Saturday, March 23, 2019

Ps 7 14He who is pregnant with evil
and conceives trouble gives birth to disillusionment.

The Psalmist teaches that the world is a place where violence is practiced in order to be successful. Because God made man as a free moral agent , He has implanted the law in man as the means to communicate his world view. Obviously without rules the culture would be chaotic. So the Psalmist teaches that the problem does not start because of a rule.The problem is that man uses the rule as a way to succeed by threats. But without threats the organization would be chaotic. So man is forced to become his own god.

So God had to render man powerless to use the law as an instrument of violence by cursing the creation. The law curses the smallest imperfection. God had to take these extreme measure because man is lock up in a cycle of violence. So the Psalmist teaches that Gods general disposition is to be a defender. God is the defender because He controls the good and the evil. God is so holy that when He accuses men of the wrong man agrees. So Gods justice is defensive because He has not evil. The evil is in man.God is defensive because He controls the evil in order to protect His elect. So the rules are the way that man spreads the violence.

When we are pragmatic we make the mistake of making judgements based upon social skills. When we focus on the rules we miss the deeper problem of destructive motives in using the rules. God had to oppose the language of the curse by pronouncing the law, covenants, righteous curse, promises, decrees and statutes. In other worlds we cannot accept the worlds attempt to establish rules in order to organize the people. You cannot make a pregnant person with evil deliver a righteous baby. So the Psalmist is the righteous king who pronounces the supernatural control of Gods allowance and prevention in order to overturn the violent power. The Psalmist is speaking  the prophetic language as the defense lawyer of Israel in bringing charges against the rouge powers.  

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