Blessed is the Man

Ps. 1 David could soar above the boundaries of time: and sing of past, present, and future in the same breath, with the same words. To many Gentile Believers, the Psalms appear to be little more than the simple songs of an ancient Jewish culture. According to the Talmud, the three Hebrew letters of Adam’s name represent the initials of three men: Adam, David and Messiah. What Adam began, David continued, and Messiah will complete.
My members – is not part of the original Hebrew Scriptures. They were added by the translators. It was to be days. Reading: “in thy book all my days were written, which in continuance Chorological order) were fashioned when as yet there was none of them.
Seeing that G-d knew me before I was composed of either flesh or bone, much more now must G-d know me when G-d have fashioned me.
Blessed is the man – Israel is the man! The symbol of Israel as a baby is used many times in the Bible, G-d instructed Moses,…thou shall say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the
L-rd, Israel is My son, even my firstborn in Ex. 4:22. Symbolic baby as a picture of the rebirth of Israel, the commemorative coin for 1948 struck by Israeli government shows a woman, Rachel, with a new baby boy – Israel!
This verse appears to describe the mindset of world Jewry in 1901. It was at the fourth conference of the Bund (the Jewish Socialist Union) in Russia in 1901. Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, David enlarged upon the subject when he wrote about the birth of the baby (Israel), All the days ordained for me were written IN YOUR BOOK before one of them came to be’ in Ps. 138:16. Here is a verse which prophetically symbolizes Israel, declaring that ‘all the days’ were written in the book! The Jerusalem Bible is equally astounding; ‘You have scrutinized my every action, all were recorded in your book, my days listed and determined, even before the first of them occurred.’ Seeing that G-d knew me before I was composed of either flesh or bone, much more now must G-d know me when G-d have fashioned me.
One cannot be so bold as to try to decide who among the Jewish people delight in the Law of the L-rd, and who among them are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
Tree planted – replanted by the rivers of water. The symbol portray the return of the Jews to their land in the last generation. Ex. 36:8 prophesies ‘O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches. Could the tree on that coin be the famous fig tree predicted to come to life again? The fig tree, symbolic of the nation of Israel, that faltering fig was to lie dormant through the long winter of world history would someday be turned into the spring and summer of the kingdom age.
Rivers of water is a bad translation, “by the irrigation ditches”. The word in the Hebrew is peleg, which does not really signify “rivers” but rather “irrigation ditches.” Which is a artificial water course. The word appears ten times in the Old Testament and nine times it is translated “river”. The picture here is very graphic. Through a surrounding stretch of arid territory flows and irrigation ditch with an unfailing supply of water, and all along this canal are verdant trees flourishing with fruit. By means of irrigation ditches, it is distributed to their fields and orchards. The irrigation ditch is usually kept supplied with water by means of some kind of pump, powered by men or animals. The Believer in this world often senses that he is in a dry and thirsty land. His surroundings are often spiritually dry. But he is not dependent on the natural circumstances that surround him; he is nourished by continual meditation in the Word of G-d. That Word supports refreshes and nourishes him, just as the irrigation ditch nourishes trees along its banks, even in desert territory.
His fruit – it flourishes to yield its fruit in due season and has the promise that its leaves will never wither. For twenty centuries, the Jewish people have not been allowed to forget their national tragedy. At every Jewish wedding the groom breaks a glass beneath his foot as a reminder of the destruction of the Temple.
On August 11, 1882 a group of young Russian Jews left Kharkov to make ‘aliyah’ (going up) to the Promised Land, the fourteen young Jews didn’t simply go to Palestine, they return to Zion.
Psalm 1 refers to the beginning of this century, furthermore, the entire psalm appears to be a prophetic promise to the future Chosen People which would be endowed with new national life – Blessed is the Man!
Ez. 44:24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to My judgments: and they shall keep My laws and My statutes in all Mine assemblies; and they shall hallow My Sabbaths.
Deut. 18:19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
Matt. 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
The Jews honor G-d’s Law but did not accept the Messiah’s Word. The Gentiles accepted the Word but not honored the Laws. Judgment will fall on all that do not take both the Word and G-d’s Laws.
Many have suffered in this century, perhaps not all of the righteous have prospered nor all the ungodly perished; but the L-rd is the righteous judge, and the story is not over