Context and timing

Psalm 79:9 says, “Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.”

Jordan explains, “That’s what the request for vengeance is. It’s not just, ‘Come and deliver us,’ but it’s, ‘Glorify your name, your purpose, your plan in Israel!’

“Verse 10 says, ‘Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
[11] Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die.’

“There’s just passage after passage in the prophets and Revelation and so forth about those kind of things. The sighing of the prisoner . . . In Matthew 25, He says, ‘I was in prison and you visited me,’ and that kind of a thing.

“In Joel 3, Zechariah 14, and so forth. The ‘little flock’ is put into prison, persecuted. They’re hounded by the Adversary. He’s seeking to exterminate Israel, and that Believing Remnant of a little flock of believers are crying out to God to be not just delivered from the extermination of the Adversary, but to have the Adversary himself destroyed.

“That’s like over in Isaiah 49, a passage we’ve had to consider before in this regard. Isaiah 49:24-25 says, ‘Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
[25] But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.’

“You see, there are two issues in setting Israel free. One they had to be delivered. And so He comes and delivers them and gathers them to Himself. But they also had to have the issue of being taken from the mighty; being taken out of the hand of him (Jeremiah 31) . . .

“Not only do they need to be delivered . . . you see, if you got delivered from somebody who was mightier than you, and that enemy was still there, what might he do to you? He might come get you again. If he got you once he could get you again.

“So what they’re saying is, ‘Deliver us but also get rid of our enemy.’ And in order to completely set the issue straight, God not only delivers Israel, but He also gets rid of the enemy and completely roots out the satanic program from the earth and destroys it.

“Psalm 83 is a fantastic chapter. There are about a dozen of these chapters in the Book of Psalms that you just can’t do without when it comes to studying prophecy. And I’ve said to you before, the Book of Psalms is not a devotional book for you and me today.

“You try to use this as a devotional book, and I know you know the ‘Treasury of David’ and Spurgeon and all the books that are written about it, but you try to do that and you’re going to wind up absolutely confused in your Christian life, because devotion for you and me today as a member of the Body of Christ isn’t going to be like it is for these people, for the Believing Remnant in Israel.

“And the focus of their heart toward the Word of God, isn’t going to be what yours is, and what you’re going to wind up having to do is spiritualize all these verses into ad nauseam into nothing, as opposed to really believing what they say.

“If you leave them where they are in Israel’s program, and especially focusing in the last days of Israel’s program (because the Book of Job-Song of Solomon all have a special role to play in Israel’s last days and for the saints of Israel in the last days) they make a lot of sense and they’re a joy.

“Psalm 83 says, ‘Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
[2] For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
[3] They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
[4] They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.’

“He’s saying, ‘Lord how long?! Don’t sit up there and do nothing! Come back! Don’t hold your silence! Speak in your wrath!’

“Look at verse 2. You see the issue is the enemy really hates God. ‘They have taken crafty counsel.’ Notice the context and the timing here is when the Believing Remnant is hidden. They’ve had to flee and hide from the persecution that’s come upon them.

“The official policy of the Antichrist is the extermination of the nation Israel, and they’ve set in the earth an extermination policy and they seek them, gather them up, and bring them over and seek to exterminate them. The Holocaust under the Germans will be nothing compared to what goes on here. I’m sorry.

“When this thing comes through it will be worse than anything anybody ever imagined.”