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Monday, January 07, 2013

". . . until the moon is no more."

Psalm 72:God, give the king your justice;
your righteousness to the royal son.
He will judge your people with righteousness,
and your poor with justice.
The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people.
The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
He will judge the poor of the people.
He will save the children of the needy,
and will break the oppressor in pieces.
They shall fear you while the sun endures;
and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.
He will come down like rain on the mown grass,
as showers that water the earth.
In his days, the righteous shall flourish,
and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.
(World English Bible, public domain. This was apparently written by Solomon.)

I recently attended a worship service, where the above passage was part of the scripture reading for the day. I had never noticed the emphasized phrase, or verse 5, which is similar. These are striking phrases!
I can find no scientific predictions that the moon is going to disappear from the sky anytime soon, presumably because it will eventually fall into the earth.
This is poetry, not astronomy or geology, and Solomon may have just been using a figure of speech. I don't know. But my guess is that he was referring prophetically to Christ's reign, with will last forever. Amen.
Thanks for reading.


4 comments:

atlibertytosay said...

Did Solomon prophesy?

Martin LaBar said...

I didn't define prophecy, or prophesying, but, in the sense that it refers to predicting the future (there's more to it than that, in the Bible, I believe) Solomon did, at least in this instance.

The Wikipedia article on Solomon says that the Talmud, and also Muslims, consider Solomon to have been a prophet.

Thanks!

Antonio Fuller said...

Opposite of what you said is the correct answer

Martin LaBar said...

Thanks for your comment.