God made the world from nothing in Genesis, makes a people from nothing in Exodus and threatens to make them jealous by going to the gentiles in Deuteromoy. "A people yet created' what the psalms have to say about that. The song of Moses speaks of God making Israel jealous with a people who are not a nation This is echoed by Isaiah which begins the same way as the song of Moses and ends with God calling 'Here I am! Here I am!" to a people who aren't even seeking him Here we take a look at the use of this 'people yet to be born' in the Psalms

1. ‘A people yet
from the Psalms
Three songs for a people yet to be born
all pointing to Jesus
to be created’

2. • In Genesis - God made the world from nothing
• In Exodus - God makes a people (as if) from nothing
• In Deuteronomy - God prophesies to make his
people jealous by going to the gentiles
• In Isaiah the prophesy repeated and extended
A people yet to be created
‘A people yet
to be created’

3. Deut 32:21
They have made me jealous with what is no god;
they have provoked me to anger with their idols.
So I will make them jealous with those who are no
people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish
nation.
At the end of Moses life,
a song of Moses
a prophesy
God will use ‘a people who are not a people’
(to make the Jews jealous)

4. The song of Moses and Isaiah both
start the same way
Listen, Oh heavens and hear oh earth
for the Lord speaks!
Moses speaks of a future falling away of Israel
Isaiah says it is here
The three places Isaiah uses the phrase
‘here am I’ are helpful in shedding light on that

5. Isaiah 65:1
I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask
for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not
seek me. I said, “Here I am, here I am,” to a nation
that was not called by my name.
Isaiah 6:8
Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you
shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you take away
the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and
speaking wickedness,
Isaiah 58:9
And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I
send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am!
Send me.
after a godward repentance of Israel (or anyone)
after a vision of God’s glory and purification by God
after God’s drawing a people who aren’t even looking for God

6. Romans 10:19-21
19 But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says,
“I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation;
with a foolish nation I will make you angry.”
20 Then Isaiah is so bold as to say,
“I have been found by those who did not seek me;
I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me.”
21 But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my
hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
Because Isaiah (in part) echos
the song of Moses where God prophesies
that he will make the Jews jealous by going to the gentiles
we can reasonable take Isaiah 65 as that
( Paul does so in Romans)
God will show Himself to a nation not Israel
figuratively shouting ‘here I am’ (repeating the phrase
is a form of emphasis)

7. We examine the Psalms in the light of
what it says about this ‘future people’
who Paul says is the church
We see this strongly referred to
in Psalm 22 and Psalm 102

8. Psalm 22 starts “my God, my God
why have you forsaken me”
Psalm 22 ends with a people
yet to be born hearing of his righteousness
‘A people yet unborn’
A suffering forsaken servant

9. Psalm 22:29-31
All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;
all who go down to the dust will kneel before him—
those who cannot keep themselves alive.
Posterity will serve him;
future generations will be told about the Lord.
They will proclaim his righteousness,
declaring to a people yet unborn:
He has done it!
A people yet unborn
will both be told of and proclaim of the righteousness of the
suffering servant in Psalm 22
The righteousness of the suffering servant
is key - as Jesus righteousness is to the gospel

10. Psalm 22:27
All the ends of the earth
will remember and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
will bow down before him
Psalm 22:22-23
I will declare your name to my people;
in the assembly I will praise you.
You who fear the Lord, praise him!
All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!
Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!
Salvation for Israel
Salvation for the ends of the earth

11. Psalm 102:18
Let this be written for a future generation, that a
people not yet created may praise the Lord:
A people yet created
Psalm 102
A prayer of an “afflicted person who has grown weak and
pours out a lament before the Lord”
will be told to
‘A people yet to be created’

12. Psalm 102 is used as an argument
that Jesus is greater than the angels
(in the book of Hebrews)
A model of a prayer of desperation
which could not be said to an angel
but could be said to Jesus
The model of a dependent prayer of need
would fit glorifying God by one’s dependency
on Him, leaning on the cross believing for eternal life
both now and in the future

13. Psalm 78 concerns a man who has
parables and who is a parable
Jesus not only used parables
but his life was a parable
and a recapitulation
of the history of Israel
getting it right -
sinless and righteous

14. Psalm 78 has a lesson about the falling away
of Israel as part of the lesson
With Israel as the one falling away
and the man who has parables and is a parable of
‘getting it right’ (parables with in a parable)
The warning and lesson (aka parable) is put before
the next generation to learn from it

15. Psalm 78 concerns a man who has
parables and who is a parable
Jesus not only used parables
but his life was a parable
and a recapitulation
of the history of Israel
getting it right -
sinless and righteous

16. And concerns:
- a man who is a parable and has
parables (sounds like Jesus)
- a story of a falling away of Israel
(sounds like the Song of Moses and a
parable of sorts of its own)
- and learning from it
Psalm 78 is one of the longest Psalms
‘the next generation’
‘I will speak in parables

17. Psalm 78:5-8
He decreed statutes for Jacob
and established the law in Israel,
which he commanded our ancestors
to teach their children,
so the next generation would know them,
even the children yet to be born,
and they in turn would tell their children…..
The next generation
even children yet to be born
‘the next generation’

18. Psalm 78:5-8
….Then they would put their trust in God
and would not forget his deeds
but would keep his commands.
They would not be like their ancestors—
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
whose hearts were not loyal to God,
whose spirits were not faithful to him.
Which also fits a purpose of God
in ‘making Jews jealous’
‘the next generation’
Which is to bring them back to Him

19. Isaiah and Deuteronomy both
speak of God revealing himself to a people not Israel
Psalms speaks both of
salvation for Israel as well as
a people unborn, a people yet to be creation,
salvation for the ends of the earth.
And why not?
God promised all families on earth to be
blessed through a descendant of Abraham

20. The strength is spent of Israel
and they can’t sing, but God will make ‘all kings sing’
138
fAll the kings of the earth shall
give you thanks, O LORD,
for they have heard the words of
your mouth,
5 and they shall sing of gthe ways
of the LORD,
for great is the glory of the LORD.
137
By the waters of Babylon,
there we sat down and wept,
when we remembered Zion.
2 On the willows1 there
we hung up our lyres.
3 For there our captors
required of us songs,
and our tormentors, mirth, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
4 sHow shall we sing the LORD's song
in a foreign land?

21. In the shortest Psalm
an invitation to the nations
Come enjoy the goodness of God!
117
Praise the LORD, all nations!
Extol him, all peoples!
2 For great is his steadfast love toward us,
and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever.
Praise the LORD!

22. ‘A people yet
from the Psalms
to be created’
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