As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
If more Protestant Christians understood that God is not fighting for them or anyone else, and that God fights for Himself, then their situations would be much better if they would get into God's Camp, instead of pleading for God to come save them off the reservation.
God's Camp is the 10 Commandments. God's Camp is Jesus the Christ.
Psalm 74
22Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.
The word DEFEND is RIBAH, it means to grapple, to wrangle. This is a most active contention like Jacob wrestling with the Angel of the Lord for a blessing. This is a struggle, not meaning that God is not Almighty, but it means that this is an active, physical, fleshy, direct combat.
The word CAUSE is RIBEKA, again this is STRIFE, DISPUTE, to CONTEST. This is active and engaged. What the Holy Ghost is stating is God a physical force Who Will not give up an inch of ground.
FOOL is STUPID WICKED, the word is Nabel as the fool that contended with David. MOCKS is HERPATEKA, that word is hard to translate into English, at it means a rude expression. It would be like someone sticking their finger up their anus, pulling out shit and tossing it at you. That is what satan and sinners do to God.
The Bible is always more effectively understood in the depths of what the Holy Ghost is stating, if you study the words, as in English, you usually have the soft sell which misses the mark. Verse 22 is remarkable in how much more it is conveying in God is insulted by satan and people in the worst way of reproach and God actively is engaged in the struggle, the combat to make the situation completely Right.
Get yourself on God's Side as His doing the fighting is where a Protestant Christian must be.
Nuff Said
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