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."
BooksOfTheBible

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." 

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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." 

BooksOfTheBible

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."
BooksOfTheBible

Creation Moment 4/29/2026 - Beloved or Top Dog of Dust?

"The Biblical story of creation assures us that we are “fearfully and wonderfully made.” (Psalm 139:14)
And although our free-will choices early on short-circuited our designed ability to transform nature into an extended paradise, the narrative carefully reveals humans as beloved.

God’s love, far from intellectually detached, enters the story in the familiar plotline of a loving prince redeeming the captive princess at the cost of His own life.
Borrowing from the overall scope of life on Earth, evolution’s allure likely comes from the notion that humans represent the “most highly evolved” species on the planet. 

So, if we’re at bottom a speck of dust, at least we’re on top of the other bits of dust. And as long as we’re top dog (or dust), we can tolerate our unglamorous ancestry." 

Science&Culture

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 80

"Psalm 80:

This psalm is concerned in its entirety with Israel, the northern kingdom.

I. Prayer for Divine Restoration (80:1-3).
II. Despair over God’s Anger (80:4-7).
III. Description of God’s Vine (80:8-16a).
IV. Prayer for Divine Restoration (80:16b-19).

Title: “El Shoshannim”. The name of a tune.

Psalm 80:1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest [between] the cherubims, shine forth.

Psalm 80:3 Turn us again, O God, and cause Thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Psalm 80:8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
In Egypt, the vine could not prosper, because it was denied the necessary things to produce fruit.
This vine was the same as the natural branch on the tree.
Jesus is the true vine, as we see in the following verse.

Psalm 80:16 [It is] burned with fire, [it is] cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance."
BooksOfTheBible

Creation Moment 4/28/2026 - 4 points of irreducible complexity

But now thus saith the LORD that created thee... Isaiah 43:1

"1) High information content (or specified complexity) and irreducible complexity constitute strong indicators or hallmarks of intelligent design. 

2) Biological systems have a high information content (or specified complexity) and utilize subsystems that manifest irreducible complexity. 

3) Naturalistic mechanisms or undirected causes do not suffice to explain the origin of information (specified complexity) or irreducible complexity. 

4) Therefore, intelligent design constitutes the best explanations for the origin of information and irreducible complexity in biological systems." 

ET

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 79

"Psalm 79:

This psalm laments the destruction of Jerusalem at the time of the Babylonian captivity.
The psalm does helps the believer express his anguish in a disaster when it seems as though God is aloof.

I. The Lamentation Over the National Disaster (79:1-4).
II. The Supplication for Divine Intervention (79:5-13).
A. The Prayer for Vindication (79:5-7);
B. The Prayer for Forgiveness (79:8-9);
C. The Prayer for Reprisal (79:10-12);
D. The Praise for Response (79:13).

Psalm 79:1 O God, the heathen are come into Thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
Psalm 79:2 The dead bodies of Thy servants have they given [to be] meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of Thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

Psalm 79:6 Pour out Thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known Thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon Thy name.
Psalm 79:10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where [is] their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight [by] the revenging of the blood of Thy servants [which is] shed.
Psalm 79:13 So we Thy people and sheep of Thy pasture will give Thee thanks for ever: we will show forth Thy praise to all generations." 

BooksOfTheBible

When Probation Closes -- You Are Where You Are Spiritually

The Justified

He that is unjust, 

let him be unjust still: 

... and he that is righteous, 

let him be righteous 

In that day the Branch of the LORD will be splendid and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be excellent and lovely to those of Israel who have survived
Revelation 22:11/Isaiah 4:2 AMP

The Sanctified

.... and he which is filthy, 

let him be filthy still: 

.... and he that is holy, 

let him be holy still.

It will come to pass that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy (set apart for God)—everyone who is recorded for [eternal] life in Jerusalem.
Revelation 22:11/Isaiah 4:3 AMP

Creation Moment 4/27/2026 - 4 Recent Headlines

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,... 

Romans 1:22

"To back up the headline “Darwinism Devalues Humanity,” all you have to do is read evolutionary stories about the origin of humans. Here are four recent examples in the “science” news

Why did hominins like us evolve at all? (New Scientist, 15 May 2024). Humans are just accidents of nature, claims this article under a large artist’s depiction of “Lucy” (Australopithecus afarensis), mouth agape and eyes with an idiotic stare. Michael Marshall has no idea why we are here. It could be range expansion. It could be

technology. It could be this or that. 

Q: So why are people listening to a know-nothing? 

One thing Marshall is sure of: it was not by Creation for a purpose, or by design, or with dignity and inherent worth and human rights.

Why did Homo sapiens emerge in Africa? (Live Science, 25 May 2024). Katherine Irving doesn’t know why we are here either. Her expert, Curtis Marean from Arizona State, conjectures that Africa was where Stuff Happens. Of many guesses out there, he considers a new suggestion by Brenna Henn at UC Davis that Homo sapiens emerged from a blending of two hominin populations in Africa, but admits,

“It doesn’t really fit with any theory that we have about how evolution happens,” he said. He agrees with Henn that Africa’s immense size likely created the genetic diversity that allowed for the advanced cognition and social cooperation of modern humans to evolve."

A big continent might “allow for” all kinds of things to happen, but it cannot make things happen. 

Q: Why can’t evolutionists see this fallacy? 

How men evolved to care for babies — before society got in the way (Nature, 15 May 2024). A common fallacy in evolutionary explanations is that organisms “evolved to” do this or that. 

Actually, Darwinism teaches that mutations are random, and are selected only for survival— not “to” perform some function. Trying to be politically correct with cherry-picked photos, Kermyt G. Anderson tries to argue that males “evolved to” be the nurturing ones but then “society got in the way,” as if that is a pity. But wait; didn’t society evolve by the Stuff Happens Law, too? You can’t get blood out of a turnip, and you can’t get purpose out of purposelessness.

Did humans evolve to chase down prey over long distances? (New Scientist, 15 May 2024). Here, Michael LePage commits the same “evolve to” fallacy. If chasing down prey is our raison d’être, then we have no inherent rights or value. We’re just here by accident. LePage should be asking how all the well-designed parts of the human body permit us to outrun horses and do all manner of Olympic events, but no. He only cares about what blind, purposeless forces “might have” made humans so exceptional by chance. No value; no rights; no dignity." 

CEH

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 78

"Psalm 78:
The psalmist especially focuses on the history of the Exodus.

I. Exhortation on the Instruction of Children (78:1-11).
II.  Lecture on the Graciousness of God (78:12-72).
A. Rehearsal of Israel’s History (78:12-39);
B. Reiteration of Historical Lessons (78:40-72).

Psalm 78:1

Give ear, O my people, [to] my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Incline thine ear, means that they are leaning toward the message and they want to hear just what it is saying.

Psalm 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Psalm 78:7

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments:
Psalm 78:13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and He made the waters to stand as a heap.

Psalm 78:14 In the daytime also He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

Psalm 78:23 Though He had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
Psalm 78:24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
Psalm 78:25 Man did eat angels' food: He sent them meat to the full.
Psalm 78:51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of [their] strength in the tabernacles of Ham."
BooksOfTheBible

The Shark "god" and Romans 1:23

.....and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images

 resembling mortal man 

and birds 

and animals 

and creeping things. 

Romans 1:23 ESV

"In Fijian mythology, the deity of the sea known as Dakuwaqa is regarded as a shark-god. He was very popular with the fishermen because he would protect them from sharks and other dangerous creatures at sea.

He is often described as a muscular man with an upper torso that’s usually associated with a great white shark but he can also alter his appearance due to his abilities of shape shifting.
According to some legends, before he became known as Dakuwaqa, he was the leader of the village’s gonedau or fishermen’s clan and was referred to as Cakaubalavu. During fishing trips, the clan prepared a special dessert known as qalu, which was made from banana leaves and coconut milk syrup. This was part of the ritual performed when fishermen go out to sea.
After returning, Cakaubalavu and his companions learned that the qalu that they prepared had been eaten. He then went into a fit of rage and turned into a shark after diving into the sea and overturning thrice. He vowed to leave Beqa with his fellow fisherman in order to look for other land and became the god that we know of today.
In the pivotal encounter with the octopus near Kadavu, Dakuwaqa's aggressive assault triggered massive waves, but he ultimately begged for mercy and vowed to safeguard the island's people from shark attacks, a promise that transformed his role from conqueror to benevolent protector.
Dakuwaqa engages in notable rivalries with other sea deities, particularly in tales emphasizing the enforcement of maritime boundaries and the balance of power in oceanic realms."
Mythlock/Gtokpedia

Creation Moment 4/26/2026 - The Spine

I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Psalm 139:14

"Problems with bad backs have often been blamed on a design flaw in our spines. We now stand erect, but supposedly we evolved imperfectly from four-legged creatures with a more horizontal spine. In particular, erect posture is alleged to be hard on the spine where the lumbar (lower) region curves forward. The forward curvature is called lordosis.

Evolutionists thought that lordosis was part of the problem. So when patients complained about back pain, the evolutionary remedy was reducing lordosis.
However, experts on the spine now disagree with such treatment because it made the problem worse.
For example, Prof. Richard Porter (1935–2005) was Director of Education and Training for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1995–1997. He published over 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals on spinal disorders alone. He was awarded the first Volvo Award in 1979 for his work on spinal stenosis. Porter’s obituary in the British Medical Journal noted his scientific achievements, as well as his strong Christian faith and generosity to overseas doctors and refugees.
Porter explained the reason for the faulty diagnosis: the faulty view of origins. He found that the design perspective was much more helpful to his research than evolutionary assumptions:

"I start from quite a different position. From my understanding of human anatomy and physiology and my understanding of God, I say that the form of God’s creation always matches its function. So you can be sure that the form of the spine is perfectly designed for its function. God has made a wonderful spine. If you start with that premise, it gives you a head start when trying to understand the mechanism of the spine."

In particular, Porter explained that lordosis is a good engineering design for an upright posture. Our spine is stronger, weight for weight, than a gorilla’s spine which allegedly has the ‘right’ spine curvature:

"When you start to examine the biomechanics of the curved spine, asking why it’s that shape and what’s good about it, you find that the arch of the spine has a beautiful purpose; it’s like the arch of a bridge, it adds strength. Because of that arch in the lumbar spine, a man with a lumbar lordosis can lift proportionally more weight than a gorilla with its kyphotic (outwardly curving) spine!"

CMI

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 77

"Psalm 77:

The psalm is the voice of an individual, but since he speaks on behalf of the nation, the psalm may best be called a national lament psalm.
His lament then changes into a hymn of praise.

I. The Irritations of a Depressed Soul (77:1-9)
II. The Intention to Refocus the Mind (77:10-15)
III. The Illustrations of God’s Past Blessings (77:16-20)

Psalm 77:1 I cried unto God with my voice, [even] unto God with

my voice; and He gave ear unto me.
Psalm 77:3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
Psalm 77:4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Psalm 77:5 I have considered the days of old, 

the years of ancient times.

As appears from the latter part of the psalm, and with which agrees the following clause. "The years of ancient times":
The records and remembrances of past ages.
What is the testimony which the history of the world bears on this subject?

Psalm 77:6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: 

I commune with mine own heart:

 and my spirit made diligent search.

Psalm 77:11 I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
Psalm 77:13 Thy way, O God, [is] in the sanctuary: who [is so] great a God as [our] God?"
BooksOfTheBible

Where to Find The Keys to the Code of Revelation

"John claims at the very beginning that the purpose of the book is to

reveal things “that must soon take place” (Revelation 1:1) and that God “signified” (KJV, ASV, NKJV, CSB) these things to him, meaning that they were presented not in literal language but in symbolic language that requires understanding the meaning of the symbols used. 

This means that Revelation is written in a kind of code, and the reader or hearer is challenged to discover the keys to the code, which are found primarily in the Old Testament scriptures." 

Edwin Reynolds

Creation Moment 4/25/2026 - Question for Physics

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools....
Romans 1:22

"Increasingly, we are being told that the things physics studies are not real.

Time is not real.

Particles are not real.

Space itself is not real.

Q: What, then, are physicists studying?

Two recent New Scientist articles, taken together, show just how deep the problem has become.
One asks why matter has mass.
The other declares that matter doesn’t exist.

We’re solving the fundamental mystery of how reality is glued together (New Scientist, 6 April 2026). Michael Brooks teases that

new mathematical tools are starting to help scientists understand “the force that binds the heart of atoms” — the strong nuclear force, one of four fundamental forces in physics.
This report on the strong nuclear force begins with a striking admission:

“As you read this, every atom in your body is desperately trying to tear itself apart … If atoms obeyed only electricity and magnetism, the universe would have been a brief, bright firework. Instead, something else intervenes, a force so strong it makes electromagnetism look feeble … keeping the building blocks of atoms glued together.”

And then the problem:

“The equations that describe it look disarmingly simple, yet follow them through and something puzzling happens: a theory built from weightless ingredients somehow produces particles that are unmistakably heavy.”

This is the Yang–Mills mass gap problem, one of the most important unsolved questions in physics. The theory describes quarks and gluons that are, in themselves, massless. Yet the particles they form, protons and neutrons, account for nearly all the mass in the visible universe.

No space, no time, no particles: A radical vision of quantum reality (New Scientist, 27 October 2025). In this article, Vlatko Vedral suggests that we can solve fundamental problems of physics by replacing particles with mathematics.
If the first paper struggles to explain why things have mass, the second questions whether “things” exist at all.
In a sweeping reinterpretation of quantum theory that frees us from the observer-collapsing the wave-function paradox,we are told:

“It’s not just observers that don’t exist – there are no particles either.

Space and time don’t exist at all.”

What remains is not matter in Vedral’s world, but mathematics. Reality is recast as “q-numbers,” abstract elements in quantum equations. Particles, space, time, even observers are reduced to convenient labels.

The motivation is familiar. Quantum theory has long struggled with the role of the observer, the collapse of the wavefunction, and the paradoxes of entanglement. Rather than resolve these tensions within a realist framework, this proposal discards the framework itself in favor of “pure” mathematics.

Lest the irony escape us, it is worth stating plainly. If mathematics determines what is real, then the direction of explanation has been reversed.
What began as a method for describing the physical world now defines what is allowed to exist.

Only Two Paths Remain

One path is some form of idealism. Reality is ultimately mathematical, relational, or mental. The physical world becomes derivative, a projection of underlying abstract structure. Vedral’s proposal fits squarely here, whether or not he, or the many others

flirting with these ideas, embrace the label.

The other path is that reality is grounded in a source beyond itself, one capable of giving rise to both the mathematical order and the material structures we observe.
This path does not end inquiry. It makes sense of it." 

CEH