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PSALMS 86
Lesson #15/P3
THE FUTURE KINGDOM
- MEMORY VERSE: PSALMS 86:5
- IN THE BIBLE, FROM TIME TO TIME GOD HAS REVEALED TO MAN CERTAIN NAMES FOR GOD THAT REVEAL TO US THE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF GODS PERSON, POSITION, AND CHARACTER.
- FOR EXAMPLE, AT TIMES THE BIBLE USES THE NAME ELOHIM FOR GOD TO INDICATE THE CREATOR GOD, AND AT OTHER TIMES THE BIBLE USES JEHOVAH TO INDICATE THE COVENANT MAKING GOD WHO SAVES.
- THIS PSALM, WRITTEN BY DAVID, USES THE NAME ADONAI SEVEN TIMES.
- REMEMBER THAT THE NUMBER 7 IN THE BIBLE IS SYMBOLIC OF PERFECT COMPLETENESS.
- THE NAME ADONAI MEANS, = MASTER OR SOVEREIGN, IN THE SENSE THAT HE IS THE GOD WHO SUPPLIES ALL MANS NEEDS AND TO WHOM MAN OWES OBEDIENCE.
- IN GEN 15:2 GOD GAVE US THIS NAME FOR HIMSELF. “LORD GOD” = ADONAI JEHOVAH.
- REMEMBER THAT JEHOVAH IS THE NAME FOR A COVENANT MAKING GOD, A GOD WHO DESIRES A RELATIONSHIP WITH MAN. HOWEVER, ORTHODOX JEWS THOUGHT THAT NAME TO BE TOO SACRED TO PRONOUNCE.
- . A MASTER HAS THE RIGHT TO UNQUESTIONED OBEDIENCE, WHILE THE SERVANT HAS A RIGHT TO RECEIVE DIRECTION, PROVISION, AND PROTECTION FROM THE MASTER.
- THIS IS THE SAME KIND OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOD AND THE BELIEVER AS BETWEEN A MASTER AND A SERVANT.
- IN GEN 15:2 GOD GAVE US THIS NAME FOR HIMSELF. “LORD GOD” = ADONAI JEHOVAH.
- READ PSA 86:1-17 A PSALM OF DAVID
- DAVID BEGINS HIS PRAYER WITH SOME HUMBLE REQUESTS:
- =1= HE REQUESTS THAT GOD HEAR HIS PRAYER.
- GOD PROMISED THROUGHOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT TO HEAR THE PRAYERS OF BELIEVERS.
- HOWEVER, THERE ARE TIMES WHEN WE FEEL SO DISTANT FROM GOD THAT SURELY HE DOESNT HEAR THEM.
- THE BELIEVER IS SUPPOSED TO LIVE BY FAITH AND NOT BY FEELINGS. THEREFORE, IT IS AT TIMES LIKE THIS THAT WE NEED TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT GOD SURELY HEARS OUR PRAYERS.
- GOD PROMISED THROUGHOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT TO HEAR THE PRAYERS OF BELIEVERS.
- =2= PRESERVE MY SOUL
.SAVE ME! (2)
- SPIRITUAL PROTECTION OF THE SOUL OF THE BELIEVER IS REASSURED BY GOD THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE (DEU 4:31) AND ESPECIALLY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT (HEB 13:5)
- THE BELIEVER THAT HAS GIVEN HIS HEART AND LIFE TO JESUS CHRIST HAS THE ASSURANCE OF SALVATION. (JOH 1:12)
- =3= MERCY (3)
- ALL PEOPLE NEED MERCY FOR WE ARE ALL SINNERS. WE DO NOT NEED JUSTICE BECAUSE THE FINAL JUSTICE OF SIN IS DEATH. WHAT WE NEED IS MERCY.
- ONLY IN JESUS CHRIST IS THERE MERCY. (JUDE 1:21)
- =1= HE REQUESTS THAT GOD HEAR HIS PRAYER.
- DAVID REVEALS TO US THE NATURE OF HIS PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. (3)
- DAVID PRAYS TO GOD EVERY DAY. THESE ARE NOT EMPTY WORDS THAT LACK FEELING AND CONVICTION. HE SAYS HE “CRIES” TO GOD EVERY DAY. THE IDEA IS A CRY FROM THE DEPTH OF ONES HEART.
- WHAT DOES DAVID KNOW ABOUT THE NATURE OF GOD? (4-6)
- DAVID KNOWS THAT IT IS ONLY IN HIS RELATIONSHIP TO GOD AS HIS SERVANT WILL HE EXPERIENCE TRUE JOY. (4)
- DAVID UNDERSTANDS VERY WELL THIS MASTER AND SERVANT RELATIONSHIP THAT IS EMBODIED IN THE NAME ADONAI, FOR IN VERSES 4 TO 6 WE SEE AN ATTITUDE OF HUMBLE SUBMISSION AND OBEDIENCE AS A SERVANT OF GOD. HOWEVER, WE ALSO SEE HIS UNDERSTANDING OF HOW GOD SUPPLIES HIS NEEDS AS ANY GOOD MASTER WOULD FOR A SERVANT HE LOVED.
- LIKE ALL PEOPLE, DAVID NEEDS GODS GOODNESS, FORGIVENESS, AND MERCY. (6)
- PHI 4:19 IS THE NEW TESTAMENT EQUIVALENT.
- LIKE ALL PEOPLE, DAVID NEEDS GODS GOODNESS, FORGIVENESS, AND MERCY. (6)
- IN THE DAY OF MY TROUBLE (7)
- THE CONDITION OF LIFE IS SUCH THAT IT IS FILLED WITH TROUBLE. DAVID KNOWS WHERE TO GO WHEN TROUBLE COMES. HE GOES DIRECTLY TO GOD.
- NOTICE THAT BY FAITH DAVID KNOWS THAT GOD WILL ALWAYS ANSWER HIM.
- THERE IS ALSO A PROPHETIC SIGNIFICANCE TO THE PHRASE, “DAY OF TROUBLE”.
- PROPHETICALLY IT REFERS TO THE TRIBULATION PERIOD OF 7 YEARS THAT WILL COME UPON THE WORLD IN THE FUTURE.
- WHEN DAVID USES THE WORD, “MY”, HE IS SPEAKING FOR ALL JEWS LIVING AT THE TIME OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD, FOR THIS SEVEN YEAR PERIOD IS SPECIFICALLY PERMITTED BY GOD TO BRING PRESSURE UPON THE JEWS SO THAT THEY WILL ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR LORD AND MASTER WHO WHILL SUPPLY ALL THEIR NEEDS.
- THE BIBLE CALLS THIS PERIOD OF 7 YEARS, “THE TIME OF JACOBS TROUBLE”.
- READ JER 30:7
- THE BIBLE CALLS THIS PERIOD OF 7 YEARS, “THE TIME OF JACOBS TROUBLE”.
- THEREFORE, ACCORDING TO JER 30:7 GOD WILL ANSWER DAVIDS PRAYER IN PSA 85 AND SAVE THE JEWS IN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD OF 7 YEARS. THIS SALVATION WILL OCCUR AT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AT THE END OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON. (ZEC 12:10)
- WHEN DAVID USES THE WORD, “MY”, HE IS SPEAKING FOR ALL JEWS LIVING AT THE TIME OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD, FOR THIS SEVEN YEAR PERIOD IS SPECIFICALLY PERMITTED BY GOD TO BRING PRESSURE UPON THE JEWS SO THAT THEY WILL ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR LORD AND MASTER WHO WHILL SUPPLY ALL THEIR NEEDS.
- PROPHETICALLY IT REFERS TO THE TRIBULATION PERIOD OF 7 YEARS THAT WILL COME UPON THE WORLD IN THE FUTURE.
- THERE IS NONE LIKE OUR GOD (8)
- THROUGH ALL OF ISRAELS HISTORY, THEY HAVE TRIED MANY DIFFERENT GODS AND WORSHIPPED MANY IDOLS.
- IN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD THEY WILL BEGIN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD BELIEVING THAT THE ANTICHRIST IS THEIR LONG AWAITED MESSIAH. THEY WILL BEGIN TO WORSHIP HIM UNTIL THE MIDDLE OF THE TRIBULATION WHEN HE WILL TURN ON THE JEWS AND BEGIN TO PERSECUTE THEM. THEN THEY WILL KNOW HE IS A FALSE MESSIAH.
- AT THE END OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON, IT WILL APPEAR THAT THE ANTICHRIST IS ABOUT TO EXTERMINATE ALL THE JEWS. IT IS AT THAT TIME THEY WILL PRAY THIS PRAYER OF PSA 85 AND GOD WILL HEAR THEM. THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST TO THIS EARTH WILL BE GODS ANSWER TO SAVE THE JEWS FROM TOTAL DESTRUCTION. THAT IS WHEN THEY WILL RECEIVE HIM AND SEE JESUS CHRIST FOR WHO HE TRULY IS, GOD, ADONAI, WHO IS COME TO PROVIDE ALLOF MANS NEEDS IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM.
- THE PROHETIC KINGDOM: (9)
- HOW DO WE KNOW THAT THIS PSALM HAS THESE PROPHETIC ASPECTS?
- VERSE 9 TELLS US THAT ALL NATIONS SHALL COMEJ AND WORSHIP BEFORE GOD. WHEN IN ALL OF MANS HISTORY ON EARTH HAVE ALL OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD COME TO WORSHIP GOD? NEVER. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A TIME OF A UNIFIED WORSHIP OF ONE GOD ON THIS EARTH.
- FROM THE TIME OF THE FALL OF ADAM AND EVE IN GEN 2 AND 3, SATAN HAS DECEIVED MAN INTO GIVING WORSHIP TO SATAN INSTEAD OF TO GOD.
- FROM THE TIME OF THE MURDER OF ABLE BY HIS BROTHER CAIN, MAN HAS REBELLED AGAINST GOD.
- FROM THE TIME OF THE TOWER OF BABEL, NATIONS HAVE LOOKED TO OTHER GODS TO SUPPLY THEIR NEEDS.
- VERSE 9 TELLS US THAT ALL NATIONS SHALL COMEJ AND WORSHIP BEFORE GOD. WHEN IN ALL OF MANS HISTORY ON EARTH HAVE ALL OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD COME TO WORSHIP GOD? NEVER. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A TIME OF A UNIFIED WORSHIP OF ONE GOD ON THIS EARTH.
- WHEN WILL ALL OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD COME TOGETHER TO WORSHIP JESUS CHRIST IN UNITY AND IN SPIRIT?
- THIS WILL OCCUR IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM ON EARTH WHEN JESUS CHRIST WILL RETURN TO EARTH TO ESTABLISH HIS RULERSHIP OVER ALL CREATION FOR 1000 YEARS.
- ALL NATIONS WILL COME ONCE A YEAR TO BRING TRIBUTE AND WORSHIP TO JESUS CHRIST IN JERUSALEM.
- READ ZEC 14:16
- DAVIDS PETITION FOR THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM OF JESUS CHRIST.
- DAVID PRAYS THAT GOD WILL TEACH THE PEOPLE HIS WAYS. (11)
- IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM OF JESUS CHRIST WHEN WE WILL BE ABLE TO SEE HIM FACE TO FACE, HE WILL TEACH US HIS WAYS. WE WILL KNOW HIM IN A MORE PERFECT WAY.
- THROUGH A MORE PERFECT UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF GOD, DAVID, SPEAKING FOR THE JEWS, COMING OUT OF THE TRIBULATION INTO THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, WILL PRAISE GOD FOR HIS MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE. NO OTHER GOD COULD DO THAT.
- DAVID SAYS THAT GOD, ” WILL DELIVER HIS PEOPLE FROM THE LOWEST HELL.” (13)
- “THE ASSEMBLIES OF VIOLENT MEN” (14) ARE THE NATIONS IN THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON THAT COME TOGETHER UNDER THE RULE OF THE ANTICHRIST TO TOTALLY DESTROY THE JEWS.
- GODS MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCE OF THE JEWS WILL BE NOTEWORTHY AND PRAISEWORTHY FOR A THOUSAND YEARS IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM.
- GODS GRACE , COMPASSION, LONGSUFFERING, MERCY, AND TRUTH WILL DELIVER THE JEWS FROM TOTAL ANNIHILATION. (15)
- DAVID PRAYS THAT GOD WILL TEACH THE PEOPLE HIS WAYS. (11)
- HOW DO WE KNOW THAT THIS PSALM HAS THESE PROPHETIC ASPECTS?
- DAVID BEGINS HIS PRAYER WITH SOME HUMBLE REQUESTS:
- “Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.”
- (17)
- DAVID ENDS HIS PRAYER WITH A PETITION OF WHAT GOD INTENDED TO DO THROUGH THE JEWS FOR ALL OF HISTORY.
- WHEN GOD CHOSE THE JEWS TO BE HIS PEOPLE, HE CHOSE THEM NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE SO GOOD AND WONDERFUL. HE CHOSE THEM TO BE AN EXAMPLE TO THE REST OF THE WORLD. HE CHOSE THEM SO THAT THE REST OF THE WORLD WOULD LOOK AT THEM AND SAY, “WHAT A BLESSING IT IS TO SERVE THIS GOD, FOR THIS GOD LOVES HIS PEOPLE AND BLESSES THEM WITH ABUNDANCE.”
- HOWEVER, THROUGH ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY NATIONS HAVE NOT LOOKED AT THE JEWS AND ENVIED THEIR POSITION WITH GOD. INSTEAD THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD HAVE HATED THE JEWS AND HATED GOD.
- THIS WILL ALL BE CHANGED IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM. THE JEWS WILL BE SUBMISSIVE AND OBEDIENT TO JESUS CHRIST. AS A RESULT, GOD WILL BLESS THEM ABUNDANTLY AS HE ALWAYS WANTED TO DO BUT COULD NOT BECAUSE OF THEIR REBELLION.
- FINALLY, IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM ALL NATIONS WILL ENVY THE POSITION OF THE JEW AND DAVIDS PRAYER FOR THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM WILL BE FULFILLED. (ZEC 8:23)
- THIS WILL ALL BE CHANGED IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM. THE JEWS WILL BE SUBMISSIVE AND OBEDIENT TO JESUS CHRIST. AS A RESULT, GOD WILL BLESS THEM ABUNDANTLY AS HE ALWAYS WANTED TO DO BUT COULD NOT BECAUSE OF THEIR REBELLION.
- HOWEVER, THROUGH ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY NATIONS HAVE NOT LOOKED AT THE JEWS AND ENVIED THEIR POSITION WITH GOD. INSTEAD THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD HAVE HATED THE JEWS AND HATED GOD.
- WHEN GOD CHOSE THE JEWS TO BE HIS PEOPLE, HE CHOSE THEM NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE SO GOOD AND WONDERFUL. HE CHOSE THEM TO BE AN EXAMPLE TO THE REST OF THE WORLD. HE CHOSE THEM SO THAT THE REST OF THE WORLD WOULD LOOK AT THEM AND SAY, “WHAT A BLESSING IT IS TO SERVE THIS GOD, FOR THIS GOD LOVES HIS PEOPLE AND BLESSES THEM WITH ABUNDANCE.”
HOMEWORK
PSALMS 87
This is a self-study. Please do not send homework answers to the teacher forcorrection.
- APPLICATION OF PSA 86
- IS THE DESIRE OF YOUR HEART THAT GOD TEACH YOU HIS WAYS?
- THIS COMES BY STUDYING HIS WORD.
- OBEDIENCE TO HIS SPIRIT.
- PRAYER TO UNDERSTAND YOUR EXPERIENCES OF LIFE.
- IN WHICH OF THESE DO YOU NEED TO PLACE MORE EFFORT AND TO MAKE A PRIORITY IN YOUR LIFE?
- IS THE DESIRE OF YOUR HEART THAT GOD TEACH YOU HIS WAYS?
- PREPARATION FOR PSA 87
- READ PSA 87:1-7
- OF WHAT SIGNIFICANCE IS VERSE 6 IN THIS NEW TESTAMENT AGE?
MEMORY VERSE: PSA 87:6
