Overview. In this book the eternity of Elohim, Israel’s Adonai, is seen to have been at all times their dwelling-place. In Psalm 91 Messiah takes His place with Israel, and in Psalms 94-100 Jehovah comes into the world to establish the kingdom in glory and divine order. It is the introduction of the First-begotten (as found in Hebrews 1) into the earth, announced by the cry of the remnant. We might say “The Only-Begotten in Connection With Israel” is the heading of this book.
Divine Names. Along with the covenant name of Jehovah, we find the Most High and the Almighty — names which connect the people with the millennial accomplishment of the promises made to Abraham, delivering the people by judgment from the oppression of the heathen and destroying the wicked.
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Psalm 90 is Israel’s connection with Jehovah from the beginning as being their dwelling-place from of old (Ex. 15) and looking to His return with the word of faith, “How long?”
In Psalm 91 we have all the titles of God in the Old Testament. We never find a distinctive Christian feeling—a child’s feeling — in the psalms, except so far as we partake of Christ’s sufferings, and then in this we get Christian feeling. You never get God as the Father in the Psalms. The church is found in Christ only, in the Old Testament. In Isaiah 50, “Who is he that shall condemn me?” applies to Christ. In Romans 8 the same language is applied to the church.
In this psalm the Messiah is taking His place, with Israel, of trust in Jehovah. The former psalm goes back to Jehovah, Moses’s God; this goes back to the Almighty, Abraham’s God. If you know the secret place of the “Most High” as your dwelling-place, you will have the full place of blessing in abiding under the shadow of the “Almighty,” Abraham’s God. In verse 2 Messiah says, “I will say of Jehovah He is My God.” Thus He leads Israel to dwell where in their unfaithfulness they had never dwelt before. In verse 9 Israel speaks, addressing Messiah. In verse 14 Jehovah Himself speaks of Him as the One who has set His love upon Him. It is a very interesting psalm in this way.
Psalm 92 is Jehovah taking His place as Most High with the righteous, and it is a good thing to give thanks.
Psalm 93 states the grand and blessed results. Jehovah reigns and is set in His place.
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Psalm 94 is the cry of the remnant in Israel for vengeance, and in verse 20 they ask, Is Jehovah’s throne to be in fellowship with the throne of the beast and of antichrist?
In Psalms 95-100 we have the details of the coming in of the Only-begotten into the world, coming as Jehovah from heaven and at length taking His place between the cherubim and calling up the world to worship Him there.
In Psalm 95 the remnant summons Israel, while it is called “today,” to come and worship. If they do not, they cannot when judgment has come.
Psalm 96. The nations are summoned to repent. It is the preaching of the everlasting gospel of Revelation 14:6-76And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 7Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. (Revelation 14:6‑7).
Psalm 97. He Himself is actually coming.
Psalm 98. He has come and showed Himself and has overcome His enemies.
Psalm 99. He is great in Zion and sitting between the cherubim.
Psalm 100. The Gentiles are summoned to come up and worship. In Psalm 96 “Go-im” (the heathen) become “Ammim” (people belonging to God). These psalms are the everlasting gospel in Revelation 14.
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Psalm 101 describes the principles on which Messiah will govern the house and the land during the millennium.
Psalm 102 is one of the most remarkable of the psalms; it presents Christ in a way divinely admirable and affecting. It raises the question that if the temple be rebuilt and Israel be restored, what about Messiah, for He has been cut off ? The answer is that He is Jehovah who made the heavens. “Of old hast Thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of Thy hands.” It is the most beautiful psalm in the book. He is eternal in being, and His days have no end. It is more than in verse 12. There Messiah says, “Thou, O Lord, shalt endure forever.” Here Jehovah says to Him, “Thou art the same.” No creature is that. He is and was — the Existing One. First, He was before all things, and He is after all things have ended, and He is always the same, the eternal “Now.” And second, “Thy years shall have no end”: That is in relation to time. The answer of Jehovah begins at verse 25.
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Psalm 103. Messiah praises Jehovah, who forgives sins and heals in Israel. The Lord took this up in title when He healed the paralytic in the gospel and said, “Thy sins be forgiven thee.”
Psalm 104. Messiah praises Jehovah in creation.
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Psalm 105. He offers thanksgiving to Jehovah, and He calls on the seed of Abraham and Jacob to remember how He is making good His covenant in His dealings of old in their favor and in faithfulness toward them.
Psalm 106 is praises to the Lord for His patience toward them in all their failure, “for His mercy endureth forever.”