Dec. 21, 2025
The Psalms Were Never Just Songs: Divine Councils, Spiritual Rulers, and Hidden Authority
In this conversation, Bennett Tanton explores the Psalms, challenging conventional interpretations and revealing their deeper significance. He argues that the Psalms are not merely inspirational texts but powerful declarations that engage with unseen spiritual realities. Tanton discusses the concept of the divine council, the role of worship as a form of warfare, and how the Psalms serve as broadcasts to the unseen realm, urging listeners to recognize their authority and the impact of their words.
Sources (for reference and verification):
Psalm 82 (ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+82&version=ESV
Deuteronomy 32:8–9 (ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+32%3A8-9&version=ESV
Psalm 2 (ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+2&version=ESV
Michael S. Heiser, Divine Council overview: https://drmsh.com/the-divine-council/
Psalm 149 (ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+149&version=ESV
1 Samuel 16:23 (ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Samuel+16%3A23&version=ESV
Joshua 6 (ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua+6&version=ESV
Ephesians 6:12 (ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+6%3A12&version=ESV
Psalm 2 (ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+2&version=ESV
Psalm 24 (ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+24&version=ESV
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In the minds of the Beatle.
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So if you've ever read the Psalms the way most
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people do, you've probably filed them into one of two folders.
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Folder one inspirational quotes you see on a coffee mug
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when life is falling apart. Folder two is church songs,
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the safe stuff, the warm stuff, and the God is
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good stuff. But tonight I want to mess with those
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folders a little bit, because one, once you notice what
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the psalms actually are actually doing, you can't unsee it.
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These are not just songs. They're like communications, broadcasts, declarations.
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Sometimes frankly, they're even threats. And I don't mean threats
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like I'm mad and I'm venting. I mean threats like
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this is going on the record in a courtroom you
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can't see. Here's the uncomfortable part. The songs are constantly
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talking to someone other than us as humans, us as people.
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They're addressing kings and nations like they're animals pacing in
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a cage. They talk to the heavens like the skies
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are listening. They call out to the sea, they command
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gates to open. They speak to princes and rulers in
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ways that feel bigger than way bigger than human politics.
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And then then this is the best one. There's Psalm
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eighty two, the one that makes people sit back and go, wait,
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what God stands in the assembly of the gods. He
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judges among the gods. And then the line that hits
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like a gabble, You are God's son of the most high,
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all of you. Nevertheless, you will die like men. I mean,
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that's not a hallmark verse that reads like God is
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calling a meeting and not everyone in that meeting is human.
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So what are we looking at here? A bunch of
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emotional poems or a set of ancient war chants sung
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at the edge of the unseen world. Because if the
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psalms are doing what they look like they're doing, then
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they're not just describing spiritual reality. They're engaging it. Think
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about it like this, The psalms might be less like
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a playlist and more like a frequency, like something you
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tune into when you like, when you want to remember
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that this world has layers. You've got the visible layers
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like bills, jobs, health, politics, headlines, stress, family, and then
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you've got the layer underneath, the one that most people
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ignore until something breaks through the layer where influence happens.
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Before events happen, where temptation is engineered, where chaos gets seated,
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where systems get nudged, where a nation can rage like
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it's possessed and nobody can explain why everyone suddenly feels
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like they're losing their minds at the same time, and
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the psalms they're basically saying you're not crazy. There is
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a war and it's not just flesh and blood. They
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also teach something that modern Christianity sometimes forgets. Worship isn't
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just emotional expression. Worship is a weapon. Praise is a declaration,
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and a declaration in Biblical terms isn't just words. That's
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it's authority spoken out loud. So in this episode, we're
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going to walk through three things. The hidden worldview behind
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the psalms, the Divine Council language, and what Psalm eighty
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two is actually confronting. How worship becomes warfare not atmosphere,
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Why certain psalms sound like battle hymns not bedtime stories,
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and how the psalms function like direct action broadcasts sung
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at the unseen, and why that matters right now in
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a culture that feels like it's being steered by something
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it can't name. This is going to be scripture heavy,
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but not in a preachy way, more like flashlight in
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the woods way. So if you're here for the strange,
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the spiritual, the hidden architecture of reality, then you're in
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the right place. What favor though, before we step into
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the shadows. If you like this kind of content, please
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take two seconds two seconds to like, follow, and leave
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a review. Seriously, folks reviews our oxygen for a show
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like this. And if you know someone who's been feeling
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like the world is off lately, share this episode with them.
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It might put language to something they've been sensing but
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couldn't quite explain. All right, all right, let's open the
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Book of Songs and see who else is listening. Section
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one the Divine Council hidden in plain sight. So let's
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start with something most people never get told when they
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open the Book of Songs. The Bible does not describe
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a flat spiritual universe. It describes layers. It has order, hierarchy, authority,
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and jurisdictions. And once you see that, the Psalm stops
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sounding like personal journal entries and starts sounding like transcripts
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from meetings that you aren't invited to. Psalm eighty two
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opens with a line that quietly detonates modern assumptions. God
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stands in the assembly of gods. He judges among the gods,
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not metaphors, not idols carved from stone. The Hebrew word
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used there is eloheen. That word can refer to the
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most High God, but it's also used elsewhere in scripture
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to describe spiritual beings who exist in the unseen realm.
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Now that's uncomfortable for modern readers, especially if you were
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raised with the idea that the Bible presents a simple
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God versus everything else framework. But ancient Israel didn't just
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didn't think that way. They just didn't think that way.
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They believed Yahweh was supreme, unmatched, uncreated, eternal, but not
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alone in the sense we usually imagine. Scripture repeatedly refers
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references on heavenly host angels. You've got watchers, sons of God, rulers, authorities, principalities,
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and powers. These weren't rivals to God, but they were
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real agents with delegated authority. And here's where it gets interesting.
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According to Deuterotomy thirty two eight through nine, when humanity
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fractured at Babel, the nations were divided and placed under
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the oversight of these lesser spiritual beings. Yahweh kept Israel
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for himself, but the rest of the world was apportioned out.
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That means Psalm eighty two isn't poetry for comfort. It's
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a legal proceeding. God is standing in the middle of
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a council calling out corruption among the spiritual rulers assigned
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to govern the nations. He accuses them of injustice, of
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favoring the wicked and failing to defend the poor and weak.
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And then he drops the sentence, you are God's son
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of the most High, all of you. Nevertheless, you will
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die like men and fall like one of the princes.
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Now that's not symbolic language. That's freaking judgment. This is
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Yahweh saying your authority has been revoked, and it's being revoked.
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And suddenly the chaos of history starts to make more sense.
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Why do nations act irrationally? Why do entire cultures shift
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values almost overnight? Why do certain ideologies spread like infection,
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regardless of evidence or consequence. The Psalms assume influence precedes behavior.
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They assume the battle is upstream. This divine council worldview
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shows up all over the psalms. Once you know what
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to look for, the writers can constantly address rulers, princes, nations,
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and kings in ways that blur the line between human
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leadership and spiritual influence. Psalm two doesn't just ask why
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nations rage, It asks why rulers freaking plot in vain,
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as if something else is whispering in their ear. And
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David knew this world. He wasn't just a shepherd who
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learned to sing to pass the time. He was a warrior,
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a king, a prophet, a man who had watched unseen
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forces manifest in very visible ways. He watched Saul's mood
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swing violently under a spiritual oppression. He watched armies collapse
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under fear that made it absolutely as a military guy,
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it makes no tactical sense. He watched victory arrive when
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it just absolutely shouldn't have. So when David writes, he
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writes like someone who knows the audience is bigger than
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the room. The psalms are full of courtroom language. I
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mean testimony, accusation, vindication, and judgment. That's because in the
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ancient world, heaven had a legal structure, and words matter,
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spoken truth carried weight, declared righteousness, had authority, and that
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leads to a chilling realization. When the psalms were sung
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in the temple, they weren't just worship services. They were
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participation in cosmic governance. Israel was reminding the unseen realm
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who actually sat on the throne, who raised an uncomfortable
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question for us, which it raises an uncomfortable question for
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us today. If the psalms were confronting corrupted spiritual thought authorities,
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then what happens when believers start believers stop singing them? Now,
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when worship becomes entertainment, when prayer becomes passive, and when
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scripture becomes silent, because silence in the courtroom is consent,
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remember that. And the psalms refuse to be silent. They accuse,
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they confront, They remind rebellious powers that their time here
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is limited, and they do it through sound. Section two.
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Worship is warfare. It's not atmosphere. And if you walk
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into most churches today and hear the word worship, you'll
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probably picture lighting, music swell at just the right moment,
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maybe a bridge that represents until that, a bridge that
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repeats until everyone feels something emotion, atmosphere, mood. But when
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you read the Psalms in their original context, worship looks
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a lot like less like a concert and a lot
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more like combat. Ancient Israel did not separate worship from warfare.
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In fact, they often overlapped them intentionally. Sound was never neutral,
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it's kind of still isn't, And in the ancient world,
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sound carried authority. Trumpets weren't just instruments, they were signals.
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They're how commanders talked in battle. Shouts weren't emotional outbursts,
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they were commands. Songs weren't entertainment, they were declarations spoken
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into reality. That's why I Psalm one forty nine says
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something that should honestly make us uncomfortable if we're used
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to soft, safe worship. Let the priest, let the high pray, wow, wait,
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let the high praises of God be in their mouths,
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and a two edged sword in their hands to execute
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vengeance on the nations and punishments on the people. I mean,
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that's not metaphorical language about inner peace. That's warfare language.
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The Psalms repeatedly frame phrases as an active force that
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does something. It binds kings, it shatters enemies. It's silence
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as accusers. It terrifies opposing powers, because in the Biblical worldview,
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praise isn't about hyping God up. God doesn't need encouragement, folks.
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Praise is about alignment. When truth is spoken aloud, it
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reinforces order in a disordered world, and order is the
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enemy of chaos. Look at how often the Psalms use
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verbs that imply action. You've got shatter, crush, scatter, silence, rebuke, break, subdue.
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I mean, these aren't internal feelings, they are outcomes. The
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Psalmists believed something happened when these words were sung, and
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they had historical reasons to believe that. Take Jericho, for example,
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the walls didn't fall because Israel had better siege equipment.
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They fell after days of marching in silence, followed by
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coordinated sound trumpets, shouts, noise released at the right moment.
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The text doesn't tell us the physics, but it makes
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one thing clear. Obedience plus sound collapse the fortified city.
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Or David playing the harp for Saul when Saul was
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tormented by what Scriptures called an evil spirit. David didn't
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counsel him, he didn't reason with him, he didn't give
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him coping techniques to use. He played and the spirit retreated.
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That tells us something modern readers tend to ignore. Spiritual
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conflict is not always intellectual. Sometimes it's vibrational, Sometimes it's sonic.
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Sometimes it's about what frequency you're filling the space with.
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The psalms were written to be spoken and sung out
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loud for a reason. They weren't meant to live silently
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on parchment. They were meant to be released. This is
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why the psalmists can constantly command creation itself to participate.
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Let the heavens declare, let the seas roar, let the
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mountains sing oop. Sorry, guys, they're not being poetic for
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poetry's sake. They're reinforcing the idea that all of creation
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responds to sound aligned with divine authority. Now here's where
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this gets uncomfortable again for modern Christianity. If worship is warfare,
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then passive worship is surrendered. If praise is a weapon,
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then silence is disarmament. And if psalms are battle hymns,
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then reducing them to background noise misses the entire point.
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The Psalmists understood something we've largely forgotten. Words shape spiritual territory.
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That's why so many psalms are aggressive. They're not being pretty.
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They're being precise. They're naming enemies, declaring outcomes, and reminding
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opposing powers that their authority is only temporary. And notice
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something else. The psalms don't ask permission. They don't say God,
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if it's okay, maybe consider stepping in. They declare, they remind,
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and they freaking announce a rise. O Lord, break the
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arm of the wicked, Let God a rise, Let his
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enemies be scattered. That kind of language only makes sense
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if the speaker believes their words carried delegated authority, which
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brings us straight into the present. If you feel like
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the world has become louder, more chaotic, more hostile to truth,
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I'm sorry, that's not accidental. Chaos thrives in noise without meaning.
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The psalms respond with sound with meaning. They reassert reality,
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they force alignment, and they disrupt spiritual inertia. So when
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you read or sing a psalm, you're not just expressing devotion.
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You're participating in a tradition that assumed the unseen was
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listening and responding. In the next section, we're going to
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talk about something even more unsettling, and that's how many
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psalms aren't actually addressing to God at all, addressed to
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God at all. They're sung at something else, at nations,
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at rulers, at gates, and unseen forces operating behind the scenes.
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And once you notice that, you start to realize the
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psalms function less like prayers and more like broadcasts. Section
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three songs sun at the unsung at the unseen. All right,
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here's where the psalms cross the line most people never notice.
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A surprising number of them aren't actually talking to God.
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They're talking past him or through him and directly at
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someone else. Once you see it, once you hear it,
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the tone changes completely. Take some too. It doesn't begin
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with prayer. It begins with confrontation. Why do the nation's
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rage and the people's plot in vain? The kings of
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the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together.
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That's not worship language. That's surveillance language. It's someone standing
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back watching the board and calling out the pieces that
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are moving. And the word rulers there isn't just political.
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It's like in the ancient worldview, nations didn't move without
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spiritual influence. Borders had watchers, thrones had patrons, Power flow
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downhill from the unseen to the visible. Psal too As
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is a song sung at the architects of rebellion. Then
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their Psalm twenty four. Lift up your heads, oh gates,
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