Psalms 23:4, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”
We often hear Psalms 23:4 quoted in movies, poetry, sermons and books.
Psalms 23:4, “Yea, though I walk
through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil:
for thou art with me;
thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”
The word “rod” is the Hebrew word mish‛ênâh mish‛eneth (what a big word!) and means, “support (abstractly), that is, (figuratively) sustenance or (concretely) a walking stick: - staff.” The word “staff” is the Hebrew word shêbet and means “to branch off; a scion, that is, (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.)” Thus, we see that the Lord's ROD is for guidance and His staff is used for fighting off our enemies. These are but two of God's blessings over His children. The Bible teaches in Psalms 23:4 that God's COMFORTS us with His rod and staff, that is, we are comforted by constantly knowing that God is guiding us and protecting us from satanic attacks. Jesus is the Good Shepherd!
The world is getting crazier everyday without question. I'm a big fan of Alex Jones, who's been fighting against the New World Order since the 1990's. Here's a few paragraphs from the opening of Alex's Infowars Show today at PrisonPlanet.tv...
We are broadcasting worldwide as we steam directly right into the maelstrom of corporate-global governance involved in an all-out high-tech, technocratic siege operation against nation states, individuals, the rule of law, and anything that stands in the way of their piratical repine.
This is one of the most important periods in human history, if not the most important ever! Words cannot describe the massive changes that are happening ... economic, spiritual, cultural, national, international, global, galactic (with all the spacecrafts and satellites and the sun). ...Everything is beginning to melt down. Winners are losers are being picked by the globalists. ... They've had to sell a culture of fraud, lies, mental illness, and 2 + 2 = 5 to the world population to get away with all this corruption.
But that virus of fraud has now entered the system. Computers are malfunctioning. Trains are crashing and exploding. More aircrafts are going to be crashing. Americans are going to see much more divorce, murder... We're on the verge of a technological onslaught, a government virus of power that's about to pull out all the stops and usher chaos into every facet of the governmental system worldwide. It's because the system is now totally based upon fraud.”
SOURCE: Alex Jones, THE ALEX JONES SHOW; quote from January 13, 2014.
Starting Over
(“We all have to start over once and a while!”)
—quote from the sermon,
STARTING OVER by
Pastor Danny Castle!!!
King David rejoiced in Psalms 23:4, asserting that even in the valley of the shadow of evil that he would FEAR NO EVIL, because God is with him always, guiding and protecting him continually as a loving Shepherd watching over His vulnerable flock. God is a good God! I shall never walk alone, so promises the Word of God. Hebrews 13:5, “Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”
