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0:00Hey Bible nerds, this is Dr. Manny
0:02Orango. Welcome to the Bible department
0:04podcast powered by Arma. We are walking
0:08through the entire Bible in a year. You
0:10can go to the description or the bible
0:13department.com to download a reading
0:15plan and join the journey
0:24family. Welcome to day 100 here at the
0:27Bible department. I'm so excited. Can
0:29you believe we're about to celebrate 300
0:33days down, 65 days to go? That means
0:36we're towards the end of the year. And
0:39if you are on a 300 day streak, come on,
0:43clap it up. Like, that is just amazing.
0:45I'm so glad that you've decided to spend
0:48300 days in God's word. And uh I'm also
0:52honored that you've spent 300 days with
0:54me as we've studied God's word. Like
0:57always, if you haven't done the reading
0:59for the day, I'm going to ask that you
1:01stop the video, pause the audio, go get
1:04the reading done. We are towards the end
1:06of the book of Psalms. It feels like
1:08we've been in Psalms forever.
1:11Today is our second to last day in the
1:13book of Psalms. So, uh, we've got Psalms
1:16146, 147, and 148 today. Just three
1:20Psalms. And these are beautiful,
1:23beautiful, beautiful psalms. So, if you
1:26have not done the reading for the day,
1:28go get the reading done and then come
1:30back. Like always, I'm going to provide
1:32or I'm going to at least attempt to
1:34provide some context clues, some nerdy
1:38nuggets, and a timeless truth so that we
1:42can not just study the Psalms, but live
1:44them out in our day-to-day life. All
1:46right, let's dive into what I think is
1:49some really, really, really important
1:50context. Okay, Psalms 146 to 150, okay,
1:56are known as the final hal. We've had
2:00multiple collections of hell's. That
2:02word hell means praise. Okay? And so
2:06this is the final praise or the final
2:08hell. Uh here's a challenge. I I
2:10actually would challenge you to read
2:13today and tomorrow's reading together as
2:16one. I would love for you to read the
2:18final hell all together with no breaks.
2:22Okay, so Psalms 146 to 150 is a
2:26collection. It's called the final hell.
2:28Okay. And I know most of you have
2:30already done the reading for today,
2:32which means you stopped at Psalm 148,
2:34but just go ahead and add on Psalm 149
2:37and 150. I think that'd be a good thing
2:39to do today and tomorrow to essentially
2:43like listen to or read the final hell
2:46both today and tomorrow. So instead of
2:49reading Psalms 146, 147 and 148 today
2:53and then 149 and 150 tomorrow, just read
2:56all of it today and all of it tomorrow.
2:58I think a double dose of of Psalms to go
3:02out with a bang would be really really
3:04good. All right, these psalms, okay, 146
3:08all the way to 150. Okay, these last
3:11five psalms are most likely written by
3:15Ezra. All right. Now, these are most
3:17likely written by Ezra to complete or
3:20conclude the collection of the five
3:22books. Now the person who is arranging
3:26the psalms into five books or into five
3:31smaller collections, the person who is
3:33putting the entire collection together,
3:36the person who essentially kind of edits
3:39and crafts the Tanakh as a whole is
3:44Ezra. Ezra is going to end the Tanakh by
3:47writing two books that we typically know
3:50as more than two books, but they are two
3:53books in the original Hebrew. That first
3:55book is going to be Ezra and Nehemiah.
3:57Okay, this is a book that in most of our
3:59Bibles is broken up. I'll just go to my
4:02table of contents. Okay, I don't use my
4:04table of contents much. So, that felt
4:07like it was so hard to find. Okay, what
4:10we've got in the Old Testament is Ezra.
4:15I actually do not use my table of
4:17contents often. So, that took a long
4:20time to find. Okay, what we have here is
4:22Ezra is one separate book. Nehemiah is
4:25another separate book. But together,
4:27these are actually one book in the
4:29original Hebrew scriptures. Okay, but in
4:31our English translations, these are
4:33split into the book of Ezra and the book
4:35of Nehemiah. But in the original, it's
4:37just Ezra Nehemiah as one book. The
4:40other change is that Ezra wrote
4:43Chronicles. Okay? In the Hebrew Bible,
4:46it's just Chronicles. In your English
4:48translation, it's going to be 1
4:50Chronicles and 2 Chronicles. However, in
4:53the original, it's just Chronicles. So,
4:55Ezra also in the original that is the
4:59end of the Tanakh. Okay? Ezra, Nehemiah,
5:02Chronicles ends the Tanakh. Whereas in
5:06most of our English translations, that's
5:08somewhere in the middle of the Old
5:10Testament. So, not only is the ordering
5:12of the books different in the original
5:14Hebrew, but the placement, the order of
5:17the books, but also them being split in
5:20half or being split apart is also a
5:24change that I wanted to make you aware
5:25of. All right, that's enough context for
5:28today. Okay, so Ezra is probably
5:30responsible. All that to say, Ezra is
5:32most likely responsible for these last
5:35five chapters or five psalms that we
5:38have here at the end of the book. And
5:40these psalms are known as the final
5:42praise or the final hell. All right,
5:44let's dive into our nerdy nuggets. Okay,
5:47Psalm 146 is going to contrast Yahweh to
5:52the princes of the world. Okay, these
5:54princes are also sons of Adam, okay? Or
5:58sons of man. And so Yahweh is going to
6:01get contrasted to princes. Okay, these
6:03princes are leaders, kings, foreign
6:05suzarins, pharaohs, and all the people
6:07that Israel had put their trust in for
6:11centuries. The people that essentially
6:14Yahweh is always like, "Hey, don't put
6:16your trust in Egypt. Don't put your
6:18trust in any other foreign power. Don't
6:21put your trust in Saul. Don't don't put
6:24your trust in these sons of man or in
6:28these princes. I want you to put your
6:30trust in me. Okay. So, there's three
6:32distinct contrasts that the psalm that
6:35this psalm psalm 146 is going to make.
6:37The first is this is that these sons of
6:40Adam, okay, these sons of man, okay,
6:43Adam come from the adama. That word is
6:47dust or ground. Okay, so Adam is
6:51literally like dirt man. Okay, so Adam
6:54and Adam. The word in Hebrew for dust or
6:58ground or dirt is adama. So the reason
7:02that God names Adam is because he takes
7:06them takes him from the adama. So why do
7:10humans return back to the soil? Because
7:13they are from the soil. They are mortal.
7:16Okay. And so Yahweh is saying, why would
7:18you praise that which was made from the
7:21soil or trust in that which is made from
7:24the soil and is going back to the soil?
7:26Why not trust in the one who made the
7:28soil and controls mankind? And that is
7:32none other than Yahweh. Okay. So what
7:36praise should be doing is creating a
7:39humility. I'm immortal. Yahweh alone is
7:42immortal. I'm going to put my faith,
7:45trust, hope not in that which is made
7:48from the dirt, but the one who makes the
7:50dirt that can make people. The next is
7:53breath. Okay. Psalm 146 is adamant, not
7:58to be confused with adma, but adamant.
8:01Uh, adamant, that's kind of a corny
8:03joke, but I think it's funny. adamant
8:05okay that verse four human beings who
8:08cannot save okay princes don't put your
8:11trust in princes when their spirit
8:13departs they return to the ground on
8:16that very day their plans come to
8:18nothing remember God Yahweh forms Adam
8:22from the ground and then breathes the
8:24breath of life into him and that breath
8:28okay becomes the animating spirit that
8:30brings Adam to life well that word when
8:32their spirit departs is also when their
8:35breath departs. Okay, so there's another
8:38not only does Adam come from the dirt
8:40which God made and goes back to the dirt
8:42which God made, but man or Adam or the
8:47sons of man are reliant on the very
8:50breath that God provides. And if God
8:54doesn't breathe his spirit into every
8:58living person, then they won't be living
9:00people. And so why would you trust in
9:03people with breath when you could just
9:05trust the God who gave them the breath
9:08that they have? Again, it's helping
9:12humans to see that there is a massive
9:15difference between the source of life,
9:17which is Yahweh, and a resource, which
9:21are people. And so God is saying, "Hey,
9:24before you place your trust, before you
9:26place your faith in humans who are
9:31returning to the dust and who rely on
9:33breath from Yahweh, why not direct that
9:37faith and that trust to the one who made
9:40the dirt and the one who provide
9:42provided the breath?" That is the
9:44ultimate, you know, argument of the
9:46psalm. You can also see how the psalm is
9:49linking trust, faith, and praise and
9:52worship. That whatever I trust in is
9:56what I have faith in and what I have
9:58faith in is what I actually am
10:00worshiping and praising. And so there's
10:03this link between wait the psalms are
10:06designed to hallel to praise the lord
10:09and god is trying to help people to not
10:12direct praise towards princes and the
10:15sons of man but direct praise to him and
10:18then there's a third contrast. Not only
10:21do does man go back to the dust of the
10:24earth. Not only does man rely on his
10:27breath from the only one who can give
10:29breath which is Yahweh. But man is not
10:33faithful forever, but Yahweh alone is
10:38faithful forever. Okay, so it says this
10:41in verse 6, Yahweh is the maker of
10:43heaven and earth, the sea, and
10:45everything in them. He remains faithful
10:47forever. That's kind of where
10:49everything's going. Not only does Yahweh
10:51not need breath from anybody, not only
10:53does Yahweh not return to the dust, but
10:56the thing that really sets him apart is
10:57that he's faithful forever. Number one,
11:00he's able to be faithful forever because
11:02he's the only being that can live
11:03forever. Number two, he's faithful be
11:07because he's completely in control of
11:09all of his actions. He's under the
11:11influence of nobody and nothing. There
11:14is no enemy that can tempt him or there
11:17is no flesh that can make him fluctuate.
11:19He is faithful forever. So, he needs no
11:23he needs no breath uh because he is the
11:25source of life. He doesn't return to the
11:27dust cuz he made the dust. And
11:29therefore, we can conclude he's
11:32faithful. And he's not just faithful
11:34today. He's faithful for ever. Okay.
11:38Verses 7-9 for this psalm. He upholds
11:41the cause of the oppressed. Gives them
11:42food for the hungry. The Lord sets
11:44prisoners free. The Lord gives sight to
11:46the blind. The Lord lifts up those who
11:47are bowed down. The Lord loves the
11:49righteous. The Lord watches over the
11:51foreigner and sustains the fatherless
11:52and the widow. But he frustrates the
11:54plan, the ways of the wicked. That whole
11:57these that whole section from verses 7
12:00all the way down to verse 9 is
12:02essentially recounting what Yahweh has
12:04done for his people since the exile. He
12:07brought his people back to Jerusalem.
12:10And this is written, remember, by Ezra
12:13post exile. These are people who are now
12:16returning to Jerusalem once their years
12:20in Babylonian captivity are over. And so
12:23these verses recount all the things that
12:26God did for his people while they were
12:28in ex in exile and then how his
12:30faithfulness has brought them home from
12:32exile. And here we go. It ends with the
12:34Lord reigns forever. Your God, oh Zion,
12:38for all generations. Praise the Lord.
12:40Okay, which leads us into Psalm 147.
12:44Okay, now we ended Psalm 146 with the
12:47word Zion. And that is immediately what
12:50we're going to pick up on in Psalm 147,
12:52okay? How good it is to sing praises to
12:55our God. How pleasant and fitting to
12:58praise him. So, we open up with a
12:59general kind of verse on praise and who
13:04we're praising. And then verse two, the
13:06Lord builds up Jerusalem. He gathers the
13:09exiles of Israel. So, it's right off the
13:12heels of what's happening in Psalm 146.
13:14We immediately start with one with Psalm
13:17147. Okay? He heals the brokenhearted
13:19and binds up their wounds. He determines
13:21the number of the stars and he calls
13:23them each by name. Okay, that's a that's
13:26a whiplash from verse 3 to verse 4.
13:29We're also going to get that same
13:30whiplash from verse 8 to verse 9. Okay,
13:34so let's talk about what that whiplash
13:35is. Let's talk about verse three. He
13:38heals the brokenhearted and binds up
13:39their wounds. This is a God who's close.
13:42This is a God who's intimate. This is a
13:44God who is near. Okay? And then verse
13:47four, he determines the number of the
13:48stars and calls them by name. Whoa,
13:50whoa, whoa. This is a God who's cosmic.
13:52This is a God who's far. This is a God
13:53that's transcendent. You see right here,
13:56verse three and four are focusing on the
13:59dual nature of the reality of of
14:02Yahweh's existence that he is both holy,
14:06far away, transcendent, and cosmic yet
14:09intimate and close and acquainted with
14:13who we are. that he heals the
14:16brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
14:17That's compassion. That's comfort.
14:20That's close. That's a God I can touch.
14:22That's tangible. That's right here.
14:25That's that's that's intimate. But he
14:28determines the stars and and knows the
14:30stars by name. Wo. He's infinite. He's
14:33omnisient. How do you remember the name
14:35of the stars? like that you're clearly a
14:37being that is outside of the realm of my
14:42own human understanding or my finite
14:45understanding. Okay, so we're going to
14:47get the same thing in verse 8 to 9. He
14:49covers the sky with clouds. He supplies
14:51the earth with rain and makes the grass
14:53grow on the hills. Got it? Cosmic,
14:56powerful, almighty. He's God. He's big.
15:00He provides food for the cattle and for
15:02the young ravens when they call. But he
15:05also provides food for ravens. Again,
15:08he's close. He's intimate. He's near.
15:12He's acquainted with what we are up to.
15:16He cares for ravens, young ravens. He
15:19cares for little baby birds. But he also
15:22covers the sky with clouds, earth, rain,
15:26grass growing on the hills. But why why
15:29does he do all of that? So that cattle
15:32and ravens can eat. like this is a God
15:35who's transcendent and far and holy and
15:38awesome. Uh but this is also a God who's
15:41near and he's close and he's intimate
15:45and he he's got he's got things that
15:49he's he's caring for that are that are
15:52tangible and close and small minute. Who
15:56cares about baby birds? God, right? But
16:00he cares about the big stuff and the
16:01small stuff. There is no big stuff or
16:03small stuff to him. Everything in his
16:05creation is something that's under his
16:07purview and his care. This is true
16:09omnipotence. Okay? It's omnipotence at
16:11its finest. Okay? Another just idea from
16:14Psalm 147. We extol the Lord. Jerusalem,
16:18praise your God, Zion. Okay? You can see
16:21that the emphasis over and over and over
16:23again. And then we're going to get the
16:26creation. Okay. He sends commands to the
16:28earth for his word runs swiftly. He
16:31spreads the snow like wool, scatters
16:33frost, hurls down hail. Okay. He sends
16:36his word and melts them. Stirs up breeze
16:39and waters blow. He has revealed his
16:40word to Jacob, his laws and decrees to
16:43Israel. He has done this for no other
16:45nation. They do not know his laws. So
16:48that's a reframing for us that the laws
16:51are not a burden, but the laws are a
16:54privilege. that the fact that God would
16:56reveal his word and his law and his
16:59decree to his people, Israel is not a
17:02burden to Israel, but it's a privilege
17:04because he's not done that to any other
17:07nation. Okay? And we end with our
17:09refrain, praise the Lord, which gets us
17:12into Psalm 148. If the creation was
17:16being emphasized in a small way in 147,
17:20it's going to get emphasized in a big
17:22way in Psalm 148. So the psalm starts
17:24the same way as all these psalms. Praise
17:26the Lord or praise Yahweh. Okay. Praise
17:29the Lord from the heavens. Praise him
17:31from the heights above. Praise them all
17:32as angels. Praise them all as heavenly
17:34hosts. Okay. I got a list here of all
17:38the things that are giving praise to
17:40Yahweh. Okay. Verses 1- 4, the heavens
17:43are praising Yahweh. Verse two, the
17:46angels and the host of heaven are going
17:48to praise Yahweh. Verse three, the sun,
17:51the moon, and the stars are going to
17:52praise Yahweh. Verse four, the waters
17:55beyond the sky praise Yahweh. So in the
17:58same way that I gave you kind of what's
18:00being praised from verses 1-4, the
18:03heavens and then each verse there's an
18:05aspect of the heavens that are praising
18:06him. Same thing with Psalm 148:es 7-10.
18:11Verses 7-10, the earth is going to
18:14praise Yahweh. Okay. What on earth?
18:16Well, in verse 7, the great sea
18:18creatures, aka the dragons, are going to
18:20praise Yahweh. Verse eight, the weather
18:22praises Yahweh. Verse 9, the mountains,
18:24the hills, and the trees praise Yahweh.
18:26Verse 10, the beast, the livestock, the
18:29creeping things, and birds praise
18:31Yahweh. Okay? Verses 11-2, humanity is
18:34going to praise Yahweh. Okay? So verses
18:361-4, the heavens praise. Verses 7-10,
18:39the earth is going to praise. And then
18:41verses 11-2, humanity is going to praise
18:44Yahweh. Verse 11, kings, people,
18:47princes, and rulers all praise Yahweh.
18:50Verse 12, young men and women, old men
18:53and children, praise Yahweh. It says
18:56this, "Let them praise the name of
18:59Yahweh, for his name alone is exalted.
19:02His majesty is above earth and heaven."
19:05That's 148:13.
19:08The psalm ends with just one mention of
19:11Israel, okay? Who are not described as
19:14praising him as all the rest. But it is
19:17the climax of the psalm and also the
19:20springboard for the next psalm. I want
19:23you to see how some of these psalms
19:25weave the what where one psalm ends the
19:28next psalm picks up. Okay. These are
19:31written as an interconnected collection
19:35uh interconnected whole maybe. Yeah.
19:37Psalms 146 all the way to 150. Like they
19:39are designed as a unit. So everything
19:42praises Yahweh. Okay. The heavens, the
19:44earth, humanity. Okay. Everything
19:46praises Yahweh down and then until you
19:49get down to the end. Okay. So Psalm uh
19:53148 verse13.
19:55Let let them praise the name of the Lord
19:57for his name alone is exalted. His
19:59splendor is above the heavens and the
20:01earth. Verse 14. And he has raised up
20:04for his people a horn. Okay.
20:06Everything's praising Yahweh.
20:08Everything's praising Yahweh.
20:09Everything's praising Yahweh. And now
20:11Yahweh is doing something for his
20:12people. He's he's raised up for his
20:15people a horn, the praise of all his
20:18faithful servants of Israel, the people
20:21close to his heart. Praise the Lord. And
20:26uh what I have written down in my notes
20:28is literally everything that has been
20:30created is designed to praise Yahweh.
20:33Yahweh is praised by all. And then
20:36here's what Yahweh does. He strengthens
20:39his own. He raises up a horn. He reaches
20:43down and raises up a horn for his
20:45people. A horn is usually associated
20:48with strength or glory. Yahweh is
20:51glorified by all. And then Yahweh
20:54strengthens and glorifies his own.
20:57Praise Yahweh. Hallelujah. Family, the
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21:56back to the episode. I want to end on
21:59our timeless truth just like always. One
22:01of the things that is timelessly true is
22:04we are timelessly navigating the tension
22:07between the transcendent reality of a
22:10holy God who is holy other and also
22:14relating to an intimate God who is right
22:18here right in our space. We are
22:20constantly just holding in tention the
22:23om omniresence of God like he's
22:26everywhere all the time. there's nowhere
22:28where I can flee from his presence. But
22:31also there are times where his manifest
22:33presence is so close. And uh this is why
22:36I love the person of the Holy Spirit
22:38because in the person of the Holy Spirit
22:40we encounter the grandeur, the holiness,
22:43the magnificence of an awesome and great
22:45God, but also a God that wants to take
22:48up residence in us and who wants to talk
22:52to us. And we are always going to have
22:55to balance or hold the tension between
22:58these juxtaposing realities. And the
23:01moment we fall into either one or the
23:04other, our relationship with God is
23:06either going to reflect the fact that we
23:08think that he's transcendent or the fact
23:10that we think he's just close. And so I
23:14want you to actually begin to maybe
23:16journal. I know I don't give homework a
23:18lot here on the podcast, but I'd love
23:20for you to journal. Which of these two
23:22realities do you connect with more? I
23:25personally have always connected more
23:28just immediately with the transcendent
23:31awe inspiring
23:33strong omnipotent creator of the
23:36universe God. And sometimes I can
23:38struggle with the near close intimate
23:41dad that he wants to be and that he is
23:44like in my life. And so God's holiness,
23:48his other than meanness, his bigness,
23:53his grandeur, not very hard for me to
23:56conceptualize. But the small, minute,
23:59detail oriented God, the God that cares
24:03about everything happening in my life,
24:05the God who is down to be interrupted,
24:09you know, it it like knows me in a
24:12really really close way. that God has
24:14been harder or at least not as natural
24:18for me to connect with. And uh so it's
24:21hard for me to think about God as my
24:23friend. It's easy for me to think about
24:25him as the ruler of the universe. And so
24:27that's just me. Okay. So I in my own
24:30personal walk with the Lord, I need to
24:32begin to heir on the side of he's my
24:35constant companion. He's close. He's
24:37here. And invite him into my dayto-day.
24:41And you may be opposite me. him being
24:43close, him being friend, him being near,
24:46him being intimate. Maybe the thing that
24:48you immediately vibe with, but then you
24:51respecting him, honoring him, exalting
24:54him, and worshiping him in all of his
24:57grandeur and his glory. Maybe the thing
24:59that's hard for you, a let us know in
25:01the comments, uh, if you're watching
25:03this on YouTube, but also like journal
25:05about that. And that is a clear tension
25:09that is true in the Psalms. But that's
25:12not just bound by history. That's also a
25:16reality that you and I are walking with.
25:20And that's not a problem to solve, but
25:22it's a tension to manage. And uh I want
25:25to know in the comments how you're
25:26managing that tension. And I want you to
25:28apply that as your timeless truth for
25:31today. All right. Tomorrow we've got
25:33Psalms 149 and 150. We are finishing the
25:38book of Psalms tomorrow for day 301. I'm
25:41so excited about it. But remember,
25:43here's my challenge. I'd love for you to
25:45read all of the final hl today and all
25:48of the final hell tomorrow. Read all
25:51five of these psalms as a unit both
25:53today and tomorrow. I'll see you right
25:56here tomorrow. Same day, same Well, no,
25:59not same day. Same time, same place. I'm
26:02so proud of you. I love you so much. So
26:04glad we're on this journey together. 300
26:06days down, 65 days to go. I'll see you
26:08tomorrow. Peace. Thanks so much for
26:11joining us on the Bible Department
26:12podcast. If this episode was helpful,
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