Psa 104:24-25 “I will be glad in the LORD”, Part 6

Psa 104:24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
Psa 104:25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

The verses we will look at here in our Part 6 study entitled “I will be glad in the LORD” will focus on the grandeur of our Lord and how that greatness and grandeur are revealed in the manifold works which He has made in wisdom and are being made known through the church.

Psa 104:24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

Christ’s wisdom is revealed in the earth that is “full of thy riches”, and it is those physical riches in the physical earth (the church) that are all types and shadows of the greater spiritual riches that God is forming in our heavens through Jesus Christ who is our wisdom in the church.

Eph 3:10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
Eph 3:11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
Eph 3:12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

1Co 1:29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
1Co 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
1Co 1:31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord [in each other as well as we go from glory to glory through the fire].

2Co 3:18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.

2Co 11:30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

Php 4:13 I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

In order for us to understand how the physical world reveals the spiritual reality of Christ, our hope of glory within (Rom 1:20, Col 1:27), we need to come out of all our earthly preconceived notions of Christ which are formed and tainted in Babylon (Isa 3:1), and out of which His people are called.

Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Rev 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

These sins, which “have reached unto heaven”, are those of which we, too, were partakers, and they are stated as such because “reached unto heaven” means they are deep-seated in our hearts and minds.

Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

1Sa 16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jer 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

Luk 6:45 A good man [Christ is that goodman in us (Mat 20:11)] out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

We therefore must “reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double” in order to have those heavens cleansed and purified.

Rev 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Rev 18:6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

It must be doubled, because it is only Christ, Who is our wisdom, Who can witness (two) through us to the glory of God that we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Rev 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Rev 18:6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

Rev 11:3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

Rom 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Rom 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

That miracle of being dragged out of Babylon is a lifelong process which God has granted to the body of Christ to endure through (Joh 6:44, Php 4:13), and promises that this great work of having our heavens judged and coming out of the “earth, earth, earth” is something that He will finish through Christ Who is the author and finisher of this sanctification process to which we are called (Heb 12:2-3, Joh 17:17-18, Rom 10:17-18).

Php 4:13 I can do all things through Christ [and his Christ] which strengtheneth me.
Php 4:14 Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate^G4790 with my affliction (breaking bread, not forsaking the assembling of the body of Christ, confessing our faults etc. cleaving to Christ).

G4790 [Heb 10:25, Mal 3:16] soong-koy-no-neh’-o
From G4862 and G2841; to share in company with, that is, co-participate in: – communicate (have fellowship) with, be partaker of.

Jer 22:29 O earth^G1093, earth^G1093, earth^G1093, hear the word of the LORD.
Jer 22:30 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah. [unless we are the manchild spoken of in Revelation (Rev 12:5), hearing the word of God which comes about by having the word tried in fire through a process of judgment ([3] earth, earth, earth) we will not be nourished by it, and will remain barren, but we are here to “be glad in the Lord” and “Sing, O barren“.

Gen 3:16-19 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust^G1093 thou art, and unto dust^G1093 shalt thou return.

Isa 54:1 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

The same Strong’s number is used in Jer 22:29, Gen 1:1 and Gen 3:19 G1093 — for earth and dust. This is telling us we are the marred vessel of dust and the earth which needs to have our heavens cleansed through judgment (1Pe 1:1-8).

Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth^G1093. [and both were marred]

Gen 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust^G1093 thou art, and unto dust^G1093 shalt thou return.

1Pe 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
1Pe 1:8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: [“I will be glad in the LORD“]

The vastness of the sea and the multitude of things that dwell there are put there to the glory of God to show us that we can be more than conquerors through Him Who created all those nephesh-driven beasts which must be taken up in the net and destroyed to be bread for us.

Psa 104:25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

Mat 4:19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

Joh 21:4 But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
Joh 21:5 Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No.
Joh 21:6 And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.

Num 14:9 Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.

Within that vast sea of our flesh resides the serpent, or leviathan, with whom we wrestle daily and overcome by the spiritual suit of armour which God provides (1Co 15:31). At first he has dominion over us by God’s design, as sin must, in order to show us our need for a saviour to direct and guide all the affairs of our life as we come out of the sea (Rev 13:1-9), and go onto the earth (Rev 13:11-18) and into the heavenly relationship which makes us more than conquerors through Christ as he brings us to do all and stand.

Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Eph 6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Eph 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Eph 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Eph 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Eph 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

Joh 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
Joh 8:35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
Joh 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Rom 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Eph 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

Php 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do [including and having done all, to stand] of his good pleasure.

God is the One who makes us wait upon Him to receive our spiritual meat in due season. The longing is fulfilled when we receive that spiritual meat in due season which He supplies and that is sweet to our souls, just like the fish and honey which He provided to His disciples. It takes the breaking of bread for our unbelieving or blinded eyes to see that only Christ alone can heal through his word that he sends (Psa 107:20).

Pro 13:19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Pro 13:20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Luk 24:35 And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
Luk 24:36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
Luk 24:37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
Luk 24:38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
Luk 24:39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. [1Co 10:16]
Luk 24:40 And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.
Luk 24:41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
Luk 24:42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
Luk 24:43 And he took it, and did eat before them.
Luk 24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
Luk 24:45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, [he was known of them in breaking of bread]
Luk 24:46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
Luk 24:47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

The verses we’ve looked at in our introduction comfort us because we know that there is a great manifold work unfolding in our heavens which begins “at Jerusalem” (Gal 4:26), and that work is God’s workmanship, which we are and that he has determined to finish within us.

Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Php 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

Psa 107:2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

Psa 104:24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

All things work together for good for those who love God and who are called according to His purpose, and all the manifold works that God has made, the riches that fill the earth, were put there by God to help us see His purpose fulfilled in our life.

Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

The riches in the earth are used to try and tempt us so we can come to learn what the true symbolic meaning of those physical riches means for us today.

Eze 27:33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
Eze 27:34 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.
Eze 27:35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.

Joh 6:68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

Mat 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Unless we touch the hem of Christ’s garment, we will not be able to resist the devil and flee fornication or idolatry or youthful lusts or the riches which are in the earth (our issue of blood) that were put there and made by God to serve His purpose in our lives, to tempt us (1Jn 2:16, Jas 1:14), and draw us away into the wilderness of sin (Mat 4:1). We learn we can only overcome and come out of that wilderness through Christ Who sets us free (Mat 9:20-22, Joh 8:36).

A closer look at the word pinnacle^G4419 in (Luk 4:9), where Christ was standing when the devil tempted him to receive all the riches of this world, helps us understand that the true riches are not in the earth but in His word, and helps us to see our need to touch His garment and be sanctified and washed with His word, and understand that this is how we overcome.

Rom 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

The garment of the high priest had fringes and borders and is to be looked at as a pattern to tell us we must look to the Lord to overcome; and the woman who has an issue of blood that touches the hem of Christ’s garment is a type of the church who is blessed to be led to repentance, or spiritual healing, in this age, even as we are tempted in all diverse manner of sin as our Lord was without sin (Heb 4:15).

Num 15:38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:
[blue representing the spirit of God http://www.iswasandwillbe.com/colors_blue-part-1/ and
http://www.iswasandwillbe.com/colors_blue-part-2/]
Num 15:39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes,[Pro 3:1-5] after which ye use to go a whoring:

Pinnacle Rumination

Luk 4:9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:
Luk 4:10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:
Luk 4:11 And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Mat 4:5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
Mat 4:6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

pinnacle^G4419 – Transliteration: Pterugion
– Phonetic: pter-oog’-ee-on
– Definition: 
1. a wing, a little wing 
2. any pointed extremity 
a. of fins of fishes 
b. of part of a dress hanging down in the form of a wing 
c. of the top of the temple at Jerusalem 
– Origin: from a presumed derivative of G4420: see below
– Strong’s: Neuter of a presumed derivative of G4420; a winglet that is (figuratively) extremity (top corner): – pinnacle. 
Total KJV Occurrences: 2 
 •pinnacle, 2
 Mat_4:5; Luk_4:9 

Mat 4:5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle^G4419 of the temple,

Luk 4:9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle^G4419 of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:

G4420 Transliteration: Pterux
– Phonetic: pter’-oox
– Definition:
1. a wing: of birds

– Origin: from a derivative of G4072 (meaning a feather): see below
– Strong’s: From a derivative of G4072 (meaning a feather); a wing: – wing.
Total KJV Occurrences: 3
•wings, 3

Rev 4:8; Rev 9:9; Rev 12:14

Rev 4:8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

Rev 9:9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

Rev 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

^G4072 – Transliteration: Rhantizo
– Phonetic: hran-tid’-zo
– Definition: 
1. to sprinkle 
2. to cleanse by sprinkling, hence to purify, cleanse 

– Origin: from a derivative of rhaino (to sprinkle) 
– Strong’s: From a derivative of ρu788 αu953 ́u957 ωplain  rhainōto sprinkle); to render besprinkled that is asperse (ceremonially or figuratively): – sprinkle.
Total KJV Occurrences: 4
•sprinkled, 3
Heb_9:19; Heb_9:21; Heb_10:22

Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
•sprinkling, 1 Heb_9:13
Heb 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Psa 104:25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

This verse gives us a sense of the length and breadth and height in the negative sense of what we are in this life without Christ in us. When we were of our Father the devil we were connected to all of the “wide sea” “wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts” that resided in us, where we were heard of our fellow beasts having the same nephesh that gave us life in that sea (1Jn 4:5, Mat 13:13, 2Co 2:15-16).

Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

1Jn 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1Jn 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

1Jn 4:5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

Mat 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

2Co 2:15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: [positively perishing- dying daily – no longer relying on the breath we once took in the sea]
2Co 2:16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death [what we know to be going from glory to glory]; and to the other the savour of life unto life [glory unto glory by the spirit of God (Rom 8:16)]. And who is sufficient for these things?

It takes God’s mercy ruling in our lives to overcome “things creeping innumerable“, and just as we know the wisdom of God is unsearchable, we are being shown here that as long as we are in our flesh, there is something to overcome, something to be conquered as we die daily (1Jn 1:8). We are accounted as lambs for the slaughter all day long, who are growing in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (2Pe 3:18) as we come to understand the depth and length and the height that is our salvation in Him. All of this wrestling through the night is transpiring in our life so that we can “know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God” (1Co 13:2-13), and it is “the love of Christ” shed abroad in our hearts that makes it possible for us to say “I will be glad in the LORD”.

Psa 44:22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Eph 3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
Eph 3:18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
Eph 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Eph 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
Eph 4:16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Rom 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Rom 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

Next week, God willing, we will look at verses 26 to 29 where we will see how God uses all of His creation for our sakes to form the new man, the second Adam, who must go through the fiery trials and judgments which He brings upon us throughout this life so that we can ultimately be received as mature sons who can say “I will be glad in the LORD“.

Heb 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Psa 84:10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Psa 104:26 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
Psa 104:27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
Psa 104:28 That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
Psa 104:29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.