Psalms

Psalms

Israel was waiting for what Moses had promised: “The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to you.” Acts 3:22.

They were waiting for the Messiah who was to destroy the ungodly and establish God’s kingdom. When they journeyed to the feasts, they sang about the Messiah, about the battle He had to fight to destroy the ungodly, about when He would come to power, that He had become King on earth, and about the glory that would follow.

Those who sang felt that they shared in the same battle for the same goal as the Messiah. They presented themselves in the service of God to establish God’s kingdom on earth, and in this work they felt they were a pattern of the Messiah and could prophesy about Him.

“I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.” Acts 13:22. “For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep . . . .” V. 36. David was a prophet who prophesied concerning the Messiah’s resurrection, foreseeing that His soul would not be left in Hades and that His flesh would not see corruption. Acts 2:29-32.

In the last part of the heading of Psalm 31 we read [in the Norwegian Bible]: “David as a type of the Messiah through his sufferings under the persecution of an ungodly world, and how he bore up under them.” Since they did not believe that it was Jesus who showed Himself to them, He said: “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.” Luke 24:44.

In other words, we can say that the Psalms are prophecies concerning the Messiah, Armageddon, and the Millennium. David was a pattern in his battle to carry out God’s will; and if we want to get consolation and guidance from the Psalms, we have to enter into the same battle and serve God’s counsel in our lifetime. Then we will also enter into the same prophetic spirit in which the Psalms were written.

It is written about Jesus that in the days of His flesh He offered up prayers and supplications with vehement cries and tears. If you want to read some of His prayers and what He said when He cried out, then you have to read in the Book of Psalms. For example, read the 31st and the 69th Psalm. And when you are baptized by one Spirit to be His body, with the result that you present yourself to do God’s will on earth as it is done in heaven, you will have fellowship with Him in His sufferings. Jesus’ need and His prayers will become your need and your prayers. When you are being saved as a father with grown-up children and have to carry out God’s will in your home, you will be strengthened by reading Psalm 101.

We read about David when he was anointed king and was to destroy idol worship and unrighteousness and get the people to keep God’s laws and serve Him alone: “Also I will set his hand over the sea [the people], and his right hand over the rivers [that flow into the sea]. He shall cry to Me, ‘You are My Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.’” Ps. 89:25-26. Here you will find consolation and guidance as a father. Put one hand on the home and your right hand on the things that are brought into the home and cry out to God. Throw out magazines, novels, tobacco and ash trays, radio, plus all worldly and vain photographs. Clean up and make your home into a house of prayer and a Millennium right in front of Satan’s nose and all the evil spirit powers. You will have to fight an Armageddon battle, but fear not. Read Psalms 110, 132, 97, and several more.

Many believers sit in their own home trodden down by ungodly people and the spirit of the times. They don’t think it is Christian to fight. They are like salt that has lost its flavor and are trodden down by ungodly people at their place of employment and wherever they are. They think they should be patient and tolerate everything. But our warfare is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places. Eph. 6:11-13.

Are you going to be patient with Satan and the spiritual hosts of wickedness? Are you going to watch while they turn your home into a den of thieves or set the tone where you are? Do you not know that He who is in you is stronger than he who is in the world? 1 John 4:4. Therefore put on God’s full armor so you can resist on the evil day and stand, after you have overcome everything.

All of us have an area for which we bear responsibility and in which we have to stand in the Messiah’s place and drive out the evil spirits, stop the mouth of the ungodly, and let the light from heaven shine unhindered so it can be a light to everyone in the house. We need to be full of the Holy Spirit and faith, be willing to fight, and be courageous during the little time we have left, so that we surround ourselves with a holy area in which we can rejoice before the Lord’s face.