Hello everybody, it's me Mr. 1223 back with another video. In this video I want to talk
about a verse which might confuse some people I know it's confused me in the
past but I want to explain what this verse means and what a particular word
means within that verse and how it's used differently than what we typically
think in the Bible several times and that word is the word God's plural
lowercase right without a capital G but a lowercase G because very often in the
Bible of course we know when it's talking about gods is talking about the
false deities of the heathen it's talking about the idols they worship
it's talking about you know what we would think of as gods in the modern day
but there are several times in the Bible where it uses the word gods but it
doesn't mean what we typically think of when we hear the word gods right it says
in John chapter 10 verse 34 to 35 this is the potentially confusing verse it
says Jesus answered them is it not written in your law I said ye are gods
if he called them gods unto whom the word of God came and the scripture
cannot be broken and so on so Jesus says he quotes from this is a
Psalm 82 verse 6 he quotes from Psalm 82 and he says does not you know the law
say it ye are gods and then he says that it's talking about those to whom the
scripture came now some people will twist this verse like for example
Mormons will try to twist this verse to teach that we can one day become gods
like unto the Lord right that we can become our own gods in the sense of
being divine or divinity right but when you actually go back and look at Psalm 82
it's not talking about what we would typically think of as gods talking about
deities it's not talking about idols it's not talking about entity which
should be worshiped okay I'll get to that in a second Psalm 82 but first I
want to talk about a few other verses or quote a few other verses which also use
the word gods in a different way than what we would typically think of another
example would be Exodus 22 verse 28 where it says thou shalt not revile the
gods nor curse the ruler of thy people again this is another verse which might
be confusing to some people because you think well you know what differences
make if we curse or say bad about you know the false gods of the heathen but
that's not what it's talking about and I'll explain what it means in a second
but there's also Exodus 7 verse 1 where it says and the Lord said unto Moses see
I have made thee a god to Pharaoh and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet
so the Lord himself says that to Moses I have made thee a god to Pharaoh right so
now let's go to Psalm 82 it's only seven or eight verses it says God standeth in
the congregation of the mighty he judgeth among the gods now this is an
example of a of a poetic device that's used often the Bible which might some
people might call parallelism which would be it says something one way and then it
says basically the same thing or something similar but in a different way
and you'll see that all throughout the book of Psalms all throughout other
poetic books in the Bible that you'll see like repeated statements right but
they they're phrased a little bit differently it'll say one thing and it'll
say another thing either in the same verse or in the next verse it'll be
phrased differently and this is an example of that where it says God standeth
in the congregation of the mighty he judgeth among the gods it's using the
word mighty and gods interchangeably in this verse right I'm going to show that
more as we read through the rest of this song how long will you judge unjustly
and accept the persons of the wicked sila defend the poor and fatherless do
justice to the afflicted and needy deliver the poor and needy rid them out
of the hand of the wicked they know not neither will they understand they walk
on in darkness all the foundations of the earth are out of course right so so
far what we see about this congregation of the mighty who the Bible calls gods
so far it tells us what these people are it says that they're judges okay they're
people that are judging but it says that unfortunately they are judging unjustly
right now it says in verse 6 I have said your gods and all of you are children of
the Most High but ye shall die like men and fall like one of the princes arise O
God judge the earth for thou shalt inherit all nations so verse 6 is what
Jesus quoted from in John chapter 10 and notice how the statement your gods
is coupled with the other statement and all of you are children of the Most High
right so these people who God is speaking to who Jesus said the Word of
God came to them and now it says that they're children of the Most High these
are people who are saved right and we see that their job is to be judges
throughout the rest of the context of this that it's a congregation of the
mighty it's a congregation of those who are judges they are saved they're
children of the Most High but they're judging unjustly and therefore it says
in verse 7 you shall die like men and fall like one of the princes okay so
that shows that these are not immortals these are mortals not like God okay
which shows that the Mormons are wrong in this and thinking that you know we
can become gods one day or something foolish like that it's not talking about
gods as we would think of as deities it's not saying we're going to you know
become divine or something like that that's not what it's saying rather this
is talking about people who are judges who have godlike authority in the sense
that they are given the authority to judge okay and that's what I believe it
means in these contexts when it says the word gods it's not talking about a
divine eternal all-powerful somebody who deserves worship like the Lord that's
not what it means it's not talking about the idols of the heat and it's not
saying there's multiple gods of course we know from other scriptures there is
only one God that's the Lord in the sense of there's only one entity which
is all-powerful all-knowing eternal from everlasting to everlasting created the
whole world you know is deserves worship that's the only God there is the Lord
Jehovah of the Bible right so in these other examples in Exodus 22 and then
Exodus 7 it's just talking about having authority as being a judge right so when
it says thou shalt not revile the gods nor curse a ruler thy people that's
another example I believe of parallelism where it's basically saying you know not
to revile the ruler of people not to curse the judges basically when it says
gods I believe that's talking about people who are set in authority to be
rulers of the children of Israel people who are set in authority to judge just
like it speaks of Moses that he was made a god to Pharaoh that doesn't mean that
all the sudden Moses just had to be worshipped by Pharaoh that's not what
it's talking about okay but people misunderstand what this word God means
but when we look at Psalm 82 and we look at the context of the verse that Jesus
quoted from in John chapter 10 it becomes clear that these are mortal
beings that they are children of the Most High that they are they have
authority but they're definitely lesser in authority they're not gods and you
know the sense that the modern world or the pagans or polytheists would
think of as gods the Bible says there is one God at one mediator between God a
man the man Christ Jesus okay so these are not deities these are human men who
are judges who have authority who have might all right so thank you ready for
watching God bless you and goodbye