If Messiah is King, and God, who could be His daughter? Whoever she is, she is glorious on the inside. Beautifully adorned. Accompanied by pure virgins, all of whom will come into the Palace with the King.
The Mystery of the Godhead confuses us a bit here, but the curtain is lifted a little in verse 14. The King’s daughter will be led to the King. If for King’s daughter we use the term “princess”, we see immediately that though she is a daughter of God the Father, she is the bride of God the Son!
Most of the commentaries see none other than the Holy Church of Jesus as this beautiful glorious woman.
Are we living lives now that are glorious within? Are we beautiful in His sight? Are we bound for an Eternal Palace where dwells eternal Love?
Psalm 49, inscription. Who were the “sons of Korah” and when did they write?
The lineage of Korah and his descendants is a fascinating one. Korah was the grandson of Kohath, one of the three sons of Levi. Being Levitical and therefore involved in religious duties, Korah should have grown up wanting to serve the Lord. But something went wrong. In the time in the wilderness, Korah developed jealousy, bitterness, anger, and vented it on Moses. You will recall the confrontation involving Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, in which awful judgments of God had to fall on the offenders.
But not end of story. Korah had sons who were not a part of this rebellion. And other descendants, like Samuel, who were very close to the heart of God. Korahites are mentioned in connection with various Tabernacle functions, and even military exercises. But we remember them most of all as being a group of musicians who led King David’s worship team.
They more than erased the original Korah’s reputation with such sentiments as “As the deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.” And, “How lovely is your dwelling place, O God.” And “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.”
A potent musical force in the days of the “sweet Psalmist of Israel.”
Psalm 49:15. Another signal that God revealed His truth about life after death?
Looks like it to me. Whatever your translation of the Hebrew word here (hell, grave, Sheol, etc), if you are delivered from its, you are alive again! That means resurrection, doesn’t it? So not only David, but the “sons of Korah” also were aware of this phenomenon.
Psalm 50:4-5. What does this passage seem to foretell?
Beginning in verse 3, actually, we see God “coming” and not keeping silence. Does the New Testament not say that Jesus, Who is God, will come with a shout?
“Fire devours before Him.” Are we not taught that Jesus will take vengeance on His enemies when He comes?
Then he “summons the heavens and earth, to judge His people.” Indeed, we all must stand before the judgment seat of Christ when He appears.
“Gather my godly ones to Me.” In the same series of events, the saints are caught up (they call it “raptured” today) , gathered to Him from the four winds of heaven, I read in Matthew 25.
Seems pretty clear, doesn’t it?
Psalm 60:4. “Given a banner?” What does that mean?
God gives a banner for display because of the truth. He gives it to those who fear Him. What is the banner? How is it displayed? How does it magnify truth? Who are those who fear Him?
From Israel’s point of view, this could mean that under David there is now unity in the land. The factions have come together, we’re all on the same side. We raise the same flag, espouse the same cause, serve the same God.
If we are to bring this into our own generation, we can talk about the possibility of our David, who has made us one with Him and all His people throughout the world, seen and unseen, here and in Heaven. If Jesus be David, then what is it Jesus has given to us to hold up against the nations, but His truth?
The Gospel message, or the entire Book that contains that message, can well be considered our banner, under which we march: the truth of God.
Psalm 68:13-14. What is actually being said here?
A poetic but factual description of God and His dealings with Israel is Psalm 68. Some of the language, though, seems a bit obscure, regardless of the translation used. I was comforted to read that the commentators agree that this is one of the most difficult passages of Scripture to decipher.
Some say that the allusions in the text are to poems that were extant in that day but which have long since vanished from accessibility.
The general tenor seems to be that although Israel at one time was abased in the most horrific of circumstances (“lay down among the pots, or sheepfolds”), God has raised them up to the place now where they are like bejeweled doves, flying in the heavens above all their former woes.
Verse 14 is, perhaps, a reference to God’s work in defending Israel against foreign kings and thus beautifying the area until it was as pure as white snow.
Difficult work here. But as in all difficult incomprehensible passages, we are relieved to know that there is nothing essential to our salvation here.
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