The Topic today is: “Psalm 68 used in Ephesians by Paul for Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson Ephesians”.

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 page 88ff.

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=2023:3Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ323_07.pdf

---Or try in alternative this one:  https://ssnet.org/lessons/23c/less06.html

---Psalm 68:18 is used by Paul to depict also in 1-2 and 35 gifts.

---So who is in mind here?

---Ellen White gives the answer: “Christ ascended on high, leading captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. When, after Christ’s ascension, the Spirit came down as promised, like a rushing, mighty wind, filling the whole place where the disciples were assembled, what was the effect? Thousands were converted in a day.”—Ellen G. White, Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 158

---This is the most likely explanation for the passage.

---Paul is explaining the same in Ephesians

“However, he has given each one of us a special gift through the generosity of Christ. That is why the Scriptures say, ‘When he ascended to the heights, he led a crowd of captives and gave gifts to his people.’ “Notice that it says ‘he ascended.’ This clearly means that Christ also descended to our lowly world. And the same one who descended is the one who ascended higher than all the heavens, so that he might fill the entire universe with himself” (Eph. 4:7–10).

---To lead a crowd of captives is the bringing together of thousands on Pentecost. Giving gifts to His people was the gifts of the Holy Spirit of speaking and healing for the sake of evangelism.

---The Holy Spirit “filling” is a signal or token of what is to come in completeness in future.

---Christ’s Lordship will finally be all over the whole universe the main topic forever.

---The success of the Holy Spirit changing pagans into believers is a led free of captives by Satan and actually a putting Satan into captive and losing.

---This Psalm 68 is eschatological and in www.egw.org there is a complete treatment of the Psalm and its meanings http://www.egw.org/zboard/331672

---Do not miss the prophetic charts unpacked in this Psalm and how language used in Habakkuk, Joel, Isaiah is utilized.

---After considering all evidence and data in this Psalm, the multiple connections to Isaiah both linguistically (Akkadianisms and Phoenicianisms) plus the content, makes me decide that David wrote this Psalm with a very developed understanding of eschatology. In fact, the same Holy Spirit that made sure that every generation understand the prophetic charts also gave Isaiah, Joel and Habakkuk the same visions and message. 

---To see the connection with exegesis and Ellen White of Psalm 68 do the following.

---Latter and Early Rains are mentioned in 68:10a: “Rain of abundance will You pour down O God, Your inheritance”.

---In Joel 2:23 the same word appear as here [geshem] divided in two time zone deliveries promised: geshem moreh which is early rain and [geshem] malqosh which is latter rain.

---Figuratively, the Holy Spirit outpourings at Pentacost for the Early Rain and we are waiting right now for the soon outpouring of the Latter Rain Holy Spirit experience.

---“He that is weary [of waiting so long because of the delay of the coming of the Lord] You confirm it” (68:10c).

---One cannot translate “Your inheritance was weary” because there is a “and” before weary and it reads literally: “Your inheritance and he that is weary.”

---How to one ignore the copulative that separates what is before from what follows it?

---We simply stop the phrase before the “and” by making the “and” the beginning of a next phrase.

---One cannot bulldoze over the syntax of the original with modern ideas.

---Nice correct?