Saturday

Related Verses
Psa. 45:16-17
16 In the place of Your fathers will be Your sons; You will make them princes in all the earth.
17 I will cause Your name to be remembered in all generations; Therefore the peoples will praise You forever and ever.

Phil. 3:20
20 For our commonwealth exists in the heavens, from which also we eagerly await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Luke 21:27
27 And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

Psa. 23:1-3
1 Jehovah is my Shepherd; I will lack nothing.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside waters of rest.
3 He restores my soul; He guides me on the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.

Psa. 24:7-8,10
7 Lift up your heads, O gates; And be lifted up, O long enduring doors; And the King of glory will come in.
8 Who is the King of glory? Jehovah strong and mighty! Jehovah mighty in battle!
10 Who is this King of glory? Jehovah of hosts – He is the King of glory!

Hag. 2:7
7 And I will shake all the nations, and the Desire of all the nations will come; and I will fill this house with glory, says Jehovah of hosts.

Related Reading
[In Psalm 45:16] fathers signifies Christ’s forefathers in the flesh, sons signifies the overcomers of Christ as His descendants, and princes signifies the overcomers of Christ as His co-kings, who will reign with Christ over the nations. 

No one can solve the problems of today’s world. Only Christ the King can solve these problems. When Christ reigns on earth, the overcomers will be His helpers in the kingship, His co-kings. The sons of Christ, the overcomers, will be the princes reigning with Christ over the nations. 

We need to see not only the beauty of Christ that is in Christ Himself and the beauty of Christ that is in the church but also the beauty of Christ that is in all His descendants, all His members, as the princes. If we see Christ’s beauty in these three ways, we will have a complete view, the full picture, of His beauty. 

[Verse 17] reveals that Christ’s name will be remembered in all generations through the overcoming saints, and Christ will be praised by the nations through His overcoming and co-reigning saints. (Life-study of the Psalms, 2nd ed., pp. 267-268)

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Psalm 24:7-10…shows us the victorious Christ as the coming King in God’s eternal kingdom. Verse 7 says, “Lift up your heads, O gates; / And be lifted up, O long enduring doors; / And the King of glory will come in.” The gates are of the cities of the nations. The doors are of the houses of the people. The long enduring doors indicate waiting and expecting with long endurance (Phil. 3:20; 1 Cor. 1:7). This indicates that the people of the earth have been waiting and expecting Christ’s second coming. In Haggai 2:7 we are told that Christ is the Desire of all the nations. All the nations, in a general way, are expecting Christ to come, but Christ will not come quickly according to our human concept. Thus, we need to lift up our heads and await and expect His coming with long endurance. 

Because we must wait for His coming with long endurance, we have a tendency to drop our heads in discouragement. This is why the psalmist says, “Lift up your heads.” If we expected someone dear to us to come and he does not come, we would drop our heads. But if we received a phone call from him, telling us that he is coming, we would lift up our heads; that is, we would be encouraged to expect his coming. 

We have to lift up our heads, because the King of glory will come in (Psa. 24:7, 9; Luke 21:27; Matt. 25:31). We must get ready to welcome Him. Psalm 24:8 asks, “Who is the King of glory?” The King of glory is “Jehovah strong and mighty! / Jehovah mighty in battle!” Jehovah is Jesus, and Jesus is the embodiment of the Triune God in resurrection. He is the One who is strong in fighting and victorious. 

Verse 7 says, “Be lifted up,” but verse 9 says, “Lift up.” To be lifted up means that we are still weak, needing someone to move us. But to lift up means that we have become stronger. We can act to lift up ourselves. The King of glory, whom we welcome, is Jehovah of hosts…Jehovah is the incarnated, crucified, and resurrected Triune God. He is the One in His resurrection coming back to possess the entire earth, to take it as His kingdom. The King of glory is Jehovah of hosts, the consummated Triune God embodied in the victorious and coming Christ (v. 10). 

We have seen that Psalm 23 reveals Christ as the Shepherd in His resurrection and that Psalm 24 reveals Christ as the King in God’s kingdom…Hallelujah for our Christ being our Shepherd today and our King in the future! (Life-study of the Psalms, 2nd ed., pp. 149-150) 

Further Reading: Life-study of the Psalms, msgs. 11—12, 20—21, 31; Life-study of Ezekiel, msg. 11; Life-study of Joshua, msg. 9; CWWL, 1967, vol. 2, “An Autobiography of a Person in the Spirit,” ch. 3

Further Reading:
Further reading: Life-study of Genesis, msg. 11

Hymn: #971
1 God’s eternal purpose
Is to join with man,
Causing man, His vessel,
To be born again,
His own life imparting,
Filling to the brim;
Man may thus express Him,
And be one with Him.

2 God in His own image
Hath created man,
That he may be able
To fulfill His plan;
That he may receive Him
As the tree of life
To become His fulness
As to man the wife.

3 In His life’s rich flowing
Man will be transformed
Into precious substance
And to Him conformed.
Thus will man be builded
As His counterpart,
Thus to be His dwelling,
Satisfy His heart.

4 ’Tis the holy city,
New Jerusalem;
With His saints God mingles,
Makes His home with them.
He becomes their content,
His expression they;
They shall share His glory,
One with Him for aye.

5 He’s the very center,
Ruling on the throne;
By His life the power,
Saints are kept in one.
By His light of glory,
They are kept in light,
Harmony enjoying
In divine delight.

6 He’s their living water,
And their food supply;
All their thirst and hunger
He doth satisfy.
He’s for them the temple,
In Himself they live,
In His constant presence
Worship ever give.