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February 2026Psalm 7 — you’ll notice the preamble to it says, “A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush, a Benjamite.” Now, that tells us everything that we need to know about this psalm as far as history and context.
A Shiggaion is a song that’s sung with both high and low notes. And notice that it says it is a song that David wrote concerning Cush, a Benjamite. Now, we don’t know anything about this Cush, biblically speaking, other than what it says right here — he’s a Benjamite.
What we do know, historically, is that the Benjamites gave David a very rough time. Why would that be? Well, because of a certain predecessor of David by the name of King Saul. Saul was a Benjamite, and the Benjamites basically took the approach that David was responsible for Saul’s demise. So, they blamed David, they scorned David, and they slandered David.
The context of this song is that David is lamenting before the Lord about the treatment that he’s receiving at the hands of the Benjamites. Now, there are two approaches that we could go through about how to respond to critics, how to respond when people are gossiping about you, and how to respond to slanderers. I’m going to take a little different approach to this particular psalm. Although again, you could certainly see that topic or subject or theme in this psalm, dealing with people who exhibit ungodly behavior, and that seems to be a full-time job some have chosen in our day and age.
Finding Rest In A Hurried World
But the approach that I want to take is this: finding rest in a hurried world. And I think we can all relate to that. How do we rest in the midst of the tumult that defines modern living? It seems that day after day, there is a new drama that comes out, and in many cases, it affects us, rolls over our lives like a tsunami. How do we maintain the peace of God and rest? Because that is, after all, what the Lord desires for us, right? He doesn’t want us running around frantically trying to deal with all of these different fires that seem to erupt spontaneously. He wants us to know His peace and to know His rest in the midst of all these things that define life.
So, finding rest in a hurried world was my thinking on this psalm. And of course, that deserves a follow-up question, then, doesn’t it? How do we find rest in this world, in the midst of all these things that are going on in our lives? And here’s the answer: by understanding that true godliness comes forth or is manifested from an understanding that God is sovereign.
I had a conversation with someone recently, and these conversations always, without exception, confirm for me the teaching that I am working on at the time. In fact, I’ll say this: even when I visit the prison, I’ll go around and greet all the guys, chat with them for a moment, and see how they’ve been since I last saw them — typically a month ago. And without exception, even in prison, some of the conversations that I have with those guys confirm the teaching that the Lord wants them to hear. It’s just amazing to me how it works out.
Satan Always Distorts God’s Truth
Both the Old Testament and the New Testament have God’s fingerprints of sovereignty all over them. It is unmistakable when you know what you’re looking for. And so, Psalm 7... I’m going to give you eight points here that demonstrate what I’m talking about.
I was thinking recently... How many of you have heard any of the comments or commentaries, or maybe you’ve seen the movie yourself — Noah, the movie, the movie titled “Noah?” Not Ray Comfort’s version, but the satanically inspired — oh, did I say that out loud? “The Noah movie.”
Well, it reminded me of something. It reminded me of the fact that God is sovereign, even over things like that. We see, “we,” meaning Christians, with eyes to see and ears to hear, we see those kinds of movies as an affront to a holy God because they are presenting a picture that is opposed to the Scriptures. What grieves me the most, though, is the number of well-known Christians who were duped into supporting it, who came out in favor of it, and still today, after all the facts are known, still say, “Oh no, it’s a good movie.”
Well, I have to disagree with that. I think it’s a rotten movie, straight out of the pits of hell, and smells like smoke. That’s what I think. Now, you’re free to have your own opinion, of course, but here’s why I say that, just so you know. “Well, Mike, it’s just a knee-jerk reaction — have you seen the movie?” I don’t need to see the movie. Do I need to engage in some sinful behavior to know it’s wrong? No. So that argument doesn’t hold any weight.
“Well, you got to see the movie and then...” No, I don’t. I don’t watch Victoria’s Secret commercials on TV — does that mean I can’t comment that they’re ungodly demonstrations of pornography? No, you don’t have to see something to know that it’s wrong.
Here’s some of my problems with that movie...
In this movie, the director presented Adam and Eve as fleshless spirits. They were not human beings — flesh and blood human beings. They were spirits, luminescent, they were glowing spirits until they ate the forbidden fruit, and then they became mortal flesh. Okay, now clearly that’s not biblical, but it is something the director didn’t just invent out of thin air and say, “Oh, I think this would make a good storyline, so I’ll present them as spirits until they ate the forbidden fruit, and then they become fleshly material beings.” No — that’s straight out of second-century Gnosticism, folks. The same Gnosticism that Paul the Apostle wrote against explicitly and in great detail in many of his letters. The same Gnosticism — this strain of Gnosticism, in fact — was recorded by a Gnostic sect called the Ophites.
See, all you need to do is know your history to know where that stuff comes from. Now, the Ophites followed the Jewish Gnostics who preceded them. Jewish Gnosticism is known as Kabbalah. Now, that may be familiar to some of you — it was popularized in American mainstream media when a certain person by the name of Madonna decided that she was going to be an adherent, a disciple, of Kabbalah. Kabbalah is Jewish Gnostic mysticism.
Gnosticism is the basis of this movie — not the Bible. The director presents the spiritual realm as good, but all flesh as evil. That dichotomy — that’s what Paul was addressing in his letters. The Gnostics said that Jesus could not have been God because the spirit, the divine, cannot unite with the flesh. You see, in Gnosticism, the spirit is good, but the flesh is evil, and so the incarnation of Jesus could not happen according to the Gnostics. And so that’s why Paul addressed that repeatedly.
The lava monsters — if you’ve not seen the movie, you won’t know what I’m talking about — but these so-called lava monsters, these creatures that were... they were cooled lava, they were fallen angels, demons that had fallen. Now, in the movie, they’re redeemed at the end, and they escape their earthly lava bodies and become spirits again and ascend back to heaven. Wrong. Angels are not redeemed. Once fallen, it’s over.
Not only that, but these lava monsters — some of the prominent ones had names. Shemyaza, Magog, and Ramil were three prominent fallen angels, lava monsters, if you will. Those three names specifically are well-known demons in Jewish mythological tradition — in Kabbalah, those three names are demon angels. So, was this an accident? Absolutely not. It was no accident, it was purposely made to subvert, to present an alternative view of the world from an enemies-of-God viewpoint. And as far as I can see, he is succeeding very well, even in churches.
Now, the most outrageous heresy of Gnosticism, and this Noah movie, is the belief in the portrayal of the Creator as an ignorant, arrogant — and this is a quote from Dr. Brian Mattson’s review — he says the Creator is presented as an “ignorant, arrogant, jealous, exclusive, violent, low-level son of a low-level deity.”
See, one of the features of Gnosticism that Paul addresses in the New Testament is the teaching that there are two gods, and that the lesser god — the evil god — actually created all of this, and he’s trying to deceive mankind into following him and believing that he’s a benevolent, loving Creator. But the true god is the spirit god, but you’ve got to escape this reality to understand that.
Let me read on, and this is the point: Mattson said, “This low-level deity is responsible for creating the unspiritual world of flesh and matter. This Creator tries to keep Adam and Eve from the true knowledge of the divine, and when they disobey, flies into a rage and boots them out of the garden.” End quote.
In other words, brothers and sisters, the whole point of the Noah movie as it’s presented right now is that the serpent was actually right. The serpent was actually right! You see, God’s only trying to keep you from understanding. Isn’t that what the devil said? “Oh, will you die? Will you die? He just doesn’t want you to do that, because He knows in the day that you do, your eyes will be opened, and you’ll know evil from good.” I think he left something out, don’t you?
Christians Must Understand the Times In Which We Live
Now, I say all of that to say this: we live in some very interesting times. Some very interesting times, especially if you’re a believer, because believers have eyes to see and ears to hear, right? Well, believers should have eyes to see and ears to hear. Unfortunately, many of my brethren are sleepwalking through life. They’re still physically and emotionally in Disneyland Christianity.
I received, in the mail this week, Jan Markell’s Olive Tree Ministry “Understanding the Times” newsletter. It’s a monthly publication — you can get it for free, just sign up at Olive Tree Ministries. In this month’s newsletter, the theme article is called “The Convergence.” And I thought it was interesting, so I’m going to share this with you because it’s a perfect lead-in to the teaching of Psalm 7.
It’s called A Convergence, and she makes this point. She says, “A convergence is a coming together of more than a dozen major signs of the times the Bible told us to watch for. Today, one simply cannot point to one single sign that stands out as to the lateness of the hour. The signs are exploding. We don’t just watch them, we now feel them. So since prophecy is a priority, here’s my take on the convergence of some of the signs.”
And I wanted to share them because it points clearly to the need for us to remember that God is sovereign, because it would be really easy for us to wring our hands over what’s going on in the world today, wouldn’t it? We could become very, very depressed, thinking, “What does tomorrow hold?” Well, I don’t need to worry about what tomorrow holds — I just need to understand and trust in the One who holds tomorrow.
Signs Of Our Times
So here are some signs. She starts off, (and this is why I talked about the Noah movie), “One of the signs of the times that points to Christ’s soon return is this ‘Days of Noah’ similarity that we’re seeing today.” That’s the first point.
She says: “The ‘Days of Noah’ similarities have never been stronger. Corruption and violence characterized Noah’s time. There was genetic manipulation then, and now.” Now, of course, I’m talking about the fallen angels cohabiting and producing the Nephilim. You may have a different view theologically on that, but my view is that the Watchers left their habitat, their natural order of things, and they cohabited with women and produced offspring. You may think that’s far-fetched, but I encourage you to study the Scriptures for yourself.
But Matthew 24 talks about this, Luke 17 talks about this, and, of course, Genesis chapter 6, the first eight verses, talk about this. One of the things is that some people will be so oblivious to the signs of the times that they’re just going to live their life like they always have. They’ll get up and go to work, they’ll give their sons in marriage, they’ll give their daughters in marriage, they’ll party, and they’ll just continue life like nothing’s going on. And yet Jesus tells us repeatedly in the New Testament, “You must know the signs of the times.”
Nobody knows the day — that’s not what we’re saying here. I’m not making a prediction. Nobody knows the day, but Jesus said you can see what’s going on and know the season that you’re in. And so I encourage you to do that. Understand that the things happening in our world today aren’t just random occurrences. They have meaning, they’re pointing to something. Are your eyes open? Do you see it?
So, the Days of Noah — there was great wickedness and perverse evil thoughts. Remember, it says in Genesis 6 that the thoughts and intentions of the heart of man were only evil continually. Every day, it seems like we’re exposed to some new form of evil constantly. And I’m dismayed at the number of Christians who try to say, “Oh, but all this good is going on.” Well, does that negate this? You can’t pretend like this isn’t happening by pointing to the good. Yes, continue to do the good, continue to shine the light of the Gospel, absolutely, but you cannot ignore this.
Talk about evil! This article in the same newsletter talks about cultural decline. I bet you didn’t read this in any of the newspapers or hear this on any of the news networks: “Gay and lesbian troops perform in drag on military base.” We might not enjoy living in the new Days of Noah — which the Bible predicted would be revived — but we’re in them, and we need to be informed. Troops based at Kadena Airbase in Japan had a party recently; six gay and straight service members applied some of their finest makeup and lip-synced to “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” in what is believed to be the first drag queen and king show on an American military base. The show was thrown in support for the base’s recently formed OutServe-SLDN chapter — a nonprofit advocacy group for the Army’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. Navy Lieutenant Marissa Green told Stars and Stripes that she only expected to sell 75 tickets for the variety show but ended up selling more than 400 in 10 days. The event went through the same approval process that other on-base fundraisers go through, with the only caveat being that it was not labeled a “drag show.” I wonder why. The Days of Noah, brothers and sisters — we’re living in them.
Second sign: other than May 14, 1948, at her rebirth, Israel’s modern-day role has never been so significant. She is the center of the world politically and even spiritually, with the major religions emanating out of the area. She is the focus geopolitically, as Middle East tensions or peace depends on her activity and choices. It’s all about control, both religiously and politically. There is nothing significant in and of itself about Jerusalem and Israel other than what the Bible says about it in the last days. God is pulling focus and attention on Israel and on Jerusalem.
But it’s all about control, brothers and sisters. In my view, the Antichrist system is using this to gain an advantage for a one-world global religion and government. Now, which one will come first? I don’t know. Will they come side by side? Probably.
Third thing that we see going on in the newspapers today: Russia is rising. You know, Russia is tied in Scripture and in prophecy to Gog and Magog, right? The end-times prophecy, very, very important for Israel’s future. How many of you have been reading about what Russia is doing in the Ukraine? Yeah, that’s just the first move, brothers and sisters.
The Bible is clear that Israel will be isolated in the last days. The UN has tried for decades to paint Israel as the culprit for Islamic terrorism. Tragically, there are consequences for this behavior. They are spelled out in Genesis 12:3, where God’s blessings and curses depend on the treatment of Israel.
So you have the Days of Noah, the wickedness and the evil; you have what’s going on in the Middle East with Israel; you have Russia rising, exerting power, and now starting to take over nations.
Then fourthly, you have the “King of the South” rising again. Now, who is the King of the South? That’s Egypt. The so-called Arab Spring that recently swept over Egypt — I watched with amazement as this was happening and everybody was falling all over themselves saying, “Oh, what a wonderful development! Freedom and democracy have come to the Middle East.” It was all plastered over the news. I even saw local coverage, where they were interviewing Muslims and talking about it as if it was this amazing step forward. And I’m thinking, “are you serious? Do you not see what this is?” But anybody who pointed out the truth about the situation was shouted down, belittled, or called intolerant or “Islamophobic.”
TO BE CONTINUED NEXT MONTH
Dr. Mike Spaulding
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