Psalm 24.
In Psalm 22 we had the death of Christ, the foundation of all our blessing; in Psalm 23 is the present portion of the sheep of Christ; and in Psalm 24, scenes of glory are reached. It is earthly glory, for as we have before noted, the Psalms are for an earthly people, the Jews primarily.
First, the claim of Jehovah to the earth and its fulness; the world and they that dwell therein, is set forth. He made it, and though Satan has taken sovereignty over it (as far as God has allowed it), He will presently make good His claim, and rule the world in righteousness by that Alan ( Jesus) whom He hath ordained.
And if He will claim the world and take possession again, who shall ascend into the mount of Jehovah? Who shall stand in His holy place? He that hath blameless hands and a pure heart, who lifteth not up his soul unto vanity, nor sweareth deceitfully,—he shall receive blessing from Jehovah, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is the generation of them that seek unto Him, that seek thy face, 0 Jacob (or, Thy face in Jacob).
From these words it is clear that saved Gentiles are included. Jacob (Israel) is to have the preeminence, as shown us in Isaiah 2:2, 3,2And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. (Isaiah 2:2‑3) and other passages of Scripture, in the day of the Lord, but many Gentiles will be saved then, also.
But if the Gentiles are to be blessed, as well as the Jews, in that day, He whom Jerusalem rejected and crucified, must enter in power. So we have the four closing verses, telling of the lowly Jesus, once thorn-crowned, now glorified, entering the gates of glory as the victorious Deliverer —proclaimed here as Himself Jehovah of hosts.
Before then He will have come for His heavenly people, and taken them out of the world to their heavenly home (John 14:33And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:3); 1 Cor. 15:51, 5251Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (1 Corinthians 15:51‑52); 1 Thess. 4:1518).
And how do you stand, reader, in connection with all this? Are you, like the Christians in Thessalonica, awaiting God's Son from the heavens, whom He raised from among the dead, Jesus, our deliverer from the coming wrath?
Messages of God’s Love 6/15/1930