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

This Psalms 82 is Ya, God in the Sanctuary. This is the eleventh and next to the last Psalm of Asaph. This deals with the eleventh hour, and that is the time just before the entering into the wedding feast. This applies to only one time in all of this earth age of flesh man. This Psalm addresses what shall take place just before the great wedding, that great day of Christ's return.

Psalms 82:1 "God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; He judgeth among the gods."

Our heavenly Father judges not only among men, but among the gods. Those "gods" are those things that people come to worship and put first in their lives, not even recognizing the status that they have elevated their gods to. There are supernatural gods, such as angel and demon worship, and there is also anything that you put before the one True God, our Heavenly Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Your business and people of stature can even become your idol, or god. The point to remember is that you love the Father more than you love any other thing or person.

Psalms 82:2 "How long will ye judge unjustly, And accept the persons of the wicked? Selah."

This point is simple, how long will you listen and follow the untruth over the truth. To judge is to practice discernment between those things that are good and right, and those things that are wrong. You are not able to judge rightly on matters until you have the knowledge of what is right and wrong, what is truth and what is a lie and false. Then you can discern on the steps you should take to judge rightly. As this applies to each of us, before we can judge our children justly, and lead them into a righteous path, we must know the righteous path, and lead them down that path. This, of course, is talking of children, and not mature adults, for they select their own path.

This Selah requires us to stop and meditate a while, for He was talking about God's judgment, the indictment of what was just spoken by our Heavenly Father. God's command here is that we are to judge fairly in all of our judgments.

Psalms 82:3 "Defend the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and needy."

We are to defend those that are unable to defend themselves, the orphans and the poor. We are to justify the acts that we do towards the afflicted and the needy. To judge fairly.

Psalms 82:4 "Deliver the poor and needy: Rid them out of the hand of the wicked."

Anytime you see someone misleading one of God's children, do your best to warn them and plant a seed of truth. Don't allow them to be driven to the slaughter by the wicked ones. Don't allow them to be taken by the false God's.

Psalms 82:5 "They know not, neither will they understand; They walk on in darkness: All the foundations of the earth are out of course."

Most of the ministers and teachers of today simply do not understand our Heavenly Fathers Word. They walk in their darkness and lead others down that same path of darkness. Today, as we look around us, there is nothing but confusion in the world in this generation. The confusion exist because they are not familiar with our heavenly Father's voice, His Word. We will see this in our study of Psalms 83, when He gives us history and then the prophecy as to what the nations shall do. Most people today are so wrapped up in the traditions of men that they have no idea what our Father's voice or Word sounds like.

Most of the time the hidden truths have been covered over by the translators that have misused the truths and for what ever their reason changed the Word to fit their own imaginations. There are manuscripts that do have the truth, and those truths are available to those seeking the truths. However God has it that many are left blind for their own protection, for had they know the truth and seen the reality of the parable, they would have been accountable for their worship of Satan, the antichrist at his coming.

Psalms 82:6 "I have said, Ye are gods; And all of you are children of the MOST HIGH."

This verse gets a lot of people in trouble, for the first thing they do is elevate themselves to a false position, and even religions have been formed over this verse. So what does the manuscript read on this verse, with the thought from our heavenly Father? "I have said, ye are God's children; and all of you are the children of the MOST HIGH." This has nothing to do with humans being gods, but it shows ownership by God of all of his children.

Psalms 82:7 "But ye shall die like men, And fall like one of the princes."

The word for "men" is Adam in the Hebrew. You are flesh man, just as Adam was, and he also died in the flesh. It doesn't matter if you are the king's son, or royality, if you are living in a flesh body, in this earth age, you will die in the flesh as all those souls that went before you. Remember what Paul said in I Corinthians 15:50; "Now this I say brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." "Corruption" is this flesh body, while "incorruption" is your soul or spiritual body that is within your corruption, or flesh body.

Psalms 82:8 "Arise, O God, judge the earth: For Thou shalt inherit all nations."

All the people on the face of this earth, living in their flesh and blood body are God's children, and God shall judge all the earth; all the nations of the earth. This shall take place at the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. When this takes place this age of the flesh will be over, and we will be in Christ's kingdom Millennium age. Then God's elect shall be the judges and the teachers, and many will come to see and know the truth, and follow the path that His word has set forth.