*Psalms 90:9 / *Ps. 90:9 -
The original Hebrew word (hegeh: H1899) translated as "tale" can mean "sigh", or "mourning" (Ezekiel 2:10b). So the Hebrew phrase translated as: "we spend our years as a tale" (Psalms 90:9b) can mean: "our whole life is like a sigh of mourning". But this is the case only if we are non-Christians and so are under God's wrath (Psalms 90:9a; 1 Thessalonians 5:9, John 3:36). For once we become Christians, we can spend the rest of our lives "applying our hearts unto wisdom" (Psalms 90:12), so "that we may rejoice and be glad all our days" (Psalms 90:14).
Also, note that the phrase "that is told" at the end of Psalms 90:9 is in italics, meaning that it is not in the original Hebrew.
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*Psalms 91 / *Ps. 91 -
(Re: Protection)
See Luke 10:19 below.
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*Psalms 91:3 / *Ps. 91:3 -
The original Hebrew word (havvah: H1942) translated as "noisome" can mean "calamity" (Psalms 57:1c).
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*Psalms 91:4 / *Ps. 91:4 -
The original Hebrew word (cocherah: H5507) translated as "buckler", like the English word, can mean "shield". In the context, this could mean a small shield, while the just-preceding Hebrew word (tsinnah: H6793) translated as "shield" can refer to a large shield.
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*Psalms 92:7 / *Ps. 92:7 -
(Re: Destroyed / H8045 = annihilated?)
No, see Psalms 145:20 below.
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*Psalms 94:14 / *Ps. 94:14 -
(Re: Means once-saved-always-saved?)
No, see Galatians 4:6 and 2 Timothy 4:18 below.
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*Psalms 98:6 / *Ps. 98:6 -
(Cornet / H7782)
See 2 Chronicles 15:14 above.
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*Psalms 98:8 / *Ps. 98:8 -
The original Hebrew word (nahar: H5104) translated as "floods" can mean "rivers" (Psalms 89:25).
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*Psalms 100:3 / *Ps. 100:3 -
(Re: Why has not God revealed to us His name?)
He has: "Know ye that YHWH he is God" (Psalms 100:3). See the original Hebrew of this verse, where the word often translated generically as "LORD" is actually the specific Hebrew name "YHWH" (H3068).
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*Psalms 102:16 / *Ps. 102:16 -
This refers to Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming in glory (Matthew 24:30, Zechariah 14:4; cf. Acts 1:11-12), when he will build up Jerusalem and make it the capital of the world (Zechariah 14:8-11).
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*Psalms 103:5b / *Ps. 103:5b -
(Re: Eagle same as in Luke 17:37?)
No, see Luke 17:37 below.
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*Psalms 103:12 / *Ps. 103:12 -
See Hebrews 10:17 below.
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*Psalms 103:15-16 / *Ps. 103:15 -
Compare what James 1:10-11 says. It points out that even rich people, who can sometimes think that they are above everyone else, will still die like everyone else (Psalms 22:29). Then what good will their riches do them (Mark 8:36)? Compare also Psalms 55:19b above.
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*Psalms 104:35a / *Ps. 104:35a -
This is only what the human writer of Psalms 104 hopes will happen (Psalms 104:34-35), not something which God will actually cause to happen. Instead, God will cause the unsaved to continue to exist forever on the New Earth (as in a new surface for the earth), in the suffering of the lake of fire (Isaiah 66:22-24, Matthew 25:41,46, Revelation 20:10,15, Revelation 14:10-11).
(See also Revelation 20:14 below)
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*Psalms 105:8 / *Ps. 105:8 -
This refers to the Abrahamic covenant (Psalms 105:9-11), which is fulfilled in the New Covenant (Galatians 3:8-25, Galatians 4:21-31).
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*Psalms 106:8 / *Ps. 106:8 -
This is not contradicting that salvation can ultimately be lost (Psalms 106:13-26, Jude 1:5).
(See the "NOSAS" section of Hebrews 3:6 below)
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*Psalms 107:1-32 / *Ps. 107:1 -
Psalms 107:3 could refer to the start of the future Millennium of Revelation 20:4-6.
Psalms 107:16 could refer, as one example, to the same thing as Matthew 16:18b, which...
(See "meant" under Matthew 16:18 below)
Psalms 107:17-21 applies to any time that YHWH heals someone from a deadly disease.
Psalms 107:29 was fulfilled by Mark 4:39, for example.
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*Psalms 108:1 / *Ps. 108:1 -
The original Hebrew word (kuwn: H3559) translated as "fixed" can mean "determined", or "firm" (Joshua 3:17).
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*Psalms 108:2 / *Ps. 108:2 -
The original Hebrew word (nebel: H5035) translated as "psaltery" can refer to a lyre, or a small harp with twelve strings.
The Hebrew word (kinnowr: H3658) translated as "harp" can refer to just that.
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*Psalms 108:7 / *Ps. 108:7 -
"Succoth" (H5523) could refer to a place east of the Jordan river (Joshua 13:27, Judges 8:4-16).
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*Psalms 109:5 / *Ps. 109:5 -
(Re: Will not *love overcome all *hatred?)
A lot of times it will (cf. Proverbs 15:1a). But sometimes it will not (Psalms 109:3-5). The best example is Jesus Christ, who was still hated by some people (John 15:18-25) even though He is the epitome of love (John 15:13; 1 John 4:8). Indeed, Jesus was even crucified to death despite His perfect love (Mark 10:34), because of some other people's envy of Him (Mark 15:10, Matthew 27:18).
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(Re: With God on a Christian's side, who or what can be against him?)
Many people and things can be against a Christian, even an obedient one. But they cannot take any spiritual victory over an obedient Christian, no matter what they can do to him or her physically (Romans 8:35-39, Philippians 1:21-23; 2 Corinthians 5:8; 1 Corinthians 15:51-57, Isaiah 25:8).
(See Luke 10:19 below)
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*Psalms 109:6-19 / *Ps. 109:6 / *Ps. 109:8b -
In Acts 1:20c the apostle Peter applied the principle of Psalms 109:8b to the need for someone to take Judas' place as an apostle (Acts 1:21-26). But this does not require that all of the rest of Psalms 109:6-19 had application to Judas. For example, he may have never had children (like in Psalms 109:9). Also, Acts 1:20c does not require that Psalms 109:6-19 had application only to Judas. For its various curses, whether singly or in any combination, could have been meant to be applied generally to various people who will ultimately be condemned by God (Psalms 109:7). For Psalms 109:20 and the preceding context (Psalms 109:2-5) show that the curses of Psalms 109:6-19 were meant to be applied to more than one person. Because the future Antichrist (the individual-man aspect of Revelation's "beast") will ultimately be condemned by God (Revelation 19:20), some or all of the curses in Psalms 109:6-19 could apply to him, just as they could apply to other condemned persons like Judas (Matthew 26:24).
(See also the "Son of perdition" section of 2 Thessalonians 2:3 below)
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*Psalms 109:11 / *Ps. 109:11 -
The original Hebrew word (nashah: H5383) translated as "extortioner" can refer to a lender/usurer (Exodus 22:25, Isaiah 50:1).
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*Psalms 110:1 / *Ps. 110:1 -
This can mean that Jesus Christ will continue to sit at God the Father's right hand in heaven until Jesus returns to the earth at His future, Second Coming, and God the Father then makes Jesus' enemies His footstool (Revelation 19:15 to 20:6, Psalms 110:2-6).
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*Psalms 110:4 / *Ps. 110:4 -
(Melchizedek)
See Hebrews 6:20 below.
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*Psalms 110:5-6 / *Ps. 110:5 / *Ps. 110:6 -
This will be fulfilled at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming (Revelation 19:11-21).
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*Psalms 115:17 / *Ps. 115:17 -
See the "Soul sleep?" section of 1 Corinthians 15:51 below.
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*Psalms 116:12-13 / *Ps. 116:12 -
Even though nothing that Christians give God can match what He gives them (Psalms 116:12), they must still render to Him everything that they have (Luke 14:33), even their entire lives in continual service and self-denial (Romans 12:1; 2 Corinthians 5:15, Luke 9:23).
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*Psalms 119:83 / *Ps. 119:83 -
The original Hebrew words (no'd: H4997; and qiytowr: H7008) translated as "bottle" and "smoke" can mean just that (Psalms 56:8, Genesis 19:28b). But at the time that Psalms 119:83 was written (about 1000 BC), a bottle could be a bag made of animal skin (that is, a wineskin), which could have been smoked to cure it. So the psalmist could mean that he feels as weak and listless as a skin hung up to be smoked.
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*Psalms 119:89-92 / *Ps. 119:89 -
This, like Isaiah 40:8, brings to mind how God still keeps an Ark of the Old Covenant Mosaic law in His temple building in heaven (Revelation 11:19), because the Old Covenant Mosaic law remains holy before God (Romans 7:12), even though its letter is no longer meant to be practiced by people (Romans 7:6).
And Psalms 119:89 and Isaiah 40:8 now apply to the New Covenant (1 Peter 1:24-25, Hebrews 8:13), which is the covenant "which remaineth" (2 Corinthians 3:11), as opposed to the Old Covenant Mosaic law, which is "that which is abolished" (2 Corinthians 3:13) with regard to men having to still perform its letter (2 Corinthians 3:6-18, Galatians 4:21-31).
(See also the "Law" section of Ephesians 2:15 below)
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*Psalms 119:96 / *Ps. 119:96 -
The original Hebrew word (qets: H7093) translated as "an end" does not mean a cessation, in the context, but a limit, in the sense that the psalmist has seen all kinds of things completed perfectly, so that he could fully comprehend them in their entirety. But God's commandment is different in that it is both perfect and "exceeding broad", in the sense that it has no limit with regard to its comprehensiveness.
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*Psalms 119:165 / *Ps. 119:165 -
The original Hebrew word (mikshowl: H4383) translated as "offend" can mean "stumble", or cause to "fall" (Ezekiel 44:12).
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*Psalms 120:5 / *Ps. 120:5 -
In this context, Meshech could refer to an ancient people which came to be called the Muscovs, and eventually became the Russians with their capital in Moscow (See Easton's).
Kedar was a son of Ishmael (Genesis 25:13), whom the Arabs claim as their forefather.
So Psalms 120:5-7 could include reference to how the Russians and the Arabs (in a general sense) hate peace, but love war. (This does not mean that they all do, for many Russians and Arabs are peace-loving Christians.)
For example, it was some Russians and (Syrian) Arabs who intentionally bombed the civilians of eastern Aleppo in Syria for an extended period, and then intentionally bombed the civilians in Eastern Ghouta in Syria; just as it is (Saudi) Arabs who continue to intentionally bomb Houthi civilians in Yemen.
With regard to Syria, it may be a top, non-Christian, Arab leader in the Syrian military who ordered the past, extended bombings of civilians in eastern Aleppo and Eastern Ghouta, with any hesitancy on the part of (Arab) Assad being squelched by his fear of being secretly murdered by this military leader for "being soft" on "terrorists". Also, this military leader could be taking cues from the Russian generals who are now running the war in Syria. For the Russians intentionally bombed civilians in Chechnya until it became compliant. And Russia and Syria could at some point in the future intentionally bomb civilians in Idlib, Syria.
Also, while it was the great military prowess (that is, the love of war) of many Russians which enabled Russia to completely defeat even Hitler's unprecedented war machine during World War II, this generalized, Russian love of war, if it is not checked by the U.S. in our future (as it was checked in our past during the Cold War), could bring calamity not only to the Arabs, but also to the Europeans (in the Baltics and other parts of Eastern Europe).
It was the U.S.'s supine posture during the past administration which reawakened the Russians' (generalized) love of conquest. Russia is the world's largest nation by land area, and it hopes to make itself even larger and larger still. Note Russia's relatively-recent annexation of Crimea. And this could be just a beginning. For Russia has its huge nuclear arsenal (the largest in the world) as the ultimate hedge against the U.S. pushing back against Russia too strongly in any arena. Also, ethnic Russians form a significant part of the population of the Baltic States, which could be ripe for a Russian invasion and annexation to "permanently protect" these ethnic Russians from "oppression" by the ethnic Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians, who, for example, want to forbid even the speaking of the Russian language within their territories. Russia could also eventually invade and annex the northeastern part of Poland, the northeastern part of North Korea, and annex far-eastern Ukraine, such as during future cataclysmic events which could disrupt any ability by NATO or the U.S. to effectively counter Russia's ground invasions into these areas.
Also, Russia has a huge strategic advantage with regard to invading the Baltic States. For it can easily "close the gap" between Belarus (its ally) and Kaliningrad (its highly-armed exclave), blocking NATO ground troops from moving northeast from Poland to defend the Baltic States. And the nominal number of NATO troops now stationed in the Baltic States can be untargeted and treated well by the Russians during an invasion so as to avoid any excessive riling up of Western antipathy toward Russia. The Western masses care little for the Baltics, and would care even less for them if Russia says that if Western troops mass in northeastern Poland to try to take back the Baltics, they will be nuked by Russian tactical nukes launched from Kaliningrad (in "self-defense"). For the Western masses could say that the tiny Baltics are just not worth a nuclear war with Russia, which would be able to obliterate the U.S. and Europe with its vast nuclear arsenal.
So if Russia does invade and annex the Baltics, all that the West could end up doing is imposing harsh sanctions on Russia. But Western Europe is still dependent on Russian energy supplies, just as the U.S. is still dependent on Russian rocket engines for important military/intelligence space launches. So the West will still have to deal economically with Russia, which could also greatly increase its trade with huge China to make up for any loss of trade with the West.
So what the West has to do is skip the insufficient idea of putting only a nominal number of troops in the Baltics and Poland as a "tripwire", and instead put huge numbers of troops in the Polish "gap" between Belarus and Kaliningrad, and in the Baltics themselves, so that these troops can actually defend against any possible Russian invasion.
The problem is that the Russian military is just too big. NATO does not have the resources to permanently station enough troops in northeastern Poland and in the Baltics to be able to hold off any possible Russian invasion.
This is where NATO's long failure to enforce its two-percent-of-GDP, defense-expenditure rule will come home to roost. NATO failed to prepare, while Russia has for years been assiduously spending billions to prepare for future wars. And Russia relatively-recently showed off its might in "Zapad" ("West"), a military exercise which could have been a rehearsal for a future invasion and annexation of the Baltics, just as a previous Russian military "exercise" ended up permanently occupying parts of the country of Georgia in the Caucasus. And Russia's recent, huge military exercise "Vostok", in eastern Siberia, could have been a rehearsal for a future, Russian invasion and annexation of northeastern North Korea.
(See also section 10 of Joel 2:30 below)
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(Re: Regarding your reference in the section above to "future cataclysmic events", what are you referring to specifically?)
During the future Tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24, there will be historically unprecedented natural and man-made disasters. And the latter could include chaos brought on the world by North Korea and Iran employing ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons. Also, Russia is the power which is secretly helping both of them toward this goal, as Russia hopes to benefit territorially during any chaos which they will unleash in the future.
Regarding some of the specific events of the future Tribulation, see the "Details" section of Revelation chapters 6 to 22 below.
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*Psalms 121:3,7-8 / *Ps. 121:3 -
This does not mean once-saved-always-saved. For Christians can wrongly employ their free will to return to unrepentant sin, to the ultimate loss of their salvation (2 Peter 2:20, Hebrews 10:26-29).
(See Hebrews 10:26 below)
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*Psalms 138:8b / *Ps. 138:8b -
This does not mean once-saved-always-saved. For God will ultimately forsake Christians if they wrongly employ their free will to commit apostasy (2 Timothy 2:12, Hebrews 6:4-8).
(See Hebrews 6:4 below)
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*Psalms 139:7-8 / *Ps. 139:7 -
(Re: Would not Christians losing their salvation require that the Holy Spirit be cast away to suffer in hell?)
No, the Holy Spirit will never be cast away, for He is God. God the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:3-4) is one God with God the Father and God the Son, Jesus Christ (Hebrews 1:8, John 20:31). For the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Father (Matthew 10:19-20 and Mark 13:11) and the Spirit of the Son (John 14:16-18, Romans 8:9). Also, the Holy Spirit is already in hell, just as He is in heaven and everywhere else at the same time. For He is omnipresent (Psalms 139:7-8). And He can be in hell without suffering from it, just as God could cause even some righteous men who were cast into a fiery furnace on the earth not to suffer from it (Daniel 3:23-27).
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*Psalms 139:13 / *Ps. 139:13 -
The original Hebrew word (kilyah: H3629) translated as "reins", like the English word, can mean "kidneys" (Exodus 29:13), but can also refer figuratively to the mind (Psalms 16:7, Psalms 26:2).
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*Psalms 139:15b / *Ps. 139:15b -
See "Regarding Psalms 139:15b" under John 3:13 below.
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*Psalms 139:16 / *Ps. 139:16 -
(In thy book all my members were written)
This brings to mind how a human embryo, before it becomes a fetus, already contains all of the genetic code necessary for it to form all of the parts of the fetus. For a genetic code is like a "book" in that just as a book consists of a series of letters, so a genetic code can be represented by a series of letters (e.g. ATGCATACGTC...) representing a series of DNA bases (Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine) which make up a genetic code.
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*Psalms 141:9 / *Ps. 141:9 -
The original Hebrew word (mowqesh: H4170) translated as "gins", like the English word, can refer to noose-traps set for animals.
One way that Christians can keep from being taken by the "gins" of the workers of iniquity is to be aware of them ahead of time (2 Corinthians 2:11).
For example, see Revelation 13:4 and Luke 24:39 below.
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*Psalms 144:14 / *Ps. 144:14 -
The original Hebrew word (perets: H6556) translated as "breaking in" could refer to burglary (which we still call "breaking and entering"), and/or to an invasion of Israel by foreigners.
The Hebrew word (yatsa': H3318) translated as "going out" can mean "carrying out" (Ezekiel 12:5), as in burglars carrying out loot, and/or foreign invaders carrying out both loot and captive Israelites from their land (2 Kings 24:13-14). It could also include the meaning of "going abroad" (Genesis 19:17), in the sense of "complaining" Israelites (Psalms 144:14c) choosing to emigrate from Israel due to what they consider to be poor conditions (and/or poor morality) in Israel.
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*Psalms 145:9 / *Ps. 145:9 -
The original Hebrew word (kol: H3605) translated as "all" can mean "all manner of" (Leviticus 19:23; 1 Chronicles 22:15, Nehemiah 13:16). It does not have to mean absolutely all. We cannot interpret the Hebrew of Psalms 145:9 in a way which contradicts other verses of the Bible, such as Malachi 1:3, Romans 9:11-23, and Matthew 25:41,46, which show that God does not love everyone, and that He will not show mercy to everyone.
(See the "Vessels of wrath" section of Romans 9:11 below)
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*Psalms 145:20 / *Ps. 145:20 -
The original Hebrew word (shamad: H8045) translated as "destroy" does not have to mean annihilate. Compare its translation as "perished" in Psalms 83:9-10, which refers to perished bodies which continued to exist. That is, a dead human body continues to exist even if it is left on the ground to rot. And even after its flesh has rotted, its bones continue to exist.
(See also Revelation 20:14 below)
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*Psalms 147:4 / *Ps. 147:4 -
The original Hebrew word (manah: H4487) translated as "telleth" can mean "counts" (Numbers 23:10).
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*Psalms 150:4 / *Ps. 150:4 -
The original Hebrew word (`uwgab: H5748) translated as "organs" refers to reed instruments, which employ the same "wind" principle of sound-generation as the musical instruments which we today still call "organs", as in pipe organs, such as in some large churches.
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*Proverbs 1:22 / *Prov. 1:22 -
The original Hebrew word (pethiy: H6612) translated as both "simple" and "simplicity" can mean "foolish" (Proverbs 9:6).
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*Proverbs 3:5-6 / *Prov. 3:5 -
This gives no assurance that Christians will choose to do any of these things to the end.
(See the "NOSAS" section of Hebrews 3:6 below)
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*Proverbs 5:18-19 / *Prov. 5:18 / *Prov. 5:19 -
(Re: Is sex within a marriage only for procreation, otherwise it is the sin of lust? So is no contraception allowed?)
Married sex can be for pleasure without it being a sin. For Proverbs 5:18-19 does not require procreation. Nor does anything in the Bible forbid contraception.
The same could be said about eating food. Nothing requires that we can never eat food for pleasure, but must only eat it to stay alive.
Perhaps there is a sexual equivalent to gluttony, where we have way more sex than we truly need, and exalt it way too highly. Perhaps this could fall under lust, even within a marriage.
We should put sex in its place, just as we should put eating and sleeping in their places. That is, see them as simple necessities, which we should neither fear taking pleasure in, nor exalt them to where they begin to take over our lives, or begin to render us unhealthy physically, mentally, or spiritually.
If someone can get by with eating only once or twice a day, and having sex within a marriage only once or twice every couple of weeks, or less often, all the better. As we age, it becomes easier to eat less often, and to have sex less often. This leaves more time for spiritual and mental endeavors, which have eternal benefits, unlike food and sex, which have only temporary benefits.
Also, unmarried people should "make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof" (Romans 13:14b). That it, they should never allot themselves a certain amount of times per week or month for masturbation or other fornication. Instead, they should always be striving to go without these, without any time limits.
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*Proverbs 7:6 / *Prov. 7:6 -
The original Hebrew word ('eshnab: H0822) translated as "casement" can mean "lattice" (Judges 5:28).
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*Proverbs 7:23 / *Prov. 7:23 -
The original Hebrew word (chets: H2671) translated as "dart" can mean "arrow" (Proverbs 25:18).
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*Proverbs 8:8 / *Prov. 8:8 -
(Froward / H6617)
See the second instance under Psalms 18:26 above.
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*Proverbs 8:13 / *Prov. 8:13 -
The original Hebrew word (tahpukah: H8419) translated as "froward" can mean "perverse" (Proverbs 23:33).
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*Proverbs 8:22-36 / *Prov. 8:22 -
Here the speaker cannot be God the Word (as is sometimes claimed), because God the Word created everything that exists (John 1:3), whereas the speaker in Proverbs 8:22-36 is distinguished from the Creator in Proverbs 8:26.
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*Proverbs 9:5 / *Prov. 9:5 -
The original Hebrew word (macak: H4537) translated as "mingled" can mean just that, in the sense of mixing, in this case mixing wine with spices.
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*Proverbs 9:7 / *Prov. 9:7 -
The original Hebrew word (m'uwm: H3971) translated as "blot" can mean "blemish" (Daniel 1:4).
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*Proverbs 10:8 / *Prov. 10:8 -
The original Hebrew word (saphah: H8193) translated as "prating" can mean "lips" (Daniel 10:16), but can refer to "talking" (Job 11:2) which is "vain" (2 Kings 18:20). The English word "prating" likewise means talking which is empty.
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*Proverbs 10:30 / *Prov. 10:30 -
This shows that God's plan is not to remove the Church from the earth (John 17:15,20).
Here the original Hebrew word (mowt: H4131) translated as "removed" is translated the same way in Psalms 104:5, Psalms 125:1, and Isaiah 54:10.
(See also Matthew 24:31 below, and the "heaven" section of 1 Thessalonians 4:17 below)
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*Proverbs 10:31-32 / *Prov. 10:31 / *Prov. 10:32 -
(Froward / Frowardness / H8419)
See Proverbs 8:13 above.
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*Proverbs 11:20 / *Prov. 11:20 -
(Froward / H6141)
See the first instance under Psalms 18:26 above.
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*Proverbs 12:10 / *Prov. 12:10 -
This refers to treating a farm or transportation animal cruelly while it is still alive (cf. Numbers 22:28). It is not forbidding the killing of animals to eat them. For Christians are allowed to eat meat (1 Timothy 4:1-6).
(See also the "vegetarian?" section of 1 Timothy 4:1 below)
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*Proverbs 13:10 / *Prov. 13:10 -
See Proverbs 15:1 below.
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*Proverbs 13:16 / *Prov. 13:16 -
The original Hebrew word (`asah: H6213) translated as "dealeth" can mean "does things" (Proverbs 31:29).
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*Proverbs 15:1 / *Prov. 15:1 -
Note that "a soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger" (Proverbs 15:1), and "only by pride cometh contention" (Proverbs 13:10). So if Christians are humble, they will not care when people say bad things about them personally. And so they will feel no compulsion to defend themselves. They can instead spend their time and energy preaching God's Word the Bible (2 Timothy 3:16 to 4:4).
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*Proverbs 15:4 / *Prov. 15:4 -
The original Hebrew word (sheber: H7667) translated as "breach" can mean "bruise" (Jeremiah 30:12).
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*Proverbs 16:9 / *Prov. 16:9 -
This and Jeremiah 10:23 mean that we should not follow the way that our own hearts devise (Proverbs 28:26, Proverbs 14:12, Jeremiah 17:9), but the way that God directs (Psalms 23:3).
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The original Hebrew word (hegeh: H1899) translated as "tale" can mean "sigh", or "mourning" (Ezekiel 2:10b). So the Hebrew phrase translated as: "we spend our years as a tale" (Psalms 90:9b) can mean: "our whole life is like a sigh of mourning". But this is the case only if we are non-Christians and so are under God's wrath (Psalms 90:9a; 1 Thessalonians 5:9, John 3:36). For once we become Christians, we can spend the rest of our lives "applying our hearts unto wisdom" (Psalms 90:12), so "that we may rejoice and be glad all our days" (Psalms 90:14).
Also, note that the phrase "that is told" at the end of Psalms 90:9 is in italics, meaning that it is not in the original Hebrew.
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*Psalms 91 / *Ps. 91 -
(Re: Protection)
See Luke 10:19 below.
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*Psalms 91:3 / *Ps. 91:3 -
The original Hebrew word (havvah: H1942) translated as "noisome" can mean "calamity" (Psalms 57:1c).
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*Psalms 91:4 / *Ps. 91:4 -
The original Hebrew word (cocherah: H5507) translated as "buckler", like the English word, can mean "shield". In the context, this could mean a small shield, while the just-preceding Hebrew word (tsinnah: H6793) translated as "shield" can refer to a large shield.
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*Psalms 92:7 / *Ps. 92:7 -
(Re: Destroyed / H8045 = annihilated?)
No, see Psalms 145:20 below.
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*Psalms 94:14 / *Ps. 94:14 -
(Re: Means once-saved-always-saved?)
No, see Galatians 4:6 and 2 Timothy 4:18 below.
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*Psalms 98:6 / *Ps. 98:6 -
(Cornet / H7782)
See 2 Chronicles 15:14 above.
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*Psalms 98:8 / *Ps. 98:8 -
The original Hebrew word (nahar: H5104) translated as "floods" can mean "rivers" (Psalms 89:25).
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*Psalms 100:3 / *Ps. 100:3 -
(Re: Why has not God revealed to us His name?)
He has: "Know ye that YHWH he is God" (Psalms 100:3). See the original Hebrew of this verse, where the word often translated generically as "LORD" is actually the specific Hebrew name "YHWH" (H3068).
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*Psalms 102:16 / *Ps. 102:16 -
This refers to Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming in glory (Matthew 24:30, Zechariah 14:4; cf. Acts 1:11-12), when he will build up Jerusalem and make it the capital of the world (Zechariah 14:8-11).
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*Psalms 103:5b / *Ps. 103:5b -
(Re: Eagle same as in Luke 17:37?)
No, see Luke 17:37 below.
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*Psalms 103:12 / *Ps. 103:12 -
See Hebrews 10:17 below.
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*Psalms 103:15-16 / *Ps. 103:15 -
Compare what James 1:10-11 says. It points out that even rich people, who can sometimes think that they are above everyone else, will still die like everyone else (Psalms 22:29). Then what good will their riches do them (Mark 8:36)? Compare also Psalms 55:19b above.
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*Psalms 104:35a / *Ps. 104:35a -
This is only what the human writer of Psalms 104 hopes will happen (Psalms 104:34-35), not something which God will actually cause to happen. Instead, God will cause the unsaved to continue to exist forever on the New Earth (as in a new surface for the earth), in the suffering of the lake of fire (Isaiah 66:22-24, Matthew 25:41,46, Revelation 20:10,15, Revelation 14:10-11).
(See also Revelation 20:14 below)
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*Psalms 105:8 / *Ps. 105:8 -
This refers to the Abrahamic covenant (Psalms 105:9-11), which is fulfilled in the New Covenant (Galatians 3:8-25, Galatians 4:21-31).
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*Psalms 106:8 / *Ps. 106:8 -
This is not contradicting that salvation can ultimately be lost (Psalms 106:13-26, Jude 1:5).
(See the "NOSAS" section of Hebrews 3:6 below)
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*Psalms 107:1-32 / *Ps. 107:1 -
Psalms 107:3 could refer to the start of the future Millennium of Revelation 20:4-6.
Psalms 107:16 could refer, as one example, to the same thing as Matthew 16:18b, which...
(See "meant" under Matthew 16:18 below)
Psalms 107:17-21 applies to any time that YHWH heals someone from a deadly disease.
Psalms 107:29 was fulfilled by Mark 4:39, for example.
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*Psalms 108:1 / *Ps. 108:1 -
The original Hebrew word (kuwn: H3559) translated as "fixed" can mean "determined", or "firm" (Joshua 3:17).
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*Psalms 108:2 / *Ps. 108:2 -
The original Hebrew word (nebel: H5035) translated as "psaltery" can refer to a lyre, or a small harp with twelve strings.
The Hebrew word (kinnowr: H3658) translated as "harp" can refer to just that.
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*Psalms 108:7 / *Ps. 108:7 -
"Succoth" (H5523) could refer to a place east of the Jordan river (Joshua 13:27, Judges 8:4-16).
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*Psalms 109:5 / *Ps. 109:5 -
(Re: Will not *love overcome all *hatred?)
A lot of times it will (cf. Proverbs 15:1a). But sometimes it will not (Psalms 109:3-5). The best example is Jesus Christ, who was still hated by some people (John 15:18-25) even though He is the epitome of love (John 15:13; 1 John 4:8). Indeed, Jesus was even crucified to death despite His perfect love (Mark 10:34), because of some other people's envy of Him (Mark 15:10, Matthew 27:18).
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(Re: With God on a Christian's side, who or what can be against him?)
Many people and things can be against a Christian, even an obedient one. But they cannot take any spiritual victory over an obedient Christian, no matter what they can do to him or her physically (Romans 8:35-39, Philippians 1:21-23; 2 Corinthians 5:8; 1 Corinthians 15:51-57, Isaiah 25:8).
(See Luke 10:19 below)
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*Psalms 109:6-19 / *Ps. 109:6 / *Ps. 109:8b -
In Acts 1:20c the apostle Peter applied the principle of Psalms 109:8b to the need for someone to take Judas' place as an apostle (Acts 1:21-26). But this does not require that all of the rest of Psalms 109:6-19 had application to Judas. For example, he may have never had children (like in Psalms 109:9). Also, Acts 1:20c does not require that Psalms 109:6-19 had application only to Judas. For its various curses, whether singly or in any combination, could have been meant to be applied generally to various people who will ultimately be condemned by God (Psalms 109:7). For Psalms 109:20 and the preceding context (Psalms 109:2-5) show that the curses of Psalms 109:6-19 were meant to be applied to more than one person. Because the future Antichrist (the individual-man aspect of Revelation's "beast") will ultimately be condemned by God (Revelation 19:20), some or all of the curses in Psalms 109:6-19 could apply to him, just as they could apply to other condemned persons like Judas (Matthew 26:24).
(See also the "Son of perdition" section of 2 Thessalonians 2:3 below)
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*Psalms 109:11 / *Ps. 109:11 -
The original Hebrew word (nashah: H5383) translated as "extortioner" can refer to a lender/usurer (Exodus 22:25, Isaiah 50:1).
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*Psalms 110:1 / *Ps. 110:1 -
This can mean that Jesus Christ will continue to sit at God the Father's right hand in heaven until Jesus returns to the earth at His future, Second Coming, and God the Father then makes Jesus' enemies His footstool (Revelation 19:15 to 20:6, Psalms 110:2-6).
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*Psalms 110:4 / *Ps. 110:4 -
(Melchizedek)
See Hebrews 6:20 below.
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*Psalms 110:5-6 / *Ps. 110:5 / *Ps. 110:6 -
This will be fulfilled at Jesus Christ's future, Second Coming (Revelation 19:11-21).
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*Psalms 115:17 / *Ps. 115:17 -
See the "Soul sleep?" section of 1 Corinthians 15:51 below.
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*Psalms 116:12-13 / *Ps. 116:12 -
Even though nothing that Christians give God can match what He gives them (Psalms 116:12), they must still render to Him everything that they have (Luke 14:33), even their entire lives in continual service and self-denial (Romans 12:1; 2 Corinthians 5:15, Luke 9:23).
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*Psalms 119:83 / *Ps. 119:83 -
The original Hebrew words (no'd: H4997; and qiytowr: H7008) translated as "bottle" and "smoke" can mean just that (Psalms 56:8, Genesis 19:28b). But at the time that Psalms 119:83 was written (about 1000 BC), a bottle could be a bag made of animal skin (that is, a wineskin), which could have been smoked to cure it. So the psalmist could mean that he feels as weak and listless as a skin hung up to be smoked.
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*Psalms 119:89-92 / *Ps. 119:89 -
This, like Isaiah 40:8, brings to mind how God still keeps an Ark of the Old Covenant Mosaic law in His temple building in heaven (Revelation 11:19), because the Old Covenant Mosaic law remains holy before God (Romans 7:12), even though its letter is no longer meant to be practiced by people (Romans 7:6).
And Psalms 119:89 and Isaiah 40:8 now apply to the New Covenant (1 Peter 1:24-25, Hebrews 8:13), which is the covenant "which remaineth" (2 Corinthians 3:11), as opposed to the Old Covenant Mosaic law, which is "that which is abolished" (2 Corinthians 3:13) with regard to men having to still perform its letter (2 Corinthians 3:6-18, Galatians 4:21-31).
(See also the "Law" section of Ephesians 2:15 below)
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*Psalms 119:96 / *Ps. 119:96 -
The original Hebrew word (qets: H7093) translated as "an end" does not mean a cessation, in the context, but a limit, in the sense that the psalmist has seen all kinds of things completed perfectly, so that he could fully comprehend them in their entirety. But God's commandment is different in that it is both perfect and "exceeding broad", in the sense that it has no limit with regard to its comprehensiveness.
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*Psalms 119:165 / *Ps. 119:165 -
The original Hebrew word (mikshowl: H4383) translated as "offend" can mean "stumble", or cause to "fall" (Ezekiel 44:12).
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*Psalms 120:5 / *Ps. 120:5 -
In this context, Meshech could refer to an ancient people which came to be called the Muscovs, and eventually became the Russians with their capital in Moscow (See Easton's).
Kedar was a son of Ishmael (Genesis 25:13), whom the Arabs claim as their forefather.
So Psalms 120:5-7 could include reference to how the Russians and the Arabs (in a general sense) hate peace, but love war. (This does not mean that they all do, for many Russians and Arabs are peace-loving Christians.)
For example, it was some Russians and (Syrian) Arabs who intentionally bombed the civilians of eastern Aleppo in Syria for an extended period, and then intentionally bombed the civilians in Eastern Ghouta in Syria; just as it is (Saudi) Arabs who continue to intentionally bomb Houthi civilians in Yemen.
With regard to Syria, it may be a top, non-Christian, Arab leader in the Syrian military who ordered the past, extended bombings of civilians in eastern Aleppo and Eastern Ghouta, with any hesitancy on the part of (Arab) Assad being squelched by his fear of being secretly murdered by this military leader for "being soft" on "terrorists". Also, this military leader could be taking cues from the Russian generals who are now running the war in Syria. For the Russians intentionally bombed civilians in Chechnya until it became compliant. And Russia and Syria could at some point in the future intentionally bomb civilians in Idlib, Syria.
Also, while it was the great military prowess (that is, the love of war) of many Russians which enabled Russia to completely defeat even Hitler's unprecedented war machine during World War II, this generalized, Russian love of war, if it is not checked by the U.S. in our future (as it was checked in our past during the Cold War), could bring calamity not only to the Arabs, but also to the Europeans (in the Baltics and other parts of Eastern Europe).
It was the U.S.'s supine posture during the past administration which reawakened the Russians' (generalized) love of conquest. Russia is the world's largest nation by land area, and it hopes to make itself even larger and larger still. Note Russia's relatively-recent annexation of Crimea. And this could be just a beginning. For Russia has its huge nuclear arsenal (the largest in the world) as the ultimate hedge against the U.S. pushing back against Russia too strongly in any arena. Also, ethnic Russians form a significant part of the population of the Baltic States, which could be ripe for a Russian invasion and annexation to "permanently protect" these ethnic Russians from "oppression" by the ethnic Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians, who, for example, want to forbid even the speaking of the Russian language within their territories. Russia could also eventually invade and annex the northeastern part of Poland, the northeastern part of North Korea, and annex far-eastern Ukraine, such as during future cataclysmic events which could disrupt any ability by NATO or the U.S. to effectively counter Russia's ground invasions into these areas.
Also, Russia has a huge strategic advantage with regard to invading the Baltic States. For it can easily "close the gap" between Belarus (its ally) and Kaliningrad (its highly-armed exclave), blocking NATO ground troops from moving northeast from Poland to defend the Baltic States. And the nominal number of NATO troops now stationed in the Baltic States can be untargeted and treated well by the Russians during an invasion so as to avoid any excessive riling up of Western antipathy toward Russia. The Western masses care little for the Baltics, and would care even less for them if Russia says that if Western troops mass in northeastern Poland to try to take back the Baltics, they will be nuked by Russian tactical nukes launched from Kaliningrad (in "self-defense"). For the Western masses could say that the tiny Baltics are just not worth a nuclear war with Russia, which would be able to obliterate the U.S. and Europe with its vast nuclear arsenal.
So if Russia does invade and annex the Baltics, all that the West could end up doing is imposing harsh sanctions on Russia. But Western Europe is still dependent on Russian energy supplies, just as the U.S. is still dependent on Russian rocket engines for important military/intelligence space launches. So the West will still have to deal economically with Russia, which could also greatly increase its trade with huge China to make up for any loss of trade with the West.
So what the West has to do is skip the insufficient idea of putting only a nominal number of troops in the Baltics and Poland as a "tripwire", and instead put huge numbers of troops in the Polish "gap" between Belarus and Kaliningrad, and in the Baltics themselves, so that these troops can actually defend against any possible Russian invasion.
The problem is that the Russian military is just too big. NATO does not have the resources to permanently station enough troops in northeastern Poland and in the Baltics to be able to hold off any possible Russian invasion.
This is where NATO's long failure to enforce its two-percent-of-GDP, defense-expenditure rule will come home to roost. NATO failed to prepare, while Russia has for years been assiduously spending billions to prepare for future wars. And Russia relatively-recently showed off its might in "Zapad" ("West"), a military exercise which could have been a rehearsal for a future invasion and annexation of the Baltics, just as a previous Russian military "exercise" ended up permanently occupying parts of the country of Georgia in the Caucasus. And Russia's recent, huge military exercise "Vostok", in eastern Siberia, could have been a rehearsal for a future, Russian invasion and annexation of northeastern North Korea.
(See also section 10 of Joel 2:30 below)
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(Re: Regarding your reference in the section above to "future cataclysmic events", what are you referring to specifically?)
During the future Tribulation of Revelation chapters 6 to 18 and Matthew 24, there will be historically unprecedented natural and man-made disasters. And the latter could include chaos brought on the world by North Korea and Iran employing ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons. Also, Russia is the power which is secretly helping both of them toward this goal, as Russia hopes to benefit territorially during any chaos which they will unleash in the future.
Regarding some of the specific events of the future Tribulation, see the "Details" section of Revelation chapters 6 to 22 below.
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*Psalms 121:3,7-8 / *Ps. 121:3 -
This does not mean once-saved-always-saved. For Christians can wrongly employ their free will to return to unrepentant sin, to the ultimate loss of their salvation (2 Peter 2:20, Hebrews 10:26-29).
(See Hebrews 10:26 below)
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*Psalms 138:8b / *Ps. 138:8b -
This does not mean once-saved-always-saved. For God will ultimately forsake Christians if they wrongly employ their free will to commit apostasy (2 Timothy 2:12, Hebrews 6:4-8).
(See Hebrews 6:4 below)
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*Psalms 139:7-8 / *Ps. 139:7 -
(Re: Would not Christians losing their salvation require that the Holy Spirit be cast away to suffer in hell?)
No, the Holy Spirit will never be cast away, for He is God. God the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:3-4) is one God with God the Father and God the Son, Jesus Christ (Hebrews 1:8, John 20:31). For the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Father (Matthew 10:19-20 and Mark 13:11) and the Spirit of the Son (John 14:16-18, Romans 8:9). Also, the Holy Spirit is already in hell, just as He is in heaven and everywhere else at the same time. For He is omnipresent (Psalms 139:7-8). And He can be in hell without suffering from it, just as God could cause even some righteous men who were cast into a fiery furnace on the earth not to suffer from it (Daniel 3:23-27).
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*Psalms 139:13 / *Ps. 139:13 -
The original Hebrew word (kilyah: H3629) translated as "reins", like the English word, can mean "kidneys" (Exodus 29:13), but can also refer figuratively to the mind (Psalms 16:7, Psalms 26:2).
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*Psalms 139:15b / *Ps. 139:15b -
See "Regarding Psalms 139:15b" under John 3:13 below.
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*Psalms 139:16 / *Ps. 139:16 -
(In thy book all my members were written)
This brings to mind how a human embryo, before it becomes a fetus, already contains all of the genetic code necessary for it to form all of the parts of the fetus. For a genetic code is like a "book" in that just as a book consists of a series of letters, so a genetic code can be represented by a series of letters (e.g. ATGCATACGTC...) representing a series of DNA bases (Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine) which make up a genetic code.
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*Psalms 141:9 / *Ps. 141:9 -
The original Hebrew word (mowqesh: H4170) translated as "gins", like the English word, can refer to noose-traps set for animals.
One way that Christians can keep from being taken by the "gins" of the workers of iniquity is to be aware of them ahead of time (2 Corinthians 2:11).
For example, see Revelation 13:4 and Luke 24:39 below.
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*Psalms 144:14 / *Ps. 144:14 -
The original Hebrew word (perets: H6556) translated as "breaking in" could refer to burglary (which we still call "breaking and entering"), and/or to an invasion of Israel by foreigners.
The Hebrew word (yatsa': H3318) translated as "going out" can mean "carrying out" (Ezekiel 12:5), as in burglars carrying out loot, and/or foreign invaders carrying out both loot and captive Israelites from their land (2 Kings 24:13-14). It could also include the meaning of "going abroad" (Genesis 19:17), in the sense of "complaining" Israelites (Psalms 144:14c) choosing to emigrate from Israel due to what they consider to be poor conditions (and/or poor morality) in Israel.
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*Psalms 145:9 / *Ps. 145:9 -
The original Hebrew word (kol: H3605) translated as "all" can mean "all manner of" (Leviticus 19:23; 1 Chronicles 22:15, Nehemiah 13:16). It does not have to mean absolutely all. We cannot interpret the Hebrew of Psalms 145:9 in a way which contradicts other verses of the Bible, such as Malachi 1:3, Romans 9:11-23, and Matthew 25:41,46, which show that God does not love everyone, and that He will not show mercy to everyone.
(See the "Vessels of wrath" section of Romans 9:11 below)
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*Psalms 145:20 / *Ps. 145:20 -
The original Hebrew word (shamad: H8045) translated as "destroy" does not have to mean annihilate. Compare its translation as "perished" in Psalms 83:9-10, which refers to perished bodies which continued to exist. That is, a dead human body continues to exist even if it is left on the ground to rot. And even after its flesh has rotted, its bones continue to exist.
(See also Revelation 20:14 below)
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*Psalms 147:4 / *Ps. 147:4 -
The original Hebrew word (manah: H4487) translated as "telleth" can mean "counts" (Numbers 23:10).
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*Psalms 150:4 / *Ps. 150:4 -
The original Hebrew word (`uwgab: H5748) translated as "organs" refers to reed instruments, which employ the same "wind" principle of sound-generation as the musical instruments which we today still call "organs", as in pipe organs, such as in some large churches.
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*Proverbs 1:22 / *Prov. 1:22 -
The original Hebrew word (pethiy: H6612) translated as both "simple" and "simplicity" can mean "foolish" (Proverbs 9:6).
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*Proverbs 3:5-6 / *Prov. 3:5 -
This gives no assurance that Christians will choose to do any of these things to the end.
(See the "NOSAS" section of Hebrews 3:6 below)
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*Proverbs 5:18-19 / *Prov. 5:18 / *Prov. 5:19 -
(Re: Is sex within a marriage only for procreation, otherwise it is the sin of lust? So is no contraception allowed?)
Married sex can be for pleasure without it being a sin. For Proverbs 5:18-19 does not require procreation. Nor does anything in the Bible forbid contraception.
The same could be said about eating food. Nothing requires that we can never eat food for pleasure, but must only eat it to stay alive.
Perhaps there is a sexual equivalent to gluttony, where we have way more sex than we truly need, and exalt it way too highly. Perhaps this could fall under lust, even within a marriage.
We should put sex in its place, just as we should put eating and sleeping in their places. That is, see them as simple necessities, which we should neither fear taking pleasure in, nor exalt them to where they begin to take over our lives, or begin to render us unhealthy physically, mentally, or spiritually.
If someone can get by with eating only once or twice a day, and having sex within a marriage only once or twice every couple of weeks, or less often, all the better. As we age, it becomes easier to eat less often, and to have sex less often. This leaves more time for spiritual and mental endeavors, which have eternal benefits, unlike food and sex, which have only temporary benefits.
Also, unmarried people should "make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof" (Romans 13:14b). That it, they should never allot themselves a certain amount of times per week or month for masturbation or other fornication. Instead, they should always be striving to go without these, without any time limits.
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*Proverbs 7:6 / *Prov. 7:6 -
The original Hebrew word ('eshnab: H0822) translated as "casement" can mean "lattice" (Judges 5:28).
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*Proverbs 7:23 / *Prov. 7:23 -
The original Hebrew word (chets: H2671) translated as "dart" can mean "arrow" (Proverbs 25:18).
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*Proverbs 8:8 / *Prov. 8:8 -
(Froward / H6617)
See the second instance under Psalms 18:26 above.
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*Proverbs 8:13 / *Prov. 8:13 -
The original Hebrew word (tahpukah: H8419) translated as "froward" can mean "perverse" (Proverbs 23:33).
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*Proverbs 8:22-36 / *Prov. 8:22 -
Here the speaker cannot be God the Word (as is sometimes claimed), because God the Word created everything that exists (John 1:3), whereas the speaker in Proverbs 8:22-36 is distinguished from the Creator in Proverbs 8:26.
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*Proverbs 9:5 / *Prov. 9:5 -
The original Hebrew word (macak: H4537) translated as "mingled" can mean just that, in the sense of mixing, in this case mixing wine with spices.
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*Proverbs 9:7 / *Prov. 9:7 -
The original Hebrew word (m'uwm: H3971) translated as "blot" can mean "blemish" (Daniel 1:4).
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*Proverbs 10:8 / *Prov. 10:8 -
The original Hebrew word (saphah: H8193) translated as "prating" can mean "lips" (Daniel 10:16), but can refer to "talking" (Job 11:2) which is "vain" (2 Kings 18:20). The English word "prating" likewise means talking which is empty.
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*Proverbs 10:30 / *Prov. 10:30 -
This shows that God's plan is not to remove the Church from the earth (John 17:15,20).
Here the original Hebrew word (mowt: H4131) translated as "removed" is translated the same way in Psalms 104:5, Psalms 125:1, and Isaiah 54:10.
(See also Matthew 24:31 below, and the "heaven" section of 1 Thessalonians 4:17 below)
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*Proverbs 10:31-32 / *Prov. 10:31 / *Prov. 10:32 -
(Froward / Frowardness / H8419)
See Proverbs 8:13 above.
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*Proverbs 11:20 / *Prov. 11:20 -
(Froward / H6141)
See the first instance under Psalms 18:26 above.
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*Proverbs 12:10 / *Prov. 12:10 -
This refers to treating a farm or transportation animal cruelly while it is still alive (cf. Numbers 22:28). It is not forbidding the killing of animals to eat them. For Christians are allowed to eat meat (1 Timothy 4:1-6).
(See also the "vegetarian?" section of 1 Timothy 4:1 below)
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*Proverbs 13:10 / *Prov. 13:10 -
See Proverbs 15:1 below.
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*Proverbs 13:16 / *Prov. 13:16 -
The original Hebrew word (`asah: H6213) translated as "dealeth" can mean "does things" (Proverbs 31:29).
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*Proverbs 15:1 / *Prov. 15:1 -
Note that "a soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger" (Proverbs 15:1), and "only by pride cometh contention" (Proverbs 13:10). So if Christians are humble, they will not care when people say bad things about them personally. And so they will feel no compulsion to defend themselves. They can instead spend their time and energy preaching God's Word the Bible (2 Timothy 3:16 to 4:4).
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*Proverbs 15:4 / *Prov. 15:4 -
The original Hebrew word (sheber: H7667) translated as "breach" can mean "bruise" (Jeremiah 30:12).
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*Proverbs 16:9 / *Prov. 16:9 -
This and Jeremiah 10:23 mean that we should not follow the way that our own hearts devise (Proverbs 28:26, Proverbs 14:12, Jeremiah 17:9), but the way that God directs (Psalms 23:3).
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