Moab

Judah my scepter.

Moab is my washbasin.

Upon Edom I cast my shoe.

Over Philistia I shout in triumph.

He brings judgments and disaster to lead his people back to them.

And so they're taken, the Philistines come, or the Moabites, or various tribes come, or the Assyrians come, then Syria comes, and Egypt comes.

So you have all of these things happening that God is allowing, but he's allowing for a redemptive purpose.

And his redemptive purpose is to draw his people to turn their hearts back to him.

Thus the two daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.

The older one bore a son and named him Moab.

He is the father of the Moabites of today.

And the younger also bore a son, and she called him Ben-Ami.

He is the father of the Ammonites today.

That's in Psalm 83, verse 4.

The players involved that Asaph listed in the vernacular of his time back 3,000 years ago were the 10th of Edom, the Ishmaelites, Ammonites, Moabites, so on and so forth, 10 in total, and they turn out today to be the nations and or terrorist populations that share common borders with Israel.

You've got Lebanon and Hezbollah, of course, is there.

You have Israel.

Those Israeli defense forces were told in Ezekiel 3710 will become an exceedingly great army.

So, you know, we're living in very important times, and just understanding some of the simple prophetic implications of the current events going on can just really enhance a Christian's ability to witness in these times.

Now, in reading Psalm 88, keep getting those reversed, last night, and reading some commentary by the 18th century Bible commentator Adam Clark, his view, and of course he was writing during an era in which the idea of a restored Jewish state was far-fetched, but his concept of Psalm 83 was that this was a a prophesied war that would take place during the time of King Jehoshaphat, who had to put down rebellion from east of the Jordan River, the Edomites and the Moabites.

What is it about Psalm 83 that convinces you that this is still a future event?

But here we go to wit, Jerusalem, to the cities of Judah and the kings thereof and the princes thereof to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing and a curse as it is today.

Now, 19 through 21, we have Pharaoh, king of Egypt, his servants, his princes, and all his people, and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Acheron, and Azar, and Ekron and the remnant of Asher okay I think I got those Edom and Moab and the children of Amnon Ammon 22 through 24.

I'm kind of summing it up so we can kind of get through all these scriptures and all the kings of Tarsus and all the kings of Zidon, the kings of the isles, which are beyond the sea.

Now, the Isles are usually considered islands, like the islands, Dedan and Tama and Booz and all that are in the utmost corners.

Void where prohibited.

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Verse 21, Edom, Moab and Amnon, the neighboring nations of Edom, Moab and Amnon.

If I'm pronouncing it right.

He is, capital G, God.

We went from chapter 46 all the way through 51, reading about Egypt, the Philistines, Moab, the Ammonites, the Edomites.

Oh, man, I started making a

list.

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah early in the reign of Josiah's son, King Zedekiah of Judah, the Lord told me, make a yoke out of leather straps and wooden crossbars and put it on your neck.

Use it to send messages to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon.

Send them through the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to King Zedekiah of Judah.

Charge them to give their masters a message from me.

We're reminded of that because we get into a section where there is judgment being pronounced not against Jerusalem for all of its sin, but against the surrounding nations.

In chapter 25, you see Ammon, Moab, and Seir.

Those would have been nations on the other side, along with Edom next, the other side of the Jordan River Valley in the Dead Sea, then Philistia down in Jerusalem.

you know, even what you think of today, the Gaza strip, more of that region and then Tyre.

With exaltation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the valley of Sukkoth.

Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine, Ephraim is my helmet, Judah my scepter, Moab is my washbasin, upon Edom I cast my shoe, over Philistia I shout in triumph.

Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom? Have you not rejected us, O God? You do not go out, O God, with our armies.

O grant us help against the foe, for vain is the salvation of man.