Psalm 68:18

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Psalm 68:18

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Summary

Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.

Ascended

Led

Judges 5:12

Received

For men

Rebellious

General references

Genesis 25:5

Exodus 29:45

Bible References

Ascended

Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord?
Who may stand in His holy place?

God ascends among shouts of joy,
the Lord, among the sound of trumpets.

A Davidic psalm.This is the declaration of the Lord
to my Lord:
“Sit at My right hand
until I make Your enemies Your footstool.”

[Early on the first day of the week, after He had risen, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had driven seven demons.

And while He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven.

until the day He was taken up, after He had given orders through the Holy Spirit to the apostles He had chosen.

For it says:

When He ascended

on high,

He took prisoners into captivity;

He gave gifts to people.

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens—Jesus the Son of God—let us hold fast to the confession.

Jesus has entered there on our behalf as a forerunner, because He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

Now the main point of what is being said is this: We have this kind of high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

Now that He has gone into heaven, He is at God’s right hand with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.

Led

“Awake! Awake, Deborah!
Awake! Awake, sing a song!
Arise, Barak,
and take hold of your captives,
son of Abinoam!”

Received

And look, I am sending you what My Father promised. As for you, stay in the city until you are empowered

from on high.”

And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever.

Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send Him to you.

While He was together with them, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for the Father’s promise. “This,” He said, “is what you heard from Me;

Then they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different languages, as the Spirit gave them ability for speech.

For it says:

When He ascended

on high,

He took prisoners into captivity;

He gave gifts to people.

For men

So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being;

the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.

He is also the head of the body, the church;
He is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead,
so that He might come to have
first place in everything.

All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Him.

The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of His nature, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After making purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

Rebellious

“How long, foolish ones, will you love ignorance?
How long will you mockers enjoy mocking
and you fools hate knowledge?

Let the wicked one abandon his way
and the sinful one his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord,
so He may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for He will freely forgive.

Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice.

For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

and repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Though He was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail Him to a cross and kill Him.

So Ananias left and entered the house. Then he placed his hands on him and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road you were traveling, has sent me so that you can regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality,

one who was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I received mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

General references

Abraham gave everything he owned to Isaac.

I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God.