THE PSALMS

Chapter 88

"Instruction. Messiah's Humiliation, The Secret Source of the Blessing."

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"Instruction. Messiah's humiliation, The secret source of the blessing."

"Maschil" means "instruction" in the Hebrew text. This is written to "Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite." "Man" as used in this chapter is "geber". This is talking about the Rephiam, those mighty powerful men that are from the seed of the fallen angels. When you understand who this chapter is referring to it takes on a completely different meaning, and you will have understanding from our Father.

This chapter is "A song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth." This is a Psalm to the faithful of the Israelites. "Mahalath Leannoth" is "to humble or afflict". This Psalm is filled with mystery, and it would be difficult for the English reader to understand all the hidden meanings.

Psalms 88:1 "O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before Thee:"

I prayed to you, and in your presence I have called unto you.

Psalms 88:2 "Let my prayer come before Thee: Incline Thine ear unto my cry;"

There is a man here that is thinking about death, for he no doubt is in very old age.

Psalms 88:3 "For my soul is full of troubles: And my life draweth nigh unto the grave."

His life has been full of troubles, and I now come to the point of death in my life. This man is thinking of death at this time of his life in this flesh body. Death is the soul passing from residing in the flesh body, to its eternal spiritual body. Then that soul comes before the Almighty God for judgment of punishment or rewards. So from this point on, we will see how some Kenite scribes have doctored the truth of this chapter in their translations of the rest of the chapter.

Psalms 88:4 "I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength."

My flesh is counted with them that is going down into the pit, the grave. I am beyond help from any source. This is accurate, for that is how this flesh body is when it is dead. However just because your flesh is dead, that does not mean that your soul is dead. In a prior chapter we dealt with the physical body, the soul only, but here we are going to deal with the flesh body. Take special note here that the word for "man" here is not "enosh" for a flesh man, but it is "geber". "Geber" is the name for the mighty giants, the "fallen angels". These are of the "Rephiam", so this person in this chapter is stating that he is "as the geber, the fallen angels". The Rephiam have no possibility of rising and becoming part of the eternal kingdom of our Heavenly Father.

This is true, for there is no strength for this man, the geber. Remember from these prior chapters of Psalms that we have only one strength, and that is in our heavenly Father. There is no hope for the Rephiam, the fallen angels for they have made their choice, and have rejected the Lord to follow Satan in that first earth age. However in this verse we are talking about the flesh, and when the flesh body is dead, it also has no strength, but it decays back into the elements that it is made of. When your soul is finished with your flesh body, it moves on into it's spiritual realm, and departs for another dimension. This is why it becomes important to do the work that our Father has given us, while we are here in the flesh. Those works are recorded and become part of your garment for all eternity.

Revelation 14:13 "And I hear a voice from heaven saying unto me, "Write, `Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from hence forth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.' "

Then in Revelation 19:7, 8 "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready." "And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints."

So this flesh body is simply a vessel to bring you through this flesh age to perform those duties that our Father would have you perform. So not that this should have been translated "geber", so you can understand what kind of death we are talking about. One where there is no hope after the death of this flesh body.

Psalms 88:5 "Free among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom Thou rememberest no more: And they are cut off from Thy hand."

This means I am free from this flesh body, and this freedom is brought about by his death. So what this is saying is that when you are cut off from the flesh, God is not going to remember your flesh body any more It will be as if your body had never existed at any time. This is speaking of that flesh body, not the soul that resides within that flesh body. If you have been taught that your flesh is going to rise again at the seventh trump, can you see the lie that is tied up in that traditional teaching. There is no place in all of God's Word does it say that the flesh or any part of the elements that it is made of will ever come to life and rise again.

When Jesus came out of the tomb there were many that came from their tombs also, but that was simply as a witness that there was life after death for those that are in Christ. Those were the souls of those that were well know in the community, and many of the community had witnessed their burial, could now see their resurrection with Jesus, at his resurrection. However when you are through with this flesh body, it is over and done with, good for no value to your soul. Once your dead, God wants nothing more to do with it, but we are to take care of it while our soul still resides in it. At death you step instantly into your spiritual body.

Paul talked about these two separate bodies each of us have in I Corinthians 15, one kind is of flesh body, and the other a spiritual or incorruptible body. The incorruptible does not age, and has complete memory of our Lord and His ways. Your flesh body is made up of those elements of food of this earth that your mother ate from the time of your conception, and also those things that you ate after your birth. God placed your soul into that flesh body at conception, and at the death of your flesh body your soul and spirit goes instantly to the Father that gave it.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God Who gave it."

This is saying that God the Father of all spirits will take those souls back to him, when they no longer have a flesh body to live in. There is no soul sleep as those of the "rapture doctrine" teach, for it is a heathen doctrine. So the point to this verse is that God holds no value to the physical body after the person has died. The spirit and soul of the person are gone, and the flesh is left to rot back into the elements that it was made of. The soul continues to live with the Father; so try to understand what is meant by "life and death". When you understand what death is, and what happens to the soul at death, then fear will leave you. It is all part of God's plan for this earth age of the flesh.

Psalms 88:6 "Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In darkness, in the deeps."

There is more than one kind of death, there is a physical death and a spiritual death. God pointed this out in Ezekiel 37, where He told Ezekiel to preach to those mountains of dry dead bones. And as Ezekiel preached the bones came together, and the meat came on the bones, the skin and the life came back into them. This of course is the spiritual body, and as the Spirit of God filled them, life came to their soul and they became living beings. This is talking of their spiritual life coming back into their soul bodies. The other death is of these flesh bodies, and life will not return ever, once the soul and spirit has departed back to the Father that gave it.

Psalms 88:7 "Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And Thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah."

"Selah", stop and meditate on what has just been said. So this will take those things that have just been said in the prior seven verses, and connect them to the next thought. This Selah is a connection of verse six with its amplification in verses eight and nine.

Psalms 88:8 "Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth."

This is saying that God, has given me knowledge that is different, and those people that I use to know and were close to will have nothing in common with me any more. Of course you will be an abomination to those without the spiritual sight that God has placed within you. They just will not understand what has happened to you, but they know that there is a difference. You can't keep from talking about the Word, and the things you say, they want nothing to do with it. This is amplifying the cause of the events that will happen to you, when you separate yourself from the "geber", the flesh, as you gain the true knowledge from Almighty God through His Spirit. As the knowledge of the entire Word enters into your soul, your spiritual eyes see things in a entirely different way.

Psalms 88:9 "Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon Thee, I have stretched out my hands unto Thee."

This is a continuation of verse eight: Showing that this soul is continually seeking and crying out for more truth from His Word.

Psalms 88:10 "Wilt Thou shew wonders to the dead? Shall the dead arise and praise thee: Selah."

Then this question, "Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? Of course God will not, for as we read in verse five, God will not even remember that dead body, or the geber [Rephaim], once the soul has departed from it. Is the dead going to arise and praise thee? Of course not, the living soul will rise and praise Thee. The dead body will be gone back to its elements never more to live. This is an amplification, and it connects those things just said in verses eight through ten with what is about to be said in verses eleven through thirteen. But what was said? In the King James version it is hard to understand.

Keep in mind that the word "dead" as given here is not dead flesh bodies but "Raphaim", and those of the Raphaim have no hope of resurrection. These "Raphaim" are the progeny, or children of the fallen angels that came to earth in our dimension and bred with woman and had children. As it happened and recorded in Genesis 6:1-3, it shall happen again, as Jesus warned us in Matthew 24:37-39. "But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." In the days of Noah, the fallen angels had their offspring and those offspring were fully grown adults, and the world was filled with their polluted blood lines. To the point that only Noah and his family were uncontaminated with these fallen angels lineage.

Genesis 6:9 "These are the Generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God."

If you have a Companion Bible or Strong's concordance with Hebrew dictionary, take note of the word "perfect" as to "his generations" or lineage. The word is "tamin", "Without blemish as to breed or pedigree." This is talking about blood lines, lineage of families. Those of the Raphaim are of those fallen angels that came to earth to pollute the blood lines of men. They are of Satan, and they have no hope of Salvation ever. They are here in our generation because we are in the fifth trump, the one world order has formed and the Jews are back in Jerusalem. All the signs of these end times are coming to pass, and they will be amongst us, and only those with spiritual insight will understand the times and events of these final days. Jesus gave a special warning to His elect that will be living in our time, that these Rephaim will be giving and taking in marriage, and they will be eating and drinking with the rest of mankind. They will be as one of us, and they will not have the hope of salvation as you do.

So lets look at this verse again. "Wilt Thou shew wonders to these Rephaim, Shall the Rephaim rise and praise thee?" Selah...This is contrary to the Word of God, for the Rephaim are locked in chains, and sentenced to death, and they cannot rise from the dead, or have spiritual salvation under any time or condition. They are already sentenced to death, and are waiting until judgment day to be destroyed right along with Satan and those that follow him. You see a scribe changed this and just did not want you to understand what it was all about.

Jude 6 "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day."

The souls of all those Rephaim are locked into everlasting judgment and they have no hope. They left that realm or dimension that angels are in and entered into the realm or dimension of this age of the flesh without being conceived and born into this flesh age through the womb of woman.

Isaiah 26:13 "O Lord our God, other lords beside Thee have had dominion over us: but by Thee only will we make mention of Thy name."

The "other lords" are the Kenites that have gained control through their four hidden dynasties, that of Economics, Education, Religion, and Politics. They are taking control or dominion over every part of our lives today, and it is done in secret, hidden from the eyes of the world. Our power comes from the mention of "Thy name". Only in the name of Jesus Christ is there true power. In the name of Jesus Christ we have our strength.

Isaiah 26:14 "They are dead, they shall not live; They are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish."

They are "dead"; the other lords, the other gods are dead. This is saying that there is no opportunity for these souls to receive salvation and have eternal life at any time. So take the word "deceased" and changed it to the Hebrew form that it was original written and place the word "Rephaim", and this verse will come alive for you. "The Rephaim shall not rise again." In the Companion bible it is given to you. These fallen angels that shall come in our generation shall not have any hope of salvation at all. It is impossible for any one of them to rise from the dead. The question in Psalms 88:10 was will they live? And the answer is no. Seven thousand will be used to fulfill the prophecies of God's holy Word when Satan comes at the sixth trumpet, but all will be destroyed when this earth age of the flesh is over.

Friend, you have power over all of them, and you can order them out of your life in the name of Jesus, when they come near you. They are dead, but you have power in the name of Jesus, the son of God. So what we are to get from this verse is that your flesh body when it is dead will be set aside for the same place that the Rephaim are. Dead flesh bodies, as well as the Rephaim will have no value at all, so why worry about the flesh body after it is dead and gone. We are to be concerned with our soul and how it stands before Almighty God for only in that spiritual soul body is there eternal life. Praise God and Jesus our savior that there is redemption at the cross through repentance. God will mend our broken minds and hearts and draw us back to Himself. Don't put a high price on this flesh body as being eternal, but take care of it while it houses your soul and spirit, but when it is gone, it is over and done with. Your body that houses your soul is a reflection of how well you are taking care of the soul within.

Psalms 88:11 "Shall Thy loving kindness be declared in the grave? Or Thy faithfulness in destruction?"

By now, it is no problem to answer each of these questions. Of course there is no loving kindness declared in any grave of flesh man. God's faithfulness in destruction will be the fulfillment of the truth prophesied in His Word that comes to pass. Those things that God promised He would do, will come be fulfilled.

Psalms 88:12 "Shall Thy wonders be known in the dark? And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?"

We are living in a land of forgetfulness in our present generation. Our people have forgotten how to read the scriptures, and they have come to rely on man's traditions rather than coming to rely on what the Lord has said in His Word. They have shut their ears to the voice of our heavenly Father, for God did not speak the words as it is written in verse ten, it is not his voice. But it is the voice of the translators. It is not what God said, but what some Kenite scribe wants you to believe God said. The teachers and scholars have failed to inform the people of the truths of these end times. If you are blind to the truth, then you are in the same shape of those fallen angels. Seek the truth and God's Spirit will open your mind to it. If you are saved, then you have a purpose in your life while there is life to your physical body. It is up to you to seek out that truth and purpose for yourself.

Psalms 88:13 "But unto Thee have I cried, O Lord; And in the morning shall my prayer prevent Thee."

This is a very poor translation. What it is saying is that in the morning my prayer will come before Thee. To the believer, his prayers always come before the Father and the Father hears and pays attention to each of those prayers.

Psalms 88:14 "Lord, why castest Thou off my soul? Why hidest Thou Thy face from me?"

This is sort of silly for any man to ask of God; God never casts any man or woman's soul off, He will never leave thee nor forsake you. If there is a separation between you and God, it is by your doing, not God's. If you turn from God and die, you will be gone just like the Rephaim. No one will force you to seek God and call on Him for your hope of salvation. Sure men can bind your physical body, but they can't bind your soul when you call out to the Lord for help and strength. When things don't go right for you, it is not the Father that has put those things in your life, but you have allowed it to happen to you.

We are living in the time of the end, and as those things prophesied for our generation come to pass, don't gripe about those events as they take place. Father's Word has told you all those things that shall happen, and they shall exactly as it is written. Except it and be thankful that Father is keeping His Word, and that He has allow you the spiritual eyes to see those events with understanding. God will not cast any soul away unless that soul deserves to be cast away. God does everything in His time, for it is He that sets the time schedule of events that take place in our lives.

Psalms 88:15 "I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer Thy terrors I am distracted."

"Distracted" as used here should read "perplexed". Any time our Heavenly Father touches your life and straightens you out, and corrects wrong in your life, that is the time to thank God for His love for you.

Psalms 88:16 "Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; Thy terrors have cut me off."

If you are in a fallen state of mind, you can allow yourself to be brought down to this condition. As you watch the things around you take place, and see the spiritual destruction all around you, it may appear that God has left you. But my friend, He has not. This is a state of mind that is talked about here, and it is you personally that have allowed yourself to be worked into that state of mind. You have taken your spiritual eyes of Father and His Word, and fixed them on the world events around you. This is a man speaking and if terrors have cut him off, it is because he is in a fallen spiritual state of mind. This is God showing you historically that there is more to his word than is written on this paper called our bible. The Bible records many historical events that allow us to understand our heavenly Father's emotions. Then as we live our live, we are not to make the same mistakes as those that went before us.

Psalms 88:17 "They came around about me daily like water; They compassed me about together."

This is the way that it appeared to be by those that were forgetful and had their spiritual eyes close, and did know any better. If you know and understand God's plan it should be no secret to you or confusing, to where you allow those wicked ones and their thoughts to overtake you.

Psalms 88:18 "Lover and friend hast Thou put far from me, And mine acquaintance into darkness."

To those that are close to our Heavenly Father, and deep into the study of His Word should be able to relate to this. Looking at what is taught by tradition today, there is no way that you can keep from being separated from Babylon, or the confusion as it is taught in the church houses today. Knowing the truth and being in God's favor separates you from Babylon, from the darkness of the world today. The two just won't mix, and that is why the gulf is there between the two. When you see it happening, don't ever blame God for it, because the darkness will always flee from the light. Don't ever blame God for the separation, as this one of Psalms 88 has. Satan is the one that created the gulf in the first place. When you realize that God has chosen you, lift your heart and praise to him.

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