Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Tremble, Oh Earth - Psalms 114:5-8

Psalms 114:5-8 ESV 

What ails you, O sea, that you flee?
O Jordan, that you turn back?

O mountains, that you skip like rams?
O hills, like lambs?

Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,

who turns the rock into a pool of water,
the flint into a spring of water.

The sea is often used as a metaphor for earth dwellers. Mountains often represent powers on earth. 

This Psalm is using a poetical style of reference to a world fleeing from the presence of the Lord. 

In contrast to to the natural mountains and seas is the rock of the Lord and the living waters which flow from that rock that has become the mountain of our salvation. 

This might remind us of God opening the floodgates to cleanse the earth. Pictured in the account of the flood and Noah's ark is a view of Christ saving a remnant from the earth and depositing them on the mountain of the Lord. The storm tossed seas recede leaving pools of still water filled by the spring of living water. This is what He's doing today, saving those in the body of Christ and bringing them to their inheritance in God. 

The earth will tremble and every mountain will be moved when He returns. 

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