CHAPTER 135

PROBABLY WRITTEN BY DAVID: PRAISE TO GOD FOR HIS GREATNESS

¹Praise you the LORD. Praise you the Name of the LORD; praise Him, O you servants of the LORD (the word praise, in the Hebrew, means Hallelujah!; therefore, this Psalm begins with Hallelujah and closes with Hallelujah),

²You who stand in the House of the LORD, in the courts of the House of our God. (These courts are in front of the Temple, and are where the people worship.)

³Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises unto His Name; for it is pleasant. (Singing praises unto the Lord is one of the highest forms of worship.)

⁴For the LORD has chosen Jacob unto Himself, and Israel for His peculiar treasure. (This Psalm points toward the time that the Messiah will dwell in Jerusalem. The Song will then be sung by redeemed Israel at the Coronation of the Great King in Zion.)

⁵For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods (that which is inspired by Satan and the depraved figments of mens imagination).

⁶Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did He in Heaven, and in Earth, in the seas, and all deep places. (This Passage extols the Lord as Creator of the heavens and the Earth, and all that is therein.)

⁷He causes the vapours to ascend from the ends of the Earth; He makes lightnings for the rain; He brings the wind out of His treasuries. (The heathen worshipped idols in order to secure good weather for their crops, etc. We are told here that God controls the weather.)

⁸Who smote the first born of Egypt, both of man and beast. (The great deliverance of Israel from Egyptian bondage is ever portrayed by the Holy Spirit as an example of the Power of God.)

⁹Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of you, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants. (In the Eyes of God, Pharaoh is placed no higher than his servants. All answer to God!)

¹⁰Who smote great nations, and killed mighty kings;

¹¹Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan (these kings and kingdoms were emissaries of Satan, resplendent with his power; they were placed there and energized by Satan for the very purpose of hindering the Children of Israel from taking their inheritance):

¹²And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel His People. (Instead of Satan taking that which is rightfully ours, we are intended by the Lord to take from Satan. It can be done if we look to Christ and the Cross, and do so exclusively, which gives the Holy Spirit latitude to work within our lives [Rom. 8:12, 11].)

¹³Your Name, O LORD, endures forever; and Your memorial, O LORD, throughout all generations. (Satan does not fear us as personalities; however, he does fear the Name of the Lord, and greatly so!)

¹⁴For the LORD will judge His people, and He will repent Himself concerning His servants. (The sense of this Verse is that the Lord will judge the righteous after the Rapture [I Cor. 3:1115]. This pertains to works and not sins, which were already judged at Calvary.)

¹⁵The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of mens hands. (The term, work of mens hands, has to do with all religious work. The meaning of the word religion, in its strictest spiritual sense, is that it is man-made and not God-made.)

¹⁶They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;

¹⁷They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths. (The Word of God has Life. As well, it has Light. All which is made by man, irrespective of its religious content, have no Life or Light.)

¹⁸They who make them are like unto them: so is every one who trusts in them. (The worshippers of idols take upon themselves the character of these idols, i.e., religion. Thus, the followers of the religion of Islam take upon themselves the character of that religion, which is hate and murder.)

¹⁹Bless the LORD, O House of Israel: bless the LORD, O House of Aaron:

²⁰Bless the LORD, O House of Levi: you who fear the LORD, bless the LORD. (The impotency of idols and of everyone who trusts in them is contrasted with the Almightiness of the Messiah and the happiness of those who trust in Him.)

²¹Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, which dwells at Jerusalem. Praise you the LORD. (As stated, this Psalm is prophetic, with its fulfillment pointing toward the coming Kingdom Age.)