Shalom,
Psalm 150 is the last Psalm and it closes on the highest note of praise for the One, True, Most High, Living, Almighty God of the Bible! The entire psalm is an instruction in who should be praising, how they should be praising, where they should be praising and Who should be the recipient of all of this praise! The word for praise in this psalm is the Hebrew word "halal", which we have looked at many times before and should now be very familiar with the fact that it means to boast, to shine, to rave, to celebrate, to be clamorously foolish over and to act like a madman about! EVERY word translated praise here is THIS word! The first phrase: "Praise the LORD" is "halal" and "Yahh", which is a contraction for "Yehovah". Do you recognize that this is HALLELUJAH! Clamorously praising Jehovah, the Eternal, Self-existing GOD! That is what this psalm is about and we need to gauge what percent of our lives is actually spent in praise! We can praise Him with instruments, with our voices, with our entire body in the dance, but we MUST praise HIM! AMEN! Verse 6 says it all:
6 Let everything that has breath, and every breath of life praise the LORD! Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah!)
In Revelation 6 we see the seals opened and the Tribulation has begun! I found this interesting comparison as I was studying this chapter. It compares Matthew 24, where we know that Jesus was speaking to the Jews and NOT to the church, with Revelation 6:
We move on to Jeremiah 37-38 today. Jeremiah has warned and warned and warned the king and the people what they must do, but they continue to reject the Word of the LORD. Jeremiah 37:1-2 sums this up:
1 AND ZEDEKIAH son of Josiah, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king ion the land of Judah, reigned instead of Coniah [also called Jeconiah and Jehoiachin] son of Jehoiakim. 2 But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to and obeyed the words of the LORD which He spoke through the prophet Jeremiah.
I saw this interesting note on king Zedekiah in the Bible Exposition Commentary:
"There's no problem so big or complicated that it cant be run away from." So read a piece of graffito found on a London wall in 1979, probably adapted from the "Peanuts" comic strip drawn by Charles Schulz. Whatever the source, the statement certainly represents King Zedekiah's approach to the terrible problems in Judah when the enemy was at the gates.
6 Let everything that has breath, and every breath of life praise the LORD! Praise the LORD! (Hallelujah!)
In Revelation 6 we see the seals opened and the Tribulation has begun! I found this interesting comparison as I was studying this chapter. It compares Matthew 24, where we know that Jesus was speaking to the Jews and NOT to the church, with Revelation 6:
Matt 24 Rev 6
False Christs White horse rider
(vv. 4-5) (vv. 1-2)
Wars (v. 6) Red horse - war
(vv. 3-4)
Famines (v. 7 a) Black horse - famine
(vv. 5-6)
Death (vv. 7 b-8) Pale horse - death
(vv. 7-8)
Martyrs (v. 9) Martyrs under the
altar (vv. 9-11)
Worldwide chaos Worldwide chaos
(vv. 10-13) (vv. 12-17)
The things that are prophesied in the Bible WILL come to pass, but God the Father is the only ONE Who knows WHEN all these things will take place. So BE ready at all times! AMEN!
We move on to Jeremiah 37-38 today. Jeremiah has warned and warned and warned the king and the people what they must do, but they continue to reject the Word of the LORD. Jeremiah 37:1-2 sums this up:
1 AND ZEDEKIAH son of Josiah, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king ion the land of Judah, reigned instead of Coniah [also called Jeconiah and Jehoiachin] son of Jehoiakim. 2 But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to and obeyed the words of the LORD which He spoke through the prophet Jeremiah.
I saw this interesting note on king Zedekiah in the Bible Exposition Commentary:
"There's no problem so big or complicated that it cant be run away from." So read a piece of graffito found on a London wall in 1979, probably adapted from the "Peanuts" comic strip drawn by Charles Schulz. Whatever the source, the statement certainly represents King Zedekiah's approach to the terrible problems in Judah when the enemy was at the gates.
And Zedekiah continued to vacillate when it came to the treatment of Jeremiah also! So how steady are YOU on the Word of God in the face of tests, trials and tribulations? KNOW your God and KNOW yourself! Know your own weaknesses so that you can receive correction in the Word of God and HE can turn them into strengths, otherwise the enemy will continue to use those weaknesses against you! That's just how he rolls! But YOU are not ignorant of his devices (tricks and schemes) (2 Corinthians 2:11)! AMEN!
Shalom in Him!
