PSALM 52:1-4
International Standard Version (I usually quote from the ol' KJV, but I really like how this version interprets certain words)
1 Why do you make evil
the foundation of your boasting, mighty one?
God’s gracious love never ceases.
2 Your tongue, like a sharp razor, devises wicked things
and crafts treachery.
3 You love evil rather than good,
falsehood rather than speaking uprightly.
4 You love all words that destroy, you deceitful tongue!.
We can see this mentality more and more in this world, that has always been wicked and evil, but has simply risen to the surface, more visible, and more widespread in acceptance among the 'civilized societies' of this Rebel Planet. They literally use as a basis of policy, conduct and objectives the very tenets and protocols that are anti-Bible. They attack the very gift of life by killing the unborn (now full-term murder is legal).
They attack the innocence of childhood by exposing them to X-rated 'Sex Education' materials (as young as grade school??!). We are to protect our children from such things, not exploit them to further a political agenda!
They actively seek out, promote and encourage sexual orientation from male and female as GOD ordained it, to a 'whatever goes, goes' mentality, and affirm among themselves that our identity is all a matter of percentages; I might be 70% male, 15% female and 15% acrogenous. You might be the other way around. Who's to say anything different (very much like in the days of Israel; JUDGES 21:25)?
Such people have razor sharp tongues, plot wicked plans and seek out treachery where they come out on top, with boot prints all over the faces of people they climb over. They love everything anti-GOD, anti-Bible, anti-JESUS. They relish the idea of anything which brings down the GOD-ordained order as He established it.
We see this no where greater than in our public education system as well as in the political arena infested with
Marxist ideologies and globalism.
Globalism is originally an occult concept and might I add, still the strongest perspective; to see this from the 'horses' mouth', check out what the Illuminati has to say
here; to understand the evils of what these globalists believe and implement as policy, go
here. Check out the modern logos of global corporations and their occult symbolic counterparts, click this
link. To read about the mentality of a 'goblin' (globalist) check out a fictitious rendition that is actually an amalgam of quotes from various goblins,
CONFESSIONS of a GOBLIN. Pretty grim stuff, right? On to vs. 5 for the good stuff!
PSALM 52:5-7
5 But God will tear you down forever;
he will take you away,
even snatching you out of your tent!
He will uproot you from the land of the living.
6 The righteous will fear when they see this,
but then they will laugh at him, saying,
7 “Look, here is a young man who refused to make God his strength;
instead, he trusted in his great wealth
and made his wickedness his strength.
We can all too often feel a deep sense of frustrating dissatisfaction when we see how the wicked prosper (PSALM 37:7; 73:3: JER 5:28; 12:1). What I have to remember is who the management for this present world is: Satan (2 COR 4:4) who is "the prince of this world" (JOHN 12:31; 16:11). But just as with Satan, all the workers of iniquity (MATT 7:22-24; LUKE 13:26-28) will be torn down forever, take them away from their resources that they used generously for their unjust, unholy and deplorable plans! They will be uprooted from the land of the living and brought down to hell, all who forget GOD:
PSALM 9:17
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
The righteous, just as the LORD Himself (PSALM 2), shall laugh at such ones as these because at their ultimate and truly bitter end, they utterly refuse and reject the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ, even though He is unwilling that any should perish, but come to salvation (2 PET 3:9) and such foolishness - refusing such a One that loves them enough to die for their sins - is laughable. As I said before:
If you want to see the love of GOD demonstrated for humanity, look to the cross of Christ. If you want to see the hatred of the world demonstrated for GOD, look to the cross!
Such wicked souls (whose breath is in their nostrils would rather place their trust in their own strengths rather than to trust in the Everlasting One full of grace and truth. And those who are in power now, 'calling the shots' as it were, are nothing to fear truly:
ISAIAH 51:12-13
12 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; 13 And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
Answer: he is uprooted because "he trusted in his great wealth and made his wickedness his strength."
PSALM 52:8-9
8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;
I trust in the gracious love of God forever and ever.
9 Therefore I will praise you forever
because of what you did;
I will proclaim that your name is good
in the midst of your faithful ones.
The resiliency of the righteous, "these trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD" (ISAIAH 61:3), are only so resilient because of the LORD Who is the Root of our salvation (ISAIAH 11:10) and as long as He is in our lives, as long as He never leaves us or forsakes us, even if the wicked attack us and decimate us to the point where our lives are in absolute ruin, they cannot touch HE Who is the ROOT! And as long as the roots remain in an olive tree, it can and DOES grow again, and produces fruit well into old age!
Dwelling in the house of GOD, means His assured protection and in His wisdom, He knows what to preserve, and what to allow the enemy to ruin; it all works together for the good of His saints (ROM 8:28)! We can trust in His love, and may render praises to Him forever for what He has done - and will do - for us!
We will witness the testimony of the faithful ones who declare the faithfulness of the LORD and add our testimony to theirs in the proclamations of praise! It should be mentioned that in such adverse conditions as we find ourselves in this ever darkening world, that the fruit produced in our lives - to attract those in the dark, who are hungry and thirsty for truth - is promised by GOD to be produced (JOHN 15:16).
Did you know that it can take an olive tree as long as 14,15 years to yield its first fruits? That tells me, that we must be patient, to wait on the LORD, and allow the LORD to work in us according to His time table, not ours.
Lastly, some other passages from Psalms to comfort us so that we understand this world and the lusts thereof are fading away (1 JOHN 2:17); that the LORD is our salvation and we have nothing to fear what will transpire on our very near horizons: GOD is SOVEREIGN OVER ALL! And we will soon be going Home, to dwell in the house of the LORD FOREVER!
PSALM 27:1-5
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. 3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. 4 One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple. 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
PSALM 27:13-14
13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. 14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
PSALM 92:4-7
4 For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands. 5 O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. 6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this. 7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
PSALM 92:10-15
10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil. 11 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me. 12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 13 Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. 14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; 15 To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
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