s little attraction. Far
different it is with the heart which knows Him and has given Him the
place He is worthy of, the first place. That heart delights to
meditate on all His Glory and longs for the time when He will
appear, and when at last, crowned with many crowns, He will assume
His righteous rule. Great is our joy and delight when we follow
through the Scriptures His earthly life so full of His moral Glory.
Or when we think of Him as He died for us and bore in His own body
on the tree our sins; we praise Him for His mighty Love. But what
joy to think of Him as coming at last into that which belongs to Him
the Lord of Glory, by right of redemption, when He will take
possession of this earth and claim its Satan ruled kingdoms for His
own. Then it will be true, "The earth is the Lord's and the fulness
thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein." Then the Seraph's
song will be realized, "The whole earth is full of His Glory."
How much the Word has to say about the King and His Glory; and we
have never yet taken hold of it with our dull hearts! Take the Book
of Psalms, for instance, that book which has been so belittled by
the destructive criticism. While we read so much in those precious
productions of the Holy Spirit of Christ's sufferings, His
humiliation, His prayers, His death, we may find there much more
about Him as King and His coming manifestation.
The tumult of the nations, as predicted in the _Second_ Psalm, and
about to be realized in our own times, the tumult of the nations
against the Lord and His Anointed, will be silenced by the coming of
the King. "I have set my King upon my holy hill of Zion;" this is
what God declares. The God-man Christ Jesus, the Man, who is with
Him now is, His King. His destiny is the government of the nations,
with a rod of iron.
The entire _Twenty-first_ Psalm tells out the Glory of the King.
Christian expositors have rarely discovered this. But Jewish
exponents always knew it. Saith a leading Jewish authority of the
middle ages: "Our old teachers have always applied this Psalm as
meaning the King Messiah." Read its stanzas:
"The King shall joy in Thy strength, Jehovah;
And in Thy salvation, how greatly shall He rejoice.
Thou hast given Him His heart's desire,
And hast not withholden the requests of His lips.
For Thou hast met Him with the blessings of goodness;
Thou hast set a crown of pure gold on His head.
He asked Life of Thee;
Thou
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