Even Chaos Praises God – Psalm 148

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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It’s easy to recognize the psalms as beautiful poems. But how do we understand their deeper meaning? How psalms are organized (both internally and within the book of Psalms) is just as significant to their meaning as the words themselves. In this episode, join Tim, Jon, and Carissa for a deep dive into Psalm 148, where we see Yahweh as the ideal king who restores order to all creation.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is John at Bible Project.
0:06.8	Next week we're going to continue our episodes on the Ancient Cosmology series.
0:12.3	We've released a new video in our Visual Commentary series.
0:15.6	The video is on Psalm 148.
0:18.2	And so this week we're going to release a discussion on Psalm 148 with Tim and Chris
0:23.4	A. The Book of Psalms has 150 poems or what we call Psalms. In the last 5 of these together
0:30.8	are called the Haleil Psalms, short for hallelujah Psalms.
0:36.1	Because all 5 of these begin and end with the same refrain, praise Yah.
0:42.7	That is, praise Yahweh or in Hebrew, hallelujah.
0:47.3	Sounds familiar right?
0:48.9	Now right in the middle of these last 5, Pallel Psalms is Psalm 148.
0:55.2	It's really tightly structured.
0:57.2	It begins and ends with hallelujah so it has this inclusio.
1:02.1	And then it's broken up into two parts focusing on the skies in the first half and the land
1:07.7	in the second half.
1:08.8	The sky's in the land.
1:10.0	As in, in the beginning God created the skies and the land.
1:14.6	So Psalm 148 is really inviting the entire cosmos to praise God. It is a cosmic praise song,
1:21.2	a praise song reveling in the creative work of God.
1:24.8	In both spaces and their inhabitants or their creatures are mentioned.
1:29.7	So this is exactly what happens in Genesis 1 and the words that are used here are recalling
1:36.6	specific days from Genesis 1.
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