{"id":16092,"date":"2026-03-29T19:44:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=16092"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:45:47","slug":"question-psalm-743-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/16092\/question-psalm-743-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Question: Psalm 74:3\u201310"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I hope y’all are having a sweet time at Vince and Amy’s this weekend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Jamie and I were reading Psalms this morning, and a question came up as we were reading Psalm 74. In verses 3-10, it sounds as if some enemies of Israel had profaned and destroyed the temple.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. O lift up your feet to these perpetual ruins, to all the evil the enemy has done in the sanctuary.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Your adversaries roar within your place of assembly; they set up their own signs as signs.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. One became famous as he brought axes up the ascent\u00a0to your sanctuary<\/em>, as against a thicket of trees,<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. and then, with hatchet and hammers, they smashed all its engraved works.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. They set your sanctuary on fire; they profaned to the ground the dwelling place of your name.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. They said in their hearts, \u201cWe will subdue them altogether.\u201d They burned all of God\u2019s meeting places in the land.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. We do not see our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and none among us knows for how long.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. How long, O God, will the adversary mock? Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0But we weren’t sure when this could have happened, assuming that this psalm was written sometime around David’s or Solomon’s reign (during David’s time, there wasn’t even a temple, although there was a tabernacle).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0So my question is: Was there a time during David’s (or Solomon’s reign) when a foreign nation destroyed God’s holy place in Israel?\u00a0\u00a0Or is this a prophecy concerning the Assyrian or the Babylonian invasion and captivity that would take place hundreds of years later?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Zoli<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Hi Zoli.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0We recently read through Psalms here, and we commented on those same verses.\u00a0 This is obviously a prophecy of the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem.\u00a0 One can only imagine what Asaph, who wrote this psalm, thought when the Spirit spoke those things through him.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

    Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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    Hello Pastor John, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I hope y’all are having a sweet time at Vince and Amy’s this weekend.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Jamie and I were reading Psalms this morning, and a question came up as we were reading Psalm 74. In verses 3-10, it sounds as if some enemies of Israel had profaned and destroyed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16093,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16092\/revisions\/16093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}