Chuck Missler - Learn The Bible In 24hrs Series - Part 8

well we are entering our eighth of our learning the by 24 hours and this session is going to address the poetical books as they're called gonna be a very different session we've been in historical books narrative type books these are very different the books are job Psalms proverbs Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs and very very interesting books now job of course deals with the mystery of suffering and or at least that's why it is commonly viewed and it's the oldest book in the Bible by the way the oldest books are not by Moses the book of Job was classic literature even in the days of Moses probably written some something like 2000 BC maybe even earlier there are lots of studies some associate job with jobab the son of joktan and genesis 10 but those are conjectures there's a lot of debate exactly how far back he goes but in any case it is regarded the book of Job is regarded as a literary masterpiece it actually consists of a very highly developed poetry in fact Victor Hugo called it the greatest masterpiece of the human mind well you got that almost right it's not of the human mind at all it's a but any case the book of Job it's actually a dramatic poem framed in an epic story and the first part of the book lets you in on something job didn't have the benefit of you need to understand you read the book of Job he didn't have he did not have the benefit of chapter one because what happens in Chapter one is a prologue where Satan challenges God job didn't know what was going on in heaven and following that we have the dialogues and they're actually four we'll talk about three of them Elif as the temanite bildad the shuhite and zophar the name of theit and there's a fourth guy that's kind of a strange guy many people are puzzled by Elihu I'll show you why later now some of your people what probably is one of those riddles you kid talk about who is the shortest man in the Bible people say well knee-high Maya would be the shortest kind of ice and when you hear that say no no it's bildad the shuhite thing if somebody says that the centurions of the smallest guy cuz he slept on his watch but that's another issue listen let's get on here and then the final part of the book is the divine response we have a prologue that Satan's challenge you know just that sets the stage but realize job didn't know that and then we have and he goes through all these troubles and the bulk of the book are these dialogues where these three friends I'll put friends in quotation marks discuss his predicament but then God Himself steps in and answers for job and to job with a very remarkable passage so the prologue now we first see job in his his piety in prosperity he is very wealthy he's got flocks he's got wealth he's got family he is in great shape and Satan uses that to accuse him Satan goes before God and spreads his lie and his maliciousness by saying he the reason he's so pious is because he's so rich take away his wealth and so forth and then see what happens so God allows that to happen and we see job piety in adversity as these things start to go against him he doesn't lose his commitment to God he gets to his point where he his wife says curse God and die and though he slay me yet will I trust him it's good jobs response and Satan continues well sure he's still but he let's take away his to take away his health so we see his piety and adversity but then his piety in extremity he finally loses everything he loses his his he earned by the way important thing I should mention he's regarded as the greatest man in the East he had seven thousand sheep three thousand camels five hundred oxen and five hundred she asses so he was very prosperous and so Satan is the god of this age right I understand Satan is real and he's malevolent he's against your best interests in any case finally job losses not only his wealth and his family his sons and daughters get killed seven sons the three dollars get killed but he also loses his health he's a trashy he's in bad shape and then what constant it's all in the first chair what constitutes the bulk of the book is these three friends that come and advise him and every one of his friends the arguments are valid but they're not true so you've with friends like that you don't need enemies and he's a couple things some insights in that early chapter Satan is accountable to God he can't touch Joe bonus God says okay Satan can only do things that God allows him to do every harm that comes to you his father filtering it's interesting that Satan's dark mind is an open book to God Satan has no secrets from God Satan is also behind the evils that curse the earth what's very clear as you study your Bible the evils that are in the world are accountable to the god of this world which is Satan he's what it's all about in terms of evil by the way Satan is neither omnipresent nor omniscient he's has locality he can't be harassing you when he's harassing you in other words his minions might he's got resources but he personally is they created be he's not some kind of God he is a very powerful angel that's going bad so he's not omniscient he doesn't know everything I don't believe he can read your thoughts he can implant thoughts in your mind but I don't think he gave me only God knows the thoughts intents of the heart the scripture tells us that's important to know and Satan can do nothing without divine permission everything that happens he has to go to God for permission and sitting also God is always on his own little boy I asked his dad very nervous about something he says dad does does God see me all the time as if he's trying to hide something the father very quickly says God loves you so much that he can't take his eyes off you not a great answer love it so the dialogues constant the bulk of this job's in this predicament and we have three guys and each guy gets three cracks at three three discourses and I work to spend a lot of time analyzing them but Elif has basically advises job based on his own observation experience he can close the job suffers because he has sinned they assume all these troubles are brought upon him because of his sin that's basically the theme Bildad comes along and his primary argument is on tradition and he concludes that job is a hypocrite it isn't what it seems he somehow isn't as pious as it looks so far comes along and he rests on assumptions of Orthodox Dogma the job is a wicked man these dialogues are different only really in their subtleties but they each take three three three attacks at him and he responds and that's what constitutes the bulk of the book you finally get to this fourth guy ally who has sort of a different approach and see all three of these guys proceeding they have to narrow of you and to rigid of view of God's providence they don't have the understanding that God is big and has lots of different means and methods but Lionel comes along he sort of throws you because he's apparently a young man and that you know you know you don't think of wisdom coming from what young man but he believes that he's sort of a very respectful intercessor on behalf of job and he has a higher view he thinks suffering may have a higher purpose than their allowing for it maybe this may be moral rather than penal this may restore rather than be quite this may chase and rather than chastise in fact he really sets the stage for God himself stepping in and answering for Joe when when God does step in he rebukes the first three speakers he rebukes them that they they don't know what they're talking about he doesn't come and elihue there are even some scholars I think Allah who could be an Old Testament appearance of Jesus Christ I don't go that far but clearly a lie who sets the stage he's sort of an intercessor sets the stage for God's appearance but the divine response you know there comes a voice from a whirlwind and God gives job a science quiz regarding the earth the heavens living beings even talks about dinosaurs land dinosaurs and sea dinosaurs are mentioned in joke many people don't realize that because of all the silly speculations from commentaries don't read them don't read comet has read the book I see what it said talks about these things and then there's the epilogue after he gives job the sort of sighs where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth he talks about some interesting things we'll get here in a minute that the epilogue and then God rebukes the so-called three comforters and then he restores to job double everything he lost there's a little surprise in that one too I want to get to the scientific insights you know there are at least 15 facts of science that are suggested that were not discovered until recent centuries that are in the book of Job it's an interesting passage chapter 38 and following one of the things that emerges out all is that the planet the scientists were discovered is uniquely designed for life in fact they call it the anthropic principle it's as if the planet was designed for man if the planet was a little bigger a little smaller life would be impossible if it was a little close to Sun a little further if you try to build a model of the universe as we know it you'll discover there literally hundreds of factors that if you change them just a little bit life's impossible forces and weights and ratios are all delicately designed example those that people say the gene the ozone layer if it changes 1/10 of 1% cosmic doom comes turn that coin over if it's that delicate who balanced it is the each one of those arguments is an argument for design and also skillful attention some of those factors have one part in 10,000 different and life's impossible the nature of water the water molecule go on and on on the so called anthropic principles the whole study its own right very fascinating the other thing the flipside of that is also the absence of scientific errors you will not finally say in that Bible you will not find Santa and one of the amazing things is it doesn't have scientific errors that some of the silly folklore of the past doesn't creep in except maybe idiomatically someplace has been the hydrological cycle is a simple example the evaporation circulations precipitation in job 26 why do how do clouds stay aloft water is heavier than air how do they stay up there air wind so if we have weight right water weighs more than air so how is it supported you'll find the answer in in joke twenty-eight and one other places there are also the spacetime mass the universe we now know the properties of space empty space is not empty it's got energy and so it has properties as any radio image to tell you it has impedance it has properties empty space has he stretches out the north over empty space and hang if the earth upon nothing job says what hangs the earth on nothing well we know that to be true today Dover the morning started singing at the foundation of the earth that's kind of interesting they were created before the foundation of the earth and these dinosaurs that's another thing people are here fascinate dinosaurs you know the land-based dinosaurs are represented by the behemoth in job 40 it's not a hippopotamus there's all kinds of conjectures they don't fit the text these are giant creatures they're well described if we read if you if you don't have in your mind trying to fit this to something we know and just listen to what the text says what you'll see is a dinosaur with a big tail that knocks things over and it's huge and by the way that hears much breathes fire breathes fire now that's bizarre they have found skulls of dinosaurs that have chambers they don't know what they're for there's just a conjecture we don't know to conjecture that they may be very similar to the bombardier beetle which mixes two chemicals - so far and we know especially in eastern asia there apparently has been a history of fire-breathing dinosaurs that's where - called dragons in China and the rest they had a ancient history but it's also sea based dinosaurs mentioned job 41 the Leviathan and talks about it and it's interesting that these things may still be around in rare acute situations in New Zealand in 1977 some Japanese fishermen picked up this creature there was 900 feet down it was 32 feet long weighed four thousand pounds here's a picture of it they didn't have the capacity to keep it they took pictures of it and threw it back but this was been well-documented back in 97 and there been others this is just one that happened to get a picture of there these Kent Hovind his ministry a number they have all kinds of information on not only dinosaurs but even contemporary encounters with him let's talk about Astra astronomy God asks where's the way we're like dwelleth you know lights dynamic dark darkness is static and he God ask him just take a sample here God says to job can you bind the influences of the Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion that's God's challenge to job I was quite startled to discover from an astronomer friend of mine who pointed out that the constellations of skies look like groups of stars but obviously they're not real some are way very much further away some are closed they just have a an appearance that looks like they're not really necessarily clustered there's only two exceptions there are two constellations that in fact are gravitationally linked the Pleiades and the belt of Orion how did job or the writer job know that God challenged them can you bind the influences of the Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion he knew see these are the only visible high constellations indirect gravitational bondage and they're mentioned in job chapter 38 verse 431 in fact the whole matter Roth what we call the zodiac our signs of God's plan of redemption that's quite a ambitious thing to get into I will get into here but you'll discover the 12 signs of the zodiac if known by their Hebrew names portray the 12 tribes of Israel they also portray God's plan from the virgin birth represented by Virgo to the victory of the Lion of the tribe of Judah which we call Leo all this gets corrupted in Genesis 11 at the Tower of Babel but if they believe that Adam and maybe the earlier Enoch and the others taught their children the plan of God by memorizing these stories what you need to know the stories and not the arrangement of stars that's that's silliness cassiopeia the woman change anyway that's just a bent w how do you get a woman chained in the chair these aren't pictures there are pictures associated with the stars but the way you know the story is not by the picture you need to know the names of the stars in the order of brightness that will remind you of the story and the story is pictured but it's not by the arrangement of stars you follow me that that's corruption but if you learn the names of stars in in Hebrew you'll discover some astonishing things and there's a whole study on that call the sides of the heavens but we'll move on here let's get to the Psalms that's Israel's hymnal it's actually poetry laced with strong theology there's a lot of theology and in the Sun it's interesting how today's music is different than the old classic hymns you know the classic hymns head will just rich with theology many people call today's modern Christian music 7:11 music seven words repeated 11 times the Psalms are rich with theology in the Hebrew the word for the book is called the hilum it's praises there are 55 of these that are addressed directly to the chief magician they were intended to be son and in the Greek the term of the book was called psalm oy which is a poem to be sung to a stringed instrument or assaulter for a harp or stringed instrument and it's out of that that we get the English word Psalms but in any case the nature poetry see we're used to poetry that's phonetic in this design we have rhyme which involves the parallelism of sound there's also a parallel parallelism of rhythm or metric or meter parallelism of time there's also the conceptual design of the poetry can also involve the parallelism of the ideas and that's especially true in the book of Proverbs and these parallel isms can be comparative to illuminate something they can be contrasted to be antithetic in other words opposites or they can be completed to be synthetic also throughout the Psalms you find some interesting words you find the words a lot some people say that some musically they speculate that that's a musical term no it's a pause intended for you to connect some ideas that may not be obvious and the word Sayla it's commonly assumed that's the musical instruction however Salus to connect subject matter not music it's it connects to the end of one strove to with the beginning of the next it's connecting of two subjects together and so it's sometimes synthetic sometimes antithetic it's concerned with truths not tunes interesting issue sources of the psalm 73 of them are assigned to David about 50 of them are anonymous and there's a number of others to various people his his choir director ACF to get his choir director and a few other guys here now even one to Moses by the way but some people classify the Psalms into five categories there's a group of Psalms that are about man they sometimes called it the Genesis book there's a group of Psalms that have to do with deliverance they call that the Exodus book some people do there's also a whole group of Psalms that are deal with the sanctuary Levitical some people associated with another group of unrest or wandering so they associate with numbers and there's the final of the word of the Lord and so some people try to cluster these hymns in those five categories I mentioned just so you're aware of it I don't happen to see them that way but that's okay many of them have inscriptions they're 34 without any inscriptions 52 with simple inscriptions 14 with history that tie them to history specific historical incidents there's four that are inscribed with it during a purpose there are 15 they're called songs of degrees I'll come back to those in there's 31 special ones for the hundred fifty Psalms and there's a whole bunch of terms I won't go through but how much of terms all through here that most scholars assume or believe they're somehow related to the execution and the music or dancing or their technical terms for stringed instruments or various other issues so but those might warn you that the scholars are very much still in a debate on what some of them really imply but in the book of habakkuk we find a psalm in the book and it's also teaches of some things that may surprise us the psalm has in Habakkuk has a superscription something in front of it in other words this is a prayer of Habakkuk the the prophet upon the signal which is a like crying aloud it's an exclamation it had then there's a psalm itself from this is all in chapter 3 of Habakkuk from verse 2 to 19 then the end of that it says to the chief magician upon negat migunov which is on stringed instruments is what apparently means but what's interesting the superscription and subscriptions here betray a pattern that we didn't realize for me the psalms we will cover that maybe the Psalms the inscription is not the really the superscription of following some it's read as a tale of the previous one see there's there's some translational difficulties here and hezekiah also has a psalm in his book it has a kind of 38 the superscription is the writing Hezekiah king of Judah when he was had been sick and was recovered from a sickness sickness is up front then there's a psalm itself for ten verses and then the subscription therefore we will sing my song to the stringed instrument that pattern is consistent in a Habakkuk and Hezekiah and people beginning to realize that maybe that's the way the psalm should have been and these subscriptions and inscriptions or maybe mrs. scribed now the songs of degrees is in Psalms 120 134 and sometimes called the ascents because there was fifteen steps and they sang these as they were up the 15 steps that's one view Hezekiah was the most godless of Judah's kings and second Kings 18 he wrote many Psalms and proverbs ones even in his book he restored temple worship in 2nd chronicles 29 and in fact he was given 15 additional years to his life by God and that was confirmed to him by he going out and looking at a head sundial of manya with those nearby and seeing that go back 15 degrees as what God's confirming that he was going at 15 more years and many people associate that with the 15 Psalms that call the psalms of a sense and so there's that that at least tradition a moment but the most interesting group for some people are the messianic Psalms there's a handful um the Book of Psalms is the escort in the New Testament more than any other book of the Old Testament and the things that are in the Psalms constitute irrefutable testimony to the divine inspiration of the scriptures because it lays out details well in advance of the fact Psalm 2 8 16 22 23 24 40 41 45 68 69 87 and 89 102 110 and it goes on and on and on that are labeled messianic Psalms because they embody some prophecies they're fulfilled in the life of Christ and his person the fact the Son of God is mentioned in the half a dozen of them that he's son of man and Psalm 8 and following son of David in several places his offices as prophets several as priests in Psalm 110 his King and Psalm 2 and others will look at some two in a minute he the fact that he would speak in parables that he would calm the storm and he'd be despised rejected mocked whip deride it all expressed in the Psalms that he'd be impaled on a cross in fact it's so graphic it sounds like was dictated first-person singular as he hung on the cross that he'd be thirsty in the wine mixed with gall they'd cast lots for his garments and that not a moment would be broken they would fulfill the Passover specifications they rise from the dead he'd send to heaven they'd be right hand of God that he that he's our high priest that he'll judge the nation's he'll reign he's ready to be eternal he's the son of God the Son of David that people would sing Hosanna to him that he'd be bused forever and come glory in the last days it goes on these are all in the Psalms you to build a whole presentation of Christ from the Psalms the coming kingdom in psalm 46 through tribulation the range of the kingdom in Psalm 47 and all the earth and the center of the kingdom psalm 46 47 48 speaks of the kingdom it's it's coming it's range in its center and so we see design here the shepherd psalms you're all familiar with that the suffering savor in Psalm 22 hanging on the cross the Good Shepherd and analogous the Good Shepherd discourse in John 10 the living shepherd in Psalm 23 we've all heard that the great Shepherd in Hebrews 13 is a parallel the exalted sovereign of Psalm 24 22 23 and 24 and there's a chief Shepherd and 1st Peter 5 4 and so on so Psalm 22 is just let's just take we'll take a couple he's take a quick look at him the it opens up my God my God why hast thou forsaken me that all that goes in the ears is that one of the first things Christ said on the cross right Eli Eli lama the back tonight and it's interesting that David is penning this David was never in any danger of crucifixion he was never in any extremity in that regard how did he get inspired to write this it's words that it's almost as if it was dictated while Jesus hung on the cross crucifixion was invented 700 years after this was penned adopted by him it was invented by the Persians that's what Haman was says haned and your translations run he was impaled they were persons did that the Romans really adopted that music very widely obviously the Israel's method of execution was stoning how did you get this insight my God my God why hast thou forsaken me all they that see me laughed me to scorn they shoot up the lip and they shake the head saying pay trust in the Lord that he would deliver another him deliver him sing he delighted in him these taunts are virtually quoted as you find him in Matthew 27 verse 43 and 46 I would poured out like water all my bones are out of joint my heart is like wax it hasn't melted in the midst of my bowels my strength is dried up like a potsherd my tongue cleave list to my jaws and thou has brought me into the dust of death heavy stuff for dogs have compass me the Assembly of the wicked have inclosed me they pierced my hands and my feet I may tell all my bones they look and stare upon me they part my garments among them and they cast lots for upon my vesture and soundings quote if Matthew 27 verse 35 let's go to Tom next Psalms Psalm 23 the Lord is my shepherd we all know we've all heard this song I shall not want it means I shall not like nothing he makes me to lie down in green pastures which means I shall not like provision he leads me beside the still waters it means I shall not lack peace he leaves me in the paths of righteousness I shall not like guidance yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil I shall not lack courage in the dark hour i rod and thy staff they comfort me see I shall not black true comfort now prepared us a table before me in the presence of my enemies I shall not like protection preservation honour thou anointest my head with oil shall never like joy they all speaks of joy I shall my cup runneth over I shall never lack fullness of blessing surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life I shall not lack divine favor during my earthly life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever I shall not like a heavenly home when my earthly tour is over incredible son we've all heard it never tire of it you really get to appreciate the Psalms when you go through the dark valleys there are Psalms that may not mean much to you now they will when you retreat to them in times of stress now there's seven compound titles of God in the Bible you have a Yara which is a Lord will provide Yahweh Rafa the Lord healeth yahwah Shalom the Lord our peace Yahweh's fit Canoe the Lord our righteousness Yama the Lord ever-present yella NIT see the Lord our banner yamaraja the Lord our Shepherd and each one of these is in the Sun each one of these is in the Sun in effect he each one of these names of God her dwelled here but I want to talk about Psalm 2 it's one of the most strangest Psalms Psalm 2 the second son you need to take this down on your notes and figure out who's talking to who there's three guys having a conversation here you know let the cat out of the bag I believe it's the Holy Spirit the father in the son why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing the kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed saying let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us who's talking here holy spirit I believe he that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh the Lord shall have them in derision then shall he speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure boy boy boy now the next verse verse 6 I think is the father speaking yeah I have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion and then I believe the son is now speaking quoting the father I will declare the decree the LORD hath said unto me thou art my son this day have I begotten thee ask of me and I shall give thee the heathen of for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession thou shalt break them with a rod of iron thou shalt dash them in pieces like a Potter's vessel I believe that son is quoting the father the father said that the sons quoting him you follow me being now the Holy Spirit takes over here be wise now therefore o ye kings be instructed the judges of the earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling kiss the son lest he be angry and he perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him strange war council though it's the Trinity talking to themselves I believe and they're talking about the earth the kings of the earth coming taking up a war against them how silly and futile that's going to be and God is going to to express his displeasure I believe this is the heavenly side of Armageddon in the Second Coming and all of that there are Islamic groups there's the hallelujah Psalms a handful of those there's the penitential Psalms the imprecatory psalms the acrostic psalms there's even psalm 119 which has 22 sections one for each Hebrew letter and every line in that section starts with that Hebrew letter and as a section of each section is 16 lines with 8 couplets each couples beginning with the same letter of the Hebrew alphabet incredible design and these things well let's move on we can't defend we could we will and separate time spend more time in the Psalms but he had booked of proverbs proverbs not hymns their prudence through precept you see Psalms is aimed at a devotional life proverbs is aimed at our practical life and a probe for verba words it's a the term refers to a very terse Maxim little separate little Maxim's see a problem a proverb does not argue it simply assumes Solomon wrote three thousands of these according to first kings for they were arranged we believe during the reign of Hezekiah the organization is pretty simple they extol wisdom 15 sonnets rather than proverbs there are two monologues there Maxim's enjoining prudence there's 375 aphorisms with a couple of sixteen epigrams unless you're into rhetoric this probably doesn't mean a lot to you they're more Maxim's on prudence seven epigrams to five couples 13 says of agar there's an Oracle Oracle of limitless mother and acrostic on the virtuous woman which we will take a look at the structural method in C they're contrast of Proverbs they're antithetical compact presentation of some kind of contrast striking contrast there are complete of Proverbs these are where the second line agrees or carries or amplifies the first C there isn't a standard patter sometimes they're off sets sometimes they subsidy that sometimes they contrast them they complete and then it's compared to proverbs the figures of comparison and a very colorful imagery lets you know a fair woman without discretion is like a jewel of gold and the swine snout that's descriptive and that's obviously a contrast then there's a complete of one as cold water to a thirsty soul is like good news from a far country why it captures a snippet of life doesn't it maybe you have to have some of those experiences to really have this grab you Comparative the tongue of a nagging woman is a continual dripping on a very rainy day these are pictures and analogies the sluggard is the sluggard who is like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes of his employer are you one of those noir hands please the offended brother who is harder to win than a strong City Oh interesting how how true that is in your family the coming of poverty like an armed man to the slothful why's reproof is to an earring of gold on an obedient ear riches flying away on wings like those of an eagle the very graphic language very practical very real but here's one that will just look at mrs. far above rubies there's a gal and guys you need to know this one proverbs 31 sorry verse 10 misses far above rubies she's a good woman she works diligently she's contrives prudently and she behaves uprightly very eloquently portrayed she's a good wife she seeks the husband's good she keeps his confidence and aids his prosperity she's a good mother she closed family wisely she feeds household well and she shops sensibly these are all embodied in proverbs 31 she's a good neighbor she helps the poor she uplifts the needy and she speaks graciously you say there are any people like that yes there are I married the one let's move on to Ecclesiastes the Hebrews qohelet the preacher this is written by Solomon at the end of his life and it's often misunderstood it's his sermon on the natural man's quest for the chief good and it's a canoe unlike the proverbs which are little separate pieces this is a cumulative treatise which has component parts it's final conclusion is that all is vanity but what he's talking about is things under the Sun the material world it is not pessimistic it is simply bravely honest and it has a surprising conclusion that many people miss you see it sees beyond life's ironies and wearing repetitions it sees beyond that to the divine control and future restitutions you don't catch that unless you watch very carefully the book of Ecclesiastes he starts out with his quest by personal experiment he searched for wisdom and pleasure by personal experiment then he quested by general observation ills and enigmas of human society all leading a frustration then his quest was by practical morality and discovered that material things cannot satisfy the soul and somehow we have to keep learning that over and over you the quest reviewed and concluded in the end vanity of vanities all is vanity is his conclusion there are ten vanities human wisdom wise and foolish alike have the same end death human labor the worker is no better than the shirker in the final end he says human purpose man proposes but God disposes human rivalry success brings more envy than joy human avarice much feeds the lust for the Illusive more much feeds the lust for the Illusive more human fame brief uncertain and soon forgotten famous brief but infamy lasts a little longer human is a shitty money does not satisfy it only feeds others human coveting gain cannot be enjoyed despite desire human frivolity one only camouflages an inevitable sad end human Awards good and bad often get wrong deserts here's the conclusion of the matter here's his final significance listen carefully what Salman's saying let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter fear God and keep his Commandments for this is the whole duty of man for God shall bring every work into judgment every secret thing whether it be good or whether evil thatis not as many people yes it sounds real pessimistic he's just coming there's nothing new Under the Sun he's talking about natural life it's destined for frustration here's a guy who knew he'd been at the top he'd experienced it all and it's all vanity so I'll emptiness the only thing counts is to fear God this is the this is his at the end of the days he looks back and it assesses the wreckage of his life and realizes that's where this is where it's all at well let's get to the sex appeal song of song this is a book that many people get very either don't know at all or get very embarrassed reading its theme is ultimate love that's his theme no book of the scripture has given rise to more commentaries and opinions than this one some say it's an allegory some say it's an extended tight some say it's a drama involving to some say three main characters some say it's a collection of Syrian wedding songs and there's a whole bunch of going on but I want to point out the book is inspired there are a lot of yous the Jewish tradition is that the Mishnah and the Talmud and the targum all Bude the book as an allegorical picture of the love of God for Israel that's a view there are other rabbis that believe it's a handbook for sexual intercourse husband and wife both are true the church leaders Hippolyta's Oregon Jerome Athanasius Augustine and others use the book as an allegory of Christ's love for the bride the church and it is it's all of the above it's a very very interesting book it's a very practical handbook on sexual practice it is a book of God's relationship with Israel it's also a book that can have application as an allegory of Christ things but the key of course is Psalm 45 a song of loves a royal marriage him and the heavenly bridegroom's involved so let's get that in mind so some say it's a suite of seven it idols and Idol is a little picture it comes from the Greek an alien which comes from 3rd century Sicilian poet and this that's if you're interested in structure but there's a there's seven elements dis that make up the story but let's cut through this and actually look at the story let's look it's actually an and let's look at the story behind the Opera Solomon is the hero of the piece and Shulamit is the Cinderella of the piece if you will Schumann is simply the feminine of Solomon it's it's mr. and mrs. Solomon is what the terms imply in the mountain district Ephraim King Solomon had a vineyard and that's in chapter 8 verse 11 of this thing and he led it out to an ephraim aight family of as keepers the husband and father apparently passed away and there was a mother at least two sons and two daughters and the older daughter called shimon is the Cinderella as a piece as I say her brothers did not appreciate her and fostered all kinds of hard tasks upon her denying her the privilege that growing girl might be expected to enjoy in a Jewish home he/she says my mother's sons were angry with me that makes it sound like maybe they were half-brothers okay and in any case they didn't appreciate her and she says my own vineyard I have not kept another word she had no opportunity to look after her own interest he's so busy with the tasks that they put on so we also have the impression that she had no opportunity left herself she's probably sunburned but very naturally attractive well finally a handsome stranger shows up and a Shepherd stranger Shepherd of some kind he views her as without blemish friendship ripens to affection and find it love and he promises to return and to make her his bride he leaves his brother the brothers are skeptical they taught her they regard her as being deceived by this stranger he's gone a long time and she would dream of him in darkness and and distrusted him despite the time as it wore on then one day a huge cavalcade arrives with the tenants of all kinds the King has sent for you in obedience of course she responds and she looks into his face guess who the king was the Shepherd that had won her heart and that's where she declares I am My Beloved's and his desire is toward me so that's the that's the big climax of the thing I my beloved and his is toward me so that's the Opera and now there are people that suspect this really was Solomon and a gal by the name of Abhishek Abishag was a beautiful young woman who spent her youth in the fields and vineyards and she was selected the young gal attractive gal to lie beside elderly King David and serve his needs during his dying years and she came from an area called Schuneman probably in Galilee but they're not really sure the text by the way is very clear that sure virginity was not violated she wasn't there to give him sexual favors old although he declined to do that he it was clear that he did her ministry to him was strictly one of physical care not sexual pleasure but and that's in first Kings but Solomon became deeply attracted to her a Tunisia tried to take her to wife but Solomon had him executed he was enraged and had him executed so Solomon's got his eye on this gap and so he sees all I was part of the household at the time that all this happened with David Abishag was a country girl on natural beauty and she probably worked in the fields probably sunburn but very very naturally come not used to expensive clothes that sort of thing from some of the remarks and so forth and not the exotics of nobility but natural beauty sort like my my man but so that's the possibility and we have just gone through a rather hurriedly skimming a tough time we've gone through gone through a hundred fifty Psalms we've gone through a couple of very tough books that are usually misunderstood by the commentators but I can't help but see this I was enamored with the summary by Henry Van Dyck he said it is what with us speaking of the political books it has woven itself into our dearest dreams so that love friendship sympathy devotion memory hope put on the beautiful garments of its treasured speech no man is poor or desolate who has this treasure for his own when the landscape darkens the trembling pilgrim comes to the valley of the shadow he's not afraid to enter he takes the rod and staff of Scripture in his hand he says to friend and comrade goodbye we shall meet again and comforted by that support goes toward the lonely pass as one who walks through darkness into light I like that as one person's reaction job of course is an incredible book to study in several levels each one of these that we've reviewed in this last hour are really devotional books they're political books they're not history in the usual sense all there's much history hidden in there there's also scientific little tidbits here and there and there's messianic prophecies in there but the real strength and resource of all the books we talked about especially the Psalms is comfort in times of stress there will be times of stress and some of these you won't even appreciate until you've been through times of stress but it's something that will become very very dear you might just that's why it is a incredibly good spiritual hygiene as you have your devotional reading whatever that meant you were sure you should be going through the Bible that's shown in your own style but include in each morning or each evening a song as the front end or back into your daytime it'll be it'll be some of your most precious moments of a day I might comment just briefly on a couple of other things there are lots of ways there's a there's a difference between studying the Bible grabbing your commentaries getting your resources finding out who is what and going through all that stuff expositionally that's great that's a place for that and that should be serious study time but there's another aspect of the Word of God that many of us fail to be diligent on and that is just devotional just to bathe in it just bathe in it right on through not trying to necessarily deal with some of the paradoxes and even it's just to bathe in it and God will that is the way God will speak to you through his word and it's a one of the things that I've found the most useful some people like to just take the Bible and read say three chapters a day or some some pace so they get through the Bible once a year or once every two years whatever different there's different reading things and that's that's that's not bad I've been drawn to a little different style I keep an electronic Bible with me which has bookmarks in it and what I like to do is have a bookmark in the Torah a bookmark in the historical books a bookmark in the poetical books a bookmark in the prophets a bookmark in the Gospels I use acts as if it was a gospel and in the torah i treat joshua as if it was the target that's mechanics and anyway that gospels the epistles in the book of revelation there's about eight of those and what I tried to do is move each bookmark one chapter a day and and what the reason I find that so different it's sort of like a meal you don't eat your meat on Mondays and your potatoes on Tuesdays and your vegetables on Wednesdays you like the more balanced diet and I got this I got this basic idea for my wife because she was she has her Bible just loses bookmark she's into all kinds things and I found it awkward because I have a stoup Bible at home that he used for steady but I don't take them on trips for a lot of reasons but when I got the electronic when it worked out real neat because I can just move the bookmarks and it also allows me that way when I if I'm 15 minutes early for an appointment for a barbershop or something I just pop it open and knock off one or two of the book you know one of the two chapters and but what's neat about it is it the the particular pace I've set for myself takes me through the New Testament twice a year in the Old Testament three times a year and the Old Testament twice a year but that's a lot of reading you may not you didn't adjust it to your own style but that kind of reading isn't study it's just bathing in it and it's the way that the Bible increasingly becomes your own and it's also the way God can use it to speak to you and that's a special that's true of all the books whether even the Torah obviously or the historical books and certainly the prophets but it's especially true when the books we just went through that political books their comfort they're warm and they're this is this is another place by the way where the majesty of the King James appeals to me some people find that difficult the Old English they prefer one of the modern and that's fine there's not taught much steady here we're not talking about you know building doctrine we're not we're just talking about bathing in it and and I encourage you to do that and see what God is gonna do well the next time we meet the next session will be hour nine and we're going to take the Book of Daniel and which is a one hand a historical book on the other hand a prophecy book the first is twelve chapters first six happened to be narrative very colorful narrative and the last half of course visions but what makes the Book of Daniel pivotal to many people is this focus is on the Gentile world most of the Bible speaks of Israel and sees the world through the lens of Israel but the Book of Daniel is actually translated switches from Hebrew to the Gentile language of that day from chapters 2 through 7 and it has astonishing prophecies that impact you and I that are unfolding as we speak visibly and it'll be one of the most exciting it is many people who know very little else about the Bible write books on the Book of Daniel it obviously is pivotal to understand the book of Revelation and so forth but in any case we're so we're gonna we all the way through we can't take all the prophets in detail we're gonna pick one so we're talking about all of them when we get to the prophets but we'll take Daniel specific to get to depth when we get to Paul's epistles we'll take we'll talk about all the epistles general but we'll take one in depth Romans and then the Hebrew Christians we will take one let's see the book of Hebrews so we'll Polk will sink some holes in depth in a couple of plate we can't do it with all the books would be at this for five years trying to knock this off in 24 one-hour sessions not to exhaust the books but to give you a perspective of the whole so you can find your way around so the whole package will be comfortable to you and you and so you'll develop a respect to how the pieces fit together that's really what we're after and so and the Book of Daniel will fit that because it's gonna be so pivotal to understanding the Gospels and all to understand the book of Revelation so it'll be fun time so that's Stan foreclosing where to pray

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Published: Wed May 29 2019