The
Apple of His Eye ... commentary of Psalm 74
The Apple of His Eye
… A commentary of Psalm
74
Verse Fifteen
Psalm 74:15: “Thou didst cleave the
fountain and the flood: thou
driedst up mighty rivers.”
“…the fountain and the flood…”
The fountain and the flood
are related. Both the fountain and the
flood involve water, and lots of it.
Water is a fluid most abundant and
most necessary for all living beings created
by God. Pure water is colorless,
transparent and has no taste nor smell.
All water found here on this earth, and found in the firmament above the earth has originated from the face of the deep. The face of the deep is the SOURCE.
This face of the deep is frozen.
We can know this to be the truth by making
reference to the book of Job, chapter
thirty-eight, verse thirty:
“The waters are hid as with a
stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.”
[Job 38:30]
The source of all the waters is
frozen!
The book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ
shows this frozen mass of water is located
in the sides of the north [Psalm forty-eight]
before the throne of GOD.
See chapter four, verse six:
“And before the throne there was
a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst
of the throne, and round about the throne, were
four beasts full of eyes before and behind.”
[Revelation 4:6]
The glass sea is a frozen mass
of pure water, and is transparent, and is perfectly
beautiful, like
unto crystal.
The source of this water in the face
of the deep is from a fountain: a pure
river of water of life.
We can get a glimpse of this pure river in
the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, in
chapter twenty-two, verse one:
“And he shewed me a pure river of water
of life, clear as crystal; proceeding out of the
throne of God and of the Lamb.”
[Revelation 22:1]
Now the underside of the sea of
glass [the side facing the universe] is called
the face of the deep.
We see this face of the deep in the
First book of Moses called Genesis in the first
chapter, verse two:
“And the earth was without form, and
void; and darkness was upon the face of the
deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of
the waters.” [Genesis 1:2]
In verses six and seven: We have a
division of the waters:
“And God said, Let there be a firmament
in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the
waters from the waters.
“And God made the firmament, and divided
the waters which were under the firmament
from the waters which were above the
firmament: and it was so.” [Genesis
1:6-7]
In quantum physics this phenomenon
can be shown by the concept of tunneling.
The waters of the sea of glass located in
the sides of the north [outside the universe]
[and in eternity] are divided by the
firmament [a barrier] from the waters in the
atmosphere above the earth and on the earth.
These same waters are tunneled
to both places at the same time despite
the interposing barrier [the firmament].
In verses nine and ten: We have another
operation of division performed on the same
waters:
“And God said, Let the waters under the
heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let
the dry land appear: and it was so.
And God called the dry land
Earth; and the gathering together of the waters
called he Seas: and God saw that it was
good.” [Genesis 1:9 - 10]
In verses twenty through twenty-two, we see
waters support life:
“And God said, Let the waters bring
forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life,
and fowl that may fly above the earth in the
open firmament of heaven.
And God created great whales, and every
living creature that moveth, which the waters
brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and
every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that
it was good.
And God blessed them, saying, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the
seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.”
[Genesis 1:20-22]
Now, we come to the flood.
This was the historic worldwide cataclysmic event
which occurred in the year B.C. 2349.
In the First book of Moses called Genesis,
in chapter six, verse seventeen the LORD states:
“And, behold, I, even I, do bring a
flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all
flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from
under heaven; and every thing that is
in the earth shall die.” [Genesis
6:17]
God brought the flood upon the earth
for a purpose. This purpose is revealed
to us earlier in this same chapter. We read in
verses five through seven this:
“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man
was great in the earth, and that every
imagination of the thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually.
And it repented the LORD that he had
made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his
heart.
And the LORD said, I will destroy man
whom I have created from the face of the earth; both
man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the
fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have
made them.” [Genesis 6:5-7]
In the next chapter [chapter seven], the
fountains were cleaved. They were
broken up. Verse eleven:
“In the six hundredth year of Noah's
life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of
the month, the same day were all the fountains of
the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven
were opened.” [Genesis 7:11]
Water, water, water everywhere to snuff out
life because of man’s sin.
And when the mission was complete
the LORD stopped the fountains.
We read in chapter eight, verse two:
“The fountains also of the deep and the
windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from
heaven was restrained;” [Genesis
8:2].
Water can give life, and water can snuff
life!
Water is so important that without it
… a man will never be able to enter into the kingdom
of God. Jesus Christ HIMSELF told us this is
so in the Gospel according to John, in chapter
three, verse five:
“Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say
unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of
the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of
God.” [John 3:5]
The source of this water is from
the face of the deep, and the face of the deep,
which is the glass sea, is sourced
from a pure river. This pure river
of the water of life is sourced from a
fountain.
Psalm 74:15 again: “Thou didst cleave
the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty
rivers.”
“…thou driedst
up mighty rivers.”
“That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I
will dry up thy rivers:” [Isaiah
44:27].
God can do anything!
ANYTHING!!!
This includes drying up a mighty river!
Men may divert a river like
Darius did when he conquered Babylon, but to
command in a word to dry up a river in an instant of
time takes a supernatural event [called a miracle],
which is way beyond what man can do. God does
the miracles!
Turn to the Gospel according to Matthew,
chapter nineteen, verse twenty-six. It would
behoove us to remember the words of the SON of GOD
when HE was on this earth during HIS first advent:
“But Jesus beheld them, and said
unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God
all things are possible.” [Matthew
19:26]
ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH GOD! The
things God does are called WONDERS.
The LORD GOD does wonders!
Turn to the book of Joshua, chapter three,
verse five, and we will read there a wonder:
“And Joshua said unto the people,
Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the LORD will do
wonders among you.” [Joshua 3:5]
The people were to sanctify
themselves [to set themselves apart unto God], and
watch what the LORD would do when the priests
stepped forward and placed their feet into the
waters of the Jorden River.
Read verse thirteen:
“And it shall come to pass, as soon as
the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the
ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall
rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters
of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters
that come down from above; and they shall stand upon
an heap.” [Joshua 3:13]
Now for verses fifteen through
seventeen:
“And as they that bare the ark were come
unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare
the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for
Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of
harvest,)
That the waters which came down from
above stood and rose up upon an heap very far
from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan:
and those that came down toward the sea of the
plain, even the salt sea, failed, and
were cut off: and the people passed over right
against Jericho.
And the priests that bare the ark of the
covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the
midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over
on dry ground, until all the people were passed
clean over Jordan.” [Joshua
3:15-17]
The natural flow of the water in the river
was stopped immediately! And where
did it go? Upward it went … in a
developing column of water [a heap] in defiance of
natural laws.
The river bottom thus exposed was
immediately desiccated and was made dry
in an instant of time. The LORD provided
this WONDER as a SIGN forever to all of the people
of Israel to remember for all generations.
See chapter four, verses six and seven:
“That this may be a sign among you,
that when your children ask their fathers
in time to come, saying, What mean ye by
these stones?
Then ye shall answer them, That the
waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the
covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan,
the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones
shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel
for ever.” [Joshua 4:6-7]
Next, the LORD reverses the supernatural
column to the natural flow of
the Jordan River.
Verse eighteen: “And
it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark
of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the
midst of Jordan, and the soles of the
priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that
the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and
flowed over all his banks, as they did
before.” [Joshua 4:18]
Then lastly, God performed this miracle not
only for them, but for all the people of the
whole earth that they might
fear the LORD your God for ever.
“For the LORD your God dried up the
waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were
passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red
sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were
gone over:
That all the people of the earth might
know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty:
that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.”
[Joshua 4:23-24]
In the First book
of Moses called Genesis, chapter two, verses ten
through fourteen, there is mention of the original
four mighty rivers that were formed by a greater
river that went out of Eden to
water the garden in the antediluvian world
[before the Flood]. [B.C. 4004]
“And a river went out of Eden to water
the garden; and from thence it was parted, and
became into four heads.
“The name of the first is Pison:
that is it which compasseth the whole land of
Havilah, where there is gold;
And the gold of that land is
good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
And the name of the second river is
Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the
whole land of Ethiopia.
And the name of the third river is
Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the
east of Assyria. And the fourth river is
Euphrates.” [Genesis 2:10-14]
These four antediluvian, [pre-Flood]
rivers were:
1.
The
Pison
2.
The
Gihon
3.
The
Hiddekel [Tigris]
4.
The
Euphrates
I
In our present postdiluvian world, the
Euphrates River forms the longest and most
historically significant river in all of western
Asia and it runs a total distance of 1,740 miles.
The Euphrates is one of the two rivers of
Mesopotamia with the other being the
Tigris River. The Euphrates flows from the
confluence of Kara Su and Murat Su in the town of
Keban in Turkey to the ocean at the Persian Gulf.
We will now zoom in on the Euphrates
River to a yet future day in prophecy.
Remember prophecy fulfilled becomes history.
In the book of the Revelation of Jesus
Christ, in chapter sixteen, verse twelve, we read
this:
“And the sixth angel poured out his vial
upon the great river Euphrates; and the water
thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of
the east might be prepared.”
[Revelation 16:12]
The kings of the east will be
enabled by the drying up of the river to
position themselves [gather] to the battle of
that great day of God Almighty:
Verse sixteen: “And he gathered them
together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue
Armageddon.” [Revelation 16:16]
A miraculous event!