In Psalms ninety Moses said to Jehovah God, “all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told”, and in chapter ninety and verse ten of Psalms Moses said, “the days of our years are threescore years and ten” where we read,
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
The verse begins, “The days of our years are threescore years and ten;” Moses began with the words, “the days of our years” or “the sunrises to sunsets and sunsets to sunrises according to our measurement of time pertaining to years of Moses and the people” “are threescore years” which means “exist as sixty” “and ten” or “and ten years”. Moses shared how the time he and the people were allotted on the earth was “threescore or three twenty year periods” plus ten more years for a total of seventy years.
The verse continues, “and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow;” Moses added the words, “and if by reason of strength” or “and whether and in case through the means and cause of power, might and ability” “they be fourscore years” which means “they, the years that Moses and the people were allotted, exist as fourscore or eighty time periods pertaining to years”, “yet is their strength” or “still there exists their, the people's, power, might and ability” “labor” which means “mischief, misery, travail, trouble, sorrow grievance and pain” “and sorrow” or “and iniquity, wickedness, affliction, unrighteousness, evil, false, unjust and idolatrous”. Moses considered the possibility that the power, might and ability of the people could continue for eighty years, and still those years would be filled with iniquity, unrighteousness, travail and pain.
Finally the verse says, “for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.” Moses ended this verse with the words, “for it is soon cut off” or “because, since and on account that it, the life of the people, is quickly and a hurriedly severed, passed over and away”, “and we fly away” which means “and we, Moses and the people with him, shall faint and go forth and away”. Moses said the life of the people would be quickly severed and passed over, and he and the people with him would go forth and away.
When we think through the words in this verse, we see how Moses continued to shared about the brevity of life within himself and the people around him. God knows the number of our days, and because of our sins, we are separated from a personal relationship with Him. God sent His Son Jesus into the world to be crucified for the sins of all mankind. God invites us to believe and trust in Jesus to be forgiven or our sins and to inherit everlasting life with Him. We shall all surely die, but we have the promise of eternal life when we receive Jesus as our “Savior and Lord”. Let us “number our days”, and allow Jesus Christ to rule and reign in our lives both now and forever.
Next time Moses asks, “who knows the power of your anger?”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.
Until tomorrow…there is more…
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