CHAPTER 8

A PSALM OF DAVID: THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE SON OF MAN

¹O Lord our LORD, how excellent is Your Name in all the Earth! who has set Your Glory above the heavens (this Psalm pictures the happiness that is to fill the Earth when, after the destruction of the Antichrist and his followers, the Messiah will establish His Kingdom of Righteousness and Peace, and His Right to ascend the Throne).

²Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have You ordained strength because of Your enemies, that You might still the enemy and the avenger (the word babes is figurative and portrays the redeemed; the redeemed will praise Him because He has stilled the enemy and the avenger namely Satan).

³When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your Fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained (the argument of Verses 38 is the amazing Love of Christ in coming forth from the Highest Glory to redeem a being so insignificant as man);

⁴What is man, that You are mindful of him? and the son of man, that You visit him? (God became man and went to Calvary in order to redeem fallen humanity. The price that was paid for that Redemption proclaims to us the worth of man, which, in fact, is Gods highest Creation.)

⁵For You have made him a little lower than the Angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor (the Hebrew word Elohim here translated Angels should have been translated God or Godhead, for thats what the word actually means; there is no place in the Old Testament where Elohim means Angels; this means that man was originally created higher than the Angels, and through Christ will be restored to that lofty position [Rom. 8:1417]).

⁶You made him to have dominion over the works of Your Hands; You have put all things under His Feet (in their fullness, these words given here are only true of the God-Man, Jesus Christ [Mat. 28:18]; Christ has been exalted to a place higher than Angels or any other being except the Father; redeemed man is to be raised up to that exalted position with Him [Eph. 2:67]):

⁷All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field;

⁸The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas (man was made to have dominion over all this).

⁹O LORD our Lord, how excellent is Your Name in all the Earth! (Christ is the Head of the Church, which is His Body; ultimately, that which is given by Promise will, upon the Resurrection of Life, be carried to its ultimate victorious conclusion.)