). Why? “For He remembered His holy Word”
(105:42). All God’s promises are for us as well. He brought forth His people
with joy and His chosen ones with singing (105:43). Chosen ones sings until
today. Hymns of deliverance. In 1410 BCE “He gave them the lands of
the nations” (105:44). Nations? Some thought there was the Canaanite nation in
the country? False. Canaan was an umbrella term for a mixture of squatters and
migrants who temporarily sought a better opportunity in this space. They were
Hittites, Kassites, Hurrians, Amorites, Egyptians, Elamites, you name it, these
were all there. They all had their own countries but were roaming around in
this space for economic purposes. They were willing to labor for them
since jobs were scarce in their own countries (105:44b). “And they took the
labor of the peoples in possession” (105:44b). It is not the people they took
in possession, but the labor. Employment contracts were their possession not
slavery. Why did God do this? “That they might
keep His statutes and observe His laws. Just like us today. No difference.