This Bible Study is is provided by http://www.theseason.org/ and shared with permission from it's author R. Christopherson

This Psalms is the Psalm of deliverance and of victory. This Psalms is made up in part from the 57th Psalms, verses seven through eleven; and Psalms 60 verses five through twelve. This is to show us living today that prophecy happens the way that it is written.

Psalms 108:1 "O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory."

This states the my mind is steadfast, or is your mind all over the place, willing to follow one man when you hear him; then another when you hear him. We are to be fixed and steadfast to God's Word. We are to have the Word the anchor for our lives, guiding us constantly in the direction we go. In all the glory that we may receive in this life, is really God's glory, for what ever glory we receive belongs to Him. He made us all, and created all that exists; for He gave us our wisdom and strength, and the blessings of this world.

Psalms 108:2 "Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early."

Sing praises to the Lord and awake to the truth of His Word. We are to awake to the truth of the latter day rain, the truth of those events that fall on the ears and eyes of those that hear and see that truth with spiritual ears and eyes. When you grow in the word to where you are comfortable in your life with it, then thank Him for that assurance. He has chose you to have the wisdom to understand His Word.

Psalms 108:3 "I will praise Thee, O Lord, among the people: And I will sing praises unto Thee among the nations."

When you praise the Lord among the people, you are witnessing to them of God's love and mercy. I will teach the nations to sing praises to the Lord. For those that have the spiritual insite to know the Word with understanding, this should remind us of Mark 13:9-11. There is a time coming when "you will be delivered up to their councils, and brought before kings and rulers for My sake for a testimony against them."

Mark 13:10 "And the gospel must first be published among all nations."

Mark 13:11 "But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost."

You will be a witness and a testimony so that the world will hear the truth.

Psalms 108:4 "For Thy mercy is great above the heavens: And Thy truth reacheth unto the clouds."

God's "mercy" is His "loving kindness and grace", and it reaches out to all that will in repentance, seek the truth and believe on Jesus Christ. It doesn't matter where you are or who you are, when you cry out to the Lord, He hears you and extends His mercies to you. God's Spirit will open your mind to understand the things of His Word, as you study make yourself a workman that will not be ashamed, on that day of His return.

Psalms 108:5 "Be Thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and Thy glory above all the earth;"

And that glory of our Father shall be above all the earth. At the return of our Lord Jesus Christ, the whole world will see Him coming in all His glory, and evey knee shall bow to Him.

Psalms 108:6 "That Thy beloved may be delivered: Save with Thy right hand, and answer me."

"That Thy beloved ones might be delivered:" Who is at the right hand of Almighty God? Of course it is our Lord Jesus Christ, and we look forward to that time when He returns to this earth, and we are delivered from those hardships of this world age. Jesus Christ will sit at the right hand of the Father until all his enemies will be made His footstool.

Psalms 108:7 "God hath spoken in His holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth."

"Shechem" is to say "the back or the shoulder" in the Hebrew. The "valley of Succoth" is to say the "time of the booths", that time when you set the things of this world aside, and move into the tents to meditate on the things of the Lord only. God gave us these promises and swore by those things of the tabernacle.

Psalms 108:8 "Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;"

In the prophetic sense, Ephraim and Manasseh makes up England and the United States of today. Judah is God's lawgiver.

Psalms 108:9 "Moab is my washpot; Over Edom will I cast out my shoe; Over Philistia will I triumph."

"Moab" means "of his own father", they are the sons of Lot. "Edom" is Esau or Russia of today, and our Heavenly Father is unhappy with any nation discards the things of God and His Word. Many of them say that Father doesn't exist. The holy things of Esau are the things of socialism. God is not happy with Esau and his liberal ways.

"Philistia" is Palestine itself and God is not happy with those people. When our Lord Jesus Christ returns, all the lands on the face of the earth will be conquered, and under Him, or they will not exist. Much of what is written here deals with end time prophecy, and the things that we are seeing today.

Psalms 108:10 "Who will bring me into the strong city? Who will lead me into Edom?

Who is going to lead you into Russia, and when are we going to see the strongholds of Russia completely put down? This is prophecy and Father is now going to tell us.

Psalms 108:11 "Wilt not Thou, O God, who has cast us off? And wilt not Thou, O God go forth with our hosts?"

God's host is that army of angels; those souls that have died in the flesh, that loved Him and believed on Jesus Christ. They will come with back with our Lord at the sounding of the seventh trump. I Corinthians 15:51-52 set the exact time of this return; "Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."

All mankind living in their flesh bodies will be changed instantly into their incorruptible bodies, as the angels have. They will see the Lord and the host that return with Him and all will bow a knee to Him.

Revelation 19:13, 14 "His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns; and He had a name written, that no man knew, but He Himself." "And the armies which were in heaven followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean."

Yes our forefathers and mothers that loved the Lord Jesus Christ will return with Him when he comes back to set up His kingdom here on earth.

Psalms 108:12 "Give us help from trouble: For vain is the help of man."

God is the only One that can give you help from all your trouble, for what ever help that comes from man is vain, or empty and vanity. It is God that shall over come the evil of this world, and we are not to lift a hand. In Ezekiel 38, and 39 He states that I will do this "so that the heathen will know that I am God". In the end, they will love Him for this action that God will take against them. The communists have taught them to long that there is no God, and at Christ's return there will be a revelation to them that there is a God. It will be a very sad awakening. Man will not make those changes in Russia, but it will be God that will end that form of thinking in Russia.

How will this end come? Ezekiel 38:20-23 tells us that God will use natural things and ways to come against Russia and her allies. He will shake the heavens and the earth in great earthquakes, and the mountains will fall. God will use pestilence and rain down great hailstones, fire and brimstone to end this wickedness that is going on there even today. They will see the face of the Lord. In that day of our Lord's return, all flesh shall be done away with, and we shall enter into our incorruptible bodies as the angels have, and all will see the glory of the Lord. We will then move into a thousand years of Jesus Christ's kingdom right here on this earth.

Ezekiel 38:23 "Thus will I magnify Myself, and sanctify Myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.' "

Psalms 108:13 "Through God we shall do valiantly: For He it Is That shall tread down our enemies."

It is only through God that we shall do valiantly. There is no one else that we can count on to tread down our enemies. We are in the end generation, and it is time to accept all of our Father Word, to believe through your words and actions, or you will not be part of His family. There are no fence setters in this final generation. If you believe then you take the entire Word and there will be no traditions and false doctrine that goes against the Word as part of your life. Those that like to play church for social reason will be given over to Satan, and God will allow him and his angels to have their way with them.