{"id":13066,"date":"2022-10-28T11:16:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T15:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=13066"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:27:29","slug":"bible-study-psalm-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=13066","title":{"rendered":"Bible Study: Psalm 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>v.2: my rock, fortress, deliverer: That which I stand on, find refuge in, am redeemed by. Which is also identity, protection and salvation, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>v.7: Then the <strong>earth shook<\/strong> and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. This seems to align with Matthew 27:51-53.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>v. 8: The <strong>commandment <\/strong>of the LORD is <strong>pure<\/strong>, enlightening the <strong>eyes<\/strong>. This is set against what Eve in Eden saw of the fruit of the knowledge tree. Genesis 3:6 - that it was pleasant to the <strong>eyes<\/strong>. <strong>Eve made the commandment of the LORD impure.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>v.9: The fear of the Lord is not something you are involved with only when you are a sinner. It is everlasting from prefall to the new heaven and Earth, because it is as clean as the creator-creation distinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>v.19: Who are the elects? The ones whom God delights in, not because of merits (neither strength v.17, and certainly not of ends instead of means: rewarded vs. deliverer v.20,24).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>v.31: \"who is a rock...\" - \u05d5\u05de\u05d9 \u05e6\u05d5\u05e8 can be translated as \"who is strong\/mighty...\" The Indonesians (IBIS) translated \u05e6\u05d5\u05e8 as <em>pembela<\/em> (defender).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>v.43-45: Unlike Solomon who mingled with the strangers, David neither mingled nor submit to them, but ruled over them, made by God, before God. A true type of Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>v.45: The strangers shall fade away...Those whose motive were never truly to serve God before men, before David. For true submission (v.44) will remain strangers no more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>v.2: my rock, fortress, deliverer: That which I stand on, find refuge in, am redeemed by. Which is also identity, protection and salvation, respectively. v.7: Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=13066\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13066"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20172,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13066\/revisions\/20172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}