Psalms 91;12
They shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
God has given His angels protective power over us. Not allowing us to go through anything that was not specifically ordained by Him, for our good. If we don't know Him, the good that they are purposed to do is to introduce Him to us. Many people, that is all they ever learn. Every consideration and every trouble is saying, come to Jesus, in the pardon of your sins. The other extreme are the wonderful godly people like the Jobs who the devil is showing off their faith to the spiritual bleachers. The audience of the heavenlies are looking and the devil takes on God Himself using this Godly amazing man. Around and around they wrestle with this God honoring man and God is at work winning the souls of others to Himself and shining His light upon the world through this holy man. Most of us fall somewhere between those two. We are presumptuous, too often and think more highly of ourselves, but we all have an audience on earth and in heaven. God is able to wrestle the devil and his imps on every level at the same time. And now we also have the added things that Job didn't have we have the bride of Christ His church interceding for us and holding us up and we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. We are more than a conqueror through Him.
They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Occasionally, they have to pick us up or move stuff to get us out of the way of huge harm. They must be very strong. If the angels hand bear us up to keep us from hurting or harming ourselves they are very strong. Anyone who has watched children for any length of time has seen the angels at work, first hand. It is like the work of the wind. You are sure that the child is doomed and you are too far to do anything but pray. Down he or she rolls heading for some great catastrophe and you are moving as fast as you can to get there and lo and behold another child moves between or they stop, or are stopped in their tracks. I know I have seen it. In car, possible mishaps. They play a football game on the highway to get us to church sometimes. Halleluia, for God's ministering spirits!
You will tread upon the lion and the adder: the young lion and the dragon, you shall trample under foot. The devil and the forces that bring death and destruction will be subject to the people on the earth who know and love the Lord. The keys of death, hell and the grave are given to the Lord Jesus. We can know how and what makes us tick and how and what is tremulous to us now can be overcome by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony. Studying the words of people of the past. God is a spirit and does not have a body like us. We make things so much more mystical than He ever does. If He said let there be and it is still reverberating through time as it does. We need study the natural revelation and stop making things so mystical about His dealings with us. That which is revealed belongs to us and to our children forever. Preserving and recouping the libraries that were burned throughout time is the key. God told the people to burn and ravage the idolaters camp because He was preserving a seed to bring salvation to the earth. Not because they were stupid people. God has a value in His creation for creation sake. We are missing the sights and beauty of the image of God revealed in the people groups around us, when through prejudice we close our eyes to the truth that they represent, or that we represent; when redeemed in Christ.
Psalms 91:14
Because He hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him:I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
Salvation is through Christ alone and that seems to be the apparent dillemma that Jesus was alluding to when He quoted the "Lord said to my Lord". Who is God talking to? God is conversing within His Triune self and showing the completion of His work for us in and through Christ, even before it is accomplished. He Jesus set His love upon Me the Fathe and therefore whoever is in Him Jesus and God through Him is delivered and set on high because He has represented God upon the earth, once and for all.
He shall call upon me and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.
God has a covenant to be God to His people. To answer and to be with them and to deliver and even to honor. What humility, that God would even discuss honoring people. There had to be a Savior for that to happen. God couldn't honor sinful man, unless they were in and with Christ. Reconciliation and Honor and Glory belongs to God alone and to man through the means of Christ. Halleluia!
Psalm 91:16
With long life will I satisfy him and shew him my salvation.
It all did look lost at the crucifixion for that promise. But Jesus rose and is alive and this proves that this is true because Jesus is alive and we who are alive spiritually will remain alive in Him. Death is not the end of the story on the right hand or the left. God was giving them, as it were a little glimpse of a time when death would be insignificant in the spiritual life of believer and unbeliever. "And after death, the judgement!"
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