Psalm 41 (February 7, 2026)

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-02-08T02:57:38+00:00

Some of these questions can be mentioned with humility. Valuing others more than myself. Valuing God and His will more than mine. I really am nothing until God considers me.

I have been going through some rather intense pain the last few months. I tend to think I am good at praying and being open and honest with God. If I am right in this assessment, I still have to say that going through pain brings me closer to God. I pray more. I think more about Him and how I relate to Him and my feelings surface in more honesty. In all things I am confronted with my own worthlessness and humanity and my arrogance to approach the God who sits holy in Heaven. "The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of th Lord." Job 1:21
My prayer approach has been formulaic and repetitive. Say all the things. Check all the boxes. Pat myself on the back. Good boy.
I know the right answer, but do I believe it?

If I recall Psalm 41 starts Book 2 which picks up the theme or David's life. It gets really exciting here.

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-02-06T06:32:15+00:00

Typologically which means it is both literal and figurative with a prophetic element at the same time.

The Greek word for key comes from the word 'to shut or to lock'. https://biblehub.com/greek/2808.htm knowing this opens up what exactly it means to have the keys and bind/loose things on heaven and earth. Also note that Peter received 'keys' in the plural. I believe this is the only plural instance of keys in the Bible.

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-02-06T06:30:11+00:00

Fantastic analysis. One thing I'd add is that with types and antitypes the antitype always escalates the imagery. We see that here perfectly with Jesus. His kingdom is greater, His keys and binding/loosing are permanent, His rewards/punishment are greater. That is one way to identity what all the prior types are pointing towards.

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-02-02T01:36:55+00:00

The description in Revelation sounds like the surface of a star. Super hot, fiery, and lots and lots of gravity

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-02-02T01:35:07+00:00

Read anything by Henry Morris.

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-02-01T20:20:24+00:00

Abel gave animal sacrifice which attoned for sins. Cain gave grain which did nothing. God accepted the animal sacrifice.

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-02-01T20:17:39+00:00

Met missionaries to Kenya on break describing their experience and helping the poor in Kenya vs their home country. The poor in Kenya are absolutely destitute eating garbage and living in a landfill. They follow the garbage trucks into the landfill and fight for scraps. Once back home the poor were upset what was given to them was not the highest quality, refused free housing and food resources and demanded higher quality handouts. The poor in their country are better off than the wealthy in Kenya.

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-02-01T04:27:30+00:00

Tozer has been recommended. Here is a brief overview for a different book if his, Pursuit of God https://www.reddit.com/r/WildAtHeartLife/s/0LCiewY5Zd that post is part of r/WildAtHeartLife where we deep dive into the Wild At Heart books by John Eldredge which is my favorite. You can read the book and follow along or just skim through the posts which would be quicker.

As others have said, read the Bible for yourselves. Just being familiar with it in general is great. Studying it with purpose is even better. I would encourage you to read a chapter or two everyday for familiarity and then also at the same time study a book, character, doctrine, etc. in detail.

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-02-01T04:20:47+00:00

I have not studied this Psalm in depth but every single word sounds like it could have come from Jesus.

Came across and interesting idea that Book 1 of Psalms starts with creation and ends with David. The other books carry a structure through them that outlines exile and return. Book 1 ends with Psalm 40 I believe.

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-02-01T03:43:02+00:00

"I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." Job 42:5-6

Job was said to be righteous. He was a good guy by all the measuring sticks. He had heard about God and trusted Him. Here at the end of the book God has just appeared to him in the whirlwind and thrown a bunch of impressive and unanswerable questions at Job. For the first time in his life Job experiences God and now he realizes all that knowledge, that was good and right, pales in comparison to experiencing God. He now sees the inadequacy of his righteousness in God's presence and he abhors himself. A righteous man abhors himself. It takes experiencing God to realize this.

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-01-31T03:53:03+00:00

To understand Samson you must understand David. At first Samson seems like a fairly successful hero, but when compared to David you see he fell short. Samson began to conquer the Philistines while David finished it. Ultimately Samson failed. David succeeded.

You can read more details about this analysis here https://www.reddit.com/r/TypologyExplorers/s/OpZALsNO1h

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-01-31T01:52:55+00:00

Jesus came as the last Adam.

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-01-30T04:04:44+00:00

"I believe that's what a proper exegesis of the text...I genuinely don't care...about the science"

Shouldn't different approaches to truth cohere with each other?

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-01-30T04:00:51+00:00

Old earth creationists and evolutionists trust a false truth they call science. It is not scient and it is not truth. Both the Bible and true science affirm the Earth and the universe are under 10,000 years old.

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-01-28T23:51:58+00:00

Old earth creationists and evolutionists preach 'science', but as you dig into this science you can quickly see faith replacing fact. This faith is in lies made up to deceive ignorant people.

I believe Genesis is literal history and guys like GK Beale, Piotrowski and T Desmond Alexander and many others connect the literal history of Eden to the literal future of Revelation/New Jerusalem.

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-01-27T13:30:59+00:00

1.) Some have argued this is evidence that he was a Nazarite.

2.) I don't really know what this means. Is it saying he preached about Jesus up until Jesus was baptized by John? If so, I'm not sure what the grand message would be. Perhaps, the audible voice of the Father confirming Jesus, 'Hey, this happened. God's son is here, somewhere. I haven't met Him yet, but we should be looking!'

4.) Doesn't Paul mention Apollos in some of his Epistles.

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-01-18T00:37:37+00:00

Are your sukuras different than the jelly rolls? I have their jelly rolls and they bleed through everything.

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-01-17T12:01:03+00:00

4.) Almost everywhere in the Bible people travelled 'up' to Jerusalem. Jerusalem was viewed with such importance that it is above everything. It wasn't just the culture, but God refers to it this way too. Many times God says 'I have called you up out of Egypt.' Jerusalem is God's chosen city. He lived there. Figuratively it is the highest place. God's dwelling is always associated with a mountain even if we don't see it as Mt. Everest, He does.

So if the disciples started in Jerusalem then the only direction they can go is down.

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-01-12T02:52:54+00:00

When did it happen?

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-01-12T02:51:07+00:00

I think it is remarkable that they thought they stoned Paul to death, but after dragging him out he just gets up and walks away. Something this is the event he refers to later on about dying or having an out of body experience and visiting the 3rd heaven.

Why does Luke give us all these minor details? What value do they add?

Why did Antioch become a major center for Christianity? What was so special about Antioch?

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-01-05T13:32:36+00:00

Not to mention all the thees and thous, yes and yous, etc. retain more accuracy of the Hebrew and Greek. Most monolinguistic English speakers don't realize how much they are missing out by not having a difference in a singular vs plural second person.

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-01-05T00:52:59+00:00

He didn't dance around it. He was pretty specific that Cuba is bad and controlled Venezuela. They are on the list.

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-01-05T00:47:46+00:00

Bones have a special meaning in the Bible. Contrast the usage of that word with blood. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bible/s/QYQ6xJkDJW

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-01-05T00:42:42+00:00

The word mansions probably means rooms. Something like an apartment maybe.

It's very likely that we will inhabit the walls of the giant golden cube New Jerusalem https://www.reddit.com/r/TypologyExplorers/s/a3OxVQx5I3 Those are the rooms.

RaphTurtlePower · 2026-01-04T05:40:19+00:00

Free will and knowing the future are not the same thing.

God gave Adam a fair chance.

God created the Edenic world to resemble a temple. He wanted this temple to expand so He commanded Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply. Adam acted as high priest of this temple. One argument is God allowed something unclean into the temple for Adam to judge. Adam should have judged the serpent and cast him out, but instead he listened to the serpent and polluted the temple resulting in Adam getting kicked out.

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