WHY, O LORD DO YOU STAND FAR OFF?
Key Verse: “Break the arms of these wicked, evil people! Go after them until the last one is destroyed.”(v.15)
Key Theme: The wicked seemingly getting away with evil.
Key Descriptives of God: King Forever; Defender of the Helpless, of the Orphan, of the Oppressed
INTERCESSORY FOCUS
Psalm 10, is an intense intercessory chapter and one I have strongly identified with during this season of extreme exposure of evil. As the world network of human traffickers and satanic pedophiles has gotten progressively discovered it first can lead to a reaction such as David had here. For most of this Psalm, David is less sure than normal that God is really doing His job. I have been there especially this year having asked Him questions I later apologized to Him about. There is similarly great frustration in David at how the wicked are getting away with horrific behavior.
THE WICKED SUCCEED IN EVERYTHING?
Yes, his very first line in verse 1 is “Why, O Lord do you stand far off?”. In verse 2, he speaks of the wicked arrogantly hunting down the poor. Verse 3, these evil ones brag about evil desires and they praise the greedy and curse the Lord. Perhaps verses 5 and 6 have David expressing his frustration at the highest level. “Yet they succeed in everything they do. They do not see your punishment awaiting them”…They think, “Nothing bad will ever happen to us!” David sees them only prospering in their vile behavior. Verse 7, tells of their “mouths” and “tongues” being full of lies, trouble, and threats— which I associate with the compromised and aligned with evil “mainstream media”. For us today they are the ones primarily responsible for the wholesale overreach and overreaction to a bioengineered virus that has a 99.4% recovery rate. All this in an attempt to derail a modern-day “Cyrus”- President Trump (Isaiah 45) from taking out their bases of operation. David, perhaps for our later encouragement, seemed to be facing some similar challenges.
ARISE O LORD PUNISH THE WICKED!
As David continues to describe these really bad people we see they are the caliber of evil we are seeing today. “They lurk in ambush in the villages, waiting to murder innocent people. They are always searching for helpless victims.” (v.8) “Like lions crouched in hiding, they wait to pounce on the helpless. Like hunters, they capture the helpless and drag them away into nets. Their helpless victims are crushed.” (v9 and 10) It seems David is on to a major sex/human trafficking operation and it has devastated him. Today, in 2020 we hear that over 800,000 kids are done yearly as David described— in the United States alone! Around the globe, the total number is said to be at least 27 million! It is horrific! I have found myself joining in with David as he says “Arise, O Lord punish the wicked, O God! Do not ignore the helpless! Why do they get away with despising God?” (v.12,13)
BUT YOU SEE!
As David unburdens himself in intercession it is not until verse 14 that he gains just a glimmer of light. “BUT YOU SEE the trouble and grief they cause”, he is finally able to see— GOD seeing. He recognizes it as he states, “you do take note of it and punish them.” “You do defend the orphans”. In verse 15, David has found faith and is now convinced God is “on the job” and releases the key verse of this Psalm. “BREAK THE ARMS OF THESE WICKED, EVIL PEOPLE! GO AFTER THEM UNTIL THE LAST ONE IS DESTROYED.” Fully in hope, he now declares, “THE LORD IS KING FOREVER AND EVER! The godless nations will perish from HIS land.” Again note who and what gets “raptured”. Evil and godlessness. The righteous inherit the earth. HIS earth.
JUSTICE TO THE ORPHANS AND OPPRESSED: WHY THE DELAY?
This Psalms’ last verse begins with,” You will bring justice to the orphans and the oppressed”— so “people can no longer terrify them”. As it has been progressively revealed how children’s foundations (Clintons?) and their ilk do what they do, it is really difficult to comprehend how God in His omniscience and omnipotence delays so in bringing justice. We know He is absolutely and only good. We know justice is a foundation of His throne. We know He is all-powerful. But why does this kind of evil seemingly prosper way beyond measure? Is it because God is too patient with evildoers? Is it because He waits to partner with us in dealing with it? Is it perhaps because of a “rapture-focused” church abandoning its “salt and light” commission and so now must learn the hard way about the consequences of defaulting on original assignment? No easy answers here but it is worth our wrestling with Him regarding it.
ASSIGNMENT BEFORE EXIT
He did tell us in Mt. 5: 13 that if the salt loses it’s assigned purpose of preservation of society it will be “trampled underfoot” and “thrown out”. Is this what it feels like and what has happened? Is this what this “Great Awakening” is primarily all about? Are we presently facing all we face in society because of ignoring Luke 19:13, “occupy until I come” ( i.e. the 7 Mountain Mandate)— because we preferred to “speculate until I come”? Has the awesome promise of Jesus return been deceitfully manipulated and weaponized by the enemy AGAINST US causing us to ignore/neglect our earthly assignment? After this present rescue operation from heaven will we remain “awakened” to original assignment? Is this why this first stage is such a rude awakening? While I always seem to have more questions to ask of God, I think the obvious answers to my questions here reveal much of the reason why we face the great contradictions of our day. As we pray today for the Lord’s manifest justice on behalf of orphans and the oppressed, let us add to that prayers of awakening of His Body to “arise and shine” to present assignment. “Big trouble” is not a sign Jesus is returning. It is often a sign of a distracted (“by His soon return”) and decommissioned church. Said another way, darkness prevails not because Jesus is about to return. Darkness prevails because Light has remained stockpiled in the four walls of the church. For the children’s sake— let us stay awake, and now finally ARISE.
Written by: Johnny Enlow
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