Devotional Short Note to Psalm 92: It is said that this Psalm is for the Sabbath day. Is it written by Moses? Rashi said so and the Targum has an interesting rendering: “A psalm and song which Adam uttered on the Sabbath day” and according to Jewish tradition he sang this song on the first Sabbath of creation. Middle Ages Rabbi Rashi thought that the psalm is speaking of a Eschaton Sabbath, one that we will sing in heaven one day. There is even a jewish view denying any Sabbath connection to the Psalm.

Between Psalm 92:1-5 there is an acknowledgement of the greatness of God as Benefactor. The faithful saint or Moses will sing His praise (92:2) with instruments (92:4). Creation is the work of the hand of God and through creation the faithful person says that he will exalt in the Lord (92:5). The creation is great and God’s philosophy “very deep” (29:6). Human philosophy sounds deep sometimes but that is because they are struggling to come to grips with their own philosophy or get entangled in to many streams of philosophies or finally struggle to describe what they fail to understand properly.

In Psalm 92:7-10 Moses or this faithful saint gives a scenario of what will happen to the wicked at the Eschaton.

He says that they do not understand the deep thoughts of God and His creation (92:7). Therefore they are fools.

What is going to happen at the end of time is that the “wicked spring up as the grass” (92:8a). The reason they will spring up is that they will be resurrected for the Hell event at the end of the millennium or 1000 years. Why will all evil “flourish” after the sprung up or are resurrected? “It is that they may be destroyed forever [ady ad = of eternity unto]”. When eternity starts and no more history, unto eternity they will be destroyed.

The evil is time connect, God the Almighty timeless and forever (92:9). “And You O Lord are from high unto eternity”.

What will happen to the enemies of the Warrior Messiah at the Hell event, says Moses or this faithful saint, “Your enemies O Lord shall perish, all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered” (92:a-c). “Scattered” (92:10c) does not mean that they will keep living just apart of each other. It means that their so-called unity will be broken that day. Unity with Satan and his proxies that day will be their major goal of success. To no avail.

So different is the scenario of the faithful: they are the “anointed ones” although the psalmist use the singular referring to his own scenario that day (Psalm 92:11).

In Psalm 92:12 future evil is mentioned and also is heard of evils that will stand-up against the faithful [singular here].

Moses or the faithful composer then used a very well-known Ancient Near Eastern metaphor. The fruitful tree metaphor. He said that the righteous “shall flourish like the palm-tree and he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon”. I have seen this concept also in Psalm 1 by David, Hosea 14, in the Wisdom of Amenemope from Egypt copied probably by an Israelite scribe circa 650 BCE who may have conflated Hebrew wisdom of Solomon over some ancient Egyptian sayings. Anyway, Solomon could not have borrowed from this wisdom as our dear scholars are Universities in other denominations are posturing since Solomon lived in 974ff BCE while this was composed in 650 BCE. Quite a gap for plagiarism.

Planted in the house of the Lord they shall flourish in the courts of our God (92:14). They shall bring forth fruit in old age (92:15a). They shall be full of sap and richness (92:15b).

In the Eschaton the faithful will be forever in the house of the Lord but it can also be the victorious saint right now on earth declaring that the “Lord is upright” and that He is “my Rock in Whom there is no unrighteousness” (92:16a-b). Christ had no unrighteousness in Him and He is the foundation stone upon which the church is built.