The Meaning Of Life

https://biblehub.com/nkjv/psalms/115.htm

I don’t comment on every single verse of the Bible, I only comment on those things that get my attention for some reason. That said, I read every verse of every psalm, but just because I don’t comment on something doesn’t mean I didn’t read and it doesn’t mean that it is not worthy of reading. Every word of every verse of every book of the Bible is worthy of our attention.

Psalm 115 talks about the difference between worshiping our awesome God, all knowing and capable of anything and everything just by his nature, and worshiping idols and money which have simply been made by man.

Psalm 116 mentions the word “Sheol”, which is a synonym for the word “hell”. If you’ve read my blogs before, you know that I don’t believe in an everburning pit of fire where God sends the wicked to burn forever and ever. And my belief is rooted even further after studying an online Hebrew Bible in which a rabbi describes “hell” simply as the “grave”, a place where you sleep and await the 2nd Coming of Christ (for Messianic Jews that is). And all people, righteous or wicked, go to their grave, or go to “Sheol” upon their tempory “sleep” as they await the return of our Lord and Savior. So when other Christians back up their belief of an eternal hell fire with scripture such as this, it personally doesn’t provide proof for me. And while we’re on the subject, there is nothing bad about sleeping in the grave. Many people fear death, but death is just a sleep, like you sleep at night. You don’t know the exact minute you fall asleep, you simply drift off, and it is the same with death. And when you wake up 8 hours later, it seems like just a moment. The same is the sleep of death (I know that follow me regularly have heard this dissertation before) but as scripture says, “the dead know nothing”. You drift into the sleep of death, and your next waking moment will be when you are resurrected from the grave by Jesus. Without getting too controversial prematurely, there are two resurections, the resurrection of the righteous, and the ressurection of the wicked; the first to eternal life, the latter to eternal death. Scripture says the punishment for sin “is death”, not “an everlasting life in hell fire”. Again, I believe that the resurrection of the wicked will result in them perishing because they are unable to withstand the Glory of God, but not before they discover they have been deceived by Satan. Adam and Eve were clothed in the Glory of God until they sinned, afterwhich they realized their nakedness.

Psalm 117 is a short one, but I want to point out that it mentions “Gentiles”. Normally when I, at least, think of the word Gentile, which is a non-Jew, I think of the New Testament where Christ gathered and taught His disciples to go and spread the word of Christ, and He specifically talks about not only converting the Jews to “Christianity” (one who follows Christ), but also converting the Gentiles, those living at the time who were not Jewish. And when we get to the New Testament, we will read where Paul even went to Rome to spread the word of Jesus to the Romans. But here, even in the Old Testament, they talk about Gentiles, and I confess that I missed this the first times I read the Bible. And the psalmist is encouraging even the Gentiles to “praise the Lord”. One thing I don’t know, but will certainly look for in my reading, is when Jesus was actually named. I know in the Book of Isaiah, the is a prophesy about the birth of the Messiah and it mentions that His name will be Immanuel, but I don’t believe the name Jesus or Christ is a synonym of that, as Immanuel means “God is with us”. That said, I believe the psalmist is talking about God the Father, which means they were encouraging the Gentiles to worship and praise God. To me, that is worthy of noting, considering many of the children of Israel defied the commands of God and began intermingling with the pagan people of the land of Canaan, and instead of trying to convert them, they joined in and began worshiping idols right along with the Gentiles. And God knew, as I now know after having been married, the Hebrew men that intermarried with the pagan women were eventually sucked into their form of worship. That is not to say my late wife was a pagan, but rather when she told me to do something, I did it. It was very clear who wore the pants in my house. Now that she’s gone, I wear the pants, and they’re actually kind of tight because I’m a lot bigger than she was.

Enough attempts at humor. God bless you all!