Psalms Chapter 90 [RVIC]

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Book IV
God's Eternity and Man's Transitoriness.
A Prayer of Moses the man of God.
1 Jehovah, 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


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


3 Thou turnest man to destruction,
And hast said, Return, ye children of men.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight
Shall be but as yesterday when it shall pass,
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


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

6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up;
In the evening it is cut down and withereth.
7 For we are consumed in thine anger,
And in thy wrath are we troubled.
8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,
Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath:
We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
10 The days of our years are seventy,
Or even by reason of strength eighty years;
Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow;
For it is soon gone, and we have flown away.
And we fly away – Into the land of the enemy, the prisonhouse of death. R4792:6

11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger,
And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?
12 So teach us to number our days,
That we may get us a heart of 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


13 Return, O Jehovah; how long?
And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
14 Oh satisfy us in the morning with thy lovingkindness,
That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us,
And the years wherein we have seen evil.
16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants,
And thy glory upon their children.
17 And let the favor of Jehovah And let the beauty – The justice, mercy, wisdom and power. R2570:5

our God be upon us;
And establish thou the work of our hands upon us;
Yes, the work of our hands establish thou it.
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