{"id":467,"date":"2012-03-03T13:56:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T21:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teach4god.com\/OTS\/?p=467"},"modified":"2014-04-02T05:26:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:26:29","slug":"psalm-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/03\/03\/psalm-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psalm 8<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Introduction to the Psalms<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0explains the Gittith.<\/p>\n

Verse 1-The earth is a proclamation of the glory and majesty of God. When you see His creative process from an atom to a galaxy, what is your response?<\/p>\n

Verse 2-Read Matthew 21.12-17<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> and 1 Corinthians 1.26-30<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> to enlighten this verse. When we praise God, we are using a defensive mechanism to thwart those who speak evil. How often are you praising God during the course of the day? The more we praise, the less we hear from the enemies of our faith.<\/p>\n

Verses 3-4-This seems to be a quote from Job 7.17-18<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0and is quoted in Hebrews 2.6-8<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>. The answer to this question is found throughout the Scriptures and summed up in the next few verses.<\/p>\n

Verses 5-8-The translation of “elohim” ( ) in verse five has some controversy in it and can change the outlook of the psalm. David is saying either that God has made mankind a little lower than angels (KJV<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>) or than Himself (NASB<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>). See the footnote for both. If we reference Genesis 1.26-28<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>, we can argue the NASB translation of “God.” Our dignity is found in being like Him. If there is no God, there is no basis for dignity in man. It is in being created lower than Him that we can fulfill the command of Genesis 1 and Psalm 8, which is being a plenipotentiary (one who rules in place of another as representing the other).<\/p>\n

Another argument for the word being translated as the NASB\u00a0presents is 1 Corinthians 6.3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>, which informs us that we will judge angels.<\/p>\n

Verse 9-The psalm closes with the words it began. This sandwiching effect reminds us that all that is contained within these verses are to proclaim how great He is.<\/p>\n

Consider your daily routine. Does it proclaim the greatness of God from beginning to end?\u00a0 If so, praise Him.\u00a0 If not, what can be done differently?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Consider your daily routine. Does it proclaim the greatness of God from beginning to end? If so, praise Him. If not, what can be done differently?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,114],"tags":[126,163,36,90,24,82,119,51,115,26],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-daily-studies","category-psalms","tag-corinthians","tag-creation","tag-david","tag-genesis","tag-god","tag-hebrews","tag-job","tag-matthew","tag-psalm","tag-remember","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}