Psalm 83 - Who are The Enemies
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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.
1Cor. 10:11
Always keep this in mind when you read and study the Bible and also read our interpreations.
Psalm 83 - Who are the enemies?
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PROPHETIC INTERPRETATION
The end time
according to Matthew 24:14 does not describe the end of the world,
which God will bring about at the end of the years (see footnote-1), as the apostle
Peter explains in the third chapter of his second letter. The end
time describes the end of the present age, which will culminate in
total rebellion against God. Through his judgments, see Revelation,
the Lord will put an end to the whole spook. It will be followed by
the seventh age, the time of the 1000-year kingdom of peace of the
Messiah.
Footnote-1
"End of the years" is a linguistic expression that occurs only once in the Bible and points to the end of the 1000-year kingdom of peace; according to Ezekiel 38:8, the Lord will force Gog - an allegory of Satan - to wage war against Israel. He will attack Israel with his armies (demons) and with many nations. See also Revelation 20:8, where the same event is described.
Before this
kingdom can be established, the world, like a pregnant woman, suffers
ever-increasing contractions, see Matthew 24. The first contraction
heralds the birth, but it is still a long time coming. Only when the
contractions occur at very short intervals and become increasingly
violent and painful is the birth imminent.
The atrocities
committed by Hamas can also be understood as a severe woe, but they
are not the end. At best, the events of October 7, 2023 are
harbingers of the beginning of the end, because a number of events
must necessarily take place first: the preaching of the gospel of the
kingdom (of the Messiah) to all nations as a testimony. The red
heifer must be slaughtered in order to start building the third
temple and much more; see also The Third Temple and the script for
Matthew 24.
October 7, 2023
will be an important date in Jewish history. Both religious and
non-religious Jews see this day as a clear turning point. However,
before a new beginning can be made, the perpetrators must be brought
to justice militarily. Without ifs and buts, Israel also has the
right to self-defense. It is true that the IDF is hitting back with
all its might and yet they are trying to spare the Palestinian
civilian population as much as possible. The inhabitants of the Gaza
Strip are warned of a military strike in good time so that they can
leave their homes. The warnings are given by leaflets, text messages
and telephone calls. What army has ever spared the civilian
population so consistently for years?
In a war, the
argument put forward by so-called Christians about their soft-spoken
commandment to love does not hold water. "Love thy neighbor"
is, from our point of view, a civil law concept and is aimed in the
truest sense of the word at my neighbor, my neighbor, i.e. at the
person who has fallen among the robbers. The commandment of love does
not apply to the robbers, rather the law and the public demand that
the criminals be prosecuted, or not? A military-terrorist attack,
such as that carried out by Hamas, makes even the robbers of Luke 20
seem almost pale. Certainly the robbers were evil, but the atrocities
of Hamas are demonic.
Well,
Hamas is not only their name, it is also their program: Chamas in the
Bible means: wicked, malicious, violence, injustice. See the Hamas
charter. They are not waging war for land, that is just a pretext,
their real goal is the complete destruction of the state of Israel
and the complete extermination of the Jews. By the way: next on
Allah's agenda are the Christians. They are already proclaiming it
boldly and freely under the battle cry: "After Saturday comes
Sunday." (October 7 was a Saturday - a Sabbath.) If you don't
want to believe it, read the Koran, e.g. Sura 9. The video of a
former Muslim is also helpful. He explains briefly and concisely what
Hamas and its brothers are actually planning; see here.
Dr. Roger
Liebi has already published a second video on the events in Israel on
YouTube - see here - and there are more to follow. We strongly advise Roger Liebi to
refrain from his "literal" interpretation of the biblical
texts. We agree with him on one point: the Psalms are prophecy. But
this knowledge is nothing new; it is and always has been common
knowledge. What is really told in Psalm 83 requires, dear Roger,
instruction from the Lord. We miss such an understanding from you.
When we speak in this way, it is not to cut honorifics, but is based
on facts. We counter your explanations with the results of our
research.
The context
of Asaph's songs
The 12 Psalms
of Asaph all point to the end times, they deal with themes of the
last seven times, which have not yet begun, but are imminent. For a
long time, dear Roger, we have remained silent about your "prophetic
interpretations", but because of your erroneous comments on
Psalm 83, we were almost challenged to answer the question: To whom
do the 10 nations that Asaph names in Psalm 83, in verses 7-9, point?
Briefly
about the Arab League
The
founding members of the Arab League include Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon,
Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan and, a short time later, Yemen. Their
core objective at the time was to expel the many Jewish refugees
coming from Europe and to wipe them out. The word Yishuv describes
the Jewish population including their community. The plans to
establish the League were probably intensified in 1943 at the latest.
At the beginning of 1945, they drew up the pact, which came into
force on May 11, 1945, three days after the end of the Second World
War (in Europe). It was not until years later that the State of
Israel was proclaimed by Ben Gurion on May 14, 1948. Only since that
day has Israel been a nation again, Hebrew Goy (גוי
) as in Isaiah 66:8 (the plural is Goyim).
The enemies of
Psalm 83 want to wipe out the nation of Israel and they are
conspiring to do so. However, they can only conspire against Israel
if Israel is a nation, but when the Arab League was founded in 1945
there was no state of Israel. For this reason alone, the Arab League
can never be found in Psalm 83, at most their desire to make a pact
against the Jews. The names of the nations in Psalm 83 are also
arbitrarily assigned by Dr. Liebi. Although most of the nations no
longer exist today, he conjures up a magic formula: 10 becomes 7!
The seven
founding members of the Arab League are, without exception, Muslim
states. They derive their refusal to recognize Israel's right to
exist from the Koran, the Hadith (the tradition of Mohammed's words
and deeds) and the Sira (Mohammed's biography). Muslims never violate
the order of their God - Allah. They must not make peace with the
unbeliever - the kafir. And they would never conspire against Allah
(their God, see here, that would be a sacrilege.
Who or
what a kafir is is explained in the following video in 2 minutes; see
here.
Summary 1
Under no
circumstances do the 10 nations point to the Arab League, because:
- Asaph speaks of the last seven times and they have not yet begun;
- they have not acted with cunning, but have always made it clear that they will not tolerate the Jews in Palestine.
- Israel was not a nation when the Arab League was founded;
- they did not make a special covenant against God when they founded it.
But who are
the enemies that Asaph speaks of in Psalm 83?
Our
interpretation will show that the writings of the Bible are leading
up to the end times, to the grand finale. The key in Psalm 83 is
hidden in verse 9. Asaph writes: Asshur also has joined them; they
have become an arm to the sons of Lot. (Sela.) The key lies with the
sons of Lot, they are mentioned in verses 7 and 8. Lot, the nephew of
Abraham, is connected with the end times. Jesus himself refers to
this when he says in Luke 17:29: "Likewise also as it was in the
days of Lot: they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they
planted, they builded; but in the day that Lot went out of Sodom it
rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. It
will be the same on the day when the Son of Man is revealed."
The firstborn
of Lot is called Moab, verse 7, and the secondborn is called Ammon,
verse 8. We asked ourselves: Why does Asaph call the brothers in
separate groups? Well, in quite a few scripts we refer to the first-,
second- and later-born. This acquired knowledge enables us to make a
plausible interpretation.
Group 1
Verse 7 only
mentions the firstborn. Is this just a coincidence or is there more
to it?
- Moab, the firstborn of Lot;
- Edom, that is Esau, is the firstborn of Jacob;
- Ishmael is the firstborn of Abraham;
- Hagar, the Egyptian mother of Ishmael, must therefore also have been a firstborn.
Group 2
Verse 8 names
the second- or later-born
- Ammon: the second-born of Lot is called Ben Ammi: "son of my people";
- Gebal: a place north of Tyre; the word is a hapax legomenon, which is a word that only occurs once in the Bible and refers to the end times. Who or what is Gebal? To find out, we need to look at a second word with the same meaning, the word G'bal. It refers to a mountain. The root of the word gabal gives us information about the characteristic of this "mountain": a cord of two or more threads twisted together, like the weaving of a plait.
- Tyre, a city in Lebanon;
- Philistaea, today's Gaza Strip including the cities of Ascalon, Ashdod and Ekron;
- Amalekites: they are descendants of Esau; their territory lay between Edom and Judah, almost bordering Gaza to the west and Sinai, which belonged to Egypt, to the south.
Gebal is
mentioned first in this group, and not without reason. It is
associated with Lebanon. A city of the same name is said to have been
located not far from Tyre. Metaphorically, a mountain stands for a
political power; prophetically, the mountain stands for Rome, which
is associated with all the enemies of the God of Israel. The
Amalekites are also to be understood spiritually; they are people who
desire to sit on the throne of God.
Group
3
- Assyria: This mainly described the area of Iraq, then the north of Syria, the east of Turkey and the west of Iran.
This gives us
three groups that are closely "intertwined" through Gebal.
Remember: Gebal is both a place and a mountain, the root of which
means "to intertwine".
What does
Asaph describe in his song?
With his song,
Asaph, whose name is Collector, points to a war, a spiritual war that
is primarily directed against God; that is why the Collector turns to
the Lord: "Behold, your enemies rage and your haters lift up
their heads. And in verse 6 he adds: "They have taken counsel
with one heart, they have made a covenant against you. Let us repeat
it emphatically: Psalm 83 describes a spiritual rebellion against God
and against his people, whom he has acquired from all nations, such
as a few Ishmaelites, Edomites, Moabites (see the story of Ruth) and
Hagarites. Asaph does not describe a military war.
So who are the
spiritual enemies? They are the religious with their religions. The
essential characteristic of their religions is the keeping of laws
and commandments in order to appear righteous and pleasing before
God. Asaph speaks prophetically in Psalm 83:
- from religious Judaism;
- religious Christianity, mixed with pagan cults;
- Islam.
The
harbingers of this alliance directed against the true God can be seen
in their buildings, such as the "Abrahamic Family House" in
Abu Dhabi. see here
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In Berlin, the German capital, people are moving even closer
together. The "House of One" is being built on
"Petriplatz". The THREE will then be under one roof.
Petri means
Peter; according to Catholic doctrine, all bishops of Rome are
legitimate successors of Peter.
Many will
gather under this roof. But those who sit under the umbrella of the
Most High need not fear or be in a hurry. In the script to the letter
to Jude, we describe the timetable for the end times and the tools
for Christians. Jude, John, Peter and James show us how we, who will
not be raptured, must arm ourselves in order to be victorious in the
end-time battle. If we remain faithful to our Lord and uphold the
truth, we will snatch many more precious souls from the fire.
Our script
could end at this point, but we want to use examples to show that our
interpretation could not be more accurate.
Ishmael
In
Genesis 16 we read about the maidservant Hagar. Because Sarah is
childless, Abraham marries the maid at Sarah's request. And indeed,
Hagar becomes pregnant and, according to the words of the Lord, she
is to name her son Ishmael. The Lord then prophesies to her that her
son will be a wild ass of a man. The word wild ass describes an
onager, see here, who will live in the presence of his brothers.
The prophetic
dimension of the story of Hagar and her son can only be reliably
interpreted if we take the New Testament as our guide. In Galatians,
the apostle Paul says that the stories of Hagar and Sarah must be
interpreted allegorically, i.e. figuratively. (The word allegories
used in Greek is not only plural, it is also a hapax legomenon, a
word that occurs only once in the Bible and refers to the end times).
Hagar, according to the apostle, figuratively stands for the earthly
Jerusalem and Sarah for the heavenly one. Ishmael is therefore a
firstborn of the earthly. Hagar, she is the earthly Jerusalem, is in
bondage, under the thumb of the law. It is interesting to note that
this applies to the Jews as well as to the Ishmaelites. The Jews are
under the law of Moses, the Arabs under the laws of Mohammed or
Allah.
To all those
who are oppressed and subjugated by their laws. There is good news:
Jesus sets you free! He liberates to a new law, the royal one: "You
shall love your neighbor as yourself." Therefore: Shake off the
dominion of the law and believe in the gospel, because whoever
believes in Jesus, as the Bible says, has eternal life.
This also
applies to the anti-Christian commandments or laws, the so-called
Noachide 7 commandments, which are a perfidious lie.
Esau
In Genesis 25
we read about Esau. He is the first-born of Isaac and his twin
brother Jacob is the second-born. In the course of their story, we
learn that Esau sold the birthright to Jacob and thus forfeited all
legal claims to it. The sale is legally valid and there is nothing
Jacob can do about it. Jacob obtained the birthright for a
ridiculously low price. The price he had to pay: a dish of lentils.
Figuratively, the lentils stand for life on earth, because the
lentils are a metaphor for the red blood cells, which are responsible
for transporting oxygen in the bloodstream. This is indicated by
another detail in the story. Esau had exhausted himself on the hunt
and was suffering from a lack of air. Exhausted, he sat down in
Jacob's tent and asked for the Red. The text emphasizes the facts by
repeating them in order to draw attention to the red: "Then Esau
said to Jacob, 'Let me eat of the red, the red there, for I am faint.
From that day on, Esau is called Edom – red.
Edom
This is Esau!
The contempt for the birthright prophetically points to the contempt
and rejection of the Messiah. Nevertheless, Esau was blessed when he
turned to his father in tears, which is explicitly confirmed by the
apostle Paul in Hebrews 11:20: By faith Isaac, concerning things to
come, blessed Jacob and Esau. Jacob is not only in possession of the
right of the firstborn, but the blessing with which Isaac blessed
Jacob cannot be reversed. Esau is compensated by his father and
receives the blessing of the second-born.
With this
understanding, we not only come closer to the verse in Hebrews 12:17
from a factual point of view, it suddenly becomes clear and
understandable. First, we read the text according to the 1905
Elberfelder: "For you know that even afterward, when he (Esau)
wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected - for he found no
room for repentance - even though he sought it (the blessing)
diligently with tears.
The more
accurate translation could then read something like this: For you
know that even afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing,
(his request) was rejected, for he found no (legal) basis for
reversing the decision, notwithstanding that he sought it (by legal
means) with tears.
This scene
is described in Genesis 27:30-41.
And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
Jacob
flees to his uncle Laban and returns after more than 20 years. The
brothers are reconciled in Sukkot (Tabernacles). Prophetically, the
place Sukkot points to the 1000-year kingdom of peace and Jacob's 20
years point to the 2000 years of Christianity. After the twenty
years, Esau and Jacob are reconciled and only then is there complete
peace between the twin brothers. (This peace can be experienced
beforehand in Philadelphia,
because the brothers (Adelphois)
become friends (Philois)
Genesis 36
lists Esau's descendants, whose names also tell the story of Israel.
Moab
As mentioned
above, his story is connected to the story of his father Lot. The
events in Genesis 19 in particular point to the end times. The story
of the Moabite king Balak must also be interpreted prophetically in
terms of the end times. Balak had hired the Assyrian prophet Balaam
to curse Israel. But God did not allow him to do so; instead of
cursing, blessing was the order of the day. Out of greed, Balaam
advised Balak to seduce Israel into fornication, which points to
Sardis; see the interpretation of the Epistle of Jude. Sardis and
Moab will come to a bad end. And yet, even in Sardis God has left
himself a remnant and this is told in one of the most beautiful
stories in the Bible, in the book of Ruth.
From this book
we learn that Ruth is a Moabite, i.e. she comes from the line of a
firstborn - Moab. She is probably also a firstborn. After the death
of her husband and father-in-law, Ruth traveled with her
mother-in-law to Israel, more precisely to Bethlehem, where she met
the man who would change her whole life, Boaz. Although she is a
Moabite, Boaz marries her. Ruth represents the few from Sardis who
have not defiled their clothes (fornication by Balak, in the bed of
the harlot from Thyatira). And the apostle John writes to "Ruth"
and calls her mistress. (The second letter of John is assigned to the
church of Sardis; see also: Structure of the Bible.)
Hagar
The Hagarites
are descended from Hagar and because the Hagarites are counted among
the group of firstborns, all their descendants are also firstborns.
What does this tell us spiritually? Let us explain it with a
well-known saying: He who is born once dies twice and he who is born
twice dies only once. Figuratively, the Hagarites indicate to us that
all the firstborn in verse 7 have not experienced rebirth, but have
instead conspired against God, whom they do not know, including Edom,
Moab and Ishmael.
Nevertheless,
despite all this evil, we must not give up hope and continue to
proclaim the gospel. God still has a remnant in every nation who will
believe in Jesus Christ. Therefore: "Whoever calls on the name
of the Lord Jesus shall be saved."
Summary 2
The firstborn
will be judged, killed like the firstborn of Egypt, because they have
hardened their hearts and rebelled against God. And yet God still has
those among the firstborn who turn to the true God and keep his
commandments, like the Moabitess Ruth. Which commandments?
"Love God
with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind, and
with all your strenght and your neighbor as yourself."
Berlin,
November 20, 2023
Copyright H.
Randy Rohrer
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