I watched that in Youtube, by clicking the Youtube icon, so I could browse the boards while listening. This video on the same subject auto-played next:
The spokesman on the video has adopted Augustine's interpretation by assuming the words "ye are gods" are referring to Israel's election, citing Deut 14:1-2 as justification:
"It is this "chosen-ness" of the Jewish people that apparently places them in the category of gods... It refers to the destiny that God has in mind for those who are called and chosen."
The Lord appears to be mocking such claims in Isaiah:
"Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together." -- Isa 41:22-23 KJV
Nevertheless, there are similar statements in Psalms 82 and Deut 14 that are worth considering:
"Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked." -- Ps 82:3-4 KJV
"And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest." -- Deu 14:29 KJV
One of the sins of Israel in Malachi that led to the curse was this:
"And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts." -- Mal 3:5 KJV
The Lord insinuates in the following statements that the most serious of those crimes is withholding judgment from the fatherless, widows and strangers:
"Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation." -- Mal 3:8-9 KJV
That came from these commandments from the days of Moses:
"Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless." -- Exo 22:21-24 KJV
"When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; Then thou shalt say before the Lord thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them." -- Deu 26:12-13 KJV
"Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen." -- Deu 27:19 KJV
And, so, Israel was accursed:
"For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:" -- Rom 9:3 KJV
Why would Israel break such a serious commandment? Perhaps because they began to follow strange gods that taught greed, and to marginalized those in need, such as these gods:
"God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: "How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked." They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken." -- Ps 82:1-5 ESV
Those gods were controlled by this one:
"And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and said to him, "To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will." -- Luk 4:5-6 ESV
That god was stripped of his control over the nations at the cross:
"And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me." -- Mat 28:18 ESV
"Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back, but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world--he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him." -- Rev 12:7-9 ESV
"I said, "You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince." Arise [or, Be resurrected], O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!" -- Ps 82:6-8 ESV
The video does make what appears to be a valid case in the statement:
"It refers to the destiny that God has in mind for those who are called and chosen."
The scripture seems to indicate that the faithful children of Israel have been adopted to replace the rebellious sons of God in heaven:
"And now if ye will indeed hear my voice, and keep my covenant, ye shall be to me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is mine. And ye shall be to me a royal priesthood and a holy nation: these words shalt thou speak to the children of Israel." -- Exo 19:5-6 LXX
"For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God." -- Rom 8:19 ESV
"But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light." -- 1Pet 2:9 ESV
I assume those are the saints of the Most High who receive the kingdom:
"But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, forever and ever.'" -- Dan 7:18 ESV
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