"The psalms are so wonderful, but no psalm stands by itself. The psalms are arranged together in a very specific spiritual order. Because of that it's kind of hard sometimes to just break into a psalm and start talking about it.
"What Psalm 10 talks about is the rise of the Antichrist in the land. Psalms 9-15 describe that tribulation period and the back and forth with this.
Psalm 10: [1] Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
"You just read in Micah that He's going to hide; He's not going to speak to them. Hosea 5:15 says He's going to hide His face from them: [15] I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
"That's what He does in the captivity; He goes off. They're going to look for Him and He isn't going to speak. They'll look for a prophet and there isn't going to be one," explains Richard Jordan.
[2] The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
"You remember somebody with that name Wicked in II Thessalonians 2? The wicked in Psalm 10 is talking about that Wicked one, the Antichrist, but it's with a little 'w.'
"You ever notice in the Bible you have the devil and his angels and then you have devils. We usually say demons, but that's not the word in the Bible. The word is devils and people don't like that because they say, 'Well, there's only one devil.' Yeah, but he's got a lot of little devils. He's got his guys, and they're called devils because they promote his program. So you have the Wicked and those who think like him.
[3] For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
"He's blessing the covetous and covetousness is wanting something somebody else has got. What they're doing in Amos is going out and taking away from the poor--from people who've got almost nothing--and they hate them when they do that because those people are ones who won't submit to the vain religious system.
"I've said to you many times, the prophets are constantly picking up threads of thought and laying them out in front of you. The people who study these passages know these verses.
"When you study Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and find something where you don't know what it's talking about, the best place to look for an answer is back in the Old Testament for something that parallels it. There's this constant chain reference of things all through the Bible and that's why you don't want to change words."
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