The Song of the Drunkards

A PSALM OF DAVID.  

Psalm 69 reads as a man troubled by those around him.  David was suffering persecution, rejection, shame, and alienation because he stood for RIGHT.  He spoke against WRONG.  He suffered because of people who loved their status and their sin.    

As we in America watch evil magnified - good referred to as evil and hearing some calling evil good ... we can identify with David in this chapter of Psalms.  It isn't the average citizen attacking all that is right, it's the political leaders who booed God in their convention a few years past.  It's the leaders who celebrated when a bill was passed to kill babies, even when they are accidentally born alive.  Celebrate ... have a party ... clap your hands ... for we can now legally murder babies!     EVIL.  

David said in verses 1 and 2 of this chapter:  1) Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck [they threaten my life].  2) I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, where the floods overwhelm me.  (Amplified version)

David is overwhelmed by personal enemies.  They are vicious and without heart.
The hostile acts projected to him by the haters are as a missile to a target and they are launched by lies.  He is hated because he stands for righteousness.  No, David was not perfect.  But, he stood against a faction of haters who demanded unrighteousness in the camp.  David even went as far to say that they were more in number than the hairs of my head ... who hate me without cause ...  mighty are those who would destroy me...those who attack me with lies.  What I did not steal must I now restore? 

A leader of strength arises in opposition to the power of the swamp.  He threatens to reduce their evil to rubble, to scrap, showing their agenda worth nothing more than waste product. The power of the swamp has lined the pockets of more than one politician.  Their greed has extended beyond our borders unto the utmost nations with a hidden corruption known only to God.   Little wonder they hate ... Little wonder they seek to destroy ... Little wonder they lie ... Little wonder they prostrate themselves in wait, ready to accuse. 

Many call this Psalm a reference to the sufferings of Christ ...  but when you drill down far enough, you will see that the real cause of persecution to Jesus and to David, was because they had a zeal for God.  

A zeal for God and biblical principles will not be tolerated among the high political powers that be if it disrupts, interferes with, or condemns their anti-god agenda.  

Read this chapter again.  Can you see what is happening in America?  Look closely at verse 12.  "They that sit in the gate speak against me: and I was the song of the drunkards."  Read it once more.  And, again.  The song of the drunkards.   

We have habitual drunkards in high places.  They are given over to the excessive use of  the intoxicating drink of destruction.  They have lost the power or will to control themselves, anxiously perched in public places so they can sing their song of condemnation and reproach against a leader who opposes them.  They loudly sing the song of the drunkards.  They are drunk with power.  Drunk with opposing God.

Do you want to know the real reason for the actions of hate from those not comfortable with with spiritual principles?  They opposed all that David stood for.  They projected their hate for God upon David.  It's not the man David that they despised so much, it's the Man Christ Jesus that they really despised.  Today, it's Christianity that they can't tolerate.  It's righteousness they can't allow to reign.  So, they take it out on the man at the top.  The man trying to drain the swamp.

Let's be clear.  David was not a perfect man.  He said in verse 5: "O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee."  Neither is perfection found in Donald Trump.  But, President Trump is in the same position today as David was long ago.   

Yes, they will continue with their plan to destroy.  Investigate, impeach ...  two words revealing their aggression of destruction against Trump.  They are drunk with this agenda. 

 It's the Song of the Drunkards:  INVESTIGATE, IMPEACH.

What did David do in this season?  He cried out to God. "... hide not thy face from thy servant....hear me speedily...draw nigh unto my soul ... deliver me because of mine enemies."

In vs. 22-28 David prays for judgment to come on those who oppose  God and who inflict suffering upon the righteous.   There is a divine judgment coming and at that day Christians will approve what God does.   

Hebrews 10:31 "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God."  

Isaiah 19:16 "In that day the Egyptians will become like women.  They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.

David closes this chapter with a declaration:  30) I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.  35) For God will save Zion  36) The seed also of his servants shall inherit it:  and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

Make haste, O God, to deliver .... Make haste.