CHAPTER 16

A PSALM OF DAVID: THE COMING DAVIDIC KING

¹Preserve me, O God: for in You do I put my trust (all of the Verses of this Psalm refer to the Messiah, with the first four Verses referring also to David).

²O my soul, You have said unto the LORD, You are my LORD; my goodness extends not to You (could be translated, You are my Lord, I have no good beyond and apart from You; You are my highest and only good);

³But to the Saints who are in the Earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight (thus the Messiah appears as a Man in His relation to God and as a Brother in His relation to Israel and the Church).

⁴Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips (anything other than Christ and Him Crucified is another god, i.e., another Jesus [II Cor. 11:4]).

⁵The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: You maintain my lot (this Verse expresses the Mission and characterizes the Ministry given to the Messiah and declared by Him to be pleasant and goodly the Redemption of man).

⁶The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage (the Messiahs heritage is the Redemption of man and the Restoration of the Earth to God, all made possible by the Cross [Eph. 1:10; Rev., Chpts. 2122]).

⁷I will bless the LORD, Who has given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons (Christ, by dwelling in a human body, learned obedience [Heb. 5:8]; He did not have to learn to be obedient, for that would imply that He was a sinner by nature, but He learned obedience, which is quite another thing).

⁸I have set the LORD always before me: because He is at my right hand. I shall not be moved (pertains to the Mission of Redemption).

⁹Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

¹⁰For You will not leave my soul in Hell (pertains to Paradise, and not the burning side of Hell as some teach; Jesus never went to that place); neither will You suffer Your Holy One to see corruption (Christ saw no corruption in the grave simply because He atoned for all sin; therefore, there was no doubt about Him being raised from the dead).

¹¹You will show me the Path of Life (the Resurrection): in Your Presence is fulness of joy (Christ would be elevated to the very Throne of God [Heb. 1:3]); at Your right Hand there are pleasures for evermore (where He ever lives to make Intercession for the Saints [Heb. 7:2627]).