CHAPTER 150
AUTHOR UNKNOWN: FINAL DOXOLOGY
1Praise You the LORD. Praise God in His Sanctuary: praise Him in the firmament of His power. (This is the fifth and, therefore, last Hallelujah Psalm. As well, it should be described as the Deuteronomy Psalm of the Deuteronomy Book.
In this glad day of the Kingdom Age, with Christ reigning supreme in Jerusalem, praise will be offered unto God continually all over the world.
The Divine titles in this Psalm are El and Jah. El is essentially the Almighty, and Jah signifies the Ever-existing One, for example, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.)
2Praise Him for His mighty acts: praise Him according to His excellent greatness. (The theme of praise will be twofold: 1. What He does His mighty Acts and 2. What He is His excellent Greatness. These express His Glory as Creator, as Redeemer, as the Lamb of God, and as the Son of God. The scene of worship in the Book of Revelation is Heaven; in this Psalm, it is the Earth in unison with Heaven.)
3Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet: praise Him with the psaltery and harp.
4Praise Him with the timbrel and dance: Praise Him with stringed instruments and organs.
5Praise Him upon the loud cymbals: praise Him upon the high sounding cymbals. (These praises portray to us the fact that the worship is not only spontaneous, but orchestrated, exactly as it is now in praise and worship. By and large, the musicians of the world have formerly dedicated their talents to the Evil One. Now these talents will be dedicated exclusively to Gods Glory.)
6Let every thing that has breath praise the LORD. Praise You the LORD. (The very first Psalm calls the Messiah the Blessed Man. In this last Psalm He is worshipped as the Blessed God. All of the 148 intervening Psalms sing of the countless perfections of His Nature and of His Actions, as both Son of Man and Son of God.
The cry here is that everything that has breath must praise the Lord. In the coming Kingdom Age, this will be brought about. Men will have nothing but praise for Him.
The Book of Psalms assures this. Its pages are wet with tears, and its music broken with sighs, but its last Song is a burst of satisfied rapture. Its five Volumes fitly close with a loud Hallelujah!)