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This is the twelfth Psalm of Asaph, the destruction of the the enemies of God and the Sanctuary. It will be the last of the Psalms of Asaph. As we read in the prior chapter, God doesn't like it when pastors and teachers allow their own views to take priority over Our Father's Word. They promote some man or teaching that goes against The Word of God, and call it the Word of God. We are nothing in the flesh, here for a short while and gone, or Father's Word is eternal; never let a man, woman, object or spirit draw you away from our Father's Word. All things shall come to pass as it is written.

This Psalm 83 is a very deep study concerning the enemies of the Sanctuary, and this chapter will be a start into that study.

Psalms 83:1 Keep not Thou silence, O God: Hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O GOD"

O' Heavenly Father let their be action, and let that action come directly from You. The call here is to bring about the end of this earth age. It is calling for the return of Christ.

Psalms 83:2 "For, lo, Thine enemies make a tumult: And they that hate Thee have lifted up the head."

"Lifted up the head", means that the enemies of God and the Sanctuary have become high minded. They have turned into a bunch of hypocrites. Remember when Jesus said in Matthew 23:2; "The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:" Those sitting at the head of the church system in that day were Kenites, not of Judah, but they had assumed the role of instructing in the law, and had turned the law into nothing but their own traditions. Jesus instruction to those in the Sanctuary was that: "All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not." Do you get it? Those temple leaders of Kenites had become nothing but hypocrites. Now apply that to the time we are living in, for that is what this chapter is all about: Those things that are going on in the Sanctuary just before the return of our Lord and Savior. The leaders will claim to be something that they are not.

Beware of those high-minded traditions of men and those that give out those traditions. These high-minded faith leaders that have taken over the Temple or Sanctuary of Almighty God; and they set themselves up as teachers, and give you a set of their rules to follow that go against the Word of God. Be careful what you follow, and check out to make sure it conforms to To God's holy Word. You, as a Christian, had better check out what is taught before you accept it. The warning here is for each of us to test our teachers to see if what they teach is in accord with God's Word. If it just doesn't check out, it is time to move out of their presence.

Psalms 83:3 "They have taken crafty counsel against Thy People, And consulted against Thy hidden ones."

By "crafty counsel" means that they continually devise their plots against those that will give them an ear. The work up their programs to build their structures, to give to the starving abroad, and what ever it takes to separate the listener from his or her money. God's "hidden ones" are God's elect, and the center of their plotting in their chambers are against those that are tender to God's Word. They force their people to make their vows to God, or what ever the cause, then that vow becomes a bondage to them and their counsel. Get it? Don't make vows no matter what the cause, if you have the money to give and see a need, give what you have, not what you do not have.

"Crafty counsel" is the use of usury also, inflation and deflation, the most simple of forms to place a person into slavery. The way to beat their system is to make payments to yourself and when you have the money, then go and make the purchase. Usury is a form of Babylon, and come out of Babylon, and stop doing it. Live within your means, for there is a sale on every weekend of the year, so when you have the means, then make the buy.

Psalms 83:4 "They have said, "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance."

This group had grown to the point that they did not want the children of Israel, the ten tribes. This plot started centuries ago, and today it has come true. The name of the House of Israel is completely vanished from those of the house of Israel. If you call one of the nations of the house of Israel by it's true name, people will think you are nuts. The house of Israel has completely lost its identity. Those ten tribes that were scattered by the Assyrians in 745 to 722 B.C., moved to an area just north of Lake Van in Iraq, and some century later passed through the Caucasus mountains and scattering throughout Europe and around the world to become know by many names.

However the one name that has stuck with them was the name they acquired as they passed through the Caucasus mountains, "Caucasians", and that is still the name of identity on the form for entering into our nation today. Yes, the the house of Israel or Israel, picked up many names, The Cimerons, the Celts, the Saxons, the Brits, and so on; but they are all of the house of Israel, that nation to the north when king Solomon died and the Israel under him split into two separate nations; the house of Judah [Judah and Benjamin], and the house of Israel [all the rest of the tribes].

The Kenites accomplished it, almost, For the ten tribes of the house of Israel have kept their identity in their flag, banners and seals, even though it has been blotted out of their minds in their school houses. The house of Israel, and the name Israel in the bible are those nations of the house of Israel in the latter days. That tiny nation of that calls itself "Israel" today, is nothing but mostly Kenites, the sons of Cain, with some of Judah scattered in their midst. Hosea identified Israel in his writings of Hosea 1:10;

Hosea 1:10 "Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, `Ye are not My People,' there is shall be said unto them, `Ye are the sons of the living God.' "

Hosea is addressing the time in many years after his time, when the house of Israel had lost their true identity. So at that time they will assume another identity, and that name will be "the sons of the living God". Jesus Christ is the living God, for He lives today, He arose from the tomb and ascended into heaven on the 40th day. He sits at the right hand of the Father, and those that claim to be the "sons of the living God" today call themselves Christians.

Jesus order to His disciples in Matthew 10:6, 7 was "to go first to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." "And as you go, preach, saying, `the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.' "

Today most people of the house of Israel don't even know who they are. They have short memories, without time or the care of tracing their roots to their forefathers beyond a generation or two. Yes, today it is a disgrace that God's own people don't even know who they are.

Psalms 83:5 "For they have consulted together with one consent: They hare confederate against Thee:"

The religious leaders of today and formed their own traditions, and pattern of thought, and they stick together like glue. Sure they have their own denominational boundaries, but together challenge anyone that goes against their dogma in force. So who are we talking about? The Kenites of course, for they control most of the thought of the seminaries, and denominations. The Kenites have put together a confederacy against God's nations, to over-ride and they are a threat even to our great nation.

However in the end, we will have the victory in Christ. It is time for the Christians in our nation, and around the world to wake up. Now we will have ten nations or peoples named, and they God will ask us to stop a moment and consider what has been said, with a "Selah". Then God will give us a seven fold destruction called down on their heads. We are talking about prophecy here. There are seven types of destruction used to give Israel victories that came from God. However to these ten nations, this has not been accomplished to this date. However it shall come to pass very shortly, in these end times. That is why it is important to pay attention to what is said here.

In the back of your Companion Bible, Appendix ten, we can read what numbers mean, in "The spiritual significance of numbers."

Ten: Denotes "Ordininal perfection; meaning a new beginning or first, meaning the prior is over and done with."

Seven: Denotes "Spiritual perfection; This is the hall-mark of the Holy Spirit's work. He is the author of God's Word, it is the water-mark on the paper of where it was manufactured.

Combine the ten and the seven and you have seventeen and that denotes victory. It is the sons of God, God's elect that will have the victory when this earth age is completed. Those that Love our Heavenly Father, and understand and obey His Word, will have the victory. So these are the ten that stand against almighty God, that hold their heads up high, and say there is not God.

Psalms 83:6 "The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; Of Moab, and the Hagarenes;"

"Edom" in the Hebrew tongue, means "red". It is the children of Esau, and today they are the Russians. This is not talking about the individuals, but the system of that nation. We have many good Christians in that nation today, and they have paid a price for their beliefs. There she stand in her fallen state, with her people crying to return to their Godless form of Communism.

The "Ishmaelites, of Moab": that means of His own people. These are the tribes of the sons of Ishmael, the first son of Abraham but through the bond servant, Hagar. We read in Genesis 17 that the covenant between God and Abraham was with Sarah also, and the only son Isaac came from Sarah was in her old age. The one to carry the covenant would be Isaac, and he would pass it on to Jacob, who's name was changed to Israel. We read in Genesis 48 how the Covenant promises, that of land, a seed, and blessing was passed on from Jacob to Joseph's two sons Ephraim and Manasseh. So here we see some of our own people, of the seed of Abraham that will turn against Christianity.

The "Hagarenes", were also tied to Abraham, through that bond servant Hagar. The word Hagar in the Hebrew means "flight". Stop and look at the middle east and see the people in flight, and these people are all from the offspring of Hagar through Ishmael.

Psalms 83:7 "Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; The Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;"

The people of "Gebal" lived in the area of the old Idumea, or next to the Red sea of today. They were known in ancient times as "Ezion-Geber", and we read of them in Strong's Hebrew dictionary, # 6100, and 6096. "Backbone-like a man," "A spine giving firmness to the body." These were people that lived in the land prior to Abraham.

Of course "Ammon" was the son of Abraham's nephew, Lot, of the Arabic nations, and Amalek according to # 6002 in the Strongs was a decendant of Esau their descendants were know at the Amalekites. In Judges 10:12-14 we read that the Amalekites along with the Zidonians [the Kenites from Hamath] and Maonites oppressed Israel and God delivered them out of their hands. Then God warned them; "Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more." "Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation."

The "Philistines" were with "the inhabitants of Tyre", for Tyre was the center of Kenites trade and influence, and their trade extended around the world. Of course we are talking of the Kenites here. These Kenites are the very sons of Satan himself from the sexual union with eve in the Garden of Eden. We read in Second Chronicles 2:55 that three families of the Kenites took over the duties of the scribes in the Temple, and in time so changed to Word of God that there identity became hidden as they assumed the role of the Temple levitical priests and leaders. These two groups are allied in a confederacy against God's people. It is these groups that have caused the people of true Israel to lose their identity in these end times. Our people have even lost the remembrance of what they are to stand for, and what side they should be on. Today God's people only consider themselves Israel and of Christ by adoption, when in fact they are the true sons of God.

God made a Covenant with His people through Abraham, as we read in Genesis 17. That Covenant is an eternal covenant, one that goes far after the end of this age of the flesh. And by true Israel losing their true identity under and through that covenant, being hoodwinked by the Kenites who assumed the place of True Israel, they gave up their claim to the covenant rights, and allowed the Kenites to take what is by law theirs. That is what is happening as you watch many church leaders allowing the Kenites to claim their God's chosen, when in fact they are one of Satan's children. This they do in ignorance of course. They will continue to do this as long as they allow the Kenites to do the interpreting of God's Word for them.

The Word "Covenant" means "to cut", and the Abrahamic Covenant is a blood covenant between God and His people. The Kenites have allowed that Covenant to be cut between God and His people many years ago. There were duties and obligation for those tribes of Israel to accomplish in the end times, and they are not doing it because of their ignorance to God's Word and who they are. There is only one way to understand God's Word and that is to understand it from the first verse of Genesis, to the very end of the Bible. God is a Covenant God, and He fulfills the Word of His Covenant, or Testament. That is what the Old Testament and the New Testament is all about, God fulfilling His Word, His Covenant..

Psalms 83:8 "Assur also is joined with them: They have holpen the children of Lot. Selah."

This is real sad to see that "Assur" is joined with these sons of Satan, the Kenites and all those that are going against God's people. "Holpen" as used here means helped, and the children of Assur have helped the children of Lot in deceiving God's people. After God gave us a warning us of those that are against His people and have deceived and went against the true house of Israel, He placed a "Selah". Stop and think of what has just been said. God is warning us of a ten fold confederation that will come against His people and the elect in the end times, and calls them his enemies.

Now God will connect these ten groups with the seven-fold sure destruction that will come upon each of those groups of people. The ten and seven combined give the biblical numerics of seventeen. The victory that will come will not be that of the ten, but for God's elect, those sealed in their mind with the truth of God's Word; after the destruction that shall come in a short period of time. It will be in our generation, for that end time generation started when the Jews returned to Jerusalem and set up their government there.

The examples that were given in this warning were history even at the time of this writing in Psalms. However though they are history, they are also prophecy to us living in this final generation. Paul warned us, those living in the time of the end; "Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come." [I Corinthians 10:11] These warning are given to those with ears to hear.

Psalms 83:9 "Do unto them as unto the Midianites; As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:"

The description of what God did to them at the brook of Kison, It is also history from Judges 4, and 5. These are records of how and when God gave Israel the victory in battle, in various ways, when they were outnumbered by their enemies.

Psalms 83:10 "Which perished at En-dor: They become as dung for the earth."

En-dor is very near Megiddo, and the story is given in Judges 5:19.

Psalms 83:11 "Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: Yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:"

Here again, after the battle against the Midianites, Gideon's 400 men army took the two Midianite princes and slew Oreb upon the rock of Oreb, and slew Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb, and they then pursued the other Midian rulers, and brought back their heads to Gideon. This is recorded in Judges 7:25.

The action against the princes "Zebah", and "Zalmunna" is recorded in Judges 8:5-21. "Zalmunna" in the Hebrew tongue means "deprived of protection". This is the key to the reason that we will have the victory in the end, for they will all be deprived of their protection. God will be in control, and allowing their minds to be rendered helpless, just as recorded in Revelation 9:5 and 6. Those that have sided with Satan, believing that he is the true Christ, will be stung in their minds, just is it is when a scorpion striketh a man. Of course this battle in Judges 8 is also the completion of the battle by Gideon, where God gave them the victory. At the close of that battle God led his people into the promise land where Israel was is control, and the enemy was out of the land. We are in that generation where another promise land will be entered into at the sounding of the seventh trumpet.

Psalms 83:12 "Who said, "Let us take to ourselves The houses of God in possession."

Because of all the brain washing of the press, all the humanism that is taught in schools and now in the homes, and the one worldism that is becoming common through the acceptance of the one world system of humanism taught from the pulpits of our land, our nation has but all given up to the enemy. Humanism is the destructive force that will cause our nation to fall into the sea of the one world system. It teaches people to accept the filth of the world, such as abortion, sodomy, and all the other things that God's Word is against. These are tools that will draw you right into Satan's camp. Be careful my friend, listen and learn the voice of our heavenly Father, and separate it from the voices of men and their traditions. Listen to Father and not men.

Psalms 83:13 "O my God, make them like a wheel; As the stubble before the wind."

This is speaking of the "galgal" in the Hebrew, and the equivalent today would be the wild artichoke, which throws out branches of equal length, and when ripe and dry, breaks off at the root, and is carried by the wind. Today we call them them tumble weed of the Southern-Midwest. They will blow what ever way the wind is blowing. If that thistle or bush is set on fire, it will start fires where ever it is blown. Their fires are very hot, and this is a warning of what is coming on the enemies of God and his also to His elect. If people only knew the heat of the wrath of God, they would have a much changed attitude on the way they live their life.

Psalms 83:14 "As the fire burneth a wood, And as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;"

Again, the burning tumble weed can set the fields and the mountains on fire. The song of Moses speaks of this fire in Deuteronomy 32:22; "For a fire is kindled in Mine anger, And shall burn unto the lowest hell, And shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains."

Psalms 83:15 "So persecute them with Thy tempest, And make them afraid with Thy storm."

"So persue" [persecute]" them with God's Tempest, and make them afraid with Thy wind storm."

Psalms 83:16 "Fill their faces with shame; That they may seek Thy name, O LORD."

Fill their minds with shame to where they will confess that You are the Lord God. In Ezekiel 38 and 39 God promises that He will put His hooks in her jaws, and draw her to the location where Edom and her allies will be destroyed by God in that storm of hail stones. No, God's People will not destroy Russia and her allies, but God says in 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.' "

God will destroy her so that she, the heathen will know that "I am the Lord". The atheistic and communistic people of the earth will know that I am the living God. This marks the end of this earth age of the flesh, in the battle of Hamongog, and we move into the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, for all flesh is done away with at this moment in time, and we enter into our spiritual bodies for the Millennium age. Though God is a consuming fire against His enemies, that same fire is is a warming fire of God glory, as it fills the soul of those that love Him. This fire we are speaking of is from the Holy Spirit of God, God's Spirit will roll forward also touching the souls open to it, with the gift of God. God's word will come to life in the soul of those that recognize His voice, and not the voice of some man's imaginations.

Psalms 83:17 "Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; Yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:"

This is a language of cursing in the Hebrew language against the enemies of God and his people.

Psalms 83:18 "That men may know that Thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, Art the MOST HIGH over all the earth."

"To the chief Musician upon Gettith."

Why? That men may know that God Almighty, and our Lord Jesus Christ is Jehovah, the MOST HIGH over all the earth. God is not going to punish them because He hates them, no, but for the sake that "men might know that God is Jehovah, the Most High over all the earth".