{"id":532,"date":"2012-03-12T19:40:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T02:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teach4god.com\/OTS\/?p=532"},"modified":"2014-04-02T05:35:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:35:46","slug":"psalm-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/03\/12\/psalm-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 87"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psalm 87<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Another psalm of the Korahites<\/a> possibly written after the exile (see Isaiah 4.3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>).<\/p>\n

Verses 1-3-The writer proclaims God\u2019s love for Jerusalem. He maintains that God loves the city because He was its founder (1 Kings 11.13<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>). And because it is the home of the Temple where God\u2019s glory is manifest.<\/p>\n

Selah<\/a>-We\u00a0are called\u00a0to pause in order to\u00a0reflect on where God now dwells. As Christians, He dwells in us. He has made us into His Temple for all to see and hear our holy praise of Him (1 Corinthians 6.18-20<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>). How are you doing? Have you spoken glorious things because of God? Have others spoken glorious things of God because of you?<\/p>\n

Verses 4-6-The one born in and who lives in Jerusalem have been chosen and blest by God and noticed by others (see Isaiah 4.3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>). The Rahab mentioned here is not the harlot (Joshua 2.3-11<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>) and ancestor of David and Jesus (Matthew 1<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>) but represents Egypt (the Hebrew spelling is pointed\u00a0differently and has different spelling\u00a0[for Egypt-\u05e8\u05b7\u05d4\u05b7\u05d1 and for the harlot-\u00a0\u05e8\u05b8\u05d7\u05b8\u05d1] (Isaiah 30.7<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Selah<\/a>-We\u00a0are called\u00a0to pause in order to\u00a0reflect on where we are born. If we are believers, we have been born again into the Temple wherein He dwells. He records our name in His Book of Life. He had established this before the foundations of the world.<\/p>\n

Verse 7-Springs represent salvation (Isaiah 12.3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>), which is only found in God.<\/p>\n

This psalm calls us to consider how blessed we are in being chosen by God to be the place He dwells. Have you thanked Him for doing that? Do so, now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This psalm calls us to consider how blessed we are in being chosen by God to be the place He dwells. Have you thanked Him for doing that? Do so, now<\/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":[126,111,337,51],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-daily-studies","category-psalms","tag-corinthians","tag-isaiah","tag-joshua","tag-matthew","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","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=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}