Old Testament Commentary - Psalms 90

by Don R. Hender

MOSES shows forth in this 'prayer' of testimony, in this song of praise and understanding, that he does have a most full and complete understanding of our God. He sees him positioned at his place from all eternity to all eternity, He who was before the foundaion of the earth, the creator of the world, its anointed God who is over all things from the beginning to the end of this our Second Estate. All is subject unto him for he is the way the truth and the light and no man passes by but through and of him. He stands at the thresholds of eternity, there is no other way under heaven but by Him. Thus Moses' song of prayer and testimony is of Jehovah, even the same who is Jesus Christ, the Savior, Redeemer, Creator and Judge of this World. He who give all glory to the Father, but to act in the stead of the Father in all things and by whom man must proceed from all eternity to all eternity.

Scriptural Text [& Editorial] Commentary & Explanation Footnotes ~ References ~ JST

CHAPTER 90
A prayer of Moses the man of God—God is from everlasting to everlasting—Man's days are threescore years and ten—Moses implores the Lord to give mercy and blessings to his people.
A Prayer of Testimony and Song of Moses unto the nature and being of God, Jehovah, even Jesus Christ. Moses knows Him and has seen His works past, present and future to come. Moses had spoken to Him face to face as one man speaks unto another. Moses knows this God, our God, the one and only true God of man. He has seen Him from the everlasting eternity from which we have all come and he has seen Him on into the everlasting eternity to which we will all one day pass. And Moses knows him as the one true God of Heaven and earth selected, appointed and anointed to be such by the very hand of the Father. the God of our God, the Father of Spirits, the Father of us all.

A Prayer of Moses the man of God.

1 LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst ^aformed the earth and the world^a, even **from ^beverlasting to everlasting, thou art God^b.
2^a thou hadst formed the earth and the world Long, long ago, Before the foundation of the earth, its creation, formation and organization there was heaven and God, and the council of the Gods. In that council, Elohim, the Father of spirits selected and anointed His Firstborn Son, Jehovah, to be the God of this second estate; from being its creator, administering god of the Old and New Testament, it Redeeming Savior unto Salvation to the Millennial End and Final Judgement thereof. From the passage from the eternal everlasting of our premortal First Estate into this Second Temporal Estate of Mortality and then to our further passage here from back to the eternal everlasting realms again, there stand our anointed and apointed God, Jehovah, the same is Jesus Christ.
2^b from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God He stands as the Alpha, the Beginning at that entry way from our primevil childhood into this Second realm of maturation and experience, that we might here grow and develop, learning from the course of opposition in all things, experiencing the good and the evil, that we might choose for ourselves and be tested. And he stands as the Omega, the End at the exit way from this temporal mortality of the carnal and natural man as our final judge, affording us our passage back into that eternal realm, now as experienced maturated beings of exercised agency to do good or evil and the choose the course of our own way before us. Just as the sealing room of the temple has mirrored images extended into the visual infinite, so too we stand upon this earth with the past eternity behind us and the future eternity before us. And our anointed God and Redeemer has acted in our behalf from that everlasting from which we came to that everlasting into which we will pass. He is that truth, that light and that way, from eternity to eternity he marks the way as he stands as the Alpha of this Second Estate creation and beginning to the Omega of its end. He is that thesholds, the portals of entry and exit through which we pass. All is in and by and through him as he has been appointed by the Father to act in his stead in all things pertaining to this estate (D&C 130:5). Only those who are of this estate can minister unto it. Jehovah, Jesus Christ is Emmanuel, God with and in and of us. He is the first born, our eldest brother in the spirit. He pertains to this realm, having come to obtain his body as we have and do also. And he acts as our leader, our administrator, or advocate, our mediator, our king and our God, as he stands before the Father in our behalf, acting for and in behalf of the Father in all things before us, in the stead of the Father to our heavenly needs. Only through Him have we come here and only through him will we pass on into the eternity to come. There is no other established and authorized but Him by the Father. There is no other way.

3 Thou ^aturnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men^a**.
4 For a thousand ^ayears in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like ^agrass which groweth up.
6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
3^a Return, ye children of men We have passed by our birth from that premortal realm of our primevil childhood. And after all is said and done, the destruations and the ends of this earth, we will all 'RETURN' again to the everlasting from whence we came. Before as spirit children and after as maturated beings of experience and testing to see what it is that we have become, even to the possiblity of coming to be EVEN AS GOD IS. All we who kept our first estate and entered into this temporal mortality will return and be resurrected unto immortality. That is the great free gift of God. Yet then according to that which we have become, by the grace of God are we raised to that glory which we have obtained even to the possibility of being as God is and one with Him. with the Father and the Son, receiving the fulness of His glory and kingdom if that is the course we have chosen to follow here below.

7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8 Thou hast set our ^ainiquities before thee, our ^bsecret sins in the light of thy countenance.
9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

10 The ^adays of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

13 Return, O LORD, how long? and ^alet it repent thee concerning thy servants.
14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

16 Let thy ^awork appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
17 And let the ^abeauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Scriptural Text [& Editorial]	Commentary & Explanation	Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
CHAPTER 90 A prayer of Moses the man of God—God is from everlasting to everlasting—Man's days are threescore years and ten—Moses implores the Lord to give mercy and blessings to his people.	A Prayer of Testimony and Song of Moses unto the nature and being of God, Jehovah, even Jesus Christ. Moses knows Him and has seen His works past, present and future to come. Moses had spoken to Him face to face as one man speaks unto another. Moses knows this God, our God, the one and only true God of man. He has seen Him from the everlasting eternity from which we have all come and he has seen Him on into the everlasting eternity to which we will all one day pass. And Moses knows him as the one true God of Heaven and earth selected, appointed and anointed to be such by the very hand of the Father. the God of our God, the Father of Spirits, the Father of us all.
A Prayer of Moses the man of God.
1 LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst ^aformed the earth and the world^a, even *from ^beverlasting to everlasting, thou art* God^b**.	2^a thou hadst formed the earth and the world Long, long ago, Before the foundation of the earth, its creation, formation and organization there was heaven and God, and the council of the Gods. In that council, Elohim, the Father of spirits selected and anointed His Firstborn Son, Jehovah, to be the God of this second estate; from being its creator, administering god of the Old and New Testament, it Redeeming Savior unto Salvation to the Millennial End and Final Judgement thereof. From the passage from the eternal everlasting of our premortal First Estate into this Second Temporal Estate of Mortality and then to our further passage here from back to the eternal everlasting realms again, there stand our anointed and apointed God, Jehovah, the same is Jesus Christ. 2^b from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God He stands as the Alpha, the Beginning at that entry way from our primevil childhood into this Second realm of maturation and experience, that we might here grow and develop, learning from the course of opposition in all things, experiencing the good and the evil, that we might choose for ourselves and be tested. And he stands as the Omega, the End at the exit way from this temporal mortality of the carnal and natural man as our final judge, affording us our passage back into that eternal realm, now as experienced maturated beings of exercised agency to do good or evil and the choose the course of our own way before us. Just as the sealing room of the temple has mirrored images extended into the visual infinite, so too we stand upon this earth with the past eternity behind us and the future eternity before us. And our anointed God and Redeemer has acted in our behalf from that everlasting from which we came to that everlasting into which we will pass. He is that truth, that light and that way, from eternity to eternity he marks the way as he stands as the Alpha of this Second Estate creation and beginning to the Omega of its end. He is that thesholds, the portals of entry and exit through which we pass. All is in and by and through him as he has been appointed by the Father to act in his stead in all things pertaining to this estate (D&C 130:5). Only those who are of this estate can minister unto it. Jehovah, Jesus Christ is Emmanuel, God with and in and of us. He is the first born, our eldest brother in the spirit. He pertains to this realm, having come to obtain his body as we have and do also. And he acts as our leader, our administrator, or advocate, our mediator, our king and our God, as he stands before the Father in our behalf, acting for and in behalf of the Father in all things before us, in the stead of the Father to our heavenly needs. Only through Him have we come here and only through him will we pass on into the eternity to come. There is no other established and authorized but Him by the Father. There is no other way.
3 Thou ^aturnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men^a. 4 For a thousand ^ayears in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like ^agrass which groweth up. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.	3^a Return, ye children of men We have passed by our birth from that premortal realm of our primevil childhood. And after all is said and done, the destruations and the ends of this earth, we will all 'RETURN' again to the everlasting from whence we came. Before as spirit children and after as maturated beings of experience and testing to see what it is that we have become, even to the possiblity of coming to be EVEN AS GOD IS. All we who kept our first estate and entered into this temporal mortality will return and be resurrected unto immortality. That is the great free gift of God. Yet then according to that which we have become, by the grace of God are we raised to that glory which we have obtained even to the possibility of being as God is and one with Him. with the Father and the Son, receiving the fulness of His glory and kingdom if that is the course we have chosen to follow here below.
7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our ^ainiquities before thee, our ^bsecret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
10 The ^adays of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
13 Return, O LORD, how long? and ^alet it repent thee concerning thy servants. 14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
16 Let thy ^awork appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. 17 And let the ^abeauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.