Daily Bible Nugget #339, Psalm 58:10

The Nugget:

Psalm 58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

My Comment:

Here is a verse to test your theology! If you cannot fit this verse into how you understand God, then you need to get to know Him even better than you do.

At the start of this new year, I post this verse to awaken you out of your spiritual slumber, to begin a series about the character and attributes of the God revealed in the Bible.

It is very important that we not remake God in our own image! Many mistaken religions and false cults read the Bible in a way that satisfies their concept of what they think God should do and what God must be like. But it will not do to whittle down the character of God to fit a pattern or idea of what we think God must be like. Surely no one is authorized to rewrite the script!

Some commentaries on this verse will suggest that the God as we know Him from the New Testament is far different than what Psalm 58:10 reveals. Clark, for example, states in part on this verse: “Every thing that is vindictive in the Psalms must be considered as totally alien from the spirit of the Gospel, and not at all, under our dispensation, to be imitated.” Dr. Adam Clark is more famous than I will ever be, and generally Dr. Clark has done his homework well. But in this case I beg to differ with his position. In my careful study of Bible cross references given for Jeremiah 10:25, I have learned that imprecatory prayer, for example, is very much a part of New Testament teaching and practice. Consider also Revelation 6:10.

If you find this Bible subject hard to understand, you are not alone. The atheists love to pose the problem of evil as a reason why they do not believe in the God of the Bible. If God is a good God, why did He ever allow evil in the first place? If God is all-powerful, why hasn’t He vanquished all evil long before now? Why does God allow so much suffering in the world?

It may surprise you to learn that at least two of the writers in the Bible directly posed such questions to God themselves: Jeremiah (see Jeremiah 12:1); Habakkuk (see Habakkuk 1:2, 3, 13).

There are adequate answers in the Bible to these questions. Of course, the atheists will not come here to this site to ask questions or enter into discussion, let alone to learn what the Bible really says about all this.

I am beginning to think many Christians would rather sweep all this under the rug, finding it easier sometimes to listen to psychology than to read the Bible and sites like this that promote learning how to study the Bible to learn the answers directly from God Himself as He has revealed them in His Word.

It sure looks to me like much of the church is asleep, is anemic, starving for spiritual food from God. If the church were truly awake, evil would not run rampant as it does unopposed.

The answers to the questions posed above can be readily found in the Bible by simply consulting the cross references to the verses I have mentioned. It is that simple to do Real Bible Study. Resolve this new year to become more healthy spiritually by actually studying the Bible by means of the cross references furnished here.

For those who desire to DIG DEEPER into this subject:

(1) Consult the cross references given in Nelson’s Cross Reference Guide to the Bible on page 578 for Psalm 58:10.

(2) Consult the cross references given in The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge on page 626 or in Logos 5 or 6 Bible software for Psalm 58:10.

(3) Consult the cross references given in the original Treasury of Scripture Knowledge on page 378 for Psalm 58:10.

(3) Most people today do not have access to those three resources, so I have posted cross references for this passage as I have developed them even more completely for your study as given below:

Psalm 58:10. The righteous. Ps 7:7. 68:3. Is 24:16. Ml 3:18. shall rejoice. +*Ps 67:4. when he. Ps 5:11. 21:13. 35:9. 48:11. 52:6. 64:10. 68:1-3. 96:10. 97:1, 8. 107:42. +Dt 32:43. Jg 5:31. 2 Ch 23:21. Jb 22:19. Pr 11:10. Je 51:48. Ezk 25:17. Ml 1:5. *Re 11:17, 18. 18:20. 19:1-6. seeth. Ps 40:3. 54:7. *Ps 91:8. Ex 14:30. Dt 6:22. Jb 34:26. Pr 29:16. Is 14:16. +**Is 66:24. *Je 11:20. Ml 1:5. +*Jn 18:36. Re 18:9. the vengeance. Ps 9:16. 49:14, 15. 79:10. 83:12-18. 94:1. 97:8. *Ps 101:8. +**Ge 6:13. +Dt 32:35. Jg 9:56. 16:28. 1 S 25:39. 2 S 18:31. 1 K 20:28. 21:19. 2 Ch 24:23. Jb 19:29. Ec 5:8. +*Is 24:6. *Is 34:8. 49:26. 59:17. 61:2. *Is 63:4. Je 20:12. **Ezk 25:14. Mic 5:15. +*Ml 4:3. +*Lk 18:7, 8. **Lk 21:22. Ro 3:5. +*Ro 11:22. *Re 6:10. wash his feet. Ps 68:23. **Ps 149:6-9. Ge 27:29. Est 9:15, 16. Jb 29:6. Mic 7:10. Zec 10:5. %+**Ro 12:19, 20. *Re 14:20. in the blood. **Is 63:2-4. Re 19:13. of the wicked. Ps 9:5, 17. 10:2-4. 36:12. 37:10, 34. 83:2-10, Ex 34:7. Jg 9:56. Jb 18:21.

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