EPISODE FOUR
In Psalm 83 those Bible Principles are shown in a moment of overwhelming battle between the forces of evil and the people of God.
O God, DO NOT KEEP SILENT; BE NOT QUIET, O God, BE NOT STILL. See how YOUR ENEMIES are in tumult; those WHO HATE YOU have RAISED THEIR HEADS.
They lay CRAFTY PLANS AGAINST YOUR PEOPLE; they CONSULT TOGETHER AGAINST YOUR PROTECTED ONES. "Come," they say, "Let us destroy them as a nation," that the name of ISRAEL BE REMEMBERED NO MORE."
With ONE MIND they PLOT TOGETHER; they MAKE A COVENANT AGAINST YOU - the TENTS of EDOM and the ISH'MAELITES, MOAB and the HAGRITES, GEBAL. AMMON and AM'ALEK, PHILISTIA with the inhabitants of TYRE; ASSYRIA also has joined them; they are the STRONG ARM OF the children of LOT.
DO to them AS YOU DID to MIDIAM, AS YOU DID to SISERA and JABIN at the River Kishon,
who WERE DESTROYED AT EN-DOR, who BECAME DUNG FOR THE GROUND.
MAKE their NOBLES like OREB and ZEEB, all their PRINCES like ZEBAH and ZALMUN'NA; who said, "LET US TAKE POSSESSION FOR OURSELVES OF THE PASTURES OF GOD."
O my God, MAKE THEM like WHIRLING DUST, like CHAFF BEFORE THE WIND.
As FIRE CONSUMED the FOREST, as the FLAME SETS the MOUNTAINS ABLAZE, so PURSUE THEM WITH YOUR TEMPEST and TERRIFY THEM WITH YOUR HURRICANE!
FILL THEIR FACES WITH SHAME, so that MEN WILL SEEK YOUR NAME, O LORD.
LET THEM BE PUT TO SHAME and DISMAYED FOREVER; LET THEM PERISH IN DISGRACE.
LET THEM KNOW THAT YOU ALONE, whose name is THE LORD, are THE MOST HIGH over all the earth.
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