The amazing musical genius of the Psalms
To follow up on the last article I would like to share some insights about the Psalms that you may not know. In our daily struggles and spiritual battles, there is nothing more comforting than to just absorb the Word of God through the voice of King David in the Psalms. We should take the time daily to simply bathe in the Psalms, and let the inherent peace penetrate our troubled minds and soothe our troubled hearts.
To further intrigue you to do so, here are a few insights you may not have known that might help inspire you to bathe in the Psalms daily.
Did you know that there are 22 Hebrew letters in the Hebrew alphabet, and that each Hebrew letter corresponds directly to a musical note? The famous harp of David had 22 strings, each of which corresponds directly to a Hebrew letter, making each letter of the Hebrew language a specific sound on a musical scale. No matter what the educated scholarly elite try to tell you, please know that Hebrew was the 1st language, and for the reason I just described, I believe came directly from “the Word, who was with God and who was God”. The Word of God is sound, and did you know that sound is light, 40 octaves lower? If you increase the frequencies of each of the 7 chords of music by 40 octaves, the sound frequency vibrates to become a light frequency that correlates directly to each of the colors of the rainbow. By the way, our DNA works exactly the same way, vibrating from lower to higher frequencies until each DNA strand resonates to a higher light frequency. To “sing a joyful noise” is to literally project light back to the Father, 40 octaves lower!
A man named Steve Rees has gone to the trouble to break down the Hebrew letters into each of the 22 notes of David’s harp, and convert several of the Psalms from Hebrew to music using each letter of the Psalms in Hebrew to form music with the actual Hebrew Psalms. Below is a link to my podcast where I have downloaded Steve Rees playing Psalms 23 on a 22 stringed harp similar to David’s. As you listen to this recording of the harp playing Psalms 23, read along and know that you are hearing the Word of God literally in song that can be converted back to the written word from the musical notes. I find this simply amazing! Someday in heaven we will hear the entire bible in song!
Click the link below and listen while reading Psalms 23 from your bible, knowing that you will be listening to the Hebrew language in musical notes, exactly as King David heard it, while you read in your own language!
Now I would like to also explain a question frequently asked, what is the meaning of Selah in the Psalms?
In the Psalms, when we see the word “Selah”, is to pause and take note of something important. Selah is to connect 2 thoughts, the former verse prior to Selah, with the later verse following the word Selah, as having a significant meaning of special intended importance. So, as you read the Psalms and encounter the word Selah, pause, and consider the 2 verses before and after, or perhaps several thoughts included in several verses both before and after the word Selah. This will enhance and deepen your understanding of the Psalms as you read them.
One final note on Psalms chapter 2. Many of the Johnone.org subscribers are advanced bible students that may already know this one, but it is best that I not assume, because it is incredibly powerful when Psalms 2 is understood in its proper context. This is a conversation between the Holy Trinity!
I am so thankful for the life of Dr Chuck Missler, whom I learned this from:
Holy Spirit opens Psalms chapter 2:
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, 3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. 4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. 5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
God the Father:
Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
Yehshua responds:
7: I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
God the Father:
8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Holy Spirit closes:
10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. 11 Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. 12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Understanding Psalms 2 in the context of a conversation of end times prophecy between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, should send chills up your spine and knock your knees to the ground! David was obviously a highly spiritual man to have gained this holy and heavenly spiritual insight.
Bathe in the Psalms today, with a few new insights, and give thanks for the lives of a few great men today, King David, Dr Chuck Missler, and Steve Rees, the 3 of whom have enlightened me in ways that words cannot accurately describe.
Below is the link to Psalms 23 converted to music from Hebrew, just as it sounded on the harp of King David!! Be blessed!!