Day 29: The Summer of His Face Shining Upon Us- Psalm 29

Day 29 – Join Johnny Enlow for a 67-day walk through Psalms.

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SKIP LIKE A UNICORN?

Key Verse: “The Lord rules over the floodwaters. The Lord reigns as King forever.” (v.10)

Key Theme: The Kingdom Meta-narrative 

Key Descriptive of God: The Lord with the Thundering Voice

What a challenge I have today. As I dove into Psalm 29, I discovered a veritable gold mine of revelation that could or will perhaps fill a whole book. With the Holy Spirit’s help, I will bring it down to a useable portion into the smiling face of God on this 67-day journey in the Summer of His Love.

If you have already read this chapter I am sure you realized that these eleven verses take you to an other-worldly place. It is beautiful, poetic, majestic, and quite above normal reasoning. From its first verse, you can tell you are being thrown into the deep end of the pool. “Ascribe to the Lord, O mighty ones, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.” Immediately your mind of reason is thrown into TILT. What does “ascribe to the Lord” mean? Who are the “mighty ones”? If “ascribe” means “tribute or honor”, how do you ascribe “glory and strength”? You can tell the translators have really struggled with the meaning of words. I read the chapter in 6 versions and about the only word or phrase agreed upon was the “voice of the Lord”. Again part of the reason for that is each Hebrew word has multiple definitions to choose from and often they are not similar at all in context. For instance in verse 8 where it says “The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness” (or desert, depending on your translation), the Hebrew word for “wilderness” is MIDBAR, which can be translated as wilderness or desert but also means “speech, mouth, and all the mouths connected organs”. The Lord either “shakes the desert” or “shakes the mouth”. (amazingly at this precise moment a sound of thunder just reverberated outside and it is the only one I have heard today). To further complicate matters the Hebrew word for “shakes” CHUWL can mean “twist, whirl, dance, writhe, travail, birth, tremble, trust (and more)”. So is He “shaking the desert” or “twisting the mouth”- or something else? Yes, the inspiration of scriptures is “inerrant” and of the Holy Spirit, but the fact that man has had to translate it adds an “errancy” component most aren’t that familiar with. All it means is to make sure to bring the Holy Spirit into your scripture reading. “The letter kills but the Spirit gives life” (2 Cor. 3:6). The translators, by and large, get you close enough to the treasure field wherewith Holy Spirit-Teacher you can find the treasure. Here is what He showed me for Psalm 29.

THE KINGDOM NARRATIVE LAID OUT

The chapter begins with an invocation to be wowed by the Lord. I gave you verse 1 and now verse 2, “Honor the Lord for the glory of His name. Worship the Lord in the splendor of His holiness”. Verses 3-9 there will be 7 “voices of the Lord” mentioned. The 7 is not coincidental. There are 7 mountains (Rev. 17:9), 7 spirits of God (Rev. 4:5), and 7 divine attributes of God to be revealed, one in each mountain (Rev.5:12). The “voice of the Lord”, when seen in the Hebrew, is a thundering, voice of power. The sequence of each voice corresponds with the Lord speaking into and ruling over the 7 mountains or spheres of society. The ending is awesome. The last line of verse 9 says, “In His Temple everyone shouts, Glory!” That connects us to Habakuk 2:14 and the whole earth (all 7 mountains) being filled with the knowledge of the glory of God. Verse 10 starts with “The Lord rules over the floodwaters.” This reminds us of the days of Noah, but the scriptures also tell us we will go back to “as in the days of Noah”. The relevant part for us is that HE opens up “the deep” and releases the floodwaters that cause the ark of His presence and His people to rise to the tops of the mountains, where it finally rests of Mt.Ararat (meaning “the curse reversed”). This time under the new covenant of mercy, whoever calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved. We are the “ark of God” rescue for “whosoever will” as His waters rise and rise and rise. The Lord has spoken very clearly to me that we are entering those days. It will undoubtedly take many, many decades of these rising floodwaters for the tops of the mountains to be saturated and for ultimately “the curse reversed” as nations walk to the light of the sons of God. (Is. 60:3 – a good translation).

THE LORD REIGNS AS KING FOREVER

What follows is “The Lord King reigns forever.” He progressively “reigns” as He arises with His sons and daughters to the tops of the mountains. Acts 3:21 says that “He is held in the heavens UNTIL the restoration of ALL things spoken of by His servants the prophets.” David was a prophet and here lays out the meta-narrative. He is the same prophet that said in Psalm 2, “Ask of Me and I will give you the nations as an inheritance.” The “restoration of all things” of Acts 3:21 coincides with “and the ark rested on Mt. Ararat” (“the curse reversed’). Then the Lord reigns as King forever. “For He must reign until He has put all of His enemies under His feet.” (1 Cor. 15:25) Him being the Head, and us being His Body, WE are His feet. The last verse sums it up. “The Lord gives His people strength. The Lord blesses them with PEACE.” That word for peace is SHALOM. It all ends in SHALOM. What a storyline we are invited to be wowed by and invited to take part in. What a storyline is accelerating RIGHT NOW. Can you feel the mountains tremble?

THE “7 VOICES” HIDDEN REVELATION

Here is where you just hang on for the revelation ride as an in-depth explanation has to be saved for a book. I will attach a “voice of the Lord” per mountain. It helps if you read our book RISE (for Reformers Influencing Society Everyday). 

#1. Mountain of Family- “The voice of the Lord echoes ABOVE THE SEA.” (v.3) Sea is the sea of humanity. One of the definitions of the Hebrew word MAYIM for Sea is “ human bodily fluids”.

#2. Mountain of Government.- The voice of the Lord is POWERFUL”.(v. 4) In Rev. 5:12 the heavenly attribute of POWER we associate with government. (from RISE book)

#3. Mountain of Arts- “The voice of the Lord is full of GLORY.”(v.4) (other versions “majestic”) Rev. 5:12 heavenly attribute for Arts/Entertainment is GLORY.

#4. Mountain of Religion- “ The voice of the Lord splits, shatters, causes to give birth the MIGHTY CEDARS…of Lebanon…so she skips like a calf (Mal. 4:2) and makes Mt. Hermon (Ps. 133:3) skip like a young UNICORN”.(v.5 and 6) Two packed verses. “Cedars of Lebanon” were used to build Solomon’s Temple where the glory came in. Mt.Hermon speaks of UNITY. (People who have been to heaven have seen God riding a rainbow-colored unicorn. It is an extra-biblical revelation so we don’t make a doctrine out of it- but think about it anyway :))

#5. Mountain of Education- “The voice of the Lord divides the FLAMES OF FIRE.”(v.7) These are Lights of instruction. Fire was the ancient light in the darkness = education.

#6. Mountain of Media- “The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness…of Kadesh”.(v.8) It was at Kadesh that the spies gave their reports.

#7. Mountain of Economy- “The voice of the Lord makes the DEER GIVE BIRTH.” Deer in scripture are always about the “high places.” His voice brings the increase.

With that, I close for today. It all was just too jam-packed with revelation. Mainly feel the excitement. In Mt. 6 when it says His is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory, think KINGDOM= Thunder, POWER=Lightning, and GLORY = Rain. THUNDER lays out the meta-narrative. LIGHTNING shows His power to pull it off. RAIN is how He floods and changes everything. We are in the advanced swirl of it all.

 

 

Written by: Johnny Enlow

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