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0:24family. Welcome to day 278 here on the
0:27Bible department podcast. Today we are
0:30looking at Psalms 79, 80, and 81. We got
0:34three more Psalms of ASAF. ASAP Rocky.
0:39Come on. We need to have a whole segment
0:41that's called ASAP Rocky. I I started
0:43saying it a couple days ago, now I can't
0:44stop saying it. Anyway, we're going to
0:46be looking at three psalms today. If you
0:48haven't done the reading, this is a good
0:50spot to stop the video, pause the audio,
0:54go get the reading done. All right. Our
0:56goal, our desire here at the Bible
0:59department is not to replace your daily
1:02Bible reading. It's actually to enhance
1:04your daily Bible reading. We want people
1:06connecting with the word. So, get the
1:08reading done. We got three psalms that
1:10we're going to be looking at today. If
1:12you have read these three psalms, then
1:16hopefully I can provide context, some
1:18nerdy nuggets, and a timeless truth that
1:20will help bring what you read to life.
1:23With no further ado, let's dive in.
1:26Psalm 79. As soon as you start reading
1:29Psalm 79, I'll I'll start reading it uh
1:31for you. Says, "Oh God, the nations have
1:34invaded your inheritance. They have
1:36defiled your holy temple. They have
1:38reduced Jerusalem to rubble. Immediately
1:42it is clear what this is about. There's
1:44a psalm of corporate lament concerning
1:46what? The fall of Jerusalem. The
1:49destruction of Jerusalem. We just had a
1:52psalm like this in Psalm 74. Okay, if
1:55you remember whether that was yesterday
1:57or the day before that, I think it was
1:58two days ago. Okay, we had uh Psalm 74
2:02was a psalm of corporate lament over the
2:05fall of Jerusalem. Okay. So, Psalm 79,
2:10very, very, very similar in content and
2:13in context to Psalm 74. And this is a
2:17twin psalm to Psalm 137. Okay? So, what
2:22happens is Jerusalem falls and Psalm 137
2:26is going to be the exiles who are now in
2:30Babylon. Okay? They are going to write a
2:33corporate psalm of lament lamenting the
2:36fall of Jerusalem from their vantage
2:38point while they are off in exile. Now
2:40this is a twin psalm to that psalm
2:43because in Psalm 79 this is not written
2:46by exiles who got out. This is written
2:49by survivors who were locked in or
2:53trapped in. So these are people who are
2:56going to remain in Jerusalem. They
2:58survived the fall of Jerusalem, but they
3:02have not gotten carded off in exile. And
3:04so these are twin psalms written about
3:06the same event from two different groups
3:09of people. All right, Psalm 80. Okay,
3:12Psalm 80 is very similar in tone and
3:16tamber to Psalm 79. And Psalm 80 is all
3:21about the fall of Samaria. Remember
3:25Jerusalem is the capital of the southern
3:28kingdom of Judah and Samaria is the
3:32capital of the northern kingdom of
3:35Israel. So Psalm 80 is about the fall of
3:39Samaria in the north. Remember Jerusalem
3:43is going to fall uh60
3:48years after Samaria falls. Samaria is
3:51going to fall in 7:22 BC. And then uh
3:54Jerusalem is going to fall later in 586
3:57BC. Now Psalm 80 is written by the
4:01southern Judahites really or Jews. Okay,
4:05those people who live in Judah who are
4:08mourning the destruction of their
4:11northern neighbors and really they're
4:14the same ethnic people group. Uh the
4:17monarchy or the kingdoms have been split
4:19into two. They were united under David
4:21and Solomon. But then by the time we got
4:24to that third generation, the kingdom is
4:27split with Judah in the south south and
4:30uh Israel, the lost northern tribes
4:33essentially in the north. And so Psalm
4:3680 is not written from the perspective
4:39of northern Israelites. It's written
4:42from the perspective of of the southern
4:45tribe of Judah mourning the loss of
4:48their northern brother. Okay. Uh they
4:51they are sad that Samaria has fallen up
4:53in the north. All right. And then last
4:55we're going to get Psalm 81. Okay. And
4:58this Psalm is a psalm of celebration. Uh
5:01so we get two psalms of mourning, two
5:03psalms of lament. Okay. Psalm 79 and
5:07Psalm 80 are both going to be psalms of
5:09lament. But then it's almost like in the
5:12middle of a cloudy day, the sun breaks
5:14through and begins to shine and we're
5:16going to get a psalm of celebration. Not
5:18just any psalm of celebration, a psalm
5:21that is to be sang during the feast of
5:25tabernacles. Okay? And it starts out as
5:29such. Starts out with these words. Okay?
5:31Psalm 81 verse1. Sing for joy to God our
5:36strength. Okay? shout aloud to the God
5:39of Jacob. Okay, so we go from mourning,
5:42lamenting, grieving, sadness for two
5:46psalms right into sing for joy. Okay, so
5:50this psalm is not just a random psalm,
5:53but it's connected to the feast of
5:56tabernacles. All right, let's context
5:59for the three psalms that we're looking
6:00at today. Let's dive into some nerdy
6:03nuggets. All right, let's tackle Psalm
6:0679. Here's a psalm of corporate lament.
6:08Okay, we are going to get very very very
6:11similar language. Okay, in Psalm 79 as
6:15we are going to get in the book of
6:17lamentations, which if you think about
6:19it, I mean that makes sense. Uh Psalm 79
6:23is a psalm of corporate lament.
6:25Lamentations is a psalm of maybe
6:28individual lament, but it's still
6:30lament. I mean, most people think it's
6:32written by Jeremiah, okay? And Jeremiah
6:34is lamenting the fall of Jerusalem.
6:36Psalm 79 sounds very very similar to
6:39lamentations. Let's actually compare a
6:41verse. Okay. Psalm 79 verse5 says these
6:45words. How long Lord will you be angry?
6:48Forever. Okay. Psalm 79:5
6:52is questioning like well Lord like how
6:54long like how long you going to be angry
6:56with us. It says it like this in my
6:57Bible. How long Lord will you be angry?
7:00Forever. How long will your jealousy
7:02burn like fire? And then we're going to
7:05read Lamentations 5:22 says this. Unless
7:09you have utterly rejected us and you
7:11remain exceedingly angry with us. You
7:14can see uh just questions around how
7:17long are you going to be angry with us?
7:18Okay, don't be angry with us forever.
7:20Okay, this literally echoes of
7:23lamentations are all over Psalm 79. Now
7:28there's also echoes of Jeremiah,
7:31Habachok, and Obadiah. Now, one of the
7:34things that begins to happen, Asaf in
7:36Psalm 79 is asking Yahweh questions.
7:40Okay? The writing of this time all share
7:43this theme. The acknowledgment of the
7:45sin of Israel and Judah, the acceptance
7:48of God's wrath on them as punishment,
7:51but then the cry out of how long, like
7:53how long is this going to last? How long
7:55are you going to be angry with us?
7:56What's interesting, of course, is that
7:59Jeremiah has already answered this
8:02question. Obviously, they're fulfilled.
8:03They're familiar with Jeremiah's
8:05writings because Psalm 79 sounds so much
8:07like limitations. Okay, Jeremiah
8:10answered that question in a quote we
8:11often use for encouragement. We love
8:14this on the Christian coffee mugs. You
8:15know what I'm saying? Put put a verse of
8:17scripture on the coffee mugs out of
8:19context, of course. Okay? And it's
8:21Jeremiah chapter 29:11. And I'll say
8:24Jeremiah chapter 29:11 to you out of
8:25context. And then we're going to add
8:27verse 10 says, "For I know the plans I
8:29have for you, declares Yahweh, plans for
8:32welfare and not for evil to give you
8:34hope in a future." All right, that's
8:35verse 11. It's the famous verse. But
8:37actually, here's what God says in verse
8:4010. For thus Yahweh, for thus says
8:43Yahweh, when 70 years are completed for
8:46Babylon, I will visit you and I will
8:49fulfill to you my promise and bring you
8:53back to this place. For I know the plans
8:56I have for you, declares Yahweh. Plans
8:59to prosper you, not to harm you, plans
9:00to give you a hope in a future. So the
9:02plans that God has is that he's going to
9:04bring the people out of Babylonian exile
9:08after 70 years and bring them back to
9:10Jerusalem. So they're asking a question
9:12that God has already provided the answer
9:14to. This theme is not going to stop.
9:18Okay. The cry to repay their enemies for
9:21destroying Jerusalem and their neighbors
9:23for betraying them have also already
9:26been answered. Okay. This is Psalm 79
9:29verse 6. Pour out your wrath on the
9:31nations that do not acknowledge you.
9:34It's like, God, you used like heathens
9:37to like punish us. Pour out your wrath
9:39on them. They don't know you. They don't
9:41call on your name, for they have
9:43devoured Jacob and devastated the
9:45homeland. Do not hold against us the
9:47sins of past generations. So, not only
9:50are they going to say, "Please like deal
9:52with the nations. They bring bring your
9:55judgment on the nations. But then it's
9:58going to move to pay back verse 12, pay
10:01back into the laps of our neighbors
10:04seven times the contempt they have
10:06hurled at you, Lord. Now, here's what's
10:09fascinating is that God has already
10:12answered both of those questions. How am
10:14I going to judge the nations? And how am
10:16I going to judge your neighbors in in
10:18the prophets? Okay, so I'll read this to
10:20you. The cry to repay their enemies for
10:23destroying Jerusalem and their neighbors
10:25for betraying them have already been
10:27answered. Just like the question of how
10:29long are you going to be angry with us?
10:31That's already been answered. Habacook
10:33decades before this psalm told of how
10:37Yahweh's wrath would fall on Babylon
10:40too. And Obadiah was also writing at
10:43this time and was clear that Edom,
10:46Judah's neighbor and brother, would pay
10:49for betraying them. The people were
10:52crying out to Yahweh for answers he had
10:54already given them. Man, I wish that was
10:57a Thomas truth for the day. I mean, I
10:59guess it could be a bonus Thomas truth
11:01because there are people who ask God for
11:03questions that he's already answered.
11:05This happens all the time, actually.
11:07people who ask God for answers when
11:10God's already given us answers to said
11:13questions in the Bible. And I pray that
11:16that's why you're spending a year with
11:18the word of God and and with us so that
11:21you could know what the Bible says so
11:23that you're not asking God redundant
11:25questions. Now, is God gracious and kind
11:28and awesome? And does he provide answers
11:31even when he's already given those
11:33answers? Yeah, he does. He does. But I
11:36don't want to be someone who is in a
11:39relationship with the Lord where I'm
11:40asking him a bunch of stuff he's already
11:42answered. Okay? I want to know the word
11:45well enough to begin to have to provide
11:48context when I talk to God. Okay,
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12:48to the episode. Psalm 80. Okay, some
12:51nerdy nuggets from Psalm 80. This is a
12:53corporate lament that gave voice to the
12:55shock where in Judah, southern kingdom
12:59of Judah when Israel, the northern
13:02kingdom of Israel fell to the Assyrians.
13:04Okay, this is 7:22 BC. It shows that
13:08even then the prayer was going out for
13:11Yahweh to restore Israel to unite north
13:14and south again and bring the lost
13:17tribes home. It shows that even though
13:20the two nations had split long before
13:22and had been at war many times, by the
13:25way, the last time only a few years
13:27before Samaria fell, by the way, there
13:30still was this sense in Judah that
13:33Israel was still all 12 tribes together.
13:37This hope that uh that we would all be
13:40together. So the refrain throughout the
13:43psalm is a corporate one that speaks for
13:46all Israel and calls all of Israel back,
13:49not just the southern kingdom of Judah,
13:51but all of Israel back to the ironic
13:54blessing given to all 12 tribes at the
13:56beginning of the nation story. So what
13:58we're going to see is in Psalm 80:3,
14:01Psalm 80:7, and Psalm 80:1 19, we're
14:04going to get the ironic blessing
14:06repeated over and over and over. Restore
14:09us, oh God of hosts. Let your face shine
14:12that we might be saved. This connection
14:15is seen also in the reign of Hezekiah
14:18that followed the fall of Samaria. You
14:20can read about this or what Hezekiah
14:22does in the wake of the fall Samaria. 2
14:25Chronicles 30:1 all the way to verse
14:28maybe 10. Okay, it shows that Hezekiah
14:31offered the remnant left in Israel the
14:34opportunity to join the south, that's
14:36Judah, in celebrating Passover, but was
14:40rebuffed.
14:42But also during his reign, the walls of
14:45Jerusalem were rebuilt and extended,
14:48probably to now surround the growing
14:50city, a city that grew mostly to house
14:54the refugees that had fled from the fall
14:57of Israel, the remnant of Israel that
15:01listened to the prophets and psalms and
15:04returned to David, which means moving to
15:07Jerusalem. Return to David and Zion. Uh,
15:10the choices of Yahweh were spared. Okay.
15:15Now, Psalm 81. Love Psalm 81. This psalm
15:19is a nice break in all of the lamenting.
15:22Okay. This psalm is a festal festive
15:26psalm. And you can see it in the first
15:28few verses. Okay. Sing aloud to God our
15:30strength. Shout for joy to the God of
15:33Jacob. Raise a song. Sound the
15:34tambourine. The sweet liar with the
15:37harp. Blow the trumpet at the new moon.
15:39at the full moon on our feast day. So
15:42this is a feast day psalm. Okay. Now
15:45what does the feast of tabernacles kind
15:48of celebrate? Well, the feast of
15:50tabernacles, remember the word
15:51tabernacle means to dwell. Okay. It
15:54means to tent. It's kind of like God's
15:57tent where where he dwells is called the
16:00tabernacle. And it's like tent kind of
16:02becomes a word like not only are we in a
16:05tent, but God has set up his tent
16:07amongst us. like he's tenting with us.
16:10That like he's camping with us. He's
16:11dwelling with us. Okay. So, to
16:13tabernacle is like a verb, but the
16:16tabernacle is the tent that God is
16:19tabernacling in. I hope you get it. All
16:21right? And so, the feast of tabernacles
16:24celebrates God's journey with his people
16:27through the Exodus or through the
16:30desert. Everything from the Red Sea to
16:32Mount Si. Okay. This psalm of
16:35celebration was sung at the feast of
16:36tabernacles sung to a tune all about
16:39making wine. Wine that is usually
16:42associated with weddings and making the
16:44heart glad. And this is a psalm with
16:47psalm for celebration but a serious
16:51challenge. It recalls just like the
16:53festival the time they spent in the
16:55wilderness being fed and led by Yahweh.
16:59It is a celebration of that past but
17:03also a warning and a challenge. Even
17:07then there were those who did not follow
17:10who were not satisfied with the food God
17:13fed them. And now the psalmist gives
17:16voice to God that again the people do
17:20not listen. And oh that they would
17:24listen again. This is a psalm then that
17:28looks back to a time when God led and
17:31fed the people and protected them from
17:34their enemies and then challenges those
17:37who sang it to come back home. It's a
17:41call to be led and fed by Yahweh once
17:44again or once more. All right, let's get
17:47into our Thomas truth for the day.
17:49That's all the nerdy nuggets I have for
17:50you. Here's our Thomas truth. Two big
17:52themes that I want us to talk about.
17:54Unity is one of them. And then the
17:57desire to see prodigals return home is
18:00the second one. Okay. I am struck by the
18:03solidarity that the remnant in Judah
18:05show to their brothers and their sisters
18:08in the north. So often when the story is
18:10told, the focus is on Israel and how the
18:13northern kingdom of Israel had just gone
18:15astray. They've rejected Yahweh and
18:17chosen polluted and corrupted worship
18:20that has led to the worship of foreign
18:22gods and nations. But here in Psalm 80,
18:26we hear the cry of those loyal to Yahweh
18:29in the south that were crying out for
18:33their weward brothers and sisters who
18:36even at this point of the destruction,
18:38the judgment on the north were crying
18:41out for salvation and that God would
18:45restore the whole country. This is a
18:48huge lesson for us for how we look to
18:52our brothers and sisters that may have
18:54gone astray. I know I personally know
18:58tons of people who were strong
19:00Christians 5, 7, 10 years ago and have
19:05walked away from the faith. So, not only
19:07is this, you know, is Psalm 80 a
19:12remarkable psalm, but it's the it's the
19:15cry. It's the song of the tribe of Judah
19:20who's just broken about how the northern
19:23kingdom of Israel has gone astray. And
19:26man, I want to have that same heart when
19:28people that I went to Bible college
19:30with, people that I went to seminary
19:31with, are no longer walking with God,
19:33but they sign up not only to love Jesus,
19:36but to be in full-time ministry. And um
19:38sometimes I think we can have this
19:40attitude, at least I have. I don't want
19:42to project this onto you, that I'm like,
19:44if anybody rejects Jesus, then forget
19:47them. Like I can kind of have like a
19:50you're Judas to me. You're dead to me.
19:52Like if you're a Christian and then you
19:54stop following God, like screw you, man.
19:57Like you're dead to me. But that's not
19:59the heart that that the psalmist have in
20:02Psalm 80. And today I was challenged
20:04like as I began to read and I I began to
20:07go man not only do I need to fight for
20:09unity in church because that was God's
20:12goal that the northern kingdom of Israel
20:14and the southern kingdom of Judah would
20:15be united as one. God's goal was never
20:18for them to be divided. Okay. So number
20:20one I think we can take a timeless truth
20:22out of this and say God's heart's unity.
20:25God God literally has created the body
20:29of Christ, the church for unity. And we
20:31have to fight to maintain it. Unity
20:33doesn't just happen. Doesn't happen by
20:35default. It has to happen by design. But
20:37then second, man, am I actively praying
20:40for those who have fallen away from the
20:41faith? Am I actively trying to re-engage
20:45or rewitness those who have fallen away
20:47from the faith? And sometimes I can just
20:50have such a bad attitude when it comes
20:52to exchristians. I can be very gangster
20:56like like you never loved God. You know
20:58what I'm saying? Like I like I don't
21:00care. And that's just not the heart that
21:04we see on display in Psalm 80. And I
21:07want to be more like Psalm 80. I want my
21:11heart to break. And I want to really cry
21:13out to God that he would intervene and
21:16that he would show himself strong in the
21:18lives of people who were Christians at
21:20one point and then for whatever reason
21:22walked away from the faith. That's not
21:24only true for the psalmist in Psalm 80.
21:27That's true for you and I. And today,
21:29honestly, it's it's something that's
21:31convicting me. Like, I I in the middle
21:35of watching my brothers and sisters in
21:38Christ who are walked away from Christ,
21:40in the middle of seeing their lives fall
21:42apart, I shouldn't be rejoicing. I
21:45shouldn't be saying, "Well, that's what
21:46they get for for for announcing Jesus.
21:49my heart should be broken and I should
21:51have the heart partial that says, "I
21:53know that that that that judgment is
21:56what they deserve. I know that wrath is
21:58what they deserve, but God, would you
22:00please please please win them back to
22:02you? God, would you please allow me to
22:04be a good witness?" Um, and I'm just
22:07impressed that the that the remnant in
22:11the southern kingdom of Judah would
22:12write a whole psalm about the fall of
22:15Samaria up in the north that uh that it
22:17impacted them, that it affected them,
22:19that it shook them up. That's just so
22:22reputable and I love it. And so, our
22:24timeless truth for the day is that God
22:27loves unity, that we should be praying
22:29for unity and doing everything in our
22:31power to make unity possible. And then
22:34number two is that we should be uh
22:37praying for those who have fallen away
22:39from the faith and actively engaging
22:41them because um nobody is beyond hope.
22:46Okay? And if God if God allowed Psalm 80
22:49to be in the Bible, then maybe God would
22:52allow some of my prayers for people who
22:55don't know him anymore, but that used to
22:57know him to go not unanswered, but to to
23:00be answered. Okay? And I've got people
23:02in mind, and I bet you do, too. All
23:04right, that's our timeless truth for the
23:06day, which means we're at the end of the
23:08episode, family. I'll see you tomorrow
23:10for day 279. We're going to be walking
23:13through Psalms 82, 83, and 84. It's
23:18going to be fantastic. Love you guys. So
23:20proud of you. I'll see you right here,
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