{"id":2826,"date":"2024-02-01T23:44:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T23:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2024-02-01T23:49:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T23:49:46","slug":"evensong-110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2826","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 110"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1023\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240201_120938-1023x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240201_120938-1023x1024.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240201_120938-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240201_120938-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240201_120938-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/PSX_20240201_120938.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m gonna read this psalm like a contemporary of David, not of Donald. When this song was written, Yeshua Bar Yosef wouldn\u2019t be born for another thousand years, so calling the psalm prophecy \u2014 as Spurgeon does \u2014 is a stretch.<br><br>\u201cThe Lord said to my Lord, \/ \u2018Sit at My right hand, \/ Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.\u2019\u201d Spurgeon says that\u2019s a reference to Jesus as messiah, and the preacher gives the vain king credit for actually writing this \u201cPsalm of David.\u201d<br><br>But, through my eyes as a regular reader, I see this psalm as having been penned by a royal toady who knew what the king wanted to hear. \u201cMy Lord\u201d in that first line and later on refers to King David himself, not to Spurgeon\u2019s Jesus.<br><br>That is, unless our gentle, forgiving Jesus is capable of murder: \u201cHe shall execute kings in the day of His wrath. \/ He shall judge among the nations, \/ He shall fill the places with dead bodies, \/ He shall execute the heads of many countries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m gonna read this psalm like a contemporary of David, not of Donald. When this song was written, Yeshua Bar Yosef wouldn\u2019t be born for another thousand years, so calling the psalm prophecy \u2014 as Spurgeon does \u2014 is a stretch. \u201cThe Lord said to my Lord, \/ \u2018Sit at My right hand, \/ Till &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2826\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 110<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2828,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}