Welcome to Bible Project podcast. Today we continue to explore the theme of the mountain. Through the narrative books of the Hebrew Bible, we've discovered that mountains are an overlapping space where heaven and earth unite, where God's presence and abundance dwells, and humans are invited

to ascend the mountain. And when they do, they're faced with a crisis. Will they surrender

everything and trust in God's wisdom so that blessing can spread out to all the land? Well,

the problem is, almost all humans cling to their own wisdom and fail this test.

So we're left waiting for a better mountaintop intercessor to come.

Whether it's Adam and Eve story, the Abraham story, the Moses story, the David story, the

Elijah story, the reader is thinking, okay, we need somebody who will go up there and surrender

and then bring

the blessing of the mountain presence down to everybody else.

This theme is what we're going to look at now in the scroll of Psalms.

And as we do, we're going to see two different pictures of the mountaintop intercessor to come.

Psalm 2 begins with the portrait of the nations in rebellious uproar against Yahweh and his

anointed. So he's going to bring violent justice, shatter the nations like pottery and break

them with a rod of iron. But then we get another portrait in Psalm 15 through 24.

It is about the arrival of a king who has suffered and been vindicated by God out of his

suffering, holds a feast on Mount Zion that summons the righteous and the nations and even

the dead. And then that king has a righteous crew who enters in with him.

They will ascend, and then Yahweh will enter and meet them in that place too.

Today, Timaki and I talk about the mountain theme and the scroll of Psalms reflecting on these

two very different portraits and how they are reconciled in the

person of Jesus. Thanks for joining us. Here we go.

Hey, Tim. Hi, John. Hey. All right. We get to jump into the scroll of Psalsalms. Psalms. Psalm. Well, the Psalms scroll.

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