Psalm 82

It seems like this Psalm should be read just before reading the Book of Revelation

Psa 82:1    A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.

Psa 82:2    How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

Psa 82:3    Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Psa 82:4    Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

Psa 82:5    They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

Psa 82:6    I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

Psa 82:7    But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

Psa 82:8    Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.

Perhaps we should remember our God given purpose.

Gen 1:26    And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Gen 1:27    So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Gen 1:28    And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Or the task given to the Church.

Mat 28:18    And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

Mat 28:19    Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Mat 28:20    Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

The above should be read with the full conrext of Jesus' teaching in John 10.

Joh 10:25    Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.

Joh 10:26    But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.

Joh 10:27    My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

Joh 10:28    And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

Joh 10:29    My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

Joh 10:30    I and my Father are one.

Joh 10:31    Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

Joh 10:32    Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?

Joh 10:33    The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.

Joh 10:34    Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

Joh 10:35    If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

Joh 10:36    Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

Joh 10:37    If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

Joh 10:38    But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

Joh 10:39    Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,

Joh 10:40    And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode.

John Gill writes...

Psalms 82:6

I have said, ye are gods,.... In the law, Exo 21:6 or they were so by his appointment and commission; he constituted them judges and magistrates, invested them with such an office, by which they came to have this title; see Rom 13:1, and so our Lord interprets these words, that they were gods "to whom" the word of God came, which gave them a commission and authority to exercise their office, Joh 10:35, or rather "against whom" it came, pronouncing the sentence of death on them, as in Psa 82:7, to which the reference is; declaring, that though they were gods by office, yet were mortal men, and should die. The Targum is, "I said, as angels are ye accounted"; and so judges and civil magistrates had need to be as angels, and to have the wisdom of them; see2Sa 14:20. Jarchi interprets it of angels, but magistrates are undoubtedly meant:

and all of you are children of the most High; the Targum here again renders it,

"the angels of the most High:''

and so Aben Ezra explains it of them who are called the sons of God, Job 38:7 but men in power are meant, who, because of their eminency and dignity, their high office, post, and place, are so called; see Gen 6:2.