The morning
Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Psalms
SSnet.org series Lesson 11, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.
The opening song
is Hymn 229 “Spirit of the Living God”.
The Topic today
is: “Worship that never ends in the Psalms for Morning Manna of the Sabbath
School Lesson Psalms.”
The Sabbath
School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on
page 150-151.
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
---Worship that
never ends is our theme for this week in the Sabbath School Lesson.
---Psalms that
goes beyond historical time, is what should be selected in this lesson.
---Are there
evidence that David or any other author of the Psalms understood that
historical time is not the only Aristotelian time available to humanity. That
this world’s reality is not the only reality ever for a human?
---Plato, the
teacher of Aristotle use to say that reality is in heaven not on earth, so he
liked the Egyptian priest’s understanding of the immortal ka that separates
from the body to go to heaven on the heavenly Nile at the evening when Ra the
sungod dies.
---So Plato
passed on to Christian denominations, other than Adventists, the doctrine of
the immortality of the soul.
---Is there data
in the Psalms of an eternal period of happiness in future?
---In Psalm
18:50 two words were transposed compared to 2 Samuel 22:50 and again it is a
case of aslip of the memory by the scribe of Psalm 18 during the exile.
---Was the Psalm
composed during the exile? No. It got a Xerox copy of an exilic kind.
---A note on
translation of Psalm 18:2 where David is saying in the Hebrew,
“I will love You, Lord my strength"
which was left out of his biography in 2 Samuel 22. The Coptic translation also
translated it with a Future first person singular “I will love You".
---Is your
translation of the actions of God between Psalm 18:8-19 in the present or past
tense? The original verbs are all Future and should be translated as“He will . . .“.
---It is the
eschaton in mind here and God’s program was very clear to David and others,
namely the succession of Second Coming, then a millennium in heaven and then
the Hell with the Warrior Messiah taking care of that Great Battle with words
resulting inelimination and not with actions of militancy.
---In this Psalm
the images that were known well from iconography of the Ancient Near East of
power like dragons or great animals of fear, were used to say that in that
eschatological day, what the ordinary public in David
’s day think is fearful, will come about but
this time that“monster” will not be their monster but God.
---David almost
says to the wicked,“Call your monster‘God’ because He is going to do great
things in the Eschaton when He will eliminate evil”.
---Nice. Right?
Walther Eichrodt in Old Testament Theology volumes I and II made the error of
putting all Old Testament data and themes in one basket. He took themes out and
when there is meager evidence, he concludes there was absence of information on
the theme.
---What a
methodological mistake! And all Theologians followed him.
---Eshcatology
is only from the Persian period and stolen from Persian religion he postulates.
Wrongly, I must add.
---Here is the
true principle: If the Bible says little about something, it is because
everyone knows it very well. Just the opposite of Eichrodt. Sorry Eichrodt and
kie. SBL needs to be rewritten. Correct?
---So David in
1030 BC knew very well about the Eschaton and Eschatology. He was not Persian
influenced by Zoroastrianism that did not exist yet. Correct?
---Modern
scholars try to say that Hebrew religion borrowed their ideas and religion from
the Canaanites.
---What modern
scholars want to say is that when you read about monsters, it was the baggage
of his Baal gods of dragons and monsters that he unpacked in the Hebrew temple
about Yahweh. Fushion thinking.
---The
bottomline of God’s eschatology remains unchanged. The metaphors that are used
to describe that may use different paints than what others are using but not
that different.
---Moses used
dinosaurs in Job 40 and Leviathan or crocodiles in Job 41 to describe the
mighty actions. That was in 1460 BC in the wilderness of Midian when he wrote
this. That is more than 400 years before David.
---So do not say
that we need to find a Canaanite monster-religion convert to account for Psalm
18. Correct?
---Aristotlelian-agnostic
thinking is that one must gain from life while you live because when you die
there is nothing.
---Psalm 104:33
in the lesson says the same in Christian terms: “I will sing to the Lord as
long as I live”.
---In death
there is no singing. True. But Aristotle says: no singing forever. Adventist
Christians are saying, no when Jesus comes is the resurrection of the dead and
there will be singing again and that will be an ability forever.
---Hand raising
in church. What about it? Well in Psalm 134:2 the security staff of the temple
is asked to lift up their hands and bless the Lord at night. Is it the church
practice? No. Night time. Deep in the sleeping hours of most people. Sorry.
---Also in Psalm 143:6 David is personally stretching his hands out to God in prayer in the night for in verse 8 he says "in the morning...." Everyone else is sleeping in the palace. Sorry.
---What about
hand-clapping in church? Hand-clapping in church, says non-SDA’s who studied it
also, is only at the Eschaton when the evil is conquered and finally
eradicated.
---Hand-clapping
in biblical times, was not to congratulate someone, but to mock someone for
going down and be eliminated. Examples: cities destroyed. Enemy removed. Evil
died. We have lots to change. Are we not?
---What about dancing in church? Psalm 149 and 150 says dancing is with timbrel and harp. On earth? No in heaven. Psalm 150:1 is praising Him in His sanctuary. Where is His sanctuary? In heaven. Where is the firmament of His power? In heaven.
---The new song of Psalm 149:1 is when? Ask Revelation 14:3. It is in heaven. Can we dance in church? Sorry.
---So where do
you worship this coming weekend? Is your smartphone out and navigate to the
nearest Adventist church in your area at 9h30 not to miss the Sabbath School
lesson. Correct? When? Now.