Day 174 - Psalm 22

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We shall group Psalm 22, 23 and 24. We could call them the cross, the crook (shepherd’s rod) and the crown of glory. Or another way, Psa. 22, Yesterday; Psa. 23, Today; Psa. 24, Forever. Or Psa. 22, the Good Shepherd; Psa. 23, the Great Shepherd; Psa. 24, The Chief Shepherd. The very language of the Lord Jesus as He suffered on the cross one thousand years later.
V.1 When He was bearing our sins on the cross, God turned His face from Him, because He is holy and hates sin.
V.4-5 He says that when Israel cried to God, He heard them. But when He cries, God does not answer! He is forsaken of God.
V.16-18 The exact way in which the Lord Jesus was treated one thousand years before it took place. The piercing of His blessed hands and feet and the parting of His garments.
V.21 Ends the words of the Lord’s sufferings on the cross.
V.22 The work of the cross is finished. The Lord has borne all the judgment and now He is happy to “declare Thy name unto My brethren.” In John 20:17,17Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. (John 20:17) we hear the Lord saying “I ascend unto My Father and your Father.”
He wasn’t meeting Satan at the cross, as many say, but meeting God and the judgment for sin. He did this as the Son of Man. In His life He glorified His Father, but on the cross He glorified God as the sin-bearer.
V.25 The “great congregation”, refers to the millennium (“E” on your chart) when Jews and Gentiles will follow the Lord Jesus in praise of Jehovah.