Psalms 100, 101.
Psalms 100, as its title tells, is a psalm of thanksgiving. “All ye lands” in verse 1 is properly read “all the earth,” or “all the land” (of Israel)
The ground or occasion for thanksgiving is “His mercy (or loving kindness) endureth forever, and His truth (or faithfulness) from generation to generation.”
Once His people, but having lost all title, Israel will again be His people, and the sheep of His pasture, because of immeasurable mercy. Thus His gates may he entered with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Psalm 100 ends the series of psalms presenting the coming of Messiah, Jesus-Jehovah, to set up a rule of righteousness in the world, and to take the throne of Israel.
Psalm 101 speaks of the King, of the principles according to which He will rule when He takes the kingdom in the name of the LORD (Jehovah). David wrote it under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit for his great Son, when He should take the throne as Israel’s King (John 1:41, 4941He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. (John 1:41)
49Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel. (John 1:49)), so he asks “When wilt Thou come to Me?”—when will the day of the Solomon-like reign of glory begin?
Psalm 101 is simple in character, and seems to call for little of exposition. In it we see the holiness and righteousness, the grace and perfectness of the Lord Jesus when He “the same Jesus” (Acts 1:1111Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. (Acts 1:11)), will again be on earth; no longer the despised and rejected of men, the man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, but the Son of Psalm 2, and the Branch of Isaiah 11.
ML 08/02/1931