Examining "A More Christlike Word"
by Brad Jersak
Day 98 (part 2)
“For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we
proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or
if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it
readily enough.” (Paul’s concern from 2 Corinthians 11:4)
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The False
Filter |
The
Biblical Filter |
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The word
OR the Word |
The Word
THROUGH the word |
This
morning, I was facing my time with God knowing that I was heading into the
account of Jesus’ crucifixion right at this time that I’m addressing the
realities of what he did on the cross. I know that Jersak’s railing against the
Penal Substitutionary Atonement (PSA) was bogus since he misrepresented any
Scriptures he used to make his point (and then led us outside of Scripture just
as Irenaeus said the false teachers would do). My next post will focus on what
exactly the breathed-out Scriptures say about this.
However, after my time in the word I prepared to go downstairs for my
exercise time and to listen to the Scriptures, picking up where I left off in
II Samuel. I felt a smile as I wondered how in the world the continuing record
of David’s history would help me address anything to do with either the wrath
of God against sin or the salvation God provided to save us from condemnation
and make us his beloved children forever. I felt somewhat certain that God
would surprise me, but replaying what I knew of the next part of II Samuel
wasn’t giving me any clues as to what would come up.
A
Surprising Scene of Atonement
Within
minutes of continuing to listen to the Scriptures, I got the surprise I was
looking for. It was another example of “atonement” that I had never registered
as such. II Samuel 21 begins with David seeking “the face of the LORD” because
of three years of famine. God’s reply was, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on
his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death” (vs 1). King Saul had struck
down some of the Gibeonites after the leaders of Israel had sworn to protect
them.
David
then went to the Gibeonites and said, “What shall I do for you? And how shall I
make atonement, that you may bless the heritage of the Lord?” Atonement means,
“to make amends v. — to perform an act or make a payment in expiation of some
wrong” (BSL). The Gibeonites' “atonement” requirement was not pretty:
“‘The man who consumed us and planned to
destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel, let
seven of his sons be given to us, so that we may hang them before the LORD at
Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.’ And the king said, ‘I will give them’”
(vss 5-6).
It
simply stood out that this is history. It is not allegory. It is not a parable.
It is gruesome justice in response to a gruesome injustice. It was done because
Yahweh required justice. Both sides agreed that justice was required, and both
sides agreed on the satisfaction of justice.
I
share this only to show how taking the time to check out what Scripture says
about justice and judgment shows us that there is no exception to this even
though we have moved from the old covenant to the new. “The Rock, his work is
perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without
iniquity, just and upright is he” (Deuteronomy 32:4).
Brad
Jersak is getting away with dissing “the Rock”. His “more Christlike” deception
is calling out Yahweh for not being Christlike enough. The Scriptures say that
Yahweh’s “work is perfect”, and Jersak says it is not. God says “all his ways
are justice” and Jersak says they are not. God is revealed as a God “of
faithfulness” to his name and his word, and Jersak disses God for not being
“faithful” to sinful and unrepentant nations. God is “without iniquity” and
Jersak says the God of the Old Testament is portrayed as doing things that
qualify as iniquity. The God revealed in the Scriptures is “just and upright”,
and Jersak wants his readers to believe he is unjust and violent.
I
simply contend that God’s response to sin is such that atonement is required to
resolve our sin problem. David’s response to the injustice of King Saul’s
violation of a treaty of peace would have broken his heart to do it, but his
love for Yahweh as God led him to do what was right (and Jesus did not correct this Scripture!).
God
Rescues the One He Delights in
When I
moved into chapter 22, I was immediately captivated by David expressing his
worship in song. The reason? “David spoke to the LORD the words of this song on
the day when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from
the hand of Saul” (vs 1).
Question: what happened to David’s enemies when God delivered David?
Yes, that’s right, they were defeated and destroyed. Watch this pattern, that
God’s mercy and deliverance for David meant his judgment, justice, and wrath
against his enemies. We cannot escape from how clearly that is revealed,
including by Jesus himself in his parables!
Now,
because all I am doing in this addendum is sharing this morning’s “hearing” of
God’s word, I will share a notated journey through this song of David. It is
included in the Psalms as Psalm 18, but I will follow through with the text
here in II Samuel 22. I will leave out the verse numbers simply for ease of
communicating what I see here and how this ministered to me.
1. David begins “The Lord (Yahweh) is my rock and my
fortress and my deliverer, my God,
my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my
salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; you save me from
violence.” David begins with who Yahweh is to him, not in the “this is my
truth” kind of ignorance of our day, but in the declaration that all that is
true of Yahweh is David’s. Everything about Yahweh is glorious and good, and
each quality David presents in praise is a reality of God’s identity to his
children.
2. “I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and
I am saved from my enemies.” David calls upon Yahweh as just described above.
This Yahweh is worthy to be praised (which makes Brad Jersak a liar for
claiming that biblical writers got it wrong about him because Jesus never ONCE
corrected David’s view of his Father). And, because Yahweh is worthy to be
praised (meaning, he is as great as David described), David was always saved
from his enemies. This means that we have David on one side with Yahweh for
him, and we have his enemies on the other side with Yahweh against them. And
yes, Jesus himself continued declaring this pattern in his teachings, and the
apostles continued describing this pattern in the writing of the New Testament
Scriptures.
3. “For the waves of death
encompassed me, the torrents of destruction assailed me; the cords of Sheol
entangled me; the snares of death confronted me. In my distress I called upon
the Lord; to my God I called.
From his temple he heard my voice, and
my cry came to his ears.” Now remember, this is David using allegorical
language to describe literal events. Whatever he went through from his enemies
and Saul is illustrated in these word-pictures. David went through these things
at “the hand of all his enemies”, and at “the hand of Saul”. The history of
these events is all through I and II Samuel.
4. “Then the earth reeled and
rocked; the
foundations of the heavens trembled and
quaked, because he was angry. Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his
mouth; glowing
coals flamed forth from him.” Again, this is a song expressing praise about
history. Now, just to point out how misleading Brad Jersak was to suggest that
anything in the form of a song must not be speaking of a literal event, here is
a link to what looks like a couple of hundred songs that have been written
based on historical events. I don’t know if any are any good, but it is to
prove that a song can be accurate historically even if expressing aspects of
the history in allegorical word-pictures.[1]
What is clear is that God was expressing his holiness, righteousness and wrath
against David’s enemies. The literal is always consistent with the figurative
illustrations.
5. “He bowed the heavens
and came down; thick
darkness was under his feet. He rode on a cherub and flew; he was seen
on the wings of the wind. He made darkness around him his
canopy, thick
clouds, a gathering of water. Out of the brightness before him coals of fire flamed forth.”
Again, beautifully poetic expressions giving emotion to the literal ways God
rose to David’s defence.
6. “The Lord thundered from heaven, and the
Most High uttered his voice. And he sent out arrows and scattered them; lightning,
and routed them. Then the channels of the sea were seen; the foundations of the world
were laid bare, at the rebuke of the Lord,
at
the blast of the breath of his nostrils.” Yes, beautiful allegorical
language describing real-life events of the same character. God was expressing
his wrath against David’s enemies. Easy to understand.
7. “He sent from on high, he took
me; he drew me out of many waters. He rescued me from my strong enemy, from
those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.” For God to rescue David
he had to defeat his enemies. We can’t have one without the other.
8. “They confronted me in the day
of my calamity, but the Lord was
my support. He brought me out into a broad place; he rescued me, because he
delighted in me.” We also cannot separate that God rescues the ones he delights
in, the ones who are his people, the ones attached to him in covenant
relationship.
9. “The Lord dealt with me according to my
righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me. For
I have kept the ways of the Lord and
have not wickedly departed from my God. For all his rules were before me, and
from his statutes I did not turn aside. I was blameless before him, and I
kept myself from guilt. And the Lord has
rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight.”
Yes, this is fascinating when considering that David is speaking after his sin
with Bathsheba. In my early years, I wondered how I could read about Old
Testament saints making claims of righteousness. I wondered how anyone could be
that good. But then I realized that they meant within the old covenant where
they observed all the regulations for the sacrifices. They weren’t claiming to
be without sin, but that they were blameless in keeping the law in dealing with
sin. What a difference that made to my understanding of even the things David
is saying here. And David’s sin with Bathsheba is countered with Psalm 51 as
that amazing song of repentance that has helped millions of people express
their repentance to God over the centuries.
10. “With the merciful you show
yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless; with
the purified you deal purely, and with the crooked you make yourself seem
tortuous.” There it is, what it looks like to “do justice, love kindness, and
walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8). David knew that God acted justly
towards his enemies, and kindly towards his people. He would also act justly
against his people (Achan) and show kindness towards repentant enemies (Rahab).
However people relate to him is how he relates to them.
11. “You save a humble people, but
your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.” God blesses the poor in
spirit, but he condemns the proud in spirit. Just think of the woes Jesus
pronounced against the scribes and Pharisees in his last public ministry before
his crucifixion. But think of how he welcomed the prostitutes and tax
collectors who entered his kingdom by believing the good news of the kingdom of
heaven.
12. “For you are my lamp, O Lord, and my God lightens my darkness. For
by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall. This
God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who
take refuge in him.” You will never read that God makes himself a lamp for his
enemies. He does not lighten the darkness for criminal nations. He is not a
shield for the Egyptians, the Amalekites, or the Philistines who are all his
enemies. But he is a shield for all his people who trust in his hesed
(unfailing love).
13. “For who is God, but the Lord (Yahweh)? And who is a rock, except our
God? This God is my strong refuge and has made my way blameless. He
made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights. He
trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. You have
given me the shield of your salvation, and your gentleness made me great. You
gave a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip; I
pursued my enemies and destroyed them, and did not turn back until they were
consumed. I consumed them; I thrust them through, so that they did not rise; they
fell under my feet.” Remember, there is not one reference anywhere in the
rest of the Scriptures correcting what David wrote here. He is giving glory to
God for equipping him with what he needed to destroy his enemies. That is a
song of praise. That is Yahweh who is glorious and good. He protects his people
by destroying their enemies. If someone prefers a god who does not protect his
people and instead shows mercy to their enemies while they are harming them,
that is on them, but we cannot find such an unjust and unloving God in the
Bible.
14. “For you equipped me with
strength for the battle; you
made those who rise against me sink under me. You made my enemies
turn their backs to me, those who hated me, and I destroyed them. They looked,
but there was none to save; they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them. I beat them
fine as the dust of the earth; I crushed them and stamped them
down like the mire of the streets.” The deliverance of God’s people
required the defeat of their enemies. When David speaks of his enemies crying
out to Yahweh, that would have included King Saul because God not answering him
is why he ended up going to a witch! We absolutely need to know that the bad
news for God’s enemies matches the good news for God’s people.
15. “You delivered me from strife
with my people; you kept me as the head of the nations; people whom I had
not known served me. Foreigners came cringing to me; as soon as they heard of
me, they obeyed me. Foreigners lost heart and came trembling out of their
fortresses.” If I had time we could go look for every historical event that
matches David’s descriptions. David’s deliverance meant he brought his enemies
into subjection to Yahweh and Israel.
16. “The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock,
and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation, the God who gave me
vengeance and brought down peoples under me, who brought me out from my
enemies; you exalted me above those who rose against me; you delivered me
from men of violence.” Look at the praises being given to Yahweh without
one account anywhere in Scripture correcting that Yahweh, Jesus’ Father, was
worthy of such praise for giving vengeance over to David to bring down on the
people who were against him. God works through people, so even though vengeance
is his and he will repay, he has worked through his people to carry out his
will. And before we get a Bradley cry that we would do the same under the new
covenant as David did under the old… well… that doesn’t even deserve a reply!
17. “For this I will praise you,
O Lord, among the nations, and
sing praises to your name. Great salvation he brings to his king, and
shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his
offspring forever.” Yes, for THIS David expresses his praises to the king
of heaven, Yahweh, the covenant-keeping God of Israel.
David’s
Last Words Give Praise to God’s Words!
When
the reader began II Samuel 23, I was mesmerized. These were David’s last words!
I am sure I have read them before, but with all the new things going on in my
life, it captivated my attention to hear what mattered to David at the end of
his life.
1. “The oracle of David, the son of
Jesse, the oracle of the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the
God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:” I love hearing people testify to
their place in the body of Christ and give glory to God, especially when they
know that God has used them but are not proud of it because he has kept them
humble.
2. “The Spirit of the Lord speaks by me; his word is on
my tongue. The God of Israel has spoken; the Rock of Israel has said to me: When
one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God, he dawns on
them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning,
like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth.” Isn’t that amazing.
Brad Jersak would have to show us somewhere in the Bible that David would be
accused of blasphemy for claiming that Yahweh, Jesus’ Father, spoke by him when
that really wasn’t the case (meaning according to Brad Jersak’s God/man hybrid
poison). David is so clearly claiming what Paul and Peter described about
Scripture being the breathed-out words of God written down by men carried along
by the Holy Spirit without any intervention of their own wills messing things
up! And what David claimed was that all his warfare, all his judgments, were
just and right in God’s eyes because he was defending the people of Israel,
reclaiming the land God gave to Abraham, and destroying the enemies of God.
3. “For does not my house stand so
with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all
things and secure. For will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire?”
David faced God’s judgment because of his sin, but God’s promise to him will
not fail. King Saul did not repent, but David did (just like Judas did not
repent but Peter did).
4. “But worthless men are all
like thorns that are thrown away, for
they cannot be taken with the hand; but the man who touches them arms himself
with iron and the shaft of a spear, and they are utterly consumed with fire.”
Yes, the justice of God prevails, and there again is that consuming fire of
God’s presence that utterly consumes his enemies. And this all sounds a lot
like Jesus talking about the worthless servant in one of his parables!
As I
have been editing this, I remembered an album of songs based on the life of
David as expressed in his Psalms. The album is called, "David: Ordinary
Man... Extraordinary God". In the footnote is a link to a YouTube playlist
of the album. As I was going through these chapters of II Samuel, I kept
hearing some of the songs playing in my head![2]
There
were several other things that stood out in the next chapters as expressing
both the justice and mercy of God, but I hope my point is well taken. The
breathed-out Scriptures keep proving time and again that both justice and
mercy/kindness are always in effect, each applied in response to people in how
they relate to God.
Paul
Washer on the Cup of God’s Wrath
However,
what I will close with is a surprise focus on the wrath of God from Paul Washer.[3] It was just a 5-minute clip of a sermon, but it was his usual heartfelt
earnestness explaining how foolish it is to imagine Jesus saved us because he
was crucified by the Jews and Romans. He pointed out how so many martyrs of the
first couple of centuries of the church were crucified, but they went to their
crosses joyfully praising God to be counted worthy of suffering with their
Savior.
The
point is, how would Jesus be agonizing "to the point of death" in Gethsemane
over crucifixion that so many of his followers welcomed with joy to be
persecuted for the sake of the gospel? The answer: that wasn’t why he was in
agony!!!
Yes,
when we let people like Brad Jersak ask his “Did God actually say…?” questions
so that we let a mere man convince us to deny Jesus’ words to live by every
word that comes from the mouth of God, and we let him tell us that every verse
of Scripture that speaks of Yahweh and Jesus expressing wrath, fury, and anger
against their enemies, and against sin, are mistakes made by the writers, then
how do we make sense of the Garden of Gethsemane suffering where Jesus was at
the point of death because he was feeling so much grief?!
Paul
Washer challenged with the question, “What was in the cup Jesus asked the
Father to pass him by?” Was it the same suffering of crucifixion that his
followers would embrace as a badge of honor? No, it could not be that.
Instead, it was the very thing Satan wants people to disbelieve, that Jesus
bore God’s wrath against our sins so that those who believe in him would never
face God’s wrath against our sins. God poured out his wrath against my sins to
the last drop so that for the rest of my life, and for all of eternity, there will
not be one time, not one moment of eternity (however eternity is measured) when
even a minute drop of wrath will fall upon me. When Jesus said, “It is
finished,” the pouring out of God’s wrath was done. Over. Complete. The CUP WAS
EMPTY!!!
This message spoke of some Scriptures from the Old Testament that identified the “cup” Jesus drank from, so I looked up the word “cup” to see how many references applied. Here is what I discovered:
1. “The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence. Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup. For the Lord is righteous; he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face” (Psalm 11:5-7). First, we see God differentiating between loving the righteous and hating the wicked. For the wicked, the cup their will drink is full of the wrath of God.
2. “For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up, but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another” (Psalm 75:6-7). Again, there is a contrast between those who experience God’s judgment putting them down, and those who experience his mercy lifting them up. “For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup with foaming wine, well mixed, and he pours out from it, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs” (vs 8). The cup of wrath is to be drunk by the wicked. “But I will declare it forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up” (vss 9-10). This is praise to Yahweh, that he cuts off the wicked and lifts up the righteous.
3. In Isaiah 51, the prophet writes of God coming to comfort his people in mercy after having judged them in his anger against their relentless sinning. “Wake yourself, wake yourself, stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath, who have drunk to the dregs the bowl, the cup of staggering” (vs 17). God’s sinful people had already drunk the cup of God’s wrath. This is further described as “devastation and destruction, famine and sword” (vs 19). Their “sons… they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the rebuke of your God” (vs 20). And then he makes clear his mercy to them and his judgment on their tormentors, “Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted, who are drunk, but not with wine: Thus says your Lord, the Lord, your God who pleads the cause of his people: ‘Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering; the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more; and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors…” (vss 21-23). The cup and bowl of wrath is clearly God’s judgment against sin. He pours it out for his people to drink when they sin, and then pours it out for their enemies to drink when his children repent. This is the cup Jesus was dreading.
4. “Thus the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: ‘Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it. They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of the sword that I am sending among them’” (Jeremiah 25:15-16). The cup is the cup of wrath. “So I took the cup from the Lord's hand, and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it” (vs 17). What follows is all the nations that were made to drink the cup of God’s wrath against their sin.
5. Ezekiel describes God’s cup of wrath in horrifying detail in Ezekiel 23. I will just summarize it as “a cup of horror and desolation” (vs 33). The whole chapter lists the grievousness of their sin.
6. Habakkuk writes, “The cup in the Lord's right hand will come around to you, and utter shame will come upon your glory!” (2:16).
7. Zechariah adds, “Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah” (12:2).
8. So, when Jesus prayed, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will” (Matthew 26:39), it wasn’t crucifixion itself he was speaking of, but that he would FEEL the wrath of God on his holy and sinless person as he drank that cup of wrath to the dregs.
9. To show that the “cup of wrath” imagery is not only in the Old Testament, here is how it is pictured in prophecies of what is yet to come. “And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, ‘If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name” (Revelation 14:9-11).
10. This final picture includes one cup with two contents. First is “a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality” (17:4). Second is, “Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, ‘Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Pay her back as she herself has paid back others, and repay her double for her deeds; mix a double portion for her in the cup she mixed’” (18:4-6). The point is that God is responding to the contents of a cup filled with horrible wickedness and fills that same cup with the fury of his great wrath against all the evils this “Babylon” committed against God’s creation.
My
point in this is not to glorify “wrath” above every attribute of God. It is to
call people back to the word of God in an area that Satan is challenging, “Did
God actually say…?” The answer is, yes, God did actually say that he feels
wrath, anger, and fury against deliberate, relentless and unrepentant sin. And
the fact that God’s justice requires payment or repentance is absolutely
essential to explain why the gospel is “good news of great joy, for unto us is
born a Savior, who is Christ the Lord!” Yes, not a Savior who wimped out about crucifixion
while his followers exulted to be so treated, but a Savior who bore God’s wrath
against our sin (propitiation) so that there is NO wrath against our sin left
to pour out. NOT... EVEN... ONE… DROP!!!
Or, as
Paul presented it, “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that
in him we might become the righteousness of God” (II Corinthians 5:21). THAT is
what Jesus was distressed about in the Garden. That he would “be sin” to bear
God’s cup of wrath against sin in order that we could BECOME the righteousness of
God when we had NONE of our own! This is what is so glorious about our Savior, “He
himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and
live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed” (I Peter 2:24). And
to know that in bearing our sins, he received the cup of God’s wrath against
our sins so that we might now die to sin and live to righteousness, something
that would not even be possible if our Savior had not fully propitiated the cup
of God’s wrath.
The
Cup of Good News
I need
to close this with the beautiful contrast between the cup Jesus drank from and
the one he gave to us. This is especially significant because I just came to
the description of the “last supper” in Matthew 26 in my morning time with God.
We made this our theme for home church as we shared communion together this
morning. Now look at how Paul describes what Jesus did for us: “In the same way
also he took the cup, after supper, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my
blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me’” (1 Corinthians
11:25).
How
remarkable to see that Jesus invited his disciples to drink of the cup of the New
Covenant just hours before he would drink the cup of God’s wrath to make that
covenant “in my blood”. What “reverence and awe” we feel for this consuming
fire who would bear the guilt of our sin to make us guiltless before God.
And to
think that the Brad Jersaks are out there peddling “another Jesus” who does not
propitiate sin, a “different spirit” that denigrates the word of God, and “a
different gospel” that has no remission of sin, no remission of guilt, no
remission of judgment, because there is no payment for sin, no drinking of the
cup of God’s wrath, no salvation. It simply is so horrible that people will
swallow another “Did God actually say…?” when what God actually said so clearly
gives us a Savior, who is Christ the Lord!
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Definitions from the Bible Sense Lexicon (BSL) in Logos Bible Systems
[1]
Songs Based on Historical Events: https://genius.com/Genius-lists-songs-based-on-historical-events-annotated
Again, I’m NOT endorsing any of these, but just showing it is valid to treat
the songs in the Bible to be speaking of literal events of history.
[2]
David- Ordinary Man...Extraordinary God, Album on Youtube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2uXVCvpoUpyyADgVVTHokDcqrgNCp7F8&si=ntcUoePGHcA7dqvD
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What Was in the Cup? | Paul Washer | Shepherds Conference 2016
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