Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 88

"Psalm 88:

1. The sufferer’s affliction 

(88:1-9)
2. The sufferer’s prayer

(88:10-12)
3. The sufferer’s faith 

(88:13-18)

Psalm 88:1 O LORD, God of my salvation,
   I cry out day and night before You.
Psalm 88:2 Let my prayer come before You;
   incline Your ear to my cry!
Psalm 88:3 For my soul is full of troubles,
   and my life draws near to Sheol.
Psalm 88:10 Do You work wonders for the dead?
   Do the departed rise up to praise You?
Psalm 88:11 Is Your steadfast love declared in the grave,
   or Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
Psalm 88:12 Are Your wonders known in the darkness,
   or Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Psalm 88:14 O LORD, why do You cast my soul away?
   Why do You hide Your face from me?

---His loneliness of soul---

Psalm 88:18 You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.

Q: With darkness as its final word, what is the role of this psalm in

Scripture? 

For the beginning of an answer we may note, first, its witness to the possibility of unrelieved suffering as a believer’s earthly lot. The happy ending of most psalms of this kind is seen to be a bonus, not a due; its withholding is not a proof of either God’s displeasure or His defeat."
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Creation Moment 5/6/2026 - An Introduction to Genetic Diversification

Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things... Isaiah 40:26

"One of the earliest scientists to make big strides in recognizing and understanding DNA variability was Gregor Mendel (1822–1884), an Austrian monk whose work inspired early twentieth-century studies in genetics. 

He observed certain flower and seed trait variations in the offspring of peas and other garden plants following his controlled matings. 

In some cases, a progressive continuum of flower color could be noticed in the offspring. In other cases, the traits segregated in seemingly predictable statistical outcomes. We now know these to be simple or qualitative traits controlled by a single gene—a very rare occurrence in nature.

These qualitative traits in pea plant flower color were due to a

changed pigmentation-related gene that produced white flowers (no pigment) rather than pigmented purple flowers. 

Because pea plants, like most animals, have two sets of chromosomes (one from the mother and the other from the father), even if a pea plant had only one good copy of a pigmentation gene, it could still produce purple flowers. If a plant had two copies of the altered gene, white flowers would result.

The key thing about Mendel’s work was that it demonstrated that genes or other chromosomal features could be shuffled around via matings in a population to create a diverse amount of variability. We also now know that nearly all traits in creatures, especially those that facilitate adaptation, are actually controlled by many genes and regulatory elements located across the genome at specific sites called loci (singular, locus). Genetic

differences between loci variants are called alleles.

The potential for trait variability can be quite large due to the many possible allele combinations contributing to a trait. These types of traits are called polygenic (controlled by many genes) or quantitative traits (as compared to qualitative). These polygenic loci or alleles are typically referred to as quantitative trait loci (QTL) and are all interconnected in complex gene regulatory networks. Each locus contributes to different levels of variability in the trait being studied.

Quantitative traits and QTLs can be characterized in two different ways. The original approach was to perform controlled matings of a plant or animal to create a large population of offspring. Each individual was then characterized for visible traits (phenotypes) and had its genome mapped with DNA markers. Traits associated with a specific set of alleles (marker-connected loci) are determined by statistically analyzing the percent variability they contribute to a certain trait.

As genome sequencing became more common and efficient, this mapping strategy was largely replaced and/or supplemented by sequencing the entire genome of a large sample (cohort) of individuals from a population. 

Traits of interest are then correlated with variations in genome sequence in what are called genome-wide association studies. 

In fact, it is now possible to do this with populations from multiple environments. The outcome of such studies reveals both the location and DNA sequence of alleles connected to a variety of traits in organisms inhabiting different environments." 

ICR

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 87

"Psalm 87:

1. Zion (87:1-5)
2. The population of Zion (87:4-6)
3. The joy in Zion (87:7)

God chose Zion as the place where He would meet with His people in a special sense.

Psalm 87:3 Glorious things of you are spoken,   O city of God.
Psalm 87:5 And of Zion it shall be said,
   This one and that one were born in her;
   for the Most High Himself will establish her.
Psalm 87:6 The LORD records as He registers the peoples,
   This one was born there."
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ARCHAEOLOGY: Pelousios

Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.

[Even mud or clay....]

Exodus 20:3

"A 2,200-year-old circular temple discovered in Egypt’s Nile Delta is shedding new light on how ancient societies integrated water into religious practices. The site, tied directly to the Nile, suggests rituals centered on the river played a more structured role than previously understood.
The discovery was made at Tell el-Farama, the ruins of ancient Pelusium, a city long known for its strategic and commercial importance.
Pelusium itself has a layered history, serving as a fortress in pharaonic times and later as a customs station under the Roman

Empire. Earlier excavations in the area had already revealed a temple dedicated to Zeus, pointing to a mix of cultural influences shaping the city over centuries.
As per statements relayed by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in a Facebook post, the complete structure revealed a circular sanctuary.

“After six years of archaeological excavations at Tell el-Farama in the city of Pelusium in northern Sinai, the Egyptian archaeological mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities has uncovered the remains of a unique religious building dedicated to the worship of the city’s local god, “Pelousios”.”
According to the same ministry statement, archaeologists found water and Nile silt inside the basin, which suggests the site was likely used for rituals connected to the river. 

The name Pelusius, derived from a Greek word meaning 

“mud” or “clay,” makes that connection even clearer." 

DailyGalaxy

Creation Moment 5/5/2026 - A Magical World

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 

Romans 1:22
"Materialistic literature transports observers into a magical world

where analytical principles that explain cause in man-made things inexplicably don’t apply to living things, and where invoking a mystical environmental volition to explain cause displaces everything engineers know about design. 

The irony is that evolutionists insert these mystical elements into a theory that is supposed to explain life solely by the material properties of physics and chemistry."
Dr Randy Guliuzza, ICR Acts & Facts July 2017

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 86

"Psalm 86:

1. A request for protection (86:1-10)
2. A request for learning (86:11-17)

Psalm 86:1 Incline Your ear, O LORD, and answer me,
   for I am poor and needy.
Psalm 86:2 Preserve my life, for I am godly;

   save Your servant, who trusts in You—You are my God.
Psalm 86:6 Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer;   listen to my plea for grace.

Psalm 86:11 

Teach me Your way, O LORD,

that I may walk in Your truth;

unite my heart to fear Your name.

Psalm 86:17 Show me a sign of Your favor,
   that those who hate me may see and be put to shame
   because You, LORD, have helped me and comforted me.
--God is unique in Himself as the Creator (v. 8). He really exists.
--God is unique in His lordship over all nations (v. 9). He is no tribal god.
--God is unique in His acts in human history and experience (v. 10)."
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This Great Controversy SIMPLIFIED

And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,...And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 

Revelation 12:7,9

“All humanity is now involved in a great controversy between Christ and Satan regarding 

--the character of God, 

--His law, 

--and His sovereignty over the universe. 

This conflict originated in heaven when a created being, endowed with freedom of choice, in self-exaltation became Satan, God’s adversary, and led into rebellion a portion of the angels. 

*He introduced the spirit of rebellion into this world when he led

Adam and Eve into sin. 

*This human sin resulted in the distortion of the image of God in humanity, the disordering of the created world, and its eventual devastation at the time of the worldwide flood. 

Observed by the whole creation, this world became the arena of the universal conflict, out of which the God of love will ultimately be vindicated. 

To assist His people in this controversy, Christ sends the Holy Spirit and the loyal angels to guide, protect, and sustain them in the way of salvation.”

Seventh-day AdventistFundamentalBeliefs

Creation Moment 5/4/2026 - Darwinism has evolved?

"A rather unusual paper appeared in the Quarterly Review of Biology. Summarizing the paper, editor-in-chief Liliana M. Dávalos described it as “A unified account of Darwinism’s varieties.” (Note immediately that the word “Darwinism” is still current in the literature, despite claims to the contrary.) She’s not talking about “varieties” in the biological sense as Darwin would have conceived them. She’s talking about varieties of Darwinism itself. Here’s how she describes the paper:

"In “The Varieties of Darwinism: Explanation, Logic, and Worldview,” authors Hugh Desmond, André Ariew, Philippe Huneman, and Thomas Reydon observe that while some people claim Darwinism’s meaning should be limited to scientific content, others

call for its abolition altogether. The authors propose a unified account of these varieties of Darwinism. “We show how the theories introduced by Darwin have grounded a ‘logic’ or style of reasoning about phenomena, as well as various ethically and politically charged ‘worldviews.’” They posit that the full meaning of Darwinism and how this meaning has changed over time can only be understood through the interaction between these dimensions."

Q: Darwinism has evolved? What a concept. It even has its own ecosystem: an interaction of ethically and politically charged worldviews built on a style of reasoning about phenomena."
CEH

Vs.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Hebrews 13:8

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 85

"Psalm 85:
The writer began by thanking God for delivering His people. The

reference to restoration from captivity (Psalms 85:1) suggests that this psalm may date to the return from Babylonian exile. However, the psalmist may have been referring to a more modest captivity, perhaps at the hand of a neighbor nation. In any case, he viewed Israel’s former enslavement to be the result of her sin and thanked God for pardoning that.

1. Thanksgiving and petition (85:1-7)
2. Trust and confidence (85:8-13)

Psalm 85:2 You forgave the iniquity of your people;

   You covered all their sin.
Psalm 85:4 Restore us again, O God of our salvation,
   and put away your indignation toward us!
Psalm 85:11 Faithfulness springs up from the ground,
   and righteousness looks down from the sky."
Psalm 85:12  Yes, the LORD will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase." 

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IN the NEWS - ALDI’s & Sunday Sacredness

SUNDAY SACREDNESS = Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;1 Timothy 4:1

"The Brussels Times, a leading Belgian news outlet, published a report detailing how the ALDI supermarket chain proposed expanding Sunday store openings, requiring employees to work on that day. 

ALDI’s proposed Sunday expansion has sparked nationwide labor strikes across 60 stores, leading to widespread shutdowns as workers strongly resisted efforts to make Sunday a regular workday.

The Brussels Times reported the following:
• “At least 60 Aldi supermarkets have shut their doors on Friday due to spontaneous staff protests against the management’s plan to open

stores on Sundays, according to the Christian trade union CNE.”
• “Union officials are supporting the protest and assisting staff. ‘We stand by the workers,’ said Évelyne Zabus, permanent secretary of the CNE.”
• “The union has expressed disappointment with management’s approach, claiming the Sunday opening plan was introduced during discussions intended to focus on employee demands, such as salary improvements.”

Employees opposed the move to open stores on Sundays and responded with strikes, effectively shutting down numerous locations as workers walked off the job. They view Sunday openings as a serious challenge to long-standing tradition that regards Sunday as a protected day of rest.

Labor unions are also a powerful force in resisting efforts to relax Sunday labor restrictions, arguing that Sunday is a unique day worthy of legal protection as a designated day for workers. In Belgium, unions are at the forefront of opposing expanded Sunday openings, fighting to keep it from being just another commercial workday." 

AdventMessenger

Creation Moment 5/3/2026 - Can't Really Change the Creator's DESIGN

So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Genesis 1:27

"According to our culture today, a man can be a woman, and a woman a man, as long as that’s how the person identifies. But self-identification (confusion) really doesn’t change biology. One can’t change their genetics. 

A man is still a man, 

and a woman a woman." 

AIG

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 84

"Psalm 84:

“Baca” (verse 6), appears to refer to a shrub that grows in arid places and thus points to the hardships endured by the pilgrim on his way to the Holy city.
The pilgrim focuses his attention especially on the thought of being in the very presence of the LORD God.

I. The Expectation of Worshiping God (84:1-4).
II. The Expedition to Worship God (84:5-7).
III. The Elation at Worshiping God (84:8-12).

Psalm 84:1 How amiable [are] Thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
Amiable, in the verse above, means loved or well-beloved.
When the people could go to the tabernacle, it was a point of contact with Almighty God.

Hebrews 8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith He, [that] thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

Revelation 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, [and be] their God.
2 Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Psalm 84:6 [Who] passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

Psalm 84:10 For a day in Thy courts [is] better than a thousand. 

I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, 

than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." 

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Creation Moment 5/2/2026 - Brain Complexity and Music

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. 

Psalm 139:14 NLT

"Studies show that our brains release dopamine while listening to music. This dopamine rush is the strongest when a song reaches its emotional climax and the listener feels the “chills” — the spine-tingling, hair-raising sensation of awe.

The really interesting bit is the third set of neurons: these neurons only light up when we’re listening to music (and not speech) and try to predict what notes will come next, based on what notes you heard before.

“We found acoustic information, like pitch or the changes between pitches in a melody. But we also found information that was encoded that reflects the listener’s prior experience with music. This is learned information.

It’s not bottom-up, it requires some internal model. Specifically, we found that listeners could predict the next note given the prior notes in the melody, and that information was encoded in a in a population of neurons in this auditory region,” Narayan Sankaran, a postdoc in the Chang Lab at UCSF and lead author of the study, told ZME Science." 

ZME

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 83

"Psalm 83:
The ominous background of this psalm of national lament lies in the threatening confederacy of almost all of Israel’s hostile neighbors.
The psalmist begs God to rescue Israel from its enemies as He had done so many times in the past.

I. A Plea for Help (83:1).
II. A Protest Against Israel’s Enemies (83:2-8).
III. A Petition for Divine Judgment (83:9-18).

Psalm 83:1 Keep not Thou silence, O God: hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O God.
Psalm 83:6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
“Edom … Hagarenes”:
The list of nations represents Israel’s enemies throughout its history.
Edom descended from Esau and lived southeast of Israel.
The Ishmaelites, descendants from Abraham and Hagar, were Bedouin tribes.
The Moabites descended from Lot and were tribal people living east of the Jordan.
The Hagarenes were a nomadic tribe living east of the Jordan.

Psalm 83:8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
This dominant nation of the eighth century B.C. took captive the

northern 10 tribes of Israel in 722 B.C.
Assyria used smaller nations, like Moab and Ammon to accomplish its military goals.
Assur was just one more evil group to come against Israel.

Psalm 83:13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind."
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IN the NEWS - Sodom is Back....Literally?

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. Genesis 13:13....apparently still are...

"The Israeli government announced on Monday that this June, "the Dead Sea becomes Pride Land, the biggest LGBTQ+ festival ever in the Middle East," adding that "Pride rises at the lowest place on earth."

This celebration of degeneracy and non-straight lifestyle choices — set to take place near what is believed to be the site of Sodom, the city razed by God because of its brazen sexual corruption — will run 24 hours a day from June 1 to June 4.
"This is not just another festival; it's the biggest thing we've done here," Aaron Cohen, the main producer behind "Pride Land," told the Post. "It's an experience that lives 24/7, from quiet visits to nights of Pride, with a living envelope of music and people."
American theologian and pastor Dale Partridge tweeted, "The devil couldn’t have written it better. 'The lowest place on earth' 'The Dead Sea becomes pride land.'"
The U.S. State Department has recommended that Americans reconsider travel to the country due to terrorism and civil unrest and instructed travelers to avoid crowds." 

Blaze

IN the NEWS - Universal HIGH INCOME?

Another Potential Mechanism for----

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, 

or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Revelation 13:7

"Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI," Musk wrote in a post on X, according to Moneywise.

That is not a universal basic income proposal. 

Musk is describing something more ambitious: a high level of income distributed broadly across society. 

This would not be just a floor to cover basic needs, but a meaningful

check that allows people to participate in an economy increasingly run by machines.
AI/robotics will produce goods and services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation, he wrote.

The job losses tied to AI are already showing up in real data. In 2025, AI was linked to nearly 55,000 job cuts in the United States, according to consulting firm Challenger, Gray, & Christmas. Major companies, including Amazon, Salesforce, and Oracle, cut thousands of roles, citing AI as a contributing factor.
The pace has not slowed. Challenger estimates that roughly 30,000 additional jobs were lost to AI in just the first months of 2026, Moneywise reported. And those numbers may understate the full picture, since many companies do not publicly attribute layoffs to automation.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei offered an even starker warning. He has said that AI could eliminate up to half of all entry-level white-

collar jobs within five years, potentially pushing U.S. unemployment as high as 20%.
"AI/Robotics will mean everyone can have a penthouse if they want. The output of goods and services will be several orders of magnitude higher than today's economy," he wrote, according to Moneywise. "What is the future you want? Amazing abundance seems the best to me."

That framing is important. Musk is not talking about a safety net. He is talking about a structural redesign of how prosperity is distributed in an economy where human labor becomes less central to production. The premise is that machines generate enough wealth for everyone to share meaningfully in the gains." 

msn

Creation Moment 5/1/2026 - Traced back to it's origin

"Darwin and his associates anti-Bible assumptions and motives and thus had their own hidden, strong bias. 

“The Conflict of the Ages,” traces the anti-God religion of evolutionism past the Darwinian agnostics to ancient Greek philosophers, Hindu mystics, all the way to the garden of Eden and beyond—even back to Satan’s own initial rebellion. 

And in “The Everlasting Gospel,” shows how worshipping “Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water” (Revelation 14:7) is the foundation of the gospel of Christ throughout time and eternity." 

AIG

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Puritan Corner - Spirit & Word

"Those that care not for the word are strangers to the Spirit, and

they that care not for the Spirit never make a right use of the word. The word is nothing without the Spirit, and only animated and quickened by Him."
by Richard Sibbes (1577-1635)
......and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: Ephesians 6:15

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 82

"Psalm 82:
Like Psalm 58, this psalm is concerned with the problem of unjust judges.
The final prayer of the psalmist is that God Himself will take direct control of the affairs of this world.

I. The Assembly of World Leaders Before God (82:1).
II. The Evaluation of World Leaders by God (82:2-7).
III. The Replacement of World Leaders with God (82:8).

Psalm 82:1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; He judgeth among the gods.

Psalm 82:4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid [them] out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalm 82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for Thou shalt inherit all nations.
Philippians 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things] in earth, and [things] under the earth." 

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Creation Moment 4/30/2026 - Simple Truth about those "Cavemen "

And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness: Genesis 1:26

"Cavemen are people that lived in caves. 

Actually, there are people today that live in caves in certain parts of the world. 

For instance, in central Australia where they mine opals, it is so hot that people live in caves. Some of the Native Americans used to live in caves in areas around the Grand Canyon. 

So there were ancient cavemen, and there are modern day cavemen! But despite popular opinion to the contrary, ancient “cavemen” were completely human (and not very ancient) and in need of a Savior, Jesus Christ, just like every other human being." 

Ken Ham

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 81

"Psalm 81:

The background of the psalm appears to be the Feast of Tabernacles (Lev. 23:34-44).

I. A Call to Joyful Worship 

(81:1-5).
II. A Call to Godly Obedience (81:6-16).

Psalm 81:1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

Psalm 81:3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day."
“New moon … time appointed”:
The seventh month of Israel’s year (Tishri; Sept. / Oct.) culminated

the festival year with a succession of celebrations.
The month began with the blowing of the trumpets, continued with the Day of Atonement on the tenth day, and celebrated the Feast of Booths, or Tabernacles, on the fifteenth day when the moon was full.
The Feast of Tabernacles praised God for His care in the wilderness wanderings, and also pointed to the coming kingdom.

Psalm 81:11 But My people would not hearken to My voice; and Israel would none of Me."
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