The hounds of hell will always show up to bite and devour us. All of the Elohim’s prophets fought the cerberus or garmr, the dogs of Hades. Yet Yahweh Elohim makes a way through the attack for us to have a victory. One hundred and forty four years before Elijah met Yahweh Elohim on Horeb, David met Yahweh Elohim. The events in both cases were spectacular. We live in a strange culture where our manmade technologies are used to spy/collect data on us. We are not told who is flying in the skies above us, watching us on cameras, or listening to us on our own devices. Besides our manmade technologies we have angels, demons, principalities, and powers. So our heavens and earthly atmosphere are more crowded than we realize. Of course the super-secret technology programs would rather we think aliens are visiting us. But any and every being that exists in the universe is a son of the Elohim. Some are serving the Elohim and some have fallen. Yet today it is the Messiah in us, and the Holy Spirit residing in us, and it is less likely that Yahweh needs to show up to every one of his servants like he did with Elijah and David. David was in a bind and Yahweh showed up and scattered David’s enemies. David has a secret to his service. David’s secret came from his foundation of meeting with Yahweh. David not only learned how to fight lions and bears, he learned how to fight hybrids and perverted genos, both physically and spiritually.
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2022/06/naked-saul-david-meets-yahweh-elohims.html
David and Yahweh Face to Face
We all wish that we could have a career that would allow us to do nothing but praise and worship Yahweh everyday all the time. David, as a young man, had that career. It wasn’t a long career, shepherding his fathers flocks, but it certainly gave him plenty of quiet time with Yahweh. While moving his fathers flocks from pasture to pasture he had the time to develop a personal relationship with Yahweh. That all changed after he was anointed king. It seems that David did not have the peace and quiet in his adult years that he had as a young man. His anointing was like a signal for the enemy to have free rein to hound him. For David it was like the gates of Hades opened and let out the dogs. This happens to us as well. When we accept Yahweh’s plans we are then hunted by fallen spiritual beings.
Why do we become persecuted by demons, principalities, and powers? Why does the ruler of darkness, the god of this world, want to make us miserable? Every time we step up or step out we find ourselves persecuted by spiritual wickedness that works through humans, in order to keep us from serving Yahweh. Once we take a stand, we will have to learn to push back, punch back, and wrestle our way though these encounters. Satanas wants us to stop serving Yahweh, and wants us to stop leading others to Yahweh. Let’s look at Psalm 18.
Now imagine David. He was minding his own business, tending his father’s flocks and playing music to Yahweh in the fields at night by himself. One day his brothers call him home. When he gets there, a guy with a horn of oil pours it over his head. No discussions as to whether he wants to be king, just a decision that he would be the next king. Now Saul is trying to kill David, and David’s other enemies are trying to kill him as well. David did not make these enemies himself. These people became his enemies because he was chosen by Yahweh to lead Israel. These people hated David without apparent cause. David runs to Samuel, trying to figure out if he did something wrong and why Saul was hunting him. The Spirit of the Elohim puts a barrier around David and no one can harm David. During this tumultuous time David meets Yahweh and then writes a song about it.
Psalm 18:0 G1519 To G3588 the G5056 director; G3588 to the G3816 servant G2962 of the lord; G3588 to G* David; G3739 what G2980 he spoke G3588 to the G2962 lord; G3588 the G3056 words G3588 G5603 of this ode, G3778 G1722 in G2250 the day G3739 in which G4506 [3rescued G1473 4him G3588 1the G2962 2 lord] G1537 from out of G5495 the hand G3956 of all G3588 G2190 his enemies, G1473 G2532 and G1537 from out of G5495 the hand G* of Saul. G2532 And G2036 he said;
This is a Psalm into the fulfillment, the end of the age, telos. David spoke these words when Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, including Saul. David refers to himself as a “child servant”, so this tells us that the time was when David was young and not yet king.
This Psalm into the fulfillment, “the end of the age”, tells us that David’s words are applicable to us. What can we learn from David and the song he wrote?
Psalm 18:1 G25 I shall love G1473 you, G2962 O lord, G2479 of my strength. G1473
2 G2962 The lord G4733 is my firmament, G1473 G2532 and G2707.1 my refuge, G1473 G2532 and G4511.1 my rescuer. G1473 G3588 My God G2316 G1473 G998 is my helper, G1473 G2532 and G1679 I will hope G1909 upon G1473 him; G5231.5 my defender G1473 G2532 and G2768 horn G4991 of my deliverance, G1473 G2532 and G483.1 my shielder. G1473
“Yahweh my foundation and my downward escape and my deliverer, the Elohim my helper and hope on him, my defender and horn of my salvation and my perceiver.”
David starts out by saying that Yahweh is his foundation. Yahweh was David’s foundation and object of David’s worship. Was there anyone else in all of Israel who simply praised and worshiped Yahweh as David did? This is why Yahweh brought a downward escape or an escape from heaven to earth for David. David was now confident that Yahweh watched over him. Keep in mind that David says he had an escape from heaven.
Psalm 18:3 G134 In praising, G1941 I will call upon G3588 the G2962 lord; G2532 and G1537 from G3588 G2190 my enemies G1473 G4982 I shall be delivered.
“Praise call on the Yahweh and from out of my hateful enemy save.”
David called on Yahweh with praise. Praise is a very valuable tool in our warfare arsenal.
David’s secret to serving is to fight against the enemy with praise. We can praise Yahweh too. We can turn our homes into a fortress of praise and worship. Turn on the music, or dust off the piano, and sing to Yahweh.
Psalm 18:4 G4023 [3compassed G1473 4me G5604 1Pangs G2288 2of death], G2532 and G5493 rushing streams G458 of lawlessness G1613 disturbed G1473 me.
“Hold all around severe agony death and winter torrent illegality disturb me wholly.”
David uses very colorful language here. He feels death embracing him. He feels the sinful coming after him. David had been anointed as king. He was not unaware of his future. Yet in this time of his life, being king did not seem like it would ever really happen. Imagine Samuel the prophet anointing David, and then instead of David being celebrated David was attacked by Saul, as well as the regular enemies of Israel. It does not look like Samuel’s prophecy would come to pass.
It seems like the hounds of hell are snarling at David. He seems to think that he is about to be killed.
Psalm 18:5 G5604 Pangs G86 of Hades G4033 surrounded G1473 me; G4399 [3anticipated G1473 4me G3803 1snares G2288 2of death].
“Severe agony Hades blockade me completely anticipate me trap death.”
Hades was anticipating David’s arrival. How could that be if David was to be king? This is what was happening in the physical realm, but in the spiritual realm something else was going on.
Psalm 18:6 G2532 And G1722 in G3588 G2346 my being afflicted G1473 G1941 I called upon G3588 the G2962 lord, G2532 and G4314 to G3588 G2316 my God G1473 G2896 I cried out. G191 He heard G1537 [2from out of G3485 4temple G39 3his holy G1473 G5456 1my voice], G1473 G2532 and G3588 G2906 my cry G1473 G1799 before G1473 him G1525 shall enter G1519 into G3588 G3775 his ears. G1473
“And in the squeeze I invoke the Yahweh and forward to the Elohim I scream. Hear from out of his temple holy my sound and the my outcry before the face of him enter into the his ears.”
David invoked Yahweh Elohim. What else could he do? It was looking like Yahweh’s prophecy was not coming to pass. Is it possible to imagine ourselves in this position? We feel that Yahweh has given us a destiny, yet we are fighting all hell to get to it? Exactly.
If we are interested in serving Yahweh then we have to become tough. We have to learn to fight, not melt, when the enemy squeezes. Yet even when we are fighting for our own selves, we sometimes question why things have to be so hard. David did. It wasn’t his idea to become king, yet he accepted the offer, and then had to learn to fight people. David had previously fought animals, but now he had to learn the ways that men and hybrids hunted him and how to survive.
David can’t see beyond what he feels is happening. He feels Hades is opening its gates for him. David cannot see around corners, so he cries out to Yahweh Elohim. This is part of our fight as well. Yahweh directs us to do something, and our world becomes chaotic and it looks as if evil is going to win. We feel the squeeze.
Psalm 18:7 G2532 And G4531 it was shaken; G2532 and G1790 trembling G1096 took place G3588 on the G1093 earth; G2532 and G3588 the G2310 foundations G3588 of the G3735 mountains G5015 were disturbed G2532 and G4531 shaken; G3754 for G3710 [2was provoked to anger G1473 3by them G3588 G2316 1God].
“And oscillating and trembling came into being the earth and the substruction the mountains agitating and oscillating because they enraged the Elohim.”
It seems that when Yahweh shows up the normally stable mountains turn into jello. The earth shakes and quakes when Yahweh comes into our dimension. It would seem that Yahweh functions in more dimensions than we can understand and our earth can bear. Yahweh was mad at David’s enemies, but that is not why the earth shook, it shook upon His arrival.
The Elohim was provoked to anger by David’s enemies and by Saul. Saul used David in a few ways. First, Saul wanted David to soothe him with music, which were all praises to Yahweh. Then Saul allowed David to challenge Goliath. It worked out well for Israel, but then the Philistines were after David. Next, Saul wanted David to serve him with music again, and David did. Saul also gave his daughter to David to try to keep the kingdom in Saul’s family, but first David had to accept Saul’s challenge of Philistine foreskin. Saul was then using David as a son-in-law. Then Saul became increasingly jealous and attempted to murder David. Saul knew the prophecy that David would be king. Yahweh chose David because Saul lied and disobeyed Yahweh. Samuel told Saul that the kingdom was going to be removed from his house. So while Saul was using David to depopulate the Philistines, he was also scheming in other ways to kill David.
Remember when Saul tried to get David killed by sending David to gather foreskins of the Philistines that he had killed. Josephus records that David returned to Saul with six hundred foreskins, while other Bible versions say two hundred or one hundred foreskins. No matter, David had many foreskins for Saul, and Saul was not happy.
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2019/08/goliath-david-giant-slayer-gibeons.html
When Yahweh showed up David recorded his arrival as causing the foundations of earth to oscillate, tremble, and agitate. This is a similar to Elijah’s description, however David is writing this event in general for a song.
Because David invoked Yahweh Elohim, Yahweh came to help David. David records this as smoke, fire.
Psalm 18:8 G305 [2ascended G2586 1Smoke] G1722 in G3709 his anger, G1473 G2532 and G4442 fire G575 from G4383 in front G1473 of him. G2705.2 [2shall be ignited G440 1Coals]; G381 they were lit G575 by G1473 him.
9 G2532 And G2827 he leaned G3772 the heavens, G2532 and G2597 came down, G2532 and G1105 dimness G5259 was under G3588 G4228 his feet. G1473
“Mount up smoke in his wrath and fire away from his face downward on fire live coals kindled away from him. And made to bend the heavens and step down and gloom from under his feet.”
David records Yahweh’s coming as Elijah, Elisha, and Ezekiel also experienced. We tend to think that David was writing allegorically, but instead he had a face to face meeting with Yahweh as Elijah and Abraham did.
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2022/01/run-to-yahweh-false-hope-in-dead-things.html
As with Elijah, there is smoke and fire. Yahweh reclines the heavens or bends them to come to David. Everything underneath Yahweh’s feet looks like gloom and darkness, but he comes with live coals and fire.
Psalm 18:10 G2532 And G1910 he mounted G1909 upon G5502 cherubim, G2532 and G4070.3 he spread out; G4070.3 he spread out G1909 upon G4420 wings G417 of winds.
“And boarded on cherubim and flew, flew on wings winds.”
The idea of mounting or boarding is that Yahweh stepped upon cherubim. The picture is that Yahweh boarded cherubim like boarding an airplane. Yahweh is coming to meet with David. Yahweh walked with Abraham as a friend, Yahweh met with Elijah, Ezekiel, Isaiah, and others as well. Yahweh is making the trip to earth to encourage David.
Ezekiel sees the Glory of the Lord, the Holy Spirit, leaving the temple. What came to earth was cherubim and ophanim to take the Glory away. Ezekiel describes these beings well. Similarly David sees Yahweh boarding the cherubim.
When Elijah describes his meeting with Yahweh on Horeb, there was a wind, a sonic boom, falling rocks that were crushed, and lightning. It was a big commotion.
There is a lot going on when Yahweh or the Holy Spirit show up or leave. These encounters were necessary for the people experiencing them for many reasons, but mostly it was for a growing of their faith. None of the people who met with Yahweh had an easy time after the meeting, in fact most often, their lives became more complicated and they were hunted by fallen beings even more.
Psalm 18:11 G2532 And G5087 he established G4655 darkness G613.1 for his concealment. G1473 G2945 Round about G1473 him G3588 G4633 was his tent; G1473 G4652 dark G5204 water G1722 in G3507 clouds G109 of air.
“And placed darkness occultic his circle he the his tent dark water in lower air.”
David sees something similar to Elijah and Ezekiel, which he describes as Yahweh riding something. There is darkness around the thing that Yahweh boards and it is an occultic or supernatural circle. The word αποκρυφήν literally translates “occult”, but could be understood as “supernatural”. It is a word that Samuel used, as well as Moses when writing the Book of Job. The circle has a tent or dwelling that looks like dark water in the lower air. We could understand this as out of the dark something mystic or supernatural that has an interior dwelling and it radiates heat waves that look like water moving in the lower air.
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2021/04/elijah-yahweh-passes-by-jehu-hazael.html
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2013/04/ophanim-ezekiels-wheels-enochs.html
https://musingsofawinsomeheart.blogspot.com/2018/01/as-in-heaven-merkabah-chariot-throne.html
Psalm 18:12 G575 From G3588 the G5080.3 radiance G1799 of his presence G1473 G3588 the G3507 clouds G1330 went by; G5464 hail G2532 and G440 coals G4442 of fire.
“Away from the shaking before the face of him the clouds pass through hail and burning coals fire.”
David sees the entire heavens reacting to Yahweh’s coming.
This sounds like a big commotion. The lower heavens react to the presence of Yahweh. The clouds in the lower atmosphere are a part of Yahweh’s coming. His entering into the atmosphere is like coming in a cloud. We see this with planes breaking the sound barrier. But wait there is more. There is hail, which is ice mixed with dirt/dust particles. There is also coals of fire. Fire and ice together? How can they co-exist? But yet the clouds seem to cause a reaction in the atmosphere of fire and ice. Planes can have ice build up on them from clouds as they fly while their engines combust. Rockets can have ice and fire as well.
Psalm 18:13 G2532 And G1026.2 [2thundered G1537 3from out of G3772 4heaven G2962 1 the lord], G2532 and G3588 the G5310 highest G1325 uttered G5456 his voice. G1473
“And Yahweh from out of heavens thunders and the Highest gives his sound.”
Yahweh sounds like thunder, and he speaks to David.
Psalm 18:14 G2532 And G1821 he sent out G956 arrows, G2532 and G4650 dispersed G1473 them; G2532 and G796 [2lightnings G4129 1he multiplied], G2532 and G4928.4 disturbed them. G1473
“And send forth jacio/missles/javelins and scatter them and multiply flash of lightning and disturbed them."
When Yahweh came he scattered David’s enemies. He scattered evil spirits and principalities as well. There might have been some type of lightning shooting towards David’s enemies on the ground that kept them away from David. It may have seemed as if David had a large army with him.
We know that David was doing Yahweh’s will. This is why David was being protected and his enemies scattered. It wasn’t just a storm. It wasn’t just some lightning, it was Yahweh coming to earth.
Remember how demons always shouted and testified of Jesus? Remember how they knew the rules that they were not to be sent to the abyss yet? While Satanas uses demons to afflict humans, believers in Jesus as Lord and Messiah have the Messiah in them. What damage might we do daily to Satanas’ kingdom here on earth? Aren’t we made in the image and likeness of the Elohim with the Messiah in us? Yahweh doesn’t need to make a special trip, he’s already here.
Psalm 18:15 G2532 And G3708 appeared G3588 the G4077 springs G3588 G5204 of waters; G2532 and G343 [5were uncovered G3588 1the G2310 2foundations G3588 3of the G3611 4inhabitable world] G575 from G2008.1 your reproach, G1473 G2962 O lord, G575 from G1708.2 the blasting G4151 breath G3709 of your anger. G1473
“And look upon the fountains the water and the foundation stone occupy unveiled away from your appreciation Yahweh away from inspiration Spirit your passion.”
Who was in the beginning, creating as an architect, alongside Yahweh? The Holy Spirit, Proverbs 8. David is seeing the fountains of the deep, the foundation stone. David is getting a download from Yahweh. David’s mind is taking in everything that is going on and now he is trying to describe it all. He sees the beginning. He sees creation of the heavens and the earth.
Psalm 18:16 G1821 He sent G1537 from G5311 the height, G2532 and G2983 he took G1473 me; G4355 he took me to himself G1473 G1537 from out of G5204 [2waters G4183 1many].
“Despatch from out of elevation, and received me, received me near from out of many waters.
David says that Yahweh came out of the heavens and received him, meaning he took David up to him. Yahweh received David near. David mentioned a downward escape, meaning an escape from heaven to earth, in verse one, and here it is. Now we know what David meant. Now David knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that Yahweh will rescue him.
After traveling over four hundred miles south to meet with Yahweh on Horeb, Elijah traveled over four hundred miles north to do the things that Yahweh asked him to do. Elijah did not doubt that Yahweh would take him up. David did not doubt that Yahweh would always rescue him.
Psalm 18:17 G4506 He will rescue G1473 me G1537 from G2190 [3enemies G1473 1my G1415 2mighty], G2532 and G1537 from G3588 the ones G3404 detesting G1473 me; G3754 for G4732 they are more solidified G5228 than G1473 me.
18 G4399 They went before G1473 me G1722 in G2250 the day G2561 of my ill-treatment, G1473 G2532 and G1096 the lord became G2962 G496.5 my support. G1473
“Rescue me from out of hateful my strong and from out of the detest me that establish over me. Outrun me in day my affliction and came into being Yahweh my support.”
Have you ever known of someone who hates you? Have you ever had someone establish themselves over you or try to dominate you? Have you ever felt someone was trying to push you out of something? David’s enemies out ran him or got ahead of him. Don’t these things happen at every work place in the world? But Yahweh showed up.
David knows that his enemies were strengthened against him, and he received their ill-treatment or affliction. Imagine playing music for Saul and having a spear thrown at your head. That would be ill-treatment.
Psalm 18:19 G2532 And G1806 he brought G1473 me G1519 into G4116.1 an enlargement. G4506 He shall rescue G1473 me, G3754 for G2309 he wanted G1473 me.
“And lead me forth into platform rescue me because desires me.”
The word πλατυσμόν, translated “enlargement” here is better translated as “platform”. Wherever David went, when Yahweh received David near, it was on a platform. David sings as to why Yahweh rescues him.
We know Yahweh will rescue us, as he did David, when we are doing his will. He will put us on a platform above those who put themselves ahead of us. He knows how to rescue us. Whether hornets or missiles, Yahweh is engaged with his servants. Imagine the hounds of hell barking while Yahweh puts you high above them.
What can we learn from David? David was taking on the entire Philistine civilization. He was ensuring Israel’s future would not be exterminated. David didn’t ask for this job. Previously his life was rather easy, moving his father’s flocks from place to place, singing and playing music to Yahweh, and talking to Him. Once David was anointed king, his life changed drastically. This is a pattern that we see in the Bible that is comparable to our own lives. Once we step up, all hell fights against us. But notice what David did. He did something that he was good at. He made the time to write songs and sing praises to Yahweh Elohim, even when he thought that he was going to die. Even when he was surrounded. Now we can learn the secret to serving Yahweh from David. We need to praise our way through hell on earth. The hounds of hell be damned, we have a song to sing about our awesome Lord and Savior.
