Psalm 59

Psalm 59
Psalm 59 in point of time takes us back to 1 Samuel 19:11, 12,11Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain. 12So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped. (1 Samuel 19:11‑12) when king Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, and to kill him in the morning, and his wife let him escape by a window. After the same order the remnant of the latter day will be hunted and persecuted, but their minds are fixed upon a deliverance God will bring to them. The closing verses, 16 and 17, show that there will be a day of joy for those who are persecuted for God's sake, and that, that hope, that prospect will cheer the sorely tried saints of the great tribulation period. (See Luke 6:22, 2322Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. 23Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets. (Luke 6:22‑23)). The secret of happiness is not found by believers apart from trial in one form or another, and sharing the rejection of their Messiah these Israelites will enter the joy of their Lord when trials are forever behind them.
O, that we whose present, as well as eternal portion, is so much more blessed than theirs, may know more of communion with the Lord in the time of His absence, and reckoned more like the great apostle, that to be present in the body is expressed as, to be absent from the Lord!