CHAPTER 105

AUTHOR UNKNOWN: GODS WONDROUS WORKS ON BEHALF OF ISRAEL

¹O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon His Name: make known His deeds among the people. (In this Psalm, we will find that the action of the Messiah with Israel is a picture and a Promise of His future action with the world. The Covenant consummated at Calvary will be the basis of His Millennial Rule, and the Promises of that Covenant will then be performed and fulfilled. In fact, all of these Promises constitute the benefits of the Cross.)

²Sing unto Him, sing Psalms unto Him: talk you of all His wondrous Works. (As it is the Holy Spirit Who is the Speaker in this Psalm, then we must realize how absolutely significant are these words! Every Believer should sing of all the wondrous Works of the Lord, and do so constantly. As well, we must constantly talk of all these great works. This builds Faith!)

³Glory you in His Holy Name: let the heart of them rejoice who seek the LORD. (We are told here that seeking the Lord brings rejoicing, because seeking Him brings forth wondrous things, all on our behalf.)

⁴Seek the LORD, and His strength: seek His face evermore. (Seek the Lord about every problem. This is the answer to mans dilemma and, in fact, the only answer. This plainly tells us that humanistic psychology has no place in the thinking of the true Believer.)

⁵Remember His marvellous Works that He has done; His Wonders, and the Judgments of His Mouth (this pertains to the Word of God, which every Believer ought to study minutely);

⁶O you seed of Abraham His servant, you children of Jacob His chosen. (Every Believer, whether Jew or Gentile, is the Seed of Abraham [Gal. 3:7]; however, the ultimate Seed is the Lord Jesus Christ [Gal. 3:16]. Jacob pertains strictly to Israel, as Gods chosen People.)

⁷He is the LORD our God: His Judgments are in all the Earth. (His Judgments refer to His Law and Word. At this moment, this Passage has not yet been fulfilled. It will be fulfilled in the coming Kingdom Age.)

⁸He has remembered His Covenant forever, the Word which He commanded to a thousand generations. (The Lord entered into a Covenant with Israel, and that Covenant still holds good. He has not forgotten it, and will never forget it. In essence, it has been suspended for approximately 2,000 years, but will once again flower into full potential at the Second Coming. At that time, Israel will fully accept the Lord Jesus as Saviour and Lord. The Covenant will actually be the New Covenant, to which the Old Covenant always pointed. And this New Covenant is The Everlasting Covenant, meaning that it will never have to be suspended or amended [Heb. 13:20].)

⁹Which Covenant He made with Abraham (Justification by Faith [Gal. 3:1429]), and His oath unto Isaac (pertains to the supremacy of Israel and the coming Kingdom Age, as well as the Land of Israel [Gen. 22:1718; 26:24]);

¹⁰And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a Law, and to Israel for an Everlasting Covenant (this Covenant of the Land of Israel belonging to the sons of Jacob cannot be abrogated):

¹¹Saying, Unto you will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance (the Arabs should read this and believe it [Gen 13:15; 15:18]):

¹²When they were but a few men in number; yes, very few, and strangers in it. (When Abraham and his family were called to the land of Canaan, they were truly few in number, by comparison to the inhabitants of the land [Gen. 34:20; Deut. 7:7; Heb. 11:9].)

¹³When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people (they sojourned among the Philistines [Gen., Chpt. 20] and the Egyptians [Gen., Chpts. 4650]);

¹⁴He suffered no man to do them wrong: yes, He reproved kings for their sakes (Pharaoh and Abimelech were threatened with death if they touched them [Gen. 12:17; 20:3; 26:11]);

¹⁵Saying, Touch not My anointed, and do My Prophets no harm. (Regarding those who are truly Prophets of the Lord, this admonition had better be heeded!)

¹⁶Moreover He called for a famine upon the land: He broke the whole staff of bread. (The length that God will go to ensure His Covenant with His People, which we will study in succeeding Verses, should make us realize that His every Word will come to pass exactly as spoken.)

¹⁷He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant (God had nothing to do with Josephs brothers, regarding their hate and their ungodliness; yet God would use the situation to bring about His intended results):

¹⁸Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron (Gen., Chpt. 39, gives us the account):

¹⁹Until the time that His Word came: the Word of the LORD tried him. (Regarding the mission that God had for Joseph, which Joseph was not even aware of, he would have to be put to the test. Faith must be tested, and great Faith must be tested greatly.)

²⁰The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free (Gen. 41:14).

²¹He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance (Gen. 41:40):

²²To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom. (At this time, Egypt was the most powerful nation on the face of the Earth; consequently, the advisors to Pharaoh, here called senators, would now be taught by an ex-convict. Only the Lord could work out such a thing.)

²³Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham (which the Lord told the Patriarch to do [Gen. 46:6]).

²⁴And He (the Lord) increased His People (Israel) greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies (stronger than Egypt).

²⁵He turned their heart to hate His People, to deal subtilly with His servants. (This does not mean that God forced Egypt to hate the Israelites. It does mean that God provided the opportunity for them to do so; however, this was done by their own free will. Had this not happened, the Israelites would not have desired to leave Egypt and go to Canaan, which was the original intention of the Lord.)

²⁶He sent Moses His servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen. (The Lord chose Moses, while Moses chose Aaron [Ex. 3:10].)

²⁷They (Moses and Aaron) showed His (the Lords) signs among them (among the Egyptians), and wonders in the land of Ham (Ex., Chpts. 712).

²⁸He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against His Word. (The close connection between the plague of darkness and the compelled submission of the Egyptians is very striking. God sent the darkness, and the Egyptians let the Hebrews go. This alludes possibly to the ninth plague, but, as a substantive statement, the word darkness is to be understood as a covering term expressive of the entire period of the Divine punitive action upon Pharaoh. It was indeed a time of darkness for him, and it lasted several months.)

²⁹He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish (Ex. 7:20).

³⁰Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings (Ex. 8:6).

³¹He spoke, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts (Ex. 8:17).

³²He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land (turned the rain to hail).

³³He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and broke the trees of their coasts (Ps. 78:47).

³⁴He spoke, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number (Ex. 10:4),

³⁵And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

³⁶He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength (Ex. 12:29).

³⁷He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their Tribes. (The silver and gold mentioned here was payment for the many years of slavery. It may seem to some that God is not keeping account; however, when His payday does come, and it will come, it will be done as only He can do.

As well, He healed all the sick who were among them and gave them strength, even unto the eldest.)

³⁸Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them (Ex. 12:33).

³⁹He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night (Ex. 13:21).

⁴⁰The people asked, and He brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of Heaven (Ex. 16:12).

⁴¹He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river. (The Rock was a Type of Christ. The waters that gushed out were a Type of the Eternal Life being given according to the price He paid at Calvary. The dry places are symbolic of this world and the barrenness of its spiritual obligation. The river symbolized the magnitude of this great gift of God. It was not a trickle of water that came out of this Rock, but a veritable river enough to satisfy some three million Israelites, with all their cattle, sheep, and other livestock. As well, there is enough to satisfy the thirst of every heart that comes to this life-giving stream.)

⁴²For He remembered His Holy Promise, and Abraham His Servant. (These were the Promises that God gave to Abraham [Gen. 12:13; 13:1418; 15:1821; 17:18].)

⁴³And He brought forth His People with joy, and His chosen with gladness (also, we should ever rejoice and praise His Holy Name, realizing that He has delivered us from the terrible bondages of darkness. What joy we should have! What gladness should characterize our hearts and lives!):

⁴⁴And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people (as well, the great inheritance that God has given us is carved out of that which Satan intended for the destruction of our lives);

⁴⁵That they might observe His Statutes, and keep His Laws. Praise you the LORD. (Once again, the word praise here should have been translated Hallelujah, for thats what it means in the Hebrew. Psalm 104 also closes accordingly.)