The Lord of Glory: Meditations on the person, the work and glory of our Lord Jesus ChristGaebelein, Arno Clemens
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The Lord of Glory: Meditations on the person, the work and glory of our Lord Jesus Christ
Gaebelein, Arno Clemens
Jesus Christ -- Meditations; Jesus Christ -- Person and offices
The tumult of the nations, as predicted in the _Second_ Psalm, and
about to be realized in our own times, the tumult of the nations
against the Lord and His Anointed, will be silenced by the coming of
the King. "I have set my King upon my holy hill of Zion;" this is
what God declares. The God-man Christ Jesus, the Man, who is with
Him now is, His King. His destiny is the government of the nations,
with a rod of iron.
The entire _Twenty-first_ Psalm tells out the Glory of the King.
Christian expositors have rarely discovered this. But Jewish
exponents always knew it. Saith a leading Jewish authority of the
middle ages: "Our old teachers have always applied this Psalm as
meaning the King Messiah." Read its stanzas:
"The King shall joy in Thy strength, Jehovah;
And in Thy salvation, how greatly shall He rejoice.
Thou hast given Him His heart's desire,
And hast not withholden the requests of His lips.
For Thou hast met Him with the blessings of goodness;
Thou hast set a crown of pure gold on His head.
He asked Life of Thee;
Thou gavest Him length of days forever and ever.
His Glory is great through Thy salvation;
Majesty and splendor hast Thou laid upon Him.
For Thou hast made Him to be blessings forever;
Thou hast filled Him with joy by Thy countenance.
For the King confideth in Jehovah.
Through the loving kindness of the Highest
He shall not be moved."
Then comes His future action, when He whom faith sees now crowned
with Majesty and Splendor, who rejoices in the Presence of God,
appears to execute the judgments of God.
"Thy hand shall find out all thine enemies;
Thy right hand shall find out those that hate Thee.
Thou shalt make them as a fiery furnace
In the time of Thy presence.
Jehovah shall swallow them up in his anger,
And the fire shall devour them.
Their fruit shall Thou destroy from the earth,
And their seed from among the children of men.
For they intended evil against Thee,
They imagined a mischievous device,
Which they could not execute.
For Thou wilt make them turn their back,
Thou wilt make ready Thy bowstring against their faces.
Be Thou exalted Jehovah in Thine own strength;
We will sing and celebrate Thy power."
And in the _Twenty-fourth_ Psalm we have prophetically that
triumphant shout, which will be heard when the King comes
back to enter His City, Jerusalem, again.
"Lift up your heads, ye gates
And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors;
And the King of Glory shall come in.
Who is this King of Glory?
Jehovah strong and mighty,
Jehovah mighty in battle."
The _Forty-fifth_ Psalm is a song of the Beloved, touching the King.
He is described as coming in His Majesty and Splendor, how He deals
with His enemies and that He will be surrounded by His own redeemed
ones.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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