The morning Manna
will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Psalms
in the SSnet.org series Lesson 4, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to
your heart.
The Topic today
is: “Psalm 121, 91, and 114 and the Heavenly Sanctuary as God’s Workspace as
the Psalms say”.
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
until page 46-49.
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_04.pdf
---Psalm 121 is the focus of our lesson
today. Then Psalm 91 and then Psalm 114. Thursday the author of the lesson
missed the Heaven Sanctuary from which God is operating. It is the Workroom of
God. ---Let us start with the Sanctuary in Heaven
reality. It is not a motif. ---A motif is a rhetorical device that is
not necessarily reality. It is just a symbol for something else. That is a
motif. ---There is a Sanctuary in Heaven and it is
on a Mountain and God built already a New Jerusalem and the site of the
Heavenly Sanctuary is called [Heavenly] Zion. ---Sorry to my Jewish enthusiasts: it is not
the site in current Jerusalem. ---God does not dwell in a sanctuary built
with human hands. That is the principle of the Bible. ---So Psalms will not deviate from this
principle. ---The distant God is the near God. That is
another principle of the Bible. ---With these few principles, and there are
more, we can look at Psalm 121, 91, and 114. ---Psalm 121: Devotional Short Note on Psalm 121 Psalm 121: Contemporized as a Hospital
prayer [While I was near a
high and beautiful rocky mountain and my thoughts were all wrapped up with the
terrible pain in my body- with specialists and
doctors not knowing what it is- tired of wondering, tired of speculating
what it could be-] My eyes slowly
turned upwards to the mountains [drinking in the
majestic beauty with sun-rays falling on the rocks bringing out the shadows and
sharpness and whiteness of some big rock sand the sky is very blue and the
trees and grass on it here and there are invitingly green] From where shall my
rescue come? [From where can I
hope to get deliverance for my pain?] [A thought in my own
voice I heard saying] "My help is
from what is completely in the Lord From that which is
in the Lord [From the totality
that is in the Lord's essence and being From the great
"I am what I am" to Moses From the one that
Moses describes to us] as making heaven and earth- My feet will not get
tired [and all the energy
that is given me is coming from Him and if there is no energy, He decided that
it is not to be there] He is carefully
watching me and is not asleep It is evident that
the Keeper of believing Israel does not take a nap and sleep [Amid nurses and
doctors that come on duty and go off duty] the Lord is my
keeper [A shadow follows me
always wherever I go, so] the Lord is my
shadow on my right side [I can look to see
if my shadow is there and with the same reality and certainty know my Lord is
there too!] The sun will not
affect me negatively in the day nor the moon in the night Any evil that Satan
may organize to surround me, will have no effect, because my keeper is with me [Even if Satan
succeed in killing my body], my soul He keeps, [my DNA He
remembers, I am written in the hollow of His Hand] [Therefore I attend
church today and render my heart completely to Him, pleading for
forgiveness of all my misdeeds-] and now, the Lord is
my keeper should I walk out of that door or if I should
come in again from now until He comes again on the clouds to make it forever -------------------------------------- Psalm 91: ---When one reads Psalm 91 one has to wholeheartedly
agree with Rabbi Rashi of the Middle Ages, that this Psalm was written by Moses
as well. ---Moses is citing form his own works: 91:4
= Deuteronomy 32:11; 91:6 = Deuteronomy 32:24; 91:11 = Genesis 24:7,40; 91:14 = Deuteronomy 7:7 and 10:5; 91:18 =Deuteronomy 30:20 and Exodus 20:12. ---Moses died in 1410 BCE just before the
entry into Canaan. He was resurrected and is living since then in heaven. ---He is a type resurrection of what will
happen to people after they die one day at Resurrection day. ---According to Rashi Psalms 90-100 were all
written by Moses. ---Psalm 92:16 is for example also based on
Deuteronomy 32:4. ---Psalm 94:2 is based on Deuteronomy 32:35.
---In Psalm 95:6 there is a connection to
Deuteronomy 32:6 and 15. ---Psalm 99:3 is the same as Leviticus 19:2.
---The name of Moses appeared in this Psalm
99:6. ---Psalm 100:3 links with Deuteronomy 32:6. ---One may take Rashi seriously. ---These Psalms breathe Mosaic elements, no
doubt. ---The silly thing about the Targum is that
it treated Psalm 91 as of David and Solomon, ---David from 91:2ff. 2 and Solomon from
91:9ff. ---What! Impossible. Neither David nor
Solomon lived in tents (91:10). Sorry Targum, better pay attention to Rabbi
Rashi. -------------------------------------- ---Psalm 114: Ever heard of an unfinished
symphony? This may be called the “unfinished psalm”. ---The psalmist was still talking and
suddenly the microphone stopped. ---The content matter is dealing with the
presence of the Lord and what happens when God is near (114:7a-b) “tremble earth from the presence of the
Lord, from the presence of the God of Jacob”. ---It is the key theme that
the psalmist wants to give example about from the date that March in 1450, when
the Napoleon of Egypt, the great Thutmosis III lost his life in the Red Sea due
to his typical general pride, just like he did at Megiddo-battle-years before in
the pass at the eastern side of Megiddo, to walk first before his army since
they were hesitant. ---That day the outcome was glorious, as the
Karnak Inscriptions are telling, but this day at the Exodus was not. ---Everyone in the Levant heard about his
Megiddo bravery, but everyone also heard about his fall. ---“In the leaving of Israel from Egypt”
(114:1a). That day was March 1450. ---“The house of Egypt from a people to --------“.
---That’s right. --- No-one really knows what this word means since it is a one-timer
in the Bible. ---The person who really used one-timers a lot in his writing was
Moses. Is this Psalm an unfinished symphony of Joshua because it was after the entry
and Moses died before the entry in 1410 BC? ---Now let us attempt to find a solution to the meaning of
the word. Arabic and Mishnaic Hebrew cannot help us solve the problem but they
suggested it means “strange language”. They are too late languages to be
considered for finding out the true meaning. ---Akkadian would do and also Ugaritic but
there are also problems. ---The Hebrew word is l`z. There is an
Akkadian word that is le’u meaning “violent”. However, the vowel in the middle
is different from the Hebrew although it may sound phonologically the same. ---At Ugarit was also this
Akkadian form l’y meaning “violent”. A catholic Ugaritic scholar who wrote the Anchor Bible commentary,
M. Dahood, suggested that it is the Ugaritic word “violent” here. ---The other major problem with all these
suggestions are: what about the /z/ at the end? ---All these theories have to be thrown off
the table. ---There is an Akkadian word ezzu or ezêzu
meaning “furious/fierce” and the Hebrew word in the Old Testament used for it
is “mighty” or “strong” or “fierce”. ---The /l/ in the front was a preposition
meaning “belonging to might”. ---We have to stop here and you really need
to look further in my Guide online Devotional
Commentary on Psalms Koot van Wyk page 531. Thanks. ---Is your car full of gas to go to church
at 9h20 to take part in the Psalms Sabbath School Class? Do not miss it. Check
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