Number Our Days

[90:3] Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. [4] For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. This Psalm was dedicated to Reuben, the theme of each of the eleven psalms relates to a specific trib. The theme of each follows the Mosaic blessing given on the Lawgiver’s last day of his life in Deut. 33. Psalm 90 speaks of repentance (return), ye children of men. Reuben introduced the principle of complete repentance to the world. Repentance will bring about the conversion of Israel in the predicted Tribulation Period. These eleven psalms (90-100) must be the rest of the song of Moses which begins in Deut. 32 and is referred to in Rev. 15:1-3 John’s vision takes us into heaven to see the saints around the throne of G-d. These series of psalms deal with the Tribulation Period. [10] The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. There are two verses in this psalm which deal with prophetic numbers – 4 and 10. Verse 4, Moses implies that the six days of creation represent 6,000 years of human history and that the seventh day foreshadows the seventh millennium – the future Sabbath Rest. Peter (2 Peter 3:8) referred to this verse when he wrote ‘But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the L-rd as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. We are approaching the end of the sixth millennium of human history. The Great Sabbath Rest should be just ahead. To be more specific, Moses wrote of the last generation in this verse. The passage implies that the last generation should be somewhere between seventy and eighty years, and those years after seventy will be filled with labor and sorrow. Perhaps those will be included in the years of tribulation. [12] So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Ps. 90:12-13 is posed by Moses. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. The People are digging into the Word. They are trying to number their days, and from all indications their question is about to be answered. This is not a message for Gentile Christianity. Dates cannot be calculated before the predicted seven years begins. However, it should not be difficult for the Jewish people to count the days once the Tribulation Period sets in. when the abomination of desolation occurs in the middle of those predicted seven years, the faithful can reckon that the Messiah will come in another three and a half years. During that time, the remnant will rely heavily on the prophecies recorded in Scripture. [13] Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. This is the cry of repentant Israel. The remnant will realize that Messiah has already come once so they pray, Return! The question, How long? is asked eighteen times in the Psalms. The question was posed in previous psalm and is repeated here. The final How long? will be found in Psalm 94 which calls fore the appearing of Messiah on the day of His vengeance. Psalm 90 is one of the eleven psalms written by Moses. They were each dedicated to one of the 12 sons of Jacob. Only Simeon was excluded from this list. Why was Simeon left out? Simeon was a prophetic characteristic of the children of Israel. His name means ‘hearing.’ That trait has been missing from among the Jews for two thousand years. Isaiah wrote concerning unbelieving in 6:9-10. Y’Shua invoked this prophecy against his generation in Matt. 13:14. ‘And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, be hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand…’ Later Paul repeated the prophecy against the elders of the synagogue in Rome (Acts 28:25-26. Romans 11:7-8 says: ‘…the rest were blinded’ (according as it is written) ‘G-d hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they shall not see, and ears that they should not hear’, Paul did not leave his people in despair, but promised their redemption at the end of the fullness of the Gentiles’ (Rom. 11:11-12, 15) ‘to provoke them to jealousy..’. Serpents are deaf! When Joseph, governor of Egypt, sent his brothers back to fetch Benjamin, he kept Simeon in prison to assure their return. Prophetically, Joseph represents the rejected Messiah, who, in the end, will be revealed to his repentant brethren. Simeon was detained as a prophetic type of Israel’s refusal to hear and consider their true Savior. Also, Psalms 90-100 are the ‘serpent’ psalms. The number 9 is means ‘a serpent. The number 10 means ‘a hand’. Amos 5:18-19 wrote: ‘Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall and a serpent it him. In 1948 Israel dispensed with the lion (Great Britain). Someday Israel will face the bear (the Soviet Union). Israel will also rise up the house (Tabernacle of David on the Temple site) and will be bitten on the hand by a serpent (the abomination of desolation committed by the antichrist). This is an amazing prophecy hidden in the component numbers that make up the number 90.