Bible Questions and Answers

What is the meaning of Psalm 91? Is it connected to Satan in Luke 4:9-11?

Psalm 91:11-16 For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways. 12 In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone. 13 You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot. 14 Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name. 15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honour him. 16 With long life I will satisfy him, And show him My salvation.

Luke 4:9-11 Then he brought Him to Jerusalem, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here. 10 For it is written: He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you, 11 and in their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.

The Psalm is prophesying of God’s future care for Jesus, speaking, as it were to him. As he grew and read the scriptures, he would believe that it was true.

It is quoted in the temptation in the wilderness in both Matthew and Luke’s account. ‘It is written’ is a reference to Psalm 91 v.11&12 where it was written. It meant that Jesus could not be harmed until the time came for him to voluntarily submit to crucifixion.

Jesus set his love upon his Father.

John 14:30,31 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world (death) is coming, and he has nothing in Me (death couldn’t hold him because he had not sinned). 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do...

Acts 2:24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.

I hope you find this helpful.

God bless,
Glenn