Day 293: Psalms 120-122 | Read The Bible In A Year | Bible Study with Commentary by Dr. Manny Arango — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey Bible nerds, this is Dr. Manny
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8. 0:25family. Welcome to day 293.
9. 0:27Today we are looking at Psalms 120 to
10. 0:32122. That's right, three Psalms that we
11. 0:34are going to be examining, checking out,
12. 0:37studying, digesting today. And if you've
13. 0:40already done the reading, then
14. 0:42everything that I'm going to say on this
15. 0:44episode is going to make perfect sense.
16. 0:45But if you haven't done the reading,
17. 0:47then you're gonna lack context. Okay?
18. 0:50So, if you haven't done the reading,
19. 0:52stop the video, pause the audio, go get
20. 0:55the reading done. three short psalms
21. 0:57today. And not only do we have three
22. 0:59short psalms, uh we've actually got the
23. 1:02beginning of another collection within
24. 1:05the collection within the collection. So
25. 1:09today kicks off our ascent. That's
26. 1:12right, ascent. These psalms from Psalm
27. 1:16120 all the way to Psalm 134. We've got
28. 1:2115 songs of ascent. Okay. So, we're
29. 1:24going to look at this collection as a
30. 1:26whole. It'll take us multiple days to uh
31. 1:29send the hills on our trek up to
32. 1:32Jerusalem. And that's obviously our
33. 1:34context. Uh so, without further ado,
34. 1:37let's dive into our context clues. All
35. 1:40right. You're going to notice at Psalm
36. 1:42120, all we have here is a song of a
37. 1:46sense is right beneath the actual title
38. 1:49or the the chapter verse. Okay. I'm
39. 1:52going to make sure. Yep. the song of
40. 1:54asense. Okay. And we're going to notice
41. 1:56multiple songs of ascent. All right. So,
42. 2:00this entire collection is uh songs of
43. 2:04ascent. Now, the psalms of ascent find
44. 2:08themselves within a greater collection
45. 2:11known as the great hal, the great halal
46. 2:15uh or the great praise. Okay? in the
47. 2:18great hell can be found from Psalm 120
48. 2:21to Psalm 136. Okay, so the songs of
49. 2:24ascent fit within the great hell. That
50. 2:26great hell is part of book five is a
51. 2:30part of the collection of the Psalms. So
52. 2:32you get it like it's a collection within
53. 2:34a collection within a collection within
54. 2:36a collection. All right. So what is the
55. 2:39context of these songs of Ascent? Well,
56. 2:43I'll tell you the exact context. Okay.
57. 2:45Now, a couple days ago, a couple
58. 2:47episodes ago, I shared this word hagim
59. 2:49with you. That word means pilgrimage.
60. 2:52Now, there are three great pilgrimage
61. 2:56festivals for the country, for the
62. 2:58nation or for the people of Israel. I'm
63. 3:01actually going to give you a second.
64. 3:02Let's see if you can get all three. I
65. 3:05won't say anything. I'll just let you
66. 3:07see if you can remember the three
67. 3:10pilgrimages.
68. 3:12I really, really, really want you to get
69. 3:14it. And all right, if you haven't gotten
70. 3:16it by now, they are okay. Number one,
71. 3:19Passover. Number two, Pentecost. Number
72. 3:22three, the Feast of Tabernacles. Okay,
73. 3:25number one, Passover. Number two,
74. 3:27Pentecost. Number three, the Feast of
75. 3:30Tabernacles. Now, that meant that people
76. 3:33from all over the land of Israel are
77. 3:36having to come to Jerusalem. And here's
78. 3:39what's true geographically about
79. 3:41Jerusalem. It doesn't matter what
80. 3:43direction you're coming from, north,
81. 3:45south, east, or west. If you're coming
82. 3:47to Jerusalem, you are going to have to
83. 3:49ascend on the hills to get to Jerusalem.
84. 3:53So, literally, these are songs of
85. 3:56ascent. People are climbing. They are
86. 3:59trekking. They are walking uphill in
87. 4:04order to get to Jerusalem. Okay? And
88. 4:06when you go to Jerusalem, it's I I've
89. 4:09been multiple times. Jerusalem is
90. 4:11surrounded by these valleys. Okay. Uh
91. 4:14whether it's the Kidedron Valley, I
92. 4:16can't remember all the other valleys,
93. 4:17but when you're standing in Jerusalem,
94. 4:19you can literally see just like valley
95. 4:21after the Henum Valley, I think is the
96. 4:23other one. Kiddedron Valley, the Henim
97. 4:25Valley. There's all these valleys
98. 4:27because Jerusalem is set on a hill. It
99. 4:30is literally a city on a hill. Okay. So
100. 4:34in terms of the literal geographical
101. 4:38context during these three pilgrimages,
102. 4:41Passover, Pentecost, and tabernacles,
103. 4:43the people from all over are ascending
104. 4:46in order to get to the place where God
105. 4:49dwells, which is his tabernacle in
106. 4:51Jerusalem. Now second on a not just
107. 4:55geographical basis but on a theological
108. 4:58basis in the ancient world okay the gods
109. 5:02lived on mountains or up on the hills.
110. 5:06Okay. So high places are typically going
111. 5:10to be places of either idolatry. Hills
112. 5:12are going to be places where
113. 5:15geographical demonic powers are going to
114. 5:19set up shop. Okay. So in the ancient
115. 5:21world like think about Mount Olympus
116. 5:23okay in the ancient world the mountains
117. 5:26are associated with God. So in a
118. 5:29geographical like you know level of
119. 5:32interpretation okay you would approach
120. 5:35Jerusalem from a valley and then ascend
121. 5:38up the hills because Jerusalem is set in
122. 5:41a valley but also theologically in the
123. 5:44ancient world gods were always presented
124. 5:46as dwelling or ruling on hills or
125. 5:48mountains. So to approach a god, any
126. 5:52god, is to always ascend to them. I want
127. 5:56you to think about that. Approach and
128. 5:58ascend are interchangeable words in the
129. 6:01ancient world. There's another little
130. 6:04kind of nerdy nugget, but it's context
131. 6:06for these songs of ascent. Is that a lot
132. 6:09of scholars link these 15 psalms to the
133. 6:1315 steps. Okay. The Mishna says that
134. 6:17there were 15 steps from the court of
135. 6:19the women to the court of the Israelites
136. 6:21in the second temple period. This would
137. 6:23have been the second temple period is
138. 6:25when Jesus is is alive. And these 15
139. 6:28psalms correlate to these 15 steps. This
140. 6:32has led some to think that each psalm
141. 6:34was sung to one step. So you would step
142. 6:38up then sing. Then you'd step again and
143. 6:42then sing. step sing step sing etc etc
144. 6:46etc until you reach the court of the
145. 6:49Israelites. Now how much validity there
146. 6:52is to that that's up to you to decide.
147. 6:54What there is no debate about is that no
148. 6:57matter where you were in Israel in order
149. 6:59to make pilgrimage to Jerusalem for
150. 7:02either Passover or Pentecost or the
151. 7:05feast of tabernacles it meant that you
152. 7:07had to trek uphill. Okay? It meant that
153. 7:12you had to ascend the hills in order to
154. 7:15meet with Yahweh. So that's the context.
155. 7:19Okay? And David is set I mean David is
156. 7:25determined to establish Jerusalem as the
157. 7:29center of God's governance in Israel.
158. 7:32Okay, I don't want to get into too much
159. 7:34of a nerdy deep dive, but from a
160. 7:37political perspective, okay, David is
161. 7:41consolidating power, political power in
162. 7:44Jerusalem. Okay, the other tribes don't
163. 7:47have their own temples. All right, all
164. 7:50the tribes have to rely on Judah in or
165. 7:54and they have to come into Judah's
166. 7:56territory in order to worship Yahweh. So
167. 8:00he is centralizing
168. 8:02or monopolizing
169. 8:05power and the Psalms are going to make
170. 8:08it clear this is God's choice. So the
171. 8:11Psalms obviously are pro-David pro
172. 8:14David's dynasty pro uh Jerusalem which
173. 8:18is the capital that David has
174. 8:20established and pro temple. Okay let's
175. 8:23look at these three individual psalms.
176. 8:25Let's move into our nerdy nuggets. I
177. 8:26think that's enough context clues for us
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200. 9:28back to the episode. Instruments
201. 9:30wouldn't be played for any of these
202. 9:32psalms, uh, these 15 psalms that we
203. 9:34have. Why? Because these pilgrims are on
204. 9:38a trek. Like there's no there's no space
205. 9:41for instruments because they're walking
206. 9:43and singing. They're walking to
207. 9:45Jerusalem and singing. They're trekking
208. 9:47to Jerusalem and singing. They're hiking
209. 9:50to Jerusalem and singing these psalms.
210. 9:53Okay. So, uh, no instruments for these
211. 9:5715 psalms. All right. Let's dive into
212. 10:00some nerdy nuggets. Psalm 120. This is
213. 10:03an individual psalm of lament. Okay,
214. 10:07individual psalm of lament. It's a
215. 10:09personal lament of an unknown psalmist
216. 10:11who is living outside of Israel amongst
217. 10:14the Gentiles. It was likely chosen to
218. 10:17begin the ascent because it's a psalm of
219. 10:21someone who was far away from the temple
220. 10:25asking for Yahweh's deliverance so the
221. 10:27journey home can begin. One of the
222. 10:30things that you're going to see in Psalm
223. 10:32120 are these two locations, okay, in
224. 10:36verse five. Woe to me that I dwell in
225. 10:39Mesk that I live among the tents of
226. 10:42Khadar. Okay, and you're going to have
227. 10:45to understand geography to really
228. 10:47understand what the poet is doing here
229. 10:49in Psalm 120. But this is a stylistic
230. 10:53technique to in to indicate two extremes
231. 10:56but mean the whole kind of like from A
232. 10:59to Z or heaven and earth. Okay. When we
233. 11:02say that we're communicating to extremes
234. 11:05and it means A Z and everything in
235. 11:08between. Heaven, earth and everything in
236. 11:10between. Mashk is to the far north of
237. 11:13Israel geographically in the step of
238. 11:16what is now known as central Asia
239. 11:19whereas Qar are the people within Arabia
240. 11:22to the south of Israel. This north and
241. 11:26south extreme probably then is a standin
242. 11:29for all the nations that God's people
243. 11:32had been scattered amongst. So this
244. 11:34phrase from uh Mek to Gdar means that
245. 11:38all of the people scattered all over the
246. 11:40earth are demanded to come back home to
247. 11:45Jerusalem to worship the Lord for
248. 11:47pilgrimage. Yahweh is calling them home
249. 11:49to worship. This is true for the sense
250. 11:52it used in the Psalms original context
251. 11:54coming from exile but it is also true
252. 11:57for the diaspora that will follow the
253. 11:59exile. Okay, everybody, you may not
254. 12:02realize this. When the Babylonians fall
255. 12:06to the Persians and Israel changes hands
256. 12:09from the king of Babylon to the king of
257. 12:11Persia and Xerxes says they can go home.
258. 12:14Not everyone goes home. Some people like
259. 12:18living in Persia. Some people like
260. 12:20living in Babylon. Okay, imagine, right,
261. 12:24if the government of the United States
262. 12:25of America said to every single black
263. 12:29American or African-American, whichever
264. 12:31term you feel comfortable with, "Hey,
265. 12:33you can go back to Africa." Like maybe
266. 12:36some of us would want to go, but I'd
267. 12:38probably stay in America, you know? So,
268. 12:40think about it. of the Jewish people got
269. 12:42scattered throughout the Assyrian
270. 12:44Empire, Babylonian Empire, now the
271. 12:46Persian Empire. And uh they are they are
272. 12:50released to go back to Jerusalem. But
273. 12:53some of them stay. And so Yahweh is
274. 12:55giving a call. Hey, for everyone that
275. 12:58has stayed and created a Jewish diaspora
276. 13:01all over the world for these
277. 13:03pilgrimages, you come home. You ascend
278. 13:06the hill of the Lord and you come home.
279. 13:08All right? There will be Jews outside of
280. 13:10Judea and wherever they are, Yahweh is
281. 13:13still calling them home to Jerusalem to
282. 13:15worship at the temple and celebrate the
283. 13:17feast together. Okay, that's Psalm 120.
284. 13:20Okay, Psalm 121. This psalm begins with
285. 13:22one of the most famous lines in the
286. 13:24whole of the Psalms. I lift up my eyes
287. 13:27to the hills. From where does my help
288. 13:31come from? My help comes from Yahweh who
289. 13:35made heaven and earth. That's Psalm
290. 13:36121:es 1 and two. Now, I'm going to say
291. 13:39something I don't always say on the on
292. 13:42the podcast, but you've probably been
293. 13:44misinterpreting this verse like for a
294. 13:47long time. Okay? A long time. I'm going
295. 13:49to take a sip of coffee before we get
296. 13:50into it cuz we're about to get into a
297. 13:51nerdy deep dive. All right? Now, that
298. 13:54I'm caffeinated, let's dive in. Now,
299. 13:56most of us think, "Oh, hills and Yahweh
300. 14:02are connected." So, most of us, that's
301. 14:04how we interpret it. Okay? I lift up my
302. 14:06eyes to the hills and Yahweh is coming
303. 14:10from the hills to help. But that's
304. 14:12literally just not how this should be
305. 14:14interpreted. And so I'm going to provide
306. 14:16context so that we can actually
307. 14:18interpret it properly. Okay. Uh so here
308. 14:21we go. This stanza is actually an
309. 14:24anti-idolatry
310. 14:26pmic. The high places of Israel and
311. 14:30Judah, the hills of Israel and Judah
312. 14:33were places of worship that were outside
313. 14:37the place that Yahweh had chosen, which
314. 14:40is Jerusalem. Yahweh says, "Only worship
315. 14:42in Jerusalem. Do not worship on hills."
316. 14:45So when the psalmist says, "I lift up my
317. 14:48eyes to the hills," he's saying, "I'm
318. 14:50lifting up my eyes to the hills." And
319. 14:51there's a temptation to go worship on
320. 14:54the hills. But we don't do that. Why?
321. 14:56Because our help comes from Yahweh. It
322. 14:58doesn't come from the hills. It comes
323. 15:00from Yahweh. Okay. So, there are two
324. 15:03things that the hills and the high
325. 15:04places represent. Number one, they could
326. 15:06be worship of pagan gods. Okay? Remember
327. 15:10all throughout the Psalms, there's this
328. 15:12repeated phrase. They worshiped under
329. 15:14every tree and on every high hill. Okay?
330. 15:17High hill and under every tree. Okay?
331. 15:20These are, you know, astropoles, high
332. 15:23places. Hills are spots where pagan gods
333. 15:28get worshiped. But also there were
334. 15:31places where people would worship Yahweh
335. 15:35even though Yahweh said only worship me
336. 15:37in Jerusalem. Okay, you could see this
337. 15:40in John chapter 4. Actually, let's just
338. 15:43go to John chapter 4. I wasn't planning
339. 15:45on going to John chapter 4, but the
340. 15:47Samaritan woman at the well talking to
341. 15:50Jesus is asking this exact theological
342. 15:53question. Which hill should we worship
343. 15:56on? So verse 19 of John chapter 4, sir,
344. 16:00the woman said, I can see that you're a
345. 16:02prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this
346. 16:05mountain. Okay, cuz it's mountains and
347. 16:08hills where people worship in the
348. 16:10ancient world, but you Jews claim that
349. 16:12the place where we must worship is in
350. 16:15Jerusalem. Like we can't worship on this
351. 16:17mountain. We got to go worship in
352. 16:18Jerusalem. Okay, woman. Believe me, a
353. 16:22time is coming when you will worship the
354. 16:23Father neither on this mountain nor
355. 16:25Jerusalem. So, okay, great. One day,
356. 16:28we're not going to worship on mountains
357. 16:30at all geographically. We're going to
358. 16:32worship him in heaven. Verse 22, you
359. 16:34Samaritans worship what we you do not
360. 16:36know. Then Jesus is like, you guys are
361. 16:39still freaking wrong, though. You You're
362. 16:42ignorant. You worship what you do not
363. 16:43know. We worship what we do know. For
364. 16:47salvation is from the Jews. So Jesus
365. 16:49makes it clear. We're right. Jerusalem
366. 16:52is definitely the place for worship. Yet
367. 16:54a time is coming and has now come when
368. 16:57true worshippers will worship the father
369. 16:58in spirit and in truth. The other kind
370. 17:01of worshippers the father seeks. God is
371. 17:03spirit. His worshippers must worship him
372. 17:05in spirit and truth. So Jesus again
373. 17:08makes it hey one day this is not going
374. 17:11to matter because we worship in spirit.
375. 17:12We worship in truth. But the fact of the
376. 17:14matter is Jerusalem is the place ma'am
377. 17:17and you're wrong. Okay. So mountains. So
378. 17:20I lift up my eyes to the hills. From
379. 17:22where does my help come?
380. 17:25And the answer that is inferred but not
381. 17:28given is your help doesn't come from the
382. 17:30hills. Help doesn't come from idols.
383. 17:33Help doesn't come from mountains that
384. 17:37you've decided are good places to
385. 17:39worship Yahweh, but that Yahweh has not
386. 17:42consecrated as places that he would like
387. 17:44to be worshiped. And I know we read this
388. 17:47out of context a lot and we make it seem
389. 17:50like God's coming from the hills. Yay. I
390. 17:53lift up my eyes to the hills. Look,
391. 17:55God's coming on the hills. And God's
392. 17:57like, no, hills are synonymous with
393. 18:01idolatry. That idolatry happens in two
394. 18:03forms. Either worshiping pagan gods on
395. 18:05the hills or worshiping him on the
396. 18:08hills. But the hills are not where he's
397. 18:10asked to be worshiped. He's asked to be
398. 18:12worshiped on a hill, a mountain, and
399. 18:15that place is Jerusalem, and you can't
400. 18:19worship him anywhere else. All right, I
401. 18:20hope that that's helpful and clear. All
402. 18:22right, I'll read it the way that I've
403. 18:24got it in my notes. Okay. Uh, there were
404. 18:26two types of high places, shrines within
405. 18:28city gates or the places of worship in
406. 18:30the countryside at top hills or
407. 18:32mountains. The hills then that this
408. 18:35psalmist lifts his eyes to are these
409. 18:38high places. The question he is
410. 18:40pondering is in the context of where
411. 18:42others worship. They worship on the
412. 18:44hills worshiping Yahweh idolatrously or
413. 18:47worshiping idols directly. He asks from
414. 18:51where does my help come? It is not from
415. 18:54the idolatrous worship at the high
416. 18:56places at the hills. Rather he looks to
417. 18:59the one who made the hills, who made all
418. 19:03things, heaven and earth and everything
419. 19:05in between. Yahweh is to be worshiped as
420. 19:08creator of all things. Parts or places
421. 19:11of that creation cannot take his place.
422. 19:13In terms of the the ascent, this psalm
423. 19:16acts as the pilgrim declaring that the
424. 19:18high places are not genuine places of
425. 19:20worship. Yahweh is beyond and will not
426. 19:24be worshiped there which then leads
427. 19:26naturally on the next psalm that lead it
428. 19:29flows right into Psalm 122 because the
429. 19:32pilgrim refuses the high places but then
430. 19:35ascends to the place Yahweh has chosen
431. 19:38for worship and that place is Jerusalem.
432. 19:42So the whole point of Psalm 122 is that
433. 19:44Jerusalem is set to juxtapose the high
434. 19:47places of idolatry. Okay. Jerusalem is
435. 19:50the chosen location chosen by Yahweh.
436. 19:56Okay. Chosen by Yahweh. Not just chosen
437. 19:59by David, but chosen by Yahweh. This is
438. 20:03a psalm of two houses. The house of
439. 20:05Yahweh and the house of David. Psalm 122
440. 20:08is declaring that David and Jerusalem
441. 20:10are the choices of Yahweh. This is the
442. 20:13king and this is the place. It is
443. 20:15identifying Jerusalem with statements
444. 20:18that are made throughout the Torah.
445. 20:19Okay? And before Yahweh your God in the
446. 20:22place that he will choose to make his
447. 20:25name dwell there, you shall eat the
448. 20:28tithe of your grain, of your wine, and
449. 20:31of your oil, and the firstborn of your
450. 20:33herd and flock, that you might learn to
451. 20:36fear Yahweh your God always. That's
452. 20:38Deuteronomy 14:23.
453. 20:41So Psalm 122 is drawing on these themes
454. 20:45from Deuteronomy that makes it clear
455. 20:48that Yahweh will choose a place, okay,
456. 20:51and make his name dwell there. And David
457. 20:55is making it very clear Jerusalem is
458. 20:57that place where God has chosen to make
459. 21:00his name dwell. All righty. In terms of
460. 21:03the ascent, the pilgrim has been
461. 21:05redeemed and will and return to worship,
462. 21:08but not at the high places. So where
463. 21:11will he worship? He will come to the
464. 21:13place that Yahweh has chosen to bear his
465. 21:14name. He will come to Jerusalem, the
466. 21:16city of the house of David and the house
467. 21:19of Yahweh. All right. What's our
468. 21:21timeless truth? Our timeless truth is
469. 21:24that we all have hills. We all have high
470. 21:26places. We all have places where we
471. 21:30worship the wrong things, where we
472. 21:32worship the wrong people. and what we
473. 21:35worship, who we worship, and where we
474. 21:36worship always has to get reentered on
475. 21:39the person of Jesus, the King of Kings
476. 21:41and the Lord of Lords. It's funny
477. 21:43because I have a father who for years uh
478. 21:47he was going to a mosque and he was
479. 21:48coming to church and I'd always ask him
480. 21:49like, "What God do you believe in?" And
481. 21:51he would say, "Whatever god can deliver
482. 21:53me from drugs, I worship that God. I
483. 21:56worship whatever God can make me sober."
484. 21:59And that may sound noble, but that's
485. 22:01idolatrous. That's what causes, you
486. 22:03know, when I was in Uganda p I was
487. 22:05living in Uganda for six months and the
488. 22:07pastor at our church said, you know,
489. 22:09people will come to church, you know,
490. 22:10and they'll pray to get pregnant and if
491. 22:12they can't get pregnant, if if God
492. 22:13doesn't do a miracle, they'll go see a
493. 22:15witch doctor because they haven't
494. 22:18pledged allegiance to God. They just
495. 22:21want to get pregnant. And they'll pledge
496. 22:23allegiance to whatever God gets them
497. 22:25pregnant because getting pregnant is an
498. 22:27idol. For my dad, it was getting sober.
499. 22:30sobriety was the idol. And if Allah
500. 22:32could help me do that, if Buddha could
501. 22:34help me do that, if God could help me do
502. 22:36that, I'll worship whatever God can just
503. 22:38help me get sober. Which means you don't
504. 22:40really worship God. That's not what
505. 22:42worship is. Worship is actually saying
506. 22:45like the three Hebrew boys, hey
507. 22:47Nebuchadnezzar, we're never going to bow
508. 22:49down and God's going to deliver us from
509. 22:50the fiery furnace. But let's make it
510. 22:52real clear. Even if he doesn't deliver
511. 22:56us, we'd rather burn than bow. That's
512. 22:59real worship. We'd rather burn. I'd
513. 23:02rather die than bow down. Cuz getting
514. 23:05sober is not the goal. Getting pregnant
515. 23:07is not the goal. Getting to heaven is
516. 23:09the goal. And and bringing heaven to
517. 23:11earth is the goal. That's the goal to
518. 23:13dwell with God. And real worship is does
519. 23:16not go after results. Real worship goes
520. 23:19after a relationship. And that's not
521. 23:22just true for for the people of Israel
522. 23:24or for David or for the pilgrims that
523. 23:27are ascending or ascending the hill of
524. 23:30the Lord. That's true for me and for you
525. 23:33because it is quite easy to make results
526. 23:36the goal instead of making a
527. 23:38relationship with God the goal. That's
528. 23:41timelessly true. And that will be true
529. 23:43today, yesterday, and forever more.
530. 23:46Tomorrow we've got day 294. We're going
531. 23:49to be looking at three more songs or
532. 23:52psalms of ascent. We're going to be
533. 23:54looking at Psalms 123, 124, and 125.
534. 23:58Can't wait. I'm so proud of you. I love
535. 24:00you so much. I'll see you right here
536. 24:02tomorrow. Same time, same place. Love
537. 24:04you guys. Peace. Thanks so much for
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