Psalms David

Psalms 6-8

Psalms Book I: Psalms 6-8

These Psalms cover God’s chastening of His Own. Pleas for His correction to come with mercy. Grief and weeping all night from the evil attacks of enemies. Cries to God for deliverance. God’s protection and rescue.

This set of Psalms ends with a Psalm of God’s sovereignty over His creation which is also a prophetic foreshadowing of Messiah and events in His earthly life.

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Psalms Book 1

Psalms Book I: Psalms 1-5

The first two Psalms 1 & 2 serve as a type of prelude to the entire first book… even the entire book of Psalms itself.

Pslams 1 focus’ on the importance and power of the God’s word in a humble and obedient heart.

Psalm 2 is all about God’s sovereignty and specifically Jesus’ future Millennial reign.

Psalm 3 is about self-imposed tradgedy and the immutability of God’s calls and His faithfulness to those who submit to Him in trust.

Psalm 4 centers in on God’s faithfulnes to hear us when we pray. Our need to hold Him in dep reverence and the joy that comes from face-to-face encounters with God.

Finally center stage in Psalm 5 is the righteousness God imputes to His Own and how His ear is open to their cry. God will not hold the proud, the wicked or liars guiltless. It concludes with a call to rejoice in God’s delieverance of the godly.

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Malachi

Malachi, Last message before total silence Pt. 3

Thru the Bible: Malachi 3:13-4:6

Malachi wraps up with a rebuke from God over Israel’s unfaithfulness and selfish disrespect. He also convey’s God’s promise to remember and make a distinction between the unfaithful and the reverent.

Then God begins “troublesome times” maked by a famine for hearing the word of the Lord. The long 400 years of silence predicted by Daniel & Amos. The silence to Israel as a nation would not be broken until three angel sighting occurred, The first to Zacharias, father of John the Baptist. The second to Mary Jesus’ earthly mother. The third to Shepherds in a field outside Jerusalem at the birth of Messiah Jesus!

God Bless!

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Malachi message

Malachi, Last message before total silence Pt. 2

Thru the Bible: Malachi 2:17-3:12

This week God uses Malachi to offer Israel a sign of Messiah’s coming by describing His forerunner which Isaiah also did.

Matthew, Mark and Luke all identify John the Baptist as the fulfillment of those prophecies.

Also, God addresses Israel’s third and final major sin – that of failing to support and give into the lives of thier spiritual leaders and the curse that brings.

Paul, draws a direct line between this and giving to ministirial support in 1 Corinthains 9 by saying, “(13) Do you not know that those who perform the temple services eat the food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the offerings of the altar?

(14) IN THE SAME WAY, the Lord has COMMANDED that those who preach the gospel should earn their living by the gospel.” – 1Corinthians 9:12-14.

Spirit please give us all ears to hear and eyes to see.

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Malachi message

Malachi, Last message before total silence

Thru the Bible: Malachi 1-2

This is the last book of the Old Testament. It is a prophetic word to post-Babylonian exile Judah.

In this prophecy God addresses the exact same three major sins He did through Nehemiah, not so many years prior.

This was Israel’s last warning… a shot across the bow before their sins reward them a spiritual desert to live and die in.

Amos spoke of this intertestamental time of silence as “a famine for hearing the word of the Lord”.

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