terrors" (vs. 19). The word "utter ly" suggests a sudden stopping or a coming to an immediate termin ation. After World War I, a gangster, Serge Rubinstein, came to the United States. He had smuggled one million dollars from Japan, fraudulently gained ownership of a large mining corporation in Eng land, and amassed a dishonest for tune of five million dollars in New York City. All of this was achieved in only eight years' time. One day he was found dead in the bedroom of his six-story Fifth Avenue man sion and at the age of only 46. New Yorkers were astonished, while many remarked, "He cer tainly got what was coming to him." Prosperity of the unsaved is really like a dream (vs. 20). Have you ever imagined yourself weal thy? Maybe you have had a dream of this type only to wake up and find that you are still in your same old dingy bedroom. Life for the unsaved is like a dream. At death they will be rudely awakened to reality. All their riches will be gone. God will despise the images (the "castles in the sky") of the wicked when they awake. He gives no consideration to their wealth. What a terrible future the ungodly face. H. G. Wells, the well-known English historian, ridiculed Chris tianity and was confused at the end of his life. Utterly baffled and be wildered the title of his last book, Mind at the End of Its Tether, re veals something of his frustration. Asaph awakens to the truth of God's economy, "So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast be fore Thee" (vs. 22). The translation would indicate, "I was so stupid I was like a hippopotamus." This Page 19
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