Psalm 112. This psalm lakes up the theme of the blessings of those who have learned the fear of the Lord in the previous psalms. They can now delight greatly in His commandments. This is the time spoken of in Hebrews 8, which is quoted from Ezekiel 36:25-2725Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. (Ezekiel 36:25‑27). It is this time of future blessings when He will give them a new heart and a new spirit. It is the time the Lord Jesus referred to in John 3 when He told Nicodemus “ye must be born again.” Israel will be able in that day to praise the Lord for being gracious and full of compassion; they will also praise Him for His righteousness. This psalm shows the blessedness of those who fear the Lord, and at the same time it also shows when the wicked, (those who do not trust in the Lord) see the judgments of the Lord, they are grieved; they gnash with their teeth, and melt away.
Psalm 113, In this psalm they continue to call upon the servants of the Lord to praise the name of the Lord, from this time forth and forevermore—from the rising of the sun until the going down of it. The Lord’s name is to be praised over the whole earth. This is quite in cool rant with what is true at the present time. It is very evident that the owning of the Lord’s name in this earth has geographically receded in the past fifty years. But at the time of which this psalm is speaking, the whole earth will have felt something of the glory of His power. Those who have been despised for their faith and downtrodden will be exalted and set among the princes of His people.
Psalm 114 In this psalm we have called to Israel’s remembrance the miracles that the Lord wrought in delivering them out of Egypt, how He divided the Red Sea and held back the waters of Jordan. The mountains also at that time quaked at His presence. This psalm contemplates that the time is at hand for Him to work the final deliverance of His people, and the earth is called upon to tremble at the presence of the God of Jacob. Isaiah 2:1919And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. (Isaiah 2:19) speaks of the time, “when He ariseth to shake terribly the earth.” But the Lord will have taken those that put their trust in Him at this present time out of this scene. “I will also keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I come quickly,” Rev. 3:10, 1110Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. 11Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. (Revelation 3:10‑11).
Psalm 115. We have here the people of God in their praises using great care to say that the glory of their deliverances was not on account of their own strength; but it was entirely due to what He had done according to the glory of His name. They could no longer be taunted while being persecuted, “Where is now their God?” They can say, “Our God is in the heavens.” But the idols of the others were of silver and gold, the work of men’s hands which could neither see, speak, nor hear.
Their priests in times past had been the leaders in causing the people to go astray, Now they are called upon to trust in the Lord, for He is their help and shield. It is then said that the heavens are the heavens of the Lord, but the earth He has given to the children of men. So they feel called upon to praise Him from this time forth and forevermore.
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