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PSALMS 81
Lesson #10/P3
THE ONE EVENT IN ISRAEL’S HISTORY THAT GOD VALUES ABOVE ALL

• MEMORY VERSE: PSA 81:16

 

• REMEMBER THAT THIS SECTION OF PSALMS IS FROM THE PART CALLED LEVITICUS THAT DEALS WITH WORSHIP. WE SEE THIS ASPECT CLEARLY AS THIS PSALM BEGINS WITH PRAISE TO GOD. IN THIS ASPECT OF PRAISE, IT IS A CONTINUATION OF PSA 80.
• READ PSA 81:1-7

 

• SUBTITLE: “To the chief musician upon Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph”

 

• WHAT IS A GITTITH? IT IS AN INSTRUMENT LIKE THE GUITAR. IT WAS PROBABLY THE LEAD INSTRUMENT USED IN SINGING THIS PSALM EVEN THOUGH THE PSALM MENTIONS VARIOUS OTHER ACCOMPANYING INSTRUMENTS.

 

• “the God of Jacob”

 

(1)
• THIS TITLE REFERS TO THE CHARACTER OF GOD THAT PUTS UP WITH A REBELLION LIKE THAT OF THE BIBLICAL CHARACTER, JACOB.
  • GOD IS FAITHFUL.
  • GOD DOES NOT GIVE UP AND ABANDON HIS PEOPLE.
  • GOD CHANGES MAN’S BASIC NATURE IN THE NEW BIRTH.
• THE PERIOD OF TIME TO WHICH THIS PSALM REFERS PROPHETICALLY IS WHAT THE BIBLE CALLS, “THE TIME OF JABOB’S TROUBLE”.
  • READ JER 30:7
    • THE TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLE REFERS TO THE TRIBULATION PERIOD OF SEVEN YEARS THAT IS YET TO COME ON THIS EARTH. IT IS WHEN GOD WILL PUT EXTREME PRESSURE ON THE JEWS TO BREAK THEIR REBELLIOUS SPIRIT AND TURN TO CHRIST.

 

• “Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.”

 

(3)
• THE SCHEDULED FEAST DAYS THAT FOLLOWED THE JEWISH AGRICULTURAL CALENDAR WERE ALSO PROPHETIC OF THE FIRST AND THE SECOND COMINGS OF CHRIST.
• THIS REMINDS US OF THE TRUMPET THAT BLOWN AT THE FEAST OF TABERNCALES OR OFTEN CALLED THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS, WHEN THE NEW MOON PRECEDES THE RISING OF THE SON OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, JESUS CHRIST.

 

• “in the time appointed”

 

• THE PROPHETIC FEASTS OF ISRAEL ARE GOD’S TIMETABLE FOR THE COMINGS OF THE MESSIAH. FOR EXAMPLE, THE FRIST 4 FEASTS HAVE BEEN FULFILLED BY JESUS CHRIST IN HIS FIRST COMING.
  • PASSOVER (FULFILLED IN THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHIRST)
  • FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD (FULFILLED IN THE BURIAL OF JESUS CHRIST.
  • FEAST OF FIRST FRUITS (FULFILLED IN THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST)
  • FEAST OF PENTECOST (FULFILLED IN THE BIRTH OF THE CHURCH)
• THE LAST THREE FEAST DAYS WAIT THEIR FULFILLMENT IN JESUS’ SECOND COMING:
  • THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS (THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH)
  • THE DAY OF ATONEMENT (THE EVENT OF THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST)
  • THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES (THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM OF CHRIST ON EARTH)

 

• “For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony.”

(4-5)

 

• GOD MADE THE FEAST DAYS A LAW IN ISRAEL THAT THE PEOPLE CLEBRATED EVERY YEAR TO DECLARE PROPHETICALLY HIS TIMETABLE FOR MAN. GOD’S TIMETABLE IS HIS TESTIMONY TO THE WORLD THAT GOD HAS CHOSEN ISRAEL TO BE HIS MODEL.
• GOD’S DELIVERANCE OF ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT (5-7) IS THE TESTIMONY OF HIS POWER AND LOVE FOR HIS PEOPLE.

• THE WATERS OF MERIBAH (7) PRECEDE A “SELAH” WHICH CAUSES US TO PAUSE AND THINK ABOUT HOW GOD PUT EVERYTHING IN HIS PLAN ON THE LINE TO ISOLATE AND WORK WITH ONLY ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE.
  • IT WAS AT MERIBAH THAT THE ISRAELITES REBELLED AND COMPLAINED TO GOD THAT THEY DID NOT HAVE WATER. IT WAS THE PLACE WHERE MOSES STRUCK THE ROCK TO GET WATER. THAT ROCK REPRESENTED JESUS CHRIST AND THE STRIKING BY CRUCIFIXION THAT HE ENDURED FOR HIS PEOPLE.
• READ PSA 81:8-16

• GOD’S PLEA FOR ISRAEL’S UNIQUE AFFECTION.
  • GOD IS A JEALOUS GOD AND DESIRES UNIQUE WORSHIP FROM HIS PEOPLE THAT WAS EXPRESSED IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

 

• “open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.”

 

(10)
• TO WHAT DOES GOD REFER WITH THESE WORDS?
  • GOD’S PROMISE TO ISRAEL WAS A MULTITUDE OF BLESSINGS IF THEY WOULD ONLY LOVE GOD. HE WOULD FILL THEIR LIVES WITH BLESSINGS AND THEIR MOUTHS WITH PRAISE FOR GOD.
• HOWEVER, ISRAEL WOULD NOT LISTEN AND PREFERRED IDOLS.
  • NOTICE THAT GOD DOES NOT FORCE PEOPLE TO LOVE AND WORSHIP HIM. HE IS A GENTLEMAN. HE USES LOVE TO ATTRACT PEOPLE TO HIM. IF, LIKE THE ISRAELITES, THEY REJECT HIS OFFER, GOD GIVES THEM OVER TO THEIR SIN AND LUST. (12)
• THIS PSALM ENDS WITH ON A SAD NOTE AT THE BLESSINGS AND PROTECTION THAT ISRAEL MISSED BECAUSE SHE WOULD NOT TURN TO GOD WITH LOVE. THEY WOULD HAVE HAD A SUPERIOR POSITION IN THE WORLD, A POSITION OVER THEIR ENEMIES.
• SUMMARY AND APPLICATION:

• FOR WHAT EVENT DOES THIS PSALM SING THE PRAISES OF GOD?
  • THE EVENT FREQUENTLY MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE WHENEVER ISRAEL’S HISTORY IS RETOLD, IS THE EVENT OF GOD’S DELIVERANCE OF THE ISRAELITES OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT. ASIDE FROM THE GREAT AND MIRACULOUS DEMONSTRATION OF GOD’S POWER IN THIS EVENT, IT IS WHEN GOD BEGAN TO WORK WITH A NATION OF PEOPLE SEPARATE FROM ANY OTHER NATION. IT IS WHEN GOD MARRIED ISRAEL AND CALLED HER HIS WIFE. IT IS THE EVENT THAT INITIATED GOD’S MARVELOUS PLAN OF REDEMPTION THAT IS FULFILLED IN JESUS CHRIST. IT IS THE EVENT THAT SET IN MOTION GOD’S PLAN FOR WORSHIP IN JESUS CHRIST.
• THERE IS MUCH FOR THE NEW TESTAMENT BELIEVER TO LEARN FROM THIS EVENT IN ISRAEL’S HISTORY FOR WHICH WE CAN ALSO BE GRATEFUL FOR ALL THE NEW TESTAMENT DOCTRINES OF JESUS CHRIST FIND THEIR SEEDS IN THE EXODUS AND THE PASSOVER.

HOMEWORK
PSALMS 82
This is a self-study. Please do not send homework answers to the teacher forcorrection.

• APPLICATION OF PSA 81
  • IF YOU ARE NOT FULLY AWARE OF ALL THAT GOD DID IN THE BOOK OF EXODUS WITH ISRAEL, DO A STUDY IN THE BOOK OF EXODUS ON THIS WEBPAGE.

 

• PREPARATION OF PSA 82
• READ PSA 82:1-8
  • WHAT DO YOU THINK VERSE 6 MEANS?

 

• MEMORY VERSE: PSA 82:8