The
Apple of His Eye ... commentary of Psalm 74
The Apple of His Eye
… A commentary of Psalm
74
Verse Seventeen
Psalm 74:17: “Thou hast set
all the borders of the earth:
thou hast made summer and winter.”
“…the borders of the earth:”
Psalm 104:19: “He
appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his
going down.”
The moon is appointed!
The operative word here is
“appointed”.
Adjective:
Being in effect; having force; operating.
Adjective:
Functioning effectively; efficient.
Adjective:
Engaged in or concerned with physical or mechanical
activity.
The God of heaven and earth APPOINTS
what is created!
The “earth” is appointed!
The “earth” has been marked off, and
set by bounds, limits and borders
by God. God has also, imposed
restraints and rules for this
spherical ball called planet Earth.
God is unabashedly proclaimed by the
record [the word of God] as the Creator of this
whole thing called EARTH: Isaiah 40:28:
“Hast thou not known? hast thou not
heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD,
the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not,
neither is weary? there is no searching of
his understanding.”
Remember, how God demanded of Job in
the book of Job, in chapter thirty-eight:
Verse four:
“Where wast thou when I laid the
foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast
understanding.” [Job 38:4]
The foundation:
Skip to verse six:
“Whereupon are the foundations thereof
fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;”
[Job 38:6]
The foundation of the earth was
fixed, and was set into the structure of
our solar system. The earth was
placed as the third planet from our sun.
Note: The earth is the largest of the
terrestrial planets of our inner solar system
that God has created by HIS divine design
[larger than Mercury, Venus and Mars].
Now, for the measurements, we now go
back to verse five:
“Who hath laid the measures thereof, if
thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon
it?” [Job 38:5]
The measurements:
The radius of the earth at the equator is
3,963 miles, [according to NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center]. However, note this, the earth is
not quite a sphere.
Explanation: The planet's rotation causes
it to bulge a bit at the equator. Why? It is because
the earth’s polar radius is 3,950 miles which is a
difference of 13 miles.
“…stretched the line
God stretched a line upon it,
the equatorial circumference of the earth being
about 24,901 miles. However, from pole-to-pole
— the meridional circumference — the earth is
only 24,860 miles around. This shape, caused by the
flattening at the poles, is called an oblate
spheroid.
The earth's density is 5.513 grams per
cubic centimeter [according to NASA]. The earth is
the densest planet in the solar system because of
its metallic core and rocky mantle.
[Jupiter, which is 318 times more massive
than the earth, is less dense because it is made of
gases, such as hydrogen.]
The earth’s mass is 6.6 sextillion tons.
Its volume is about 260 billion cubic miles.
The Almighty GOD moved this entire mass
of the earth as if it is nothing.
Consider it! And
listen to God’s answer to Job in the day
of his trial.
We read hear in the book of Job, chapter
thirty-eight, verses eight through eleven:
“Or who shut up the sea with
doors, when it brake forth, as if it had
issued out of the womb?
When I made the cloud the garment
thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
And brake up for it my decreed place,
and set bars and doors,
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but
no further: and here shall thy proud waves be
stayed?” [Job 38:8-11]
Thus, we have the borders of the earth
set, or apportioned, between the land, sea, and
space.
Fact: The total surface area of the earth
is about 197 million square miles, of which about 71
percent is covered by water and 29 percent by land.
The mountains were set by the Creator God:
Job 39:8:
“The range of the mountains is
his pasture, and he searcheth after every green
thing.”
In the postdiluvian world, God has
set Mount Everest as the highest place on the earth
above the sea at 29,028 feet.
However, Mount Everest is not the highest
point on the earth in reference to the center of the
earth. That distinction belongs to Mount Chimborazo
in the Andes Mountains of the country of Ecuador,
[this according to the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration]. Although Chimborazo is
about 10,000 feet shorter (relative to sea level)
than Mount Everest, this mountain is about 6,800
feet farther into space because of the equatorial
bulge.
The lowest point on Earth is Challenger
Deep in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific
Ocean, according to the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration. It reaches down about
36,200 feet below sea level.
God has set the bounds for the
oceans. They are limited in their size
and in their location.
“He hath compassed the waters with
bounds, until the day and night come to an end.”
[Job 26:10]
Turn to the First book of Moses called
Genesis, chapter one, and we will read verses nine
and ten to see the summation of the borders of
the earth:
“And God said, Let the waters under the
heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let
the dry land appear: and it was so.
And God called the dry land
Earth; and the gathering together of the waters
called he Seas: and God saw that it was
good.” [Genesis 1:9-10]
And thus, we finish our thought here:
God has set the bounds, limits and
borders to this earth and has imposed
restraints, and has set rules for where
mankind will live and have our being.
Data = https://www.space.com/
Our verse, again: “Thou hast set all
the borders of the earth: thou hast made
summer and winter.”
“…summer and winter.”
After the worldwide flood (that
destroyed “all in whose nostrils was the breath of
life, of all that was in the dry land”
[Genesis 7:22]), Noah built an altar unto the LORD,
and the LORD promised in that day:
Genesis 8:22: “While
the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold
and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night
shall not cease.”
What the LORD promised here after the Flood
is rooted in the Creation week recorded
in the First book of Moses called Genesis:
Genesis 1:14: “And God said, Let there
be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide
the day from the night; and let them be for signs,
and for seasons, and for days, and years:”
The diurnal cycle [the night-day
division] provides time ticks and markers
to demarcate the circuit of life here on
this earth.
Now, this circuit of life is
dependent upon the circuit of Almighty
God. See it by the Spirit of God in the
word of God in the book of Psalms, in Psalm
nineteen, and in verse six:
“His going forth is from the end
of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it:
and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.”
[Psalm 19:6]
The circuit of life is
interconnected to God’s circuit [his
circuit].
To reiterate:
1.
This circuit of life
involves a path.
2.
This path is annotated with
time ticks or markers.
3.
The time ticks or
markers serve for signs, and for seasons, and
for days, and years.
4.
The signs, seasons, days,
and years show us where we are in life.
Here we need to read wisdom
from one who had wisdom: Solomon, who had the
words God scribed for all to read in a book called
Ecclesiastes so that we all can be exercised.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-10:
“To every thing there is a
season, and a time to every purpose under the
heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a
time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which
is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a
time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a
time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time
to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a
time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a
time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a
time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a
time of war, and a time of peace.
What profit hath he that worketh in that
wherein he laboureth?
I have seen the travail, which God hath
given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.”
God is the beginning and the end in
the things appointed including their
boundaries:
We close this commentary on this verse
[verse seventeen] with this Scripture found in the
book of the Acts of the Apostles, chapter seventeen:
“And hath made of one blood all
nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the
earth, and hath determined the times before
appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;”
[Acts 17:26].