This scripture means that everybody must praise the Lord. What is praise? Praise is the glorification given to God by man. You know what to glorify Him for, first of all that He allowed you to read this message, meaning that He allowed you to take another breath, that’s a privilege, that’s the first point of praise. Praise the Lord all you nations, means that in every language, race must give Him praise in any form
The Israelites used Psalms to praise and worship the Lord in their meetings and probably at their homes, meaning that this Psalm (Psalm117) is based on a musical background, meaning all the nations and people of all the earth, play music that will praise Him, meaning every genre of music must be to praise Him, may it be house, rap, drum&bass, jazz…etc.. all the genres were made to praise Him. God is the only Creator, and He revealed His Majesty and Creativity when He created 6.8 Billion people on the earth each of His own uniqueness, knowing each and every hair on their heads. Since we are not the same, He created different things according to the likes of His children but all these things are created to the common factor and that is to give Him glory, e.g.: some like break dancing, ballroom, Zulu dancing..etc. but it all works out to praise the Lord (Romans8:28). Therefore no one should ever criticize anyone’s work, as long as that work/entertainment is done to praise the Lord. If I like jazz, I’ll listen to Jonathan Butler who is a great gospel jazz musician…God has created him to praise Him in that form of genre and created me to love that genre so that I support his praising the Lord.
The Israelites used Psalms to praise and worship the Lord in their meetings and probably at their homes, meaning that this Psalm (Psalm117) is based on a musical background, meaning all the nations and people of all the earth, play music that will praise Him, meaning every genre of music must be to praise Him, may it be house, rap, drum&bass, jazz…etc.. all the genres were made to praise Him. God is the only Creator, and He revealed His Majesty and Creativity when He created 6.8 Billion people on the earth each of His own uniqueness, knowing each and every hair on their heads. Since we are not the same, He created different things according to the likes of His children but all these things are created to the common factor and that is to give Him glory, e.g.: some like break dancing, ballroom, Zulu dancing..etc. but it all works out to praise the Lord (Romans8:28). Therefore no one should ever criticize anyone’s work, as long as that work/entertainment is done to praise the Lord. If I like jazz, I’ll listen to Jonathan Butler who is a great gospel jazz musician…God has created him to praise Him in that form of genre and created me to love that genre so that I support his praising the Lord.
This also means that Satan himself , will like to copy that because he likes to copy the things of God and try to use them to his advantage. This is found in Daniel3 where the king gives an order to worship his statue instead of God. He made a law that when music is played everyone must bow down to his statue, therefore this meant that when prior to that music was played and people worshiped God, as it was their custom. This still carries on to this day, some music is played to worship/praise the devil and other is played to worship/praise the Almighty God. But God gave us the ability to only make music to praise Him, but men have chosen to receive influence from Satan and compose music that praises Satan.
This range is a declaration to the whole world to
PRAISE THE LORD ALL YOU PEOPLE
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