Psalm 50

{1}The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken,
and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
{2} Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

{3} Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence:
a fire shall devour before him,
and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

{4} He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth,
that he may judge his people.
{5} Gather my saints together unto me;
those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

{6} And the heavens shall declare his righteousness:
for God is judge himself.

The language is highly suggestive of the return of Christ as described in Revelation 11:15 ff. The prophecy speaks of the time when the dead shall be judged and the saints rewarded. It is the time when God destroys those who destroy the earth.

{7} Hear, O my people, and I will speak;
O Israel, and I will testify against thee:
I am God, even thy God.

{8} I do not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings,
to have been continually before me.
{9} I will take no bullock out of thy house,
nor he goats out of thy folds.

{10} For every beast of the forest is mine,
and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
{11} I know all the fowls of the mountains:
and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

{12} If I were hungry, I would not tell thee:
for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

{13} Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
{14} Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
{15} And call upon me in the day of trouble:
I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Thanksgiving is a better offering than the blood of goats. Be thankful and call on me in the cay of trouble. You can’t get off by doubling your sacrifices.

{16} But unto the wicked God saith,
What hast thou to do to declare my statutes,
or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
{17} Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

{18} When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him,
and hast been partaker with adulterers.
{19} Thou givest thy mouth to evil,
and thy tongue frameth deceit.
{20} Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother;
thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

{21} These things hast thou done, and I kept silence;
thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself:
but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

{22} Now consider this, ye that forget God,
lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
{23} Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me:
and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God."

What business does a man have talking about God when he has no heart for it, when he really hates instruction and casts God’s law behind him?

Who does this? The man that sees a thief and consents with him. A man who is a partaker with adulterers. The man who gives his mouth to evil and frames deceit, who speaks against his own brother.

And God warns that there is a great danger here. A man can do these things and God will keep silent for a time. And foolish man assumes that God is just like he is. He doesn’t consider that God is granting a window of time in which the sinner can turn around. And then it will be too late.
 

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