Ed Walsh
Puritan Board Senior
Greetings, dear bride of Christ,
Your beauty is breathtaking to Him. You were the joy that helped endure the cross. And one day soon, your radiant beauty will be perfected, and you a fit bride for the young virile and thoroughly lovely Son of God Jesus Christ. Living happily ever after for real.
I've been reading through the Psalms, referring to Matthew Poole's commentary as needed.
Today I landed at Psalm 67. It's pretty short, so I posted the whole Psalm.
A perennial question comes to mind when I see the desires of the Saints for the whole world to be filled with the glory of the King of all things.
I have a perennial question that comes to mind when I see these desires of the Saints.
There must be fifty to a hundred places in the Old Testament where these sentiments are canonized. But lots of people want things that they can't have. Something they will never have. But not all the places are simple desires. These same sentiments are established by the God-breathed prophecies scattered throughout the Bible.
We also have the testimony of God Himself. Consider the disastrous events detailed in Numbers 13 and 14, of the spies' evil report, the murmuring of the people, and God's wrathful decision to disinherit all of Israel. The Lord said he would make a new nation from Moses' line. We see Moses' intercession as a look ahead of the work of Christ's intervention for the elect. So God relents total rejection and brings the lesser sanctions upon Israel as follows. God sentenced 600,000 adult men to die in the wilderness, never to enter the Promised Land. The 10 spies that brought the evil report, God killed them on the spot. Yet, amid this turmoil, we have the following sacred oath of God.
Remember that Jesus was first designated the Savior of the World by the hated half-bread gentiles in Samaria. (John 4:39-32)
Jesus had a thing or two to say about this desire following his resurrection.
Your beauty is breathtaking to Him. You were the joy that helped endure the cross. And one day soon, your radiant beauty will be perfected, and you a fit bride for the young virile and thoroughly lovely Son of God Jesus Christ. Living happily ever after for real.
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I've been reading through the Psalms, referring to Matthew Poole's commentary as needed.
Today I landed at Psalm 67. It's pretty short, so I posted the whole Psalm.
A perennial question comes to mind when I see the desires of the Saints for the whole world to be filled with the glory of the King of all things.
Psalm 67:1-7
May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.
Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth.
Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!
The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, shall bless us.
God shall bless us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!
I have a perennial question that comes to mind when I see these desires of the Saints.
Is this all just wishful thinking?
There must be fifty to a hundred places in the Old Testament where these sentiments are canonized. But lots of people want things that they can't have. Something they will never have. But not all the places are simple desires. These same sentiments are established by the God-breathed prophecies scattered throughout the Bible.
We also have the testimony of God Himself. Consider the disastrous events detailed in Numbers 13 and 14, of the spies' evil report, the murmuring of the people, and God's wrathful decision to disinherit all of Israel. The Lord said he would make a new nation from Moses' line. We see Moses' intercession as a look ahead of the work of Christ's intervention for the elect. So God relents total rejection and brings the lesser sanctions upon Israel as follows. God sentenced 600,000 adult men to die in the wilderness, never to enter the Promised Land. The 10 spies that brought the evil report, God killed them on the spot. Yet, amid this turmoil, we have the following sacred oath of God.
And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
but as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD. (Numbers 14:20-21)
Remember that Jesus was first designated the Savior of the World by the hated half-bread gentiles in Samaria. (John 4:39-32)
Jesus had a thing or two to say about this desire following his resurrection.
Matthew 28:18-20
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
Amen.