Let Heaven and Earth Praise the Lord
Book of Psalms Psalm 148
The phrase "praise ye the Lord" has been used twenty-five times and only in the Old Testament.
The phrase "praise Him" has been used twenty-two times and only in the Old Testament.
The phrase "praise the Lord" is used thirty-two times in the Old Testament except for one verse written by the Apostle Paul which says.
Rom_15:11 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.
When we try to grasp the Greatness and the Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, we find that it overwhelms us so much that, we wonder why He would even have thoughts of us.
Many people believe that He could have just set all His creations in order and then gone off to do godly things or created other people on another planet.
We know that He did not create any other people, and Adam and Eve did not look like they came from apes, nor did any of their descendants.
Evolution played no part in creating plants, animals, or people.
What puzzles evolutionists so much is that Adam possessed far more intelligence than the people of today.
We are getting dumber as a whole, not smarter, as time passes by.
In fact, most all our Colleges and Universities teach philosophy and not things that America needs to compete in this world.
This Psalm is known as the joy-song of creation.
This Psalm calls on all the things in the Heavens and Earth to praise our Lord Jesus our God.
Everyone from the lowest to the highest, no matter where they are located, is called on to Praise the Lord.
This is the God who made us and there are no other Gods! We are called upon to adore our Creator.
Scientist have spent their lives studying God's creatures and many of those creations are so complicated in their structure, that they cannot figure them out this was God's plan to show these doubters that there had to be a Maker, a Creator.
It is wicked men who have caused so many of God's creatures to no longer be with us.
Most of the time, it is the goal to be rich that is destroying our planet, and all our government can do drive our nation into obscurity because it is afraid to go after the real polluters.
I do not believe this will change under our new President!
Fifty-seven companies cause eighty percent of pollution, and no one is speaking of changing their ways because of money.
That last twenty percent (us) no matter how hard we try can change the pollution of this world.
Those who make so much money off of pollution and those who accept bribes to be quiet about what they do are not going to change.
We just need to praise the Lord!
What is praise? The word praise comes from the Latin word "pretium" which is "price" or "value".
True praise consists in a sincere acknowledgment of real conviction of worth.
How can we not praise Him?
Rev 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Rev 5:12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
We need to be honest in our praise of the Lord, He knows when we are not sincere.
These things are another battle for Him, and we are just to praise His Holy Name!
The Lord Jesus Christ will come to this world just in time to save it!
It is not because He cannot make all things new because He will, He will save this world because there are still people upon this world that can be saved.
We should know that as long as people are alive if they pray that sinner's prayer in truth, they will be saved.
*****Psa 148:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights.
You can bet the cherubim and the seraphim; the angels all praise the Lord constantly.
We are certainly fools if we do not praise our Maker!
When we grasp the greatness, and the glory of the Lord, how can we not praise our Creator?
It can be said that we are created to praise the Lord!
There is no excuse for us to not adore our Savior!
All our praise must be directed at Jehovah, the "I AM" of the Old Testament, who in the flesh is the Lord Jesus Christ of the New Testament.
God said: "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living"
All of Heaven does certainly praise the Lord.
*****Psa 148:2 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.
Not one of the Lord's Creatures in Heaven is exempted from praising their Creator and their God.
Not even Gabriel nor Michael is exempt from praising the Lord of Host.
The angelic army will praise their Commander, who is the Lord of all the hosts of Heaven.
Let us just get real, every part of everything that was created by the Lord will praise Him!
*****Psa 148:3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
Psa 148:4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye
waters that be above the heavens.
The Heaven of heavens is the home of the Lord.
The lower heaven is the place where the birds fly and where the clouds that hold the waters bring rain.
The middle heaven is the space where all the stars and all the planets are located.
There are only three heavens and if we look at the vast expanse of the second heaven we can just wonder how vast is the Heaven of heavens.
One thing is certain this Heaven of heavens cannot be reached by spacecraft!
It can only be reached by loving the Lord Jesus our Creator and believing in the work He has done for our salvation.
On the day of the Rapture, all those lifeless bodies in their graves will go to Heaven faster than any spacecraft.
All the places of God's creation are commanded to praise the Lord.
Psa_33:9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
Most people have forgotten that all the Lord has to do is speak things into existence.
The world had better realize that all the Lord has to do is speak and this world can be destroyed.
Rev_1:16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
Rev_19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword,
that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of
iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty
God.
Rev_19:21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of
him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all
the fowls were filled with their flesh.
All these scriptures tell us of the power of God that He only has to speak things into existence, and he can also speak things into destruction.
Psa 33:6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Psa 33:7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together
as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
Psa 33:8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the
inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
Psa 33:9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded,
and it stood fast.
Psa 33:10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen
to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
Psa 33:11 The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever,
the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
How could we ever believe that we can step into Heaven and not praise the Savior who freed us from the chains of sin?
I have news for you, we are saved to praise and worship our Maker among our other duties.
*****Psa 148:5 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
Psa 148:6 He hath also stablished them for ever and
ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.
It is our creation that gives us a reason to praise our Creator.
For those who say it is then better to not be created, I can tell you that Heaven will be far greater than any place you have ever seen and you should want to go there for its beauty and where you can find the life that the Lord wanted us to have from the beginning.
What does God actually say:
Pro 8:32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
Pro 8:33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it
not.
Pro 8:34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching
daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Pro 8:35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall
obtain favour of the LORD.
Pro 8:36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his
own soul: all they that hate me love death.
The Lord is serious about all those who want to be with Him.
*****Psa 148:7 Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:
When we see this verse we need to accept as it is written.
Gen 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Psa 104:26 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
All of the earth must praise the Lord.
All that is in the Seas must praise the Lord.
Psa 74:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Psa 74:14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in
pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
We know that there are places in the Oceans where there are depths that are deeper than the highest mountains that can be seen, these are those places that are called the "deeps".
The deep is the deepest part of the Seas and these are the places where the largest animals in the Seas play out of sight most of the time from the people.
Some people are privileged to see them come to the surface on occasion.
Most people write them off as non-existent.
Psa 104:4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
Psa 104:5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that
it should not be removed for ever.
Psa 104:6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a
garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
Psa 33:6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Psa 33:7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together
as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
No one has been to the deepest seas so only God knows what lives in those places.
Psa 33:13 The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
Psa 33:14 From the place of his habitation he looketh
upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
Some things have been proved by mankind:
Pro 8:28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
These are the same waters that burst forth in the days of the flood.
Gen 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
These waters returned to their place at the command of God.
Gen 8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
We know that the waters of the deep can be both constructive and also destructive.
These waters can also be a blessing.
Deu 8:7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
It is only the Lord God, the Living God that can control these waters of the great deep.
Psa 95:2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
Psa 95:3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King
above all gods.
Psa 95:4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth:
the strength of the hills is his also.
Psa 95:5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands
formed the dry land.
We are in the season of Thanksgiving now and we can see why we need to praise the Lord while offering Thanksgiving to Him.
*****Psa 148:8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
Psa 148:9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees,
and all cedars:
Psa 148:10 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things,
and flying fowl:
Psa 148:11 Kings of the earth, and all people;
princes, and all judges of the earth:
Psa 148:12 Both young men, and maidens; old men, and
children:
Psa 148:13 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for
his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
His glory is above all of His creation!
His name is above and greater than all universes and greater
than the earth and the heavens.
Luk 1:69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for
us in the house of his servant David;
