Psalm 91 Isn't True

 And neither is most of the rest of the Bible if you look at it from a perspective limited to this evil age.

There is a very real spiritual world, there is a coming age after this evil age where the god of this world and his minions are thrown down, and Yeshua reigns from Mt. Zion in Jerusalem, but that time is not now, is it?

Maranatha is the heart cry of a follower of the Jewish Messiah because this evil age wears us down and crushes us as much as it possibly can.

There is a portion of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens where Tiny Tim's brother is reading Psalm 91 and it speaks of 

91:5  "You will not fear the terror of night,

    nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
    nor the plague that destroys at midday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
    ten thousand at your right hand,
    but it will not come near you."

and over in the corner sits Tiny Tim's chair, empty, meaning that this is a scene in the possible future after Tiny Tim has died and here they are reading a scripture that seems to promise the righteous will never have to endure such things as a young child dying of disease.

“The divine Scriptures do not make their teaching clear by syllables, but by the meaning conveyed in the whole.” 

Basil

It is no accident that satan is seen quoting scripture accurately one time in the Bible when he is tempting Yeshua, he uses a portion of Psalm 91.  

91:11"For He will give His angels charge over you,
to guard you in all your ways.
12 12Upon their hands they will lift you up,
lest you strike your foot against a stone."

Anyone who preaches the pre-trib lie could use this scripture too, if it was all by itself and not part of a book.

Yeshua responds to satan, Matthew 4:7 "Yeshua said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put Adonai your God to the test."

Satan was tempting Yeshua to throw Himself down from the temple and in the sight of all the people, His not being injured would prove, He was the son of God. Because satan was trying to get Him to bite on the "IF" part of "If You are the son of God..."

But we have a deeper problem with Psalm 91, not everyone is rescued and protected and satisfied with long life in this world.  Psalm 91 isn't true if you limit it to this world, this evil age.

The presence of God is promised to us, the Life of God which is eternal is promised to us, He takes upon Himself the name Redeemer, which means our situations will always eventually be rescued and protected.  NONE of these "promises" apply to this evil age, Tiny Tim may die, kids die of cancer every day, it sucks, this evil age sucks, we cannot, we must not get too comfortable here.  We cannot we must not expect to have every prayer answered here.

Our hearts cry Maranatha because this evil age is not our home!

Psalm 91 is 100% true when the Most High God is factored into the equation!

Isaiah 26:14 the Death of Eternal Conscious Torment

 "They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish."

In order for me to consider switching from annihilationism to the Augustinian lie of "eternal conscious torment" you would have to show me a verse anywhere in scripture that clearly and plainly backs up that view as clearly and plainly as this verse backs up annihilationism.

This Evil Age, and the Age to Come

 Do not rely on deceitful wealth,  for it will be no help on the day of wrath. Ben Sira 5:8

Lose your money for relative or friend;
    do not hide it under a stone to rot.
11 Dispose of your treasure according to the commandments of the Most High,
    and that will profit you more than the gold.  Ben Sira 29:10,11

44:9  For everything will pass away which is corruptible, and everything that dies will go away, and all present time will be forgotten, and there will be no remembrance of the present time which is polluted by evils.

44:10  For he who runs now runs in vain and he who is happy will fall quickly and be humiliated.

44:11  For that which will be in the future, that is what one will look for, and that which comes later, that is what we shall hope for. For there is a time that does not pass away.

44:12  And that period is coming which will remain forever; and there is the new world which does not carry back to corruption those who enter into its beginning, and which has no mercy on those who come into torment or those who are living in it, and it does not carry to perdition.

44:13  For those are the ones who will inherit this time of which it is spoken, and to these is the heritage of the promised time.

44:14  These are they who prepared for themselves treasures of wisdom. And stores of insight are found with them. And they have not withdrawn from mercy and they have preserved the Truth of the Torah.

44:15  For the coming world will be given to these, but the habitation of the many others will be in the fire.     2nd Baruch 44:9-15

Mammon is the a master we cannot serve.  Consumerism, coveting is the god over this nation (USA) and many have fallen and will fall pursuing this at the cost of their soul.

Isaiah 26

 This chapter is so perfect and God is so good, I am simply going to recommend that you read it.

Ask God to speak to you through it. There will be a verse or a section that speaks to your heart.

I know it is not easy to leave comments but maybe message me if you are touched by this chapter.

God Wants

 “ God wants exuberant, chaste, virtuous souls who testify of His reality, and live with remarkable freedom in the power of the new life, because they have acknowledged that in the old life there is no man good, no not one. ”   Art Katz  “David’s Cry For Mercy” 

Years ago a friend coined the term “wage mercy”.  As I read Art’s words about the beautiful Psalm 51, it seems to me we have only one job, to give away the mercy that has been given to us.

This will involve real spiritual warfare in the coming days when showing mercy to a Jew could cost you your life.

Let’s practice, look for opportunities to wage mercy.