Surprise of the Day

Psalm 78 is a warning about  5 generations addressed to 5 generations

PSALM 78

Fact Of the Day

• Generaton 1:  “our fathers have told us” –their parents  (v. 3)
• Generation 2:  “not conceal from their children” – their brothers and sisters. (v. 4a)
• Generation 3:  “tell to the generation to come” – their children (v. 4b )
• Generation 4: “the children yet to he born”- their grand children (v. 6a)
• Generation 5: “to their children” – their great grandchildren (v. 6b)

This chapter reminds us of  how Jacob had betrayed his brother and was given the blessing of being ruler instead.    This chapter recalls the story of Jacob’s descendants who became slaves in Egypt.   God had freed them from their slavery but…

1 – …the former slaves kept the mentality of complaining slaves.  They betrayed God and gave credit for their freedom to a golden calf.   So, over 40 years of wandering in the wilderness with no country of their own, they all died.  (Generation 1)

2- …the children of the former slaves betrayed God after he gave them a land to settle in;  they gave credit to false gods .  So the children of the slave children down to their grandchildren all died. (Generation 2-4)

3- – Therefore, God took away the throne of Jacob’s oldest son by his favorite wife – Joseph & Ephriam –  and gave it to Judah, the oldest responsible son of Jacob’s hated wife – Judah. (generation 5)