Old Testament Commentary - Psalms 115

by Don R. Hender


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       CHAPTER 115          

Our God is in the heavens—Idols are false gods—Trust in the Lord.

  1 NOT unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy aname give glorya, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
  2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
  3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
 1a unto thy name give glory The name given the Lord by God the Father of Spirits before the world was is given as Jehoshua, even Jesus. Of course that is in the transliterated Hebrew and Greek as seen through the lens of English. What it was in the language of Adam matters not beyond the meaning of that name and that meaning is Jeh - Jehovah oshua - delivers or saves. In the precouncils of heaven Jehovah was selected, ordained and anointed to be our ministering God of the mortal estate unto who we must look and come through to receive salvation and there is none else, no other name, way, path or means that we may be saved, that is to return unto the Kingdom of God, the celestrial realm but by Jehovah who is the same as Jesus Christ. We are the work and the glory of God which is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man (Moses 1:39). To him is our eye to be single and to none else, as only in and through the name of Jesus, that name which means Jehovah Saves, does the blessings of heaven await.

The Idols of the World

  4 Their aidols are silver and gold, the bwork of men's hands.
  5 They have mouths, but they aspeak not: eyes have they, but they bsee not:
  6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:
  7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
  8 They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
  9 O Israel, atrust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.
  10 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.
  11 Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.
  12 The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.
  13 He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.
  14 The LORD shall aincrease you more and more, you and your children.
  15 Ye are ablessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
  16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
  17 The adead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
  18 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD.