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Doc
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 Posted - Apr 06 2007 : 03:28:54 AM
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Originally posted by VIL
*Doc, do you know who wrote Psalms 78 and 91? I assume it was Moses, or concerning Him, since all of the other Scriptures Christ fulfilled are related to Moses. Thank you:
VIL:
Sorry, I forgot to respond to this question until I re-read your post again just now.
Psalms 50 and 73-83, including Psalm 78, were composed by Asaph, also known as Jeduthun, King David's leading Levitical Cantor.
Psalm 91...my personal favorite, along with seventy-two other Psalms were composed by King David himself, more than any other single Psalmist. Both Asaph and David wrote in the 10th century B.C.
The only Psalm believed to have been written by Moses, several hundred years before the time of David, is Psalm 90. It is thus the oldest of all Psalms.
Of the remaining Psalms, Psalms 72 and 127 are attributed to David's son, Solomon, but may have been written for him by David; Psalm 89 is attributed to Ethan the Ezrahite, another of David's Levitical Cantors; and the remaining twelve Psalms were written in a collective group effort by three Levitical Cantors, the sons of Korah...namely Assir, Abiasaph, and Elkanah respectively.
From the time of Moses, the Korahites were elite warriors. As such, Moses assigned them to act as 'keepers of the thresholds of the tent' in which the Ark of the Covenant was housed until the Temple was constructed in Jersualem, and served as escorts whenever the Ark was transported to a different location. They were 'security guards' who prayed aloud by singing the Divine Offices at the seven appointed times each day while performing their duties, a custom still encountered at temples, mosques, and shrines throughout the Near East and Middle East even today.
The Korahites continued to serve in this capacity, as the Jerusalem Temple Security Guards, even after the Ark of the Covenant was brought to rest there. Among them were Assir, Abiasaph, and Elkanah mentioned earlier, who also distinguished themselves as gifted singers or Cantors.
Lastly, Christ fulfilled the prophecies related to the awaited Mashiach or Messiah. These prophecies were not related to Moses. The Mashiach was expected to appear, as Jesus did, from among the descendants of David, who lived several hundred years after Moses, as discussed previously on another thread here.
Please forgive me if I gave you more info than you were looking for, but hopefully you can at least appreciate my enthusiasm for the subject matter! LOL 
Doc
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VIL
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Posted - Apr 06 2007 : 08:16:30 AM
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Doc: Lastly, Christ fulfilled the prophecies related to the awaited Mashiach or Messiah. These prophecies were not related to Moses. The Mashiach was expected to appear, as Jesus did, from among the descendants of David, who lived several hundred years after Moses, as discussed previously on another thread here.
Hey, Doc, maybe that's why Christ was not accepted by the religous leaders, since He fulfilled the Prophecies of all of the previous Prophets, including Abraham. And maybe we have a different definition of prophecy and fulfillment?:
"Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples. There he saw a well in the field, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large. When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well's mouth and water the sheep." -Gen. 29:1-3
"Rachel with the sheep." "Look," he said, "the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture." "We can't," they replied, "until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep." Gen. 29:6-8
Christ fulfilled the above prophecy here:
Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." "Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?" Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water." He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back." "I have no husband," she replied. Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true." "Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem." Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us." Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he." John 4:4-26
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"Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb and they asked each other, "Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?" But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away." Matt. 16:2-4
"From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land. About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"--which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
"He saved others," they said, "but he can't save himself! He's the King of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'" In the same way the robbers who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him. From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land. About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"--which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Matt. 27:42-46
"It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two." Luke 23:44,45
Due to not accepting Christ as the promised Messiah, the Jewish Nation had forsaken their birthright, which was given away to the Gentiles, as noted by the story of Christ and the Samaritan Woman.
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Edited by - VIL on Apr 06 2007 08:41:41 AM |
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VIL
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Posted - Apr 06 2007 : 12:25:39 PM
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Btw, Doc, I wanted to thank you for answering my previous questions, concerning the Scriptures:
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