This little Psalm seems to present the righteous in the days of “the fool,” the Remnant in the time of the last apostate faction.
Psalm 15:2-5 may be read as the divine oracle replying to the prophet’s inquiry in Psalm 15:1.
It is not the sinner’s title to the kingdom which is here discussed. That would be treated very differently. It is the Remnant, as manifesting themselves in righteousness, in contrast with the evil doers of Psalm 14. See the same thing in Isaiah 33:15-16.
It is character and not title that is the subject. Of course it need not be said, that the title of all is one and the same—the worthy and accepted blood of Jesus.
NOTE—This Psalm may he considered as closing a series of meditations and experiences which opened with Psalm 11. For they are all the utterances of a soul burdened with a sense of the wickedness of the day, and calling with desire on God—and as clearly and surely the last days are contemplated, and those utterances are of the Remnant then.
The challenge in Psalm 15:1 may bring to mind similar language in Psalm 24:3. But there the answer given to it, at the close of the Psalm, introduces Messiah Himself much more distinctly and personally than it does here. By this I am also reminded of Revelation 5:2. For we have a challenge there likewise. “Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?” And the glorious answer there given again introduces Messiah, only in still fuller and richer and sublimer characters, as the Lamb that had been slain, and the Lion of the tribe of Judah.