This Psalm closes this mystic season; for now we reach the second morning—the eighth or resurrection day—the opening of the kingdom or “the day of the Lord.” It needs no commentary to show or prove this. (See Heb. 2.) This is the morning anticipated by Jesus or by the godly one at His rising up from sleep in Psalm 3. It is the praise which had been just previously vowed (See Psa. 7:1717I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high. (Psalm 7:17)); the wicked having now come to an end, and the congregation having been gathered.
The Lord quotes it in reference to the hosannas which welcomed Him on His royal visitation to Jerusalem (Matt. 21:1616And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise? (Matthew 21:16).) For those hosannas were, in spirit or in principle, the praises of the kingdom, as this Psalm is, and creation joins the chorus.
In Psa. 2 we saw the royalty of Messiah, Son of David, Son of God; here we see the lordship of the Son of Man, His dominion over the works of God. All these glories of His will be realized and displayed in millennial days.
NOTE—According to this we might pause here, and read Psalm 3-8 in connection, leading the worshipper, in spirit, into the kingdom. And others have observed that our history every twenty-four hours (the period passed thus in these Psalms); is in like manner a kind of mystery. For after spending the day, at night we lay aside our clothes and enter into sleep, the emblem of death, and there abide (with visions in the spirit) till the morning wakes us, and then we are clothed again, as we shall be in the second morning, or the morning of the resurrection and glory.
Note—I must add another short notice. 1 Corinthians 15:27-2827For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. 28And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. (1 Corinthians 15:27‑28), illustrates the way in which ulterior scriptures enlarge upon, without disturbing, preceding scriptures. The Apostle establishes every syllable of the Psalmist, giving Christ dominion according to Psalm 8. But then he goes onward. For the Psalmist had left, as well as put, the universal lordship or kingdom in Christ’s hand; but the Apostle, reasoning upon the force of the Psalmist’s words, is instructed by the same Spirit to reveal a scene of glory which lay beyond the kingdom thus left by the Psalmist in the hand of Christ.