BUT GOD HIMSELF
Key Verse: “But God Himself will shoot them with His arrows, suddenly striking them down” (v.7).
Key Theme: David seemingly in an identical situation we are in.
Key Descriptive of God: The God Who Suddenly Shoots Evil
Good Morning Saints! Today we have a chapter that I don’t know could ever have more resonated with our own reality. In fact, if we didn’t have our present reality to apply to it, this Psalm would seemingly be barely relevant other than verse 1— with its’ always relevant, “Preserve my life FROM FEAR OF THE ENEMY”. Let’s address that first and then get to the core message.
FEAR OF
David already knew he was protected from the enemy but here asks to be preserved from the FEAR OF the enemy. Isn’t it something how that happens? Once we are in heaven’s perspective we will look back and realize that better than 90% of our battles on earth were the FEAR OF something rather than the something itself. Based on an initial challenge, the enemy will have presented before us worst-case scenarios and that is what really sucks the life out of us. In 2020 almost everyone has been faced with the FEAR OF COVID, the FEAR OF losing a job, the FEAR OF going bankrupt, the FEAR OF civil war, the FEAR OF evil actually triumphing in our world etc.etc. The FEAR OF the “what ifs” have ruled us in so many ways and what a great prayer to say to God, “Preserve me from the FEAR OF”. That is the pandemic of life itself and the pandemic gone turbo in 2020. We submit to crazy things because of the FEAR OF. Overwhelming data shows that it is senseless and useless and even more dangerous to extendedly wear masks to protect from COVID— yet the whole world like dumb sheep bows to the FEAR OF (I know, sometimes even when you are not “dumb sheep” you have to mask just to do business). It has been massively manipulated by the enemy through sinister Media and Government, but believe me, by this time next year, we and the whole world will look back and collectively shake our heads at how we allowed FEAR OF to cause us to lose our brains. The enemy is “great” primarily through his manipulation of fear. We truly have almost nothing to fear— but fear itself.
PLOTS, TONGUES, AND GANGS
Verses 2 through 6 almost perfectly describe matters today. David says, “Hide me from the PLOTS of this EVIL MOB” and “GANG of wrongdoers”. “They sharpen their TONGUES like swords”, “aim their BITTER WORDS like arrows”, “they shoot from AMBUSH at the innocent, attacking suddenly and fiercely”. “They encourage each other to do evil and PLAN how to set their TRAPS in secret”. “As they PLOT THEIR CRIMES, they say, WE HAVE DEVISED THE PERFECT PLAN.” Does this about cover what we see, what our president sees? The media “tongues”, the deep states “plots”. ANTIFA’S ambushes and their mutual encouragement in it are all covered by these verses. But very good news for us! Psalm 64 is going to be prophetic for our day and it is why the Lord has it in our reading for the last week of “The Summer of His Love”. The next two verses (v. 7,8) stop doing free commercials for the devil and now tell about our God. I really like God-commercials.
BUT GOD HIMSELF
I love those three words! “BUT GOD HIMSELF— will shoot them with His arrows, SUDDENLY striking them down.” Can we pause, do a jig, let out a “yahoo”, and celebrate just the declaration itself? Oh yeah, the enemy has a FEAR OF coming that will be followed by the TERROR OF REAL CONSEQUENCES. The enemy has NO DEFENSE against fear and has GOOD REASON to fear. History has taught them that against God they NEVER get the last laugh. They may laugh early in the game, during the middle of the game, or even late in the game— but NEVER when looking at the final score. Ecclesiastes 3:11, says “He makes EVERYTHING beautiful in its time”. “If it ain’t beautiful, it ain’t over” — that from our Papa’s own mouth. Yeah, a lot of us have some games in the 3rd or 4th quarter that don’t look good— but “it ain’t over until it’s over!”. Our God loves to come in and “save the day” (sometimes it seems He EXCESSIVELY loves to do that, He seems to have a “Messianic complex”).
MEDIA THAT BOOMERANGS
“Their own tongues will ruin them” (NLT) or “He will make them stumble over their own tongue.” I think that is where we are right now. BOOMERANG time on the enemy and on its’ “false prophet” the “mainstream media”. God is going to make them eat their own words. This too gives Him particular pleasure. “All who see them will shake their head in scorn” (v.8). Their polls on everything are about to give great cause for “scorn” from ALL.
ALL MEN SHALL FEAR?
“All men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; For they shall wisely consider His doing” (v.9). Suddenly the only good fear will be rightly restored — the fear of the Lord. As it says in the NLT, they will “realize all the amazing things He does.” This is not a fear brought on by a despot, but a fear that is the amazement at a plan gone right. Ours and the world’s proper God-view is restored not because He slammed us with hurricanes and devastated us with earthquakes, but because He so brilliantly takes down the enemy. Our formerly masked mouths will become agape with awe— and then praise. This is straight ahead for us. Our God had it played out for us in the Super Bowl (for those not too “spiritual” to see it) where the commander (quarterback) of the Chiefs led a 4th quarter drive to defeat the team from the San Francisco Bay Area. Ultimately, a rather comfortable 11-point win. Our Commander-in-Chief is sounding His Trump (our human Commander-in-chief) and leading a shocking 4th quarter rally. Our God had it played out early in the year in a football game watched by the masses so that we wouldn’t all have to bite our nails the whole game. Even deceased prophet Bob Jones told us years ago to watch with anticipation a year when the Kansas City Chiefs would win the Super Bowl— but many of us still have no nails left. Oh well.
THE GODLY WILL REJOICE
Last verse. “THE GODLY will rejoice in the Lord and find shelter in Him. And THOSE WHO DO WHAT IS RIGHT will praise Him”. This is our “end game” for 2020. The “godly” rejoice and then even all who “do what is right” praise Him. There are those who know they are His (“the godly”) and there are those who don’t yet know they are His (“those who do right”) but are drawn towards “what is right”. They are still connecting the kingdom dots that lead to the King— but what plays out will greatly assist them on their journey to Him. I believe this whole Psalm to be a powerful prophetic word for our day. May the anticipation of it all cause your face to shine with His shine and then spread like a good wildfire.
Written by: Johnny Enlow
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