Psalms 79
Book of Psalms
Psalms 79:1 A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come
into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid
Jerusalem on heaps.
2 The dead bodies of thy
servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of
thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
3 Their blood have they
shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
4 We are become a
reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about
us.
5 How long, LORD? wilt
thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
6 Pour out thy
wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have
not called upon thy name.
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Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out thy fury upon the
heathen that know thee not, and upon the
families that call not on thy name: for they
have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and
consumed him, and have made his habitation
desolate.
7 For they have devoured
Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
8 O remember not against
us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are
brought very low.
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Prevent us
= come to meet us
9 Help us, O God of our
salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins,
for thy name's sake.
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Purge away
= cover, or atone for
10 Wherefore should the
heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight
by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
11 Let the sighing of
the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve
thou those that are appointed to die;
12 And render unto our
neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have
reproached thee, O Lord.
13 So we thy people and
sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy
praise to all generations.
• 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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