Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
When God arises, those who oppose Him and those who hate Him are scattered and flee before Him. The verse is a prayer to be offered even while working, asking God to drive away His enemies and to bring the wicked to destruction. The wicked face that destruction unless they repent.
The verse is a prayer to God as Father, claiming His promise to scatter the persecutors of His children. Power to shake the world comes from the secret place of prayer, where God's servants stand upon the rock of His promises and pour out the soul before God with adoration, fear, and hope as speaking to a friend. Luther prayed this prayer in the struggle at Augsburg, devoting three hours each day to prayer and asking the Father to defend the cause. The plea rests on the truth being God's own cause, taken up only by His constraint, so that when His people are endangered He Himself is endangered with them.
When everyone has chosen either Christ and the commandments or the great apostate, God will arise in power to defend His people and forever silence those who have blasphemed against Him. Those who persecute His faithful servants for the truth's sake injure God Himself. His enemies cannot go beyond the limit He sets.
When God arises, those who oppose Him and those who hate Him are scattered and flee before Him. The verse is a prayer to be offered even while working, asking God to drive away His enemies and to bring the wicked to destruction. The wicked face that destruction unless they repent.
The verse is a prayer to God as Father, claiming His promise to scatter the persecutors of His children. Power to shake the world comes from the secret place of prayer, where God's servants stand upon the rock of His promises and pour out the soul before God with adoration, fear, and hope as speaking to a friend. Luther prayed this prayer in the struggle at Augsburg, devoting three hours each day to prayer and asking the Father to defend the cause. The plea rests on the truth being God's own cause, taken up only by His constraint, so that when His people are endangered He Himself is endangered with them.
When everyone has chosen either Christ and the commandments or the great apostate, God will arise in power to defend His people and forever silence those who have blasphemed against Him. Those who persecute His faithful servants for the truth's sake injure God Himself. His enemies cannot go beyond the limit He sets.