Psalms 74
Book of Psalms
Psalms 74:1 Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us
off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
2 Remember thy
congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance,
which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
3 Lift up thy feet unto
the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the
sanctuary.
4 Thine enemies roar in
the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
5 A man was famous
according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
6 But now they break
down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
7 They have cast fire
into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy
name to the ground.
8 They said in their
hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of
God in the land.
9 We see not our signs:
there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how
long.
10 O God, how long shall
the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
11 Why withdrawest thou
thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
12 For God is my King of
old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 Thou didst divide the
sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
14 Thou brakest the
heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be
meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
15 Thou didst cleave the
fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
16 The day is
thine, the night also is thine:
thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
17 Thou hast set all the
borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
18 Remember this,
that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have
blasphemed thy name.
19 O deliver not the
soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the
congregation of thy poor for ever.
20 Have respect unto the
covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of
cruelty.
21 O let not the
oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
22 Arise, O God, plead
thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
23 Forget not the voice
of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth
continually.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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