When the Lord Turn Again the Captivity of Zion

Hi Mike,

Thank you once over again for always replying to my emails. I thank God for people like you lot who take impacted my life so positively and helped me to abound spiritually.  It is  true that when it comes to God, altitude is not a barrier. May God keep to use yous to unveil the truths about His word.

Another question I have is: Psalm 126:one "when the Lord turned the captivity of Zion we were like those who were dreaming.

What led them to captivity<, and why was it similar a dream? What happened after that turn around? Did they possess some kind of a promise?

How tin can I interpret  this poesy to my life now?

N____

Hi N____,

Thank you for asking nigh the meaning of the phrase, "turned the captivity of Zion", and how that phrase applies in your life.

You reference:

Psa 126:one  A Song of degrees.When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

Hither is a verse of scripture which will requite you a very expert feel for what the scriptures hateful past the phrase "turn the captivity…":

Job 42:10  And the LORDturned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends : also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

So it is clear that this phrase "plow the captivity" addresses that fourth dimension in our lives when God has dealt with united states of america equally He dealt with Job, and has caused us to go through months of torment which He brings upon the states through the channel of our own sins, which are not our own, simply are really God judging our flesh in this historic period every bit he did Job. There is a serial of studies on iswasandwillbe.com which bargain with God'due south method of functioning in dealing with overt and subconscious sins in our lives. Chore'southward sin was the subconscious sin of cocky-righteousness, and it is one of the most insidious of sins which is common to all men.

Job seven:3  So am I made to possessmonths of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Chore vii:4  When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the nighttime be gone? and I am total of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Job vii:five  My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of grit; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

Job 40:six  Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
Job twoscore:7  Gird up thy loins at present similar a man: I will demand of thee, and declare grand unto me.
Job 40:8  Wilt thousand besides disannul my judgment?wilt grand condemn me, that 1000 mayest be righteous?

While nosotros all tend to plough the grace and the sovereignty of God into lasciviousness to begin with, it is still a very fundamental doctrine of scripture that God creates all good and all evil and that nothing that happens does and then without His mitt sending Satan to accomplish that event:

Gen 45:4  And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came virtually. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
Gen 45:5  Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, thatye sold me hither: for God did send me before you lot to preserve life.
Gen 45:6  For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and still there are 5 years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
Gen 45:7  And God sent me earlier yous to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to salvage your lives by a great deliverance.
Gen 45:8And then at present information technology was not you that sent me here,but God: and he hath fabricated me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

Does God agree with Joseph? Yep, indeed He does:

Isa 45:6  That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
Isa 45:7  I form the lite, and create darkness: I make peace,and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

God does not pass the buck on sin. He makes articulate that sin and Satan are simply tools in His mitt, and Satan does and can exercise but what he is sent to accomplish:

Task 1:9  And so Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
Task 1:x  Hast not thousand made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? k hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Job i:11  Butput forth thine handnow, and bear on all that he hath, and he volition curse thee to thy face.
Task 1:12And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power;  only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

Satan did exactly what he was sent to do and not one thing more. He destroyed all Chore had worked a lifetime to acquire, merely he did not lay a finger upon Job's body…

…until God sent him to do simply that:

Job 2:4  And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
Job 2:five  But put forththine hand  now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Chore two:6  Andthe LORD said unto Satan, Behold,he is in thine hand ; but save his life.
Chore ii:seven  So went Satan along from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

Satan over again does exactly what he is sent to do and not one thing more. Satan says, "Put forth your paw…" and God tells Satan "He is in your hand". What does this tell a man of God? This is what it tells us:

Isa 63:17  O LORD, why hastthoumade u.s.a. to err from thy means, andhardened our heart from thy fright? Return for thy servants' sake, the [captivity of the] tribes of thine inheritance.

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance,being predestinated according to the purpose of him whoworketh all things subsequently the counsel of his own volition:

This agrees with what Joseph told his brothers about their sins against him in Gen 45:iv-viii, and it accords with what Paul tells us about sin in our lives in Rom 7:

Rom 7:17  At present theninformation technology is no more I that practice information technology, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:xviii  For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to volition is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I observe non.
Rom 7:19  For the good that I would I practise not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Rom 7:twenty  Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do information technology, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom seven:21  I find and then a law, that, when I would do skilful, evil is present with me.
Rom vii:22  For I delight in the police force of God after the inward man:
Rom seven:23 But I encounter another law in my members, warring confronting the law of my listen, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Rom 7:24  O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So and then with the listen I myself serve the police of God; merely with the flesh the police force of sin.

God is working all things, including all sin, "afterwards the counsel of His ain will". He has deliberately given human being an feel of evil, and has fabricated us all to err from His ways, and hardened our hearts from His fear for the express purpose of humbling us and crushing the beastly mankind we all are and bringing us to see our desperate demand for a Savior:

Psa 107:21  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psa 107:22  And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.
Psa 107:23  They that go down to the sea in ships, that practise business in great waters;
Psa 107:24  These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
Psa 107:25For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy air current, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
Psa 107:26  They mount upwardly to the sky, they go downwardly again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
Psa 107:27  They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' finish.
Psa 107:28  Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
Psa 107:29  He maketh the storm a at-home, and then that the waves thereof are notwithstanding.
Psa 107:thirty And so are they glad because they be tranquility;so he bringeth them unto their desired oasis.
Psa 107:31  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

Ecc ane:13 I practical my heart to inquiring and exploring by wisdom concerning all that is washed nether the heavens: it is an feel of evilElohim has givento the sons of humanityto humble them by it. (CLV)

It is God who "commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves" that bring us all "to our wits' end", every bit He did with Job. Then He "turns [our] captivity" when we apologize of our self-righteous sins, and we forgive and pray for those who have offended us. " Then are [we] glad considering the [waves] be quiet;so he bringeth [us] unto [our] desired haven". That is the meaning of"we were like them that dream."

At that place are several other Biblical phrases which all mean the same affair. There is the phrase "return the captivity":

Hos six:11  Also, O Judah, he hath set up an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivityof my people.

The phrases "bring again the captivity" and "return to their former estate" is all proverb the same affair.

Eze 16:53  When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, so will I bring once more the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:
Eze xvi:54  That thou mayest bear thine ain shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
Eze 16:55When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shallreturn to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then chiliad and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.

All of these examples, Job, Joseph's brothers, Israel, Sodom, Samaria, and you and I, all come to know God, then we "lose [our] first love" because nosotros are all "carnal… babes in Christ". We all "fall from grace", and only after we have been humbled and are able to confess our own self-righteousness and our ain sins, are nosotros capable of existence used to bear witness mercy to those whose unbelief have given us our organized religion:

Rom 11:30  For as ye in times past have not believed God, even sohave now obtained mercythrough their unbelief:
Rom 11:31  Even and so accept these also now not believed, thatthrough your mercy they also may obtain mercy.

What a wonderful approving is given to those whose captivity God has returned! Just wait at the rest of Psalm 126:

Psa 126:one  A Vocal of degrees. When the LORD turned once more the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
Psa 126:2  Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the pagan, The LORD hath done great things for them.
Psa 126:3  The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
Psa 126:four Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the southward.
Psa 126:fiveThey that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Psa 126:6He that goeth along and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

This is all repeated by our Lord in these words:

Mat 5:11  Blest are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute yous,and shall say all fashion of evil confronting yous falsely, for my sake.
Mat 5:12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for dandy is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were earlier you lot.

I promise this helps yous to empathize how y'all can utilize Psalm 126 in your life.

Your blood brother whose captivity is being returned,

Mike

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