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| 1 A Prayer of Moses the man of God. LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. |
LORD – Jehovah. E45
Dwelling place – Refuge. The city of refuge which God has provided for us is Christ, under the cover of his merit, his robe of righteousness. R3116:1
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| 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. |
From everlasting – From all eternity, without a beginning. E86; CR247:1; R338:4, R421:5, R3920:3, R4107:2
His qualities and attributes have always been the same. R5209:3
With unlimited time, he is working out his plan with great deliberation. R5251:3
Back of all inanimate causes there must be an intelligent first cause, an intelligent designer, and that is God. R675:6
Contrary to Mormonism. HG731:4
To everlasting – Self -centered, self -contained, the same yesterday, today and forever, he changes not. SM483:4 Psalms 90:3
Man to destruction – A condition of peaceful unconsciousness. R2172:3
As a natural result of the penalty on father Adam. E363; F331
To sheol, hades, the grave. HG228:3
Not torture. R649:3, R846:4
And sayest, Return – In resurrection, because the price is paid. E353; R615:5*; HG333:5
The revival of man's life will not make him immortal or incapable of destruction. HG358:3
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| 3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. |
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| 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. |
For a thousand years – From the divine standpoint "a day with the Lord is as a thousand years." (2 Pet. 3:8) "In the day that thou eatest thereof." (Gen. 2:17) SM151:2
It was within one of these "days" that Adam died at the age of 930. F332
God has permitted a reign of evil during six of these thousand-year days. PD18/26
"A little while and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me." (John 16:16) R702:4
But as yesterday – It is only as measured by the shortness of present life that the 6000 years of evil seems very long. R1092:4
The lapse of time between death and the awakening will be nothing to the dead when it is past, since they are entirely unconscious of it. R1017:6
Watch in the night – To God a thousand years are but a watch in the night. R5210:3
Showing that even a shorter period than a "day" can be referred to as a thousand years. SM151:2
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| 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. |
They are as a sleep – Rest, or peaceful sleep. R2172:3
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| 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. |
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| 7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. |
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| 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. |
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| 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. |
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| 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. |
And we fly away – Into the land of the enemy, the prisonhouse of death. R4792:6
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| 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. |
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| 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. |
Number our days – Counting the days as so many blessings, so many privileges, so many opportunities to serve. R2896:6
"Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord." (Rom. 12:11) R1532:2
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| 13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. |
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| 14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. |
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| 15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. |
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| 16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. |
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| 17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. |
And let the beauty – The justice, mercy, wisdom and power. R2570:5
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