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"Thou
hast exalted thy Word far above all thy Name."Psalm
138.2Thy Word
is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path."Psalm
119.105
PSALM 22 1.My God, my God, why
hast Thou forsaken me? why art Thou so far from helping me, and from the
words of my roaring? 2. O my God, I cry in the daytime,but Thou hearest not; and in
the night season, and am not silent. 3.But Thou Holy One who inhabitest the praises of
Israel. 4. Our fathers trusted in thee; they trusted and thou didst deliver them. 5.
They cried unto thee, and were delivered; they trusted in Thee and were not confounded.
6. But I am a worm, and no man, a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7. All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the
head, saying, 8. He trusted on the LORD that He would deliver Him, seeing He delighted in
Him. 9. But thou art He that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I
was upon my mother's breasts. 10. I was cast upon Thee from the womb; thou art my
God from my mother's belly. 11. Be not far from me;for trouble is near; for there is
none to help. 12. Many bulls have compassed me; strongbulls of Bashan have beset me
round. 13. They gape upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
14. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it
is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15. My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and
my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and Thou hast broughtme into the dust of death.
16. For dogs have compassed me; the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me; they
pierced my hands and my feet. 17.I may tell all my bones; theylook and stare upon me.
18. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon myvesture (coat). 19. But be not
far from me, O LORD, O y strength, haste Thee to help me.20. Deliver my soul from the
sword; my darling from the power of the dog. 21. Save mefrom the lion's mouth; for thou
hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. 22. I willdeclare Thy Name unto my
brethren; in the midst of the congregation will I praise Thee. 23. Ye that fear the LORD,
praise Him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify Him, and fear Him, all ye the seed of Israel.
24. For He hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of theafflicted; neither hath he hid
his face from him; but when he cried unto Him, he heard.25. My praise shall be of Thee
in the great congregation; I will pay my vows before themthat fear Him. 26. The meek
shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seekHim; your heart shall live for
ever. 27. All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto the LORD, and all the
kindreds of the nations shall worship before Thee. 28. For the Kingdom is the LORD'S and
he is the governor among the nations. 29. All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and
worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him; none can keep alive his own
soul. 30. A seed shall serve Him: it shall be accounted to the LORD for a generation.
31. They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that
he hath done this.
MY
REFLECTIONS ON THIS PSALM. Question 1: Who is
speaking? Primarily this is King David who is praying in great need.
When we read God's Word, we must remember it had a TWO FOLD PURPOSE (1) in FORTH TELLING what is
known already from God and (2) FORE-TELLING what is yet to occur.
We call this PREACHING OR SHARING THE WORD, and
PROPHESYING HIS WORDS WHICH YET HAVE TO HAPPEN.
My Answer is that first of all David is torn with deep
despair WHERE ARE YOU GOD ? His despair rises from
the knowledge that like everyone else, He is a sinner that sins, and it seems at times, like God has
forsaken him. The second part of my answer is that through the
Holy Spirit, God gave David words that DO NOT APPLY to him, but to the COMING
ONE WHO WILL BE CRUCIFIED that all might
believe. It was written in Galatians 3.10 regarding what the
Torah says about it - "Cursed is every one that hangeth by a
tree." Galatians states "Christ (Messiah) hath redeemed us from the curse
of the law, being made a curse, for, it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a
tree." that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through
Jesus Christ., that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through
faith." Galatians 3.13,14 This was what
Moses declared in the Law, Deuteronomy 21.22,23 in which no one that hanged
was accursed. If a person was hanged, they did not bury him, but let
the birds eat on the body till there was nothing left. To bury that
person was to "defile the land" inheritance that God promised His
People.
Question 2 When reading the description of the physical
conditions described in this psalm, you can take only one of
two views. One, that it was far fetched and not at all true, but that
is the way David felt about what he was going through, or Two, that it is a
Prophetic View that King David had of the SEED
OF ABRAHAM that would come THROUGH KING DAVID'S LINE to be the one to deal with sin
and bind Satan's curse. The Promise in Genesis 3.15 is that the seed of the woman would
bruise Satan's head, although Satan would bruise "his heel". Question 3
Why is it that the ONE WHO IS SUFFERING SEPARATION FROM GOD can DECLARE HIS NAME "TO HIS
BRETHREN?" if not that Jesus, Y'shua, actually was separated from the
GOD INVISIBLE by the GOD-MAN who was very visible, and truly died a most
vicious death. Hegoes on to say "In the
midst of the congregation will I praise Thee." Only if Jesus said
He was who He was, and if He died, the
Righteous One for those who had been separated from God,only if He took on our physical
nature and became Man...would this Psalm be explained.
My plea is that if you have never seen Jesus as the Mediator between
God and Man now would be the time to give
that thought a second look.
John 3.13 - 16 Jesus said Himself these words to Nicodemus, a
member of the Sanhedrin,"And no man hath ascended
up to heaven but he that came down from heaven, the Son of man which is in
heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must
the Son of man be lifted up. That whosoever believeth on him should not
perish, but have everlasting life. For God so loved the world that He gave
His only Begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but
have everlasting life. for God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the
world, but that the world through Him might be saved." John 3.18
goes on that Jesus said "He that believeth on Him is not condemned; but
he that believeth not is condemned already, becausehe hath not believed in the
name of the only Begotten Son of God." In my next
entry I post, I will discuss the reason why Psalm 22, 23 and 24 link togetherin my mind on the matter of
Jesus the Son of Man, who in the book of John declared "He that sees me
seeth the Father." John 14 .7 then, right before that he said
" I am the Way, the Truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father but
by me." To
walk with Jesus we must first believe Who He Was, Is, and Always will be -
The Living One who is The Way, the Truth and the Life.
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