Psalms 91:6-7. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: Does God take notice of our poor love? (2.) His faithfulness (emettruth) is your shield (Hebrew: sinnah) and rampart (Hebrew: soherahbuckler) (v. 4c). Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. The following cookies are also needed - You can choose if you want to allow them: You can read about our cookies and privacy settings in detail on our Privacy Policy Page. We can count on it. But in these words, the psalmist is quoting Yahweh, who would help his people to develop a strong belief in eternal life. to guard you in all your ways. The one who abides in the shelter or under the protection of the Most High God has a shadow over him or her, much like Gods providing the cloud of glory that protected Israel in her wanderings in the wilderness from the scorching sun and like a fortress, He will deliver those who face the snare or trap or the threat of a deadly pestilence or disease. i. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Here are more promises to the same purport with those in the foregoing verses, and they are exceedingly great and precious, and sure to all the seed. In the Psalms you can identify with the psalmist as he expresses his deepest distress, and learn along with him as God teaches him how to view things from His perspective. You can check these in your browser security settings. Every bullet has its commission. Psalms 91:1. What the promises are which God makes to the saints. Yahweh is an accessible God, who answers when called and walks with people in the midst of their troubles. If this is your position, you shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. You are not safe in the outer courts; you are not protected from all danger anywhere but within the vail. Those that preserve their purity in times of general corruption may trust God with their safety in times of general desolation. I will set him on high, because he has known my name. Globally, we are faced with wars and rumors of warplagues and pestilenceenemies equipped with the Bombtyrants and corrupt politiciansa world changing so rapidly that it makes our heads spinand a host of other problems. Let us come boldly there; and, when we once enter, let us dwell there. He who dwells in the secret place (Hebrew: seter) of the Most High will rest (Heb. quotation, for he left out the words in all thy ways. God will help us in our ways if we keep in his ways. A church sanctuary, hospital chapel, or airport prayer room. 3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. See Ps 34 19; 2 Tim 3 11; 4 18. In that culture, as today, a persons name referred to the essential character of the personin this case, Yahweh. 91:10 There shall no [nothing comes our way God has either not decreed or not allowed] evil [that which is the opposite of good; any misfortune] befall thee, neither shall any plague [refers to some physical blow; general term for plague] come nigh thy dwelling. {"lang_button_processing":"Please Wait..","lang_button_notify":"Subscribe","lang_heading_notify":"Notifications","lang_text_notify_info":"Notify me of new comments\u003Cspan class=\"cmtx_info_extra\"\u003E via email\u003C\/span\u003E","lang_title_cancel_notify":"Cancel this notification","lang_link_cancel":"[Cancel]"}, {"commentics_url":"\/\/www.truthaccordingtoscripture.com\/comments\/","page_id":948015,"is_permalink":false,"lang_text_view":"View","lang_text_reply":"reply","lang_text_replies":"replies","lang_text_replying_to":"You are replying to","lang_title_cancel_reply":"Cancel this reply","lang_link_cancel":"[Cancel]","lang_text_privacy":"Privacy","lang_text_terms":"Terms","lang_text_agree":"[1] \/ [2]","lang_text_not_replying":"You are not replying to anyone","lang_button_loading":"Loading..","lang_button_more":"More Comments","lang_button_edit":"Edit Comment","lang_button_reply":"Add Reply","lang_link_reply":"Switch to full reply","lang_link_refresh":"[Refresh]","date_auto":false,"show_pagination":true,"quick_reply":false,"pagination_type":"button","timeago_suffixAgo":"ago","timeago_inPast":"a moment","timeago_seconds":"less than a minute","timeago_minute":"a minute","timeago_minutes":"%d minutes","timeago_hour":"an hour","timeago_hours":"%d hours","timeago_day":"a day","timeago_days":"%d days","timeago_month":"a month","timeago_months":"%d months","timeago_year":"a year","timeago_years":"%d years"}, JavaScript must be enabled for certain features to work, {"commentics_url":"\/\/www.truthaccordingtoscripture.com\/comments\/","page_id":948015,"enabled_country":false,"country_id":0,"enabled_state":false,"state_id":0,"enabled_upload":false,"maximum_upload_amount":3,"maximum_upload_size":5,"maximum_upload_total":5,"captcha":true,"captcha_url":"https:\/\/www.truthaccordingtoscripture.com\/comments\/frontend\/index.php?route=main\/form\/captcha&page_id=948015","cmtx_wait_for_comment":"cmtx_wait_for_comment","lang_error_file_num":"A maximum of %d files are allowed to be uploaded","lang_error_file_size":"Please upload files no bigger than %.1f MB in size","lang_error_file_total":"The total size of all files must be less than %.1f MB","lang_error_file_type":"Only image file types are allowed to be uploaded","lang_text_loading":"Loading ..","lang_placeholder_country":"Country","lang_placeholder_state":"State","lang_text_country_first":"Please select a country first","lang_button_submit":"Add Comment","lang_button_preview":"Preview","lang_button_remove":"Remove","lang_button_processing":"Please Wait.."}, {"commentics_url":"\/\/www.truthaccordingtoscripture.com\/comments\/","auto_detect":false}, Pop-up verses - "Scripture quotations taken from the New American Standard Bible, Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation Used by permission. You remember how the devil misapplied this text to Christ. Eternal Torment or Complete Annihilation? Both are appropriate in this verse. Fifteen Words of Hope 2 Corinthians 5:21 Be Part of the Family Psalms 91:1. How Daniels Prophecy of 70 Weeks Connects to the End Times. 5. (5.) For he will deliver you from the snare (Hebrew: pah) of the fowler (v. 3a). ', All Rights Reserved | 1997-2023 Richard Niell Donovan. 1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High. He will be in peril; Psalms 91:12. It is to know relationally or by experience, and is therefore an intimate kind of knowledge. There has even been protection from the wild predators, snakes, spiders, and a multitude of various other dangerous insects and animals that many have experienced receiving protection from, like Paul when he was bitten by a poisonous snake and should have died (Acts 28:3-5). With the greatest power and efficacy. Yahweh is promising to exalt the person who knows his name. Wherever the saints go the angels are charged with them, as the servants are with the children. The Hebrew word batah (trust) means to feel secure or to have confidence in. The psalmists faith in God gives him confidence and a feeling of security. 2 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. By natural instinct she not only protects them, but calls them under that protection when she sees them in danger, not only keeps them safe, but cherishes them and keeps them warm. Please contact the publisher to obtain copies of this resource. In this premiere volume, John MacArthur brings you a complete Bible commentary in one volume. Oh, labour to get to that blessed position! But he is confident that Yahweh will deliver him from plagues and pestilence, because he dwells in the secret place of the Most High.. GDPR is the new European privacy regulation, which will replace the Data Protection Act 1998 in the UK and the equivalent legislation across the EU Member States. Amen. For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways. 3. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness,nor the destruction that wastes at noonday,and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. When God takes his people to dwell in nearness to himself, and they have faith in this promise, I make no doubt that, literally, in the time of actual pestilence, they will be preserved. Champions of Conditional Immortality in History, Conditional Immortality - Its Relation to Final Retribution, Conditional Immortality - Samuel M. Ohmart, Fallacies In The Annihilationism Debate: A Critique Of Robert Peterson, Important Forgotten History - Roots of Opposition to Conditionalism, Life in Christ - A Summary of Conditional Immortality, Summing Up the Case for Biblical Conditionalism - Froom, The Hypothesis of Conditional Immortality - William R. Huntington - 1878, Why I Believe In Conditional Immortality - by Sidney A. Hatch, Death and the Afterlife by Robert A. Morey - A Review by Edward Fudge, Martin Luther & William Tyndale On the State of the Dead, Near Death Experiences - Samuele Bacchiocchi. He shall cover thee with his feathers, The psalmist uses a wonderful metaphor when he ascribes feathers to God, and compares him to a hen, or some mother-bird, under whose wings her young find shelter. Today they have to watch for IEDs. It is possible to misuse passages such as this that are intended to reassure us of Gods help in dangerbut are not intended to encourage us to test God (Matthew 4:7; Luke 4:12). It is the daytime equivalent of the night-stalking pestilence of verse 6a. What Does It Really Mean That Your Body Is a Temple? Bible Study, On their hands they will bear you up,lest you strike your foot against a stone. 14b (Downers Grove, Illinois: Inter-Varsity Press, 1973), Limburg, James, Westminster Bible Companion: Psalms (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000, Mays, James Luther, Interpretation: Psalms (Louisville: John Knox, 1994), McCann, J. Clinton, Jr., The New Interpreters Bible: The Book of Psalms, Vol. That herein he will answer their prayers: He shall call upon me; I will pour upon him the spirit of prayer, and then I will answer, answer by promises (Ps 85 8), answer by providences, bringing in seasonable relief, and answer by graces, strengthening them with strength in their souls (Ps 138 3); thus he answered Paul with grace sufficient, 2 Cor 12 9. Yahweh (Hebrew: YHWH or yahweh). You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness,nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.. Whatever is done our heavenly Father's will is done; and we have no reason to be afraid of that. It comes creeping in, and fills the air with death before you perceive its approach; but He shall deliver thee from the noisome pestilence. There is a pestilence of dangerous and accursed error abroad at this time; but if we dwell in the secret place of the most High, it cannot affect us; we shall be beyond its power. A soldier would be equipped with one shield or the other, but the psalmist perceives Yahwehs truth as embodying the advantages of both. It denotes the great care God takes of the saints, in that the angels themselves shall be charged with them, and employed for them. I will honour him; those are truly honourable whom God puts honour upon by taking them into covenant and communion with himself and designing them for his kingdom and glory, John 12 26. 2. However, now we begin to hear from Yahweh directly. That is a message that we need to hear in good times so that it will bring us strength during bad times. When the child is in perfect health she can leave it in the hands of the nurse; but when it is sick she will attend it herself; she will say to the nurse, You may attend a while to some other business, I will watch over the child myself. (Dawson, cited in Spurgeon), (c) 2020 The Enduring Word Bible Commentary by David Guzik ewm@enduringword.com. They will bear you up in their hands, so that you wont dash your foot against a stone (vv. 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The psalmist's comfortable application of this to himself (v. 2): I will say of the Lord, whatever others say of him, "He is my refuge; I choose him as such, and confide in him. The Hebrew word qeteb means destruction, but can also mean sting (Hosea 13:14). Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. It is the character of a true believer that he dwells in the secret place of the Most High; he is at home in God, returns to God, and reposes in him as his rest; he acquaints himself with inward religion, and makes heart-work of the service of God, worships within the veil, and loves to be alone with God, to converse with him in solitude. Facing a Tolerant World with Intolerant Truth (Selected Scriptures) Pastor John MacArthur. Scriptures Relating to the Second Coming, Apocalypse of the Gospels - Milton S. Terry, Commentary on Matthew 24 - J. Viewing things from God's vantage point--that is true comfort. He will live as long as he wants to live. However, when I was a child in the 1940s and 50s, before the polio vaccine became available, I had friends who had suffered from polio. 2 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection? We have heard of people who have attributed their recovery from serious illness to the prayers said in their behalf. With long life I will satisfy himand show him my salvation.. We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. For example, in Psalm 1, we are not to spend all our time just meditating on the Word, but become busily involved as Jesus was in the lives of others, p. 3. 2023 Grace to You. It is also under divine direction, and will hit where God appoints and not otherwise. These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. A man may die young, and yet die full of days, satur dierumsatisfied with living. In Hebrew thought sel is most often welcoming shade from noonday sun or protection afforded by the shadow of Yahwehs wings (Psalm 17:8). Historically, more soldiers have died from disease than from swords, spears, and bullets. In our experience, most hunting is done with guns instead of traps. As is customary with poetry, the psalmist doesnt amplify on the meaning of seter, but instead leaves it up to us to tease out the possibilities. The ASV, which is also in the public domain due to expired copyrights, was a very good translation, but included many archaic words (hast, shineth, etc. b. - Samuele Bacchiocchi, Ph. What are things that we can learn from it for today? "Here, after the carefree delight of Psalm 98, we recollect how exalted and holy he is, and how profound is the reverence we owe him." (Derek Kidner) A. These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website and application for you in order to enhance your experience. They shall be the special favourites of God himself, ver 14-16. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. The word sagab (set him on high) means to raise, exalt, or defend. i. I will be with him: So, no man need add solitude to sadness, but may have God sitting with him, like Jobs friends, waiting to comfort him with true comfort. (Maclaren), ii. There is also a pestilence that walketh in darkness, as that was which slew the first-born of the Egyptians, and the army of the Assyrians. Nederlandstalige Bijbelstudies door Stan Marinussen, Copyright - Enduring Word | . Oh, yes, he values the love of his people, for he knows where it came from; it is a part of his own love; the creation of his grace! The MacArthur Bible Studies provide intriguing examinations of the whole of Scripture. It would have served them well during the Babylonian Exile, when only the eyes of faith could see the possibility that they would ever again see Jerusalem. 16 With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation. Under his wings you will take refuge. But, (2.) MacArthur is a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and conference speaker and has served as pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California since 1969 . 2. The psalmist wrote it to assure Israel that Yahweh would keep them safe through all trials IF they put their trust in him and tried to live faithfully in accord with Yahwehs will. Am I really moving today and acting today as divine providence leads me, and as duty calls me? He who travels on the kings business, by daylight, along the kings highway, may be sure of the kings protection. Does The Bible Provide an Adequate Answer to Suffering? If you like what you're reading, you can get free daily updates through the RSS feed here.