Psalm 27 In the Time of Trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion
1 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Are you seriously afraid of Joe Biden? AOC? Pelosi? Please, they are all just dust in the wind compared to the Lord Jesus.
2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
I have had experiences in my past where the wicked, mine enemies and my foes, came to eat up my flesh. This has happened a number of times and every time they stumbled and fell. For example I was in college and had a prevailing gospel ministry that was impacting the entire campus. The professor at my college told my parents that I had "wasted my time there" and by extension their money as they were paying tuition. Shortly after doing that he was hosting a party after a school play, his wife was under the table making out with some student. I heard students talking about this in my Spanish class and then by the Lord's design I had to go to his house to get something done, first time I had been there since the first week of my freshman year four years earlier. I could see what had happened to him and his family first hand. The Lord made sure I saw. He had tried to attack the Lord's servant, the Lord is strong to defend. That put me into fear, the word "vengeance is mine, I will repay" was burned into my brain.
3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
I have the full assurance of faith in the Lord Jesus as savior. We all need to have the full assurance of faith. If you do you can enjoy the show. Another example, a professor who wrote for a Texas monthly magazine came and reviewed our church for a religious column. We all knew that the purpose was to curse the church just like Balaam. However, the article was just like one of Balaam's prophecies where God turned the curse to a blessing.
4 One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple.
Yes, I am rejoicing that this day is near. That does not mean I am rejoicing in the suffering that is about to take place. Everyone was told that the world was condemned, that is a fundamental truth to the gospel. Everyone was told that if you build with wood, hay and stubble it will be burned up with fire, but you will be saved as through fire. Because of this I chose Jesus. Yes, as I see the day approaching I rejoice and I also rejoice that I made the choice to choose Jesus. When I was just a kid making this choice for the first time I realized what I do in life, in depends on whether or not God is real. If God is real that changes everything. If others didn't realize that, and ignored God and rejected the gospel then they will have to repent for that.
5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
This Psalm is prayed by the Jews during the month of Elul. The month of Elul precedes the strart of the tribulation and this is the time that we need the Lord to hide us in His pavilion. The rapture is when we are in the secret tabernacle and are set upon a rock.
6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord.
Yes, I will rejoice and sing praises. I wasn't their enemy, they were my enemy. I didn't go to war with them, I told them the truth of the gospel and because of that they went to war with me.
7 Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
Yes, Christians need to have a testimony, they need to speak to the Lord with their voice, they need to pray for mercy. If you want the Lord to be merciful to you then you need to be merciful to others. Only then can you pray "have mercy also upon me".
8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek.
Elul is the month that begins when we are back to back and it ends with us face to face. Throughout our entire church age there have been those who have been back to back with Jesus, going the opposite direction and refusing to listen to Him. Well, the tribulation will turn them around so they are face to face with Him.
9 Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Is the Lord your help? Really? What about your paycheck? If you left your job would you pray Lord "leave me not neither forsake me, O God of my salvation"? This is the prayer of those who are left behind, during the tribulation you pray that the Lord doesn't put you away in anger, that He will continue to be your help, that He not leave you, nor forsake you.
10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.
The Government and your job are going to forsake you if you don't get the vaccine, but the Bible says "then the Lord will take me up". The tribulation will be a time when father and mother will forsake you.
11 Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
We have to be focused like a laser on the word of God, otherwise it is no longer a plain path, it is a hidden path.
12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
They are saying that the unvaccinated are the cause of the pandemic. This is a false witness, they are breathing out cruelty with the vaccine mandate. Soon the believers will be blamed for the collapse of the economy, for all the people dying from famine and the vaccine, and in the end the solution to everyone's problems will be to kill the Christians.
13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Once again, you want to breathe easily? Read the word, meditate on the word, fill yourself with faith so that you will believe to see the goodness of the Lord.
14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.