The morning Manna
will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Psalms
in the SSnet.org series Lesson 10, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to
your heart.
The Topic today
is: “Psalms to teach us about God in history for Sabbath
School Lesson on 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 until
page 124-125
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_10.pdf
---Psalm 78, Psalm 105, Psalm 106, Psalm 80,
Psalm 135 is listed this week. ---In 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
EllenWhite, 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 alsoattends the Society of Biblical
Literature meetings that inthe 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 selectedone nation to bring His revelation to them for
the purpose of spreading the Word about Him around theworld: “make known His doings among the peoples” (105:1b).
---It sounds as if it is blood and race
related, as ifit 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 yourheart is
not right you are not a child of God and if yourheart is right you are a
spiritual chosen one and thus partof spiritual Israel. This is the principle in
the Old and New Testament. ---“He is the Lord our God. His judgments
(executive andinvestigative) 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 Hisremnant. ---“The Word [in Genesis 3:15] which He
commanded to athousand 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
astrong fist” ---A covenant, same one with Adam and Noah, “which
Hemade with Abraham” when he was 75 years old in 2165BCE 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 textsfrom 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 hadthree 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 himinstead 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 thattime
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. ---Is the Bible not remarkable? Where are
you studying this coming Saturday? At 9h30 you should make your way into the
parkinglot of the nearest Adventist Church. Why? Sabbath School Lesson on
Psalms. Get ready. When? Now. Smartphone out for navigation. Correct?