CHAPTER 14
A PSALM OF DAVID: THE FOOLISHNESS OF MEN
1The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none who does good (the fool is the Antichrist, along with all who will follow him; despite all of their promises to do good, they will do no good at all, only great harm).
2The LORD looked down from Heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any who did understand, and seek God. (During the Great Tribulation, due to the fact that the Church has been raptured away, there will not be many on Earth living for God, at least according to the entirety of the population.
The word looked means literally to bow Himself over to get a better and closer examination of men and their wicked ways.
Most of these Psalms have a threefold application: 1. They apply to the matter at hand, whatever it might be; 2. They apply to every Believer who reads them; and, 3. They have a prophetic meaning, with many of them pointing toward the coming Antichrist and Israels coming problems.).
3They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none who does good, no, not one (applies to the whole human race, with the only solution being Christ and what He did at the Cross).
4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up My People as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD (even though My People has a general application, more particularly it speaks of Israel in the coming Great Tribulation).
5There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous (Gods people cannot be attacked without provoking Him; we are in Him, and He in us; He will assuredly come to our relief).
6You have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge (the poor pictures Israel and her coming troubles, with the statement presented that Israel will have no help from any other nation in the world, except the Lord).
7Oh that the Salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of His People, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad (this speaks of the Second Coming, when Israel will then be redeemed [Zech., Chpt. 14]).