CHAPTER 48

AS WELL, THIS PSALM COULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY EITHER ISAIAH OR HEZEKIAH: ZION, THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING

¹Great os the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of His Holiness. (The celebration over the Assyrians continues. As well, these same Passages speak in prophetic tones of the coming victory over the Antichrist. As stated, as surely as the previous, most definitely will be the future.)

²Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole Earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. (Jerusalem is situated in the exact geographical center of the Earth. In the coming Kingdom Age, Jerusalem will be what God has always intended, The Joy of the Whole Earth.)

³God is known in her palaces for a refuge (in the great cities and the governmental centers of the world, men are known; but, in this great city and palace, God will be known).

⁴For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. (This speaks of the kings of the Earth during Hezekiahs day, who assembled to destroy Jerusalem. They felt they could not lose, but lose they did! It will be the same during the days of the Antichrist!)

⁵They saw it, and so they marveled; they were troubled, and hasted away. (Why did they run? They ran because the Lord, with one Angel, in one night, killed 185,000 Assyrians, completely decimating their army [II Ki. 19:35; Isa. 37:36].)

⁶Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail. (And no wonder! For the first time in their history, they came up against the God of Glory!)

⁷You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind. (If Hezekiah wrote this Psalm, he probably little understood the full meaning of this Verse given to him by the Holy Spirit. Its greater fulfillment will be at the Battle of Armageddon, with the Antichrist having great warships anchored in the Mediterranean, aiding his great strike against Israel. The Lord will break those ships, and do so with an east wind, whatever that actually means.)

⁸As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah. (During the time of Hezekiah, Judah saw what the Lord could do. At the Second Coming, which will end the Battle of Armageddon, Israel will once again see what the Lord can do. And so will the entirety of the world!)

⁹We have thought of Your Lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of Your Temple (the writer is referring to the times of prayer in the Temple, when the enemy was at the gate).

¹⁰According to Your Name, O God, so is Your praise unto the ends of the Earth: Your right Hand is full of Righteousness (Gods action being ever in harmony with His Character, His fame, therefore, extends and will extend to the very ends of the Earth).

¹¹Let Mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of Your Judgments (while Judah rejoiced at the great victory over Sennacherib, still, this pertains to the even greater victory over the coming Antichrist, of which the victory over Sennacherib was a symbol).

¹²Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof (the idea is, peace now reigns because the Prince of Peace now reigns).

¹³Mark you well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that you may tell it to the generation following. (This Psalm is sung in testimony of the great victory won by the Lord in the sending of His Angel to defeat the Assyrians, and which should be told forever. And so it has been! And so it shall be!)

¹⁴For this God is our God for ever and ever: He will be our Guide even unto death. (This Psalm had its limitations when sung by Hezekiah. It will have no limitations when sung by the People of God at the beginning of the great Millennial Reign. Jesus Christ will then be our Guide. Thank God! Ultimately, there will be no more death [Rev. 21:4].)