Saturday 7 November 2015

Background to Psalms 72



A typically Messianic Psalm is the 72. In it the reign of Solomon is evidently in mind, but only as a type of the wider reign of the king's greater Son, and hence as the Psalm progresses we find our thoughts carried far beyond the young king to another Son of David, Whose dominion is to extend to "the ends of the earth." "His name shall endure forever; His name shall be continued as long as the sun. And men shall be blessed in Him; all nations shall call Him blessed." The type gradually recedes as the song advances until our thoughts come to be concentrated entirely upon the great Antitype, the glorious Prince of Peace. To this typically Messianic group belong the Eighth Psalm, the Sixteenth, Eighteenth, Fortieth, the Fifty-Fifth, Sixty-Ninth, Eighty-Ninth, One Hundred and Ninth, and others. Taken from http://www.westminsterconfession.org/worship/christ-in-the-psalms.php 
For more information on Messianic Psalms watch John Hutchinson, Biola University, here.
Which part of this psalm stands out for you? Write it out.

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