Wednesday Bible Study: QAnon

Psalms 81 and 82 are pretty standard fare. 81 is written for a specific observance, and it reminds the Israelites that they are God ' s chosen people and to be faithful. 82 calls on God to punish the wicked and reward the righteous -- as if he wouldn ' t do it unless we asked. Psalm 83, however, is getting a whole lot of attention right now, from people who probably don ' t read this blog and who you probably are barely aware of. It describes a broad alliance against Israel, bent on its destruction, and calls on God to exterminate them, referring to the massacres of the Midianites in Numbers 31, and the massacre of the Canaanites in Judges 4. (As far as the sanctity of life is concerned, in these incidents Yahweh ordered the Israelites to exterminate these people, which they do.) Oddly, however, the alliance does not correspond to any actual event in the Deuteronomistic history. It ' s just a grab bag of nations that have been hostile to Israel at one time or another. So it seems that a whole lot of people -- Christians, mostly, as far as I can tell -- have decided that it ' s a prophecy. Some think that its predictions are imminent. Supposedly,  the Arab nations are going to form an alliance and try to destroy Israel, and it ' s all right there in Psalm 83. Just enter " psalm 83 prophecy " into your favorite Internet search engine and you ' ll find dozens if not hundreds of web sites making this claim. Many are pondering whether this is about to happen in resp...
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