Tag: eschatology
Biblical Principle #400: David Wrote Psalm 18 as a Thanksgiving for Deliverance
Biblical Principles List Principle After God gave David deliverance from his enemies, David wrote Psalm 18 in thanksgiving. Explanation We have chronicled David’s numerous life-threatening struggles, from Saul, to Goliath and the Philistines, to problems with factions of Israelites, and so forth. Eventually, GOD gave David rest from his enemies. 1 Hiram, king of Tyre,…
Biblical Principle #390: David Wrote Psalm 57 When He Fled to the Cave
Biblical Principles List Principle David wrote Psalm 57 when he fled from Saul into the cave in the Desert of En Gedi. Explanation As we have seen thus far with Psalm 59, Psalm 56, Psalm 34, Psalm 52, Psalm 63, and Psalm 54, Psalm 57 was inspired by the events that occurred when David hid…
Biblical Principle #378: David Wrote Psalm 59 When Saul Tried to Kill Him
Biblical Principles List Principle David wrote Psalm 59 when he was escaping King Saul who sought to kill him. Explanation We previously established how the Psalms are a collection of individual writings, by multiple writers, over the span of hundreds of years. One of the earliest psalms is Psalm 59 (Psalm 58 in the Septuagint).…
Biblical Principle #376: Three Key Differences in the Psalms
Biblical Principles List Principle There are (at least) three key differences in the Psalms between Old Testament text families. Explanation We have established that there are multiple textual families of the Old Testament Scriptures. Most English Bibles are translated from a Hebrew text family known as the Masoretic Text (MT). The oldest and most accurate…
Biblical Principle #367: Israel Asked for a Man as King
Biblical Principles List Principle Israel asked for a man to rule over them as king so that they could be like the Gentile nations. Explanation Samuel served GOD as a good judge over Israel “all the days of his life” (see 1 Kingdoms [1 Samuel] 7:15 OSB). Sadly, Samuel’s sons failed to walk in GOD’s…
Biblical Principle #353: Deborah the Female Judge
Biblical Principles List Biblical Principles God chose Deborah as one of the judges, and the only female in Judges, to deliver Israel. Explanation It is often stated that, in this time period, Israelite women, as well as those of most Gentile cultures, were basically seen as property and of lesser social status than men. If…
Biblical Principle #351: God’s Discipline Increased with Israel’s Rebellion
Biblical Principles List Principle As Israel’s idolatrous rebellion increased, so also did God’s discipline of Israel. Explanation Once the Israelites had conquered Canaan, and Joshua’s generation had died, the people quickly broke their covenant with GOD and began to serve the Canaanite gods, beginning with Baal and the Ashtoreths. 10 And when all that generation…
Biblical Principle #338: The Song of Moses and Purifying the Land of Israel
Biblical Principles List Principle In the Song of Moses, God revealed that He would cleanse the land of Israel. Explanation This is an important Principle linked to many other Scriptures and Principles. The final statement of the Song of Moses is that GOD was going to purify His people’s land: 43 “Rejoice, O Heavens, together…
Biblical Principle #337: The Song of Moses and Heaven’s Division of Angels
Biblical Principles List Principle The Song of Moses exposed the division between righteous and demonic angels and prophesied of God’s victory over the demons. Explanation We have previously established that: One important but perhaps less obvious theme in the Song of Moses is the contrast made between the righteous angels of GOD and the evil…
Biblical Principle #336: A Twisted and Perverse Generation
Biblical Principles List Principle The events described within the Song of Moses were prophesied to come upon Israel during a generation described as twisted and perverse. Explanation The Song of Moses described a coming judgment upon Israel. These events would happen during a generation which the Song repeatedly described as perverse: 5 “They sinned; the…