Gilbert House Fellowship

THE PSALMS we study this week are especially timely, coming as they do after a contentious midterm election in the United States. At the end of the day, regardless of how the vote turned out, God is still on His throne, and He, for one, was not surprised by the results. We also discuss a psalm not usually interpreted as messianic. Psalm 8 includes several verses quoted by the author of Hebrews: What is man that you are mindful of him,    and the son of man that you care for him?Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings    and crowned him with glory and honor.You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;    you have put all things under his feet… (Psalm 8:4–6, ESV) These verses are quoted in Hebrews 2:6–8, where it’s clear that “the son of man” refers to Jesus, the Messiah. Most Bible teachers don’t see it that way, for some reason. We dig deeper into the title “Son of Man” and how it emerged as a messianic title during the first century BC in the Book of Parables, chapters