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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