SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
10/30/2012 10:01:30 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Psalm 132
PT-3
Bible Reading & Meditation
Reference: Psalm 132:13-18
Message of
the verses: We will look at the last section from Psalm
132 in Today’s Spiritual Diary. We will
be looking at the last responsibility that the children of Israel had to the
Lord that is spoken of in this psalm.
Trust God for His Bountiful Blessings (vv. 13-18)
“13 For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired
it for His habitation. 14 "This is
My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it. 15 "I will abundantly bless her provision;
I will satisfy her needy with bread. 16
"Her priests also I will clothe with salvation, And her godly ones
will sing aloud for joy. 17 "There
I will cause the horn of David to spring forth; I have prepared a lamp for Mine
anointed. 18 “His enemies I will clothe with shame, But upon himself his crown
shall shine.’”
We see some move evidence
that God had chosen David’s line to bring forth God’s Anointed one in this
section and we also see that God had chosen Zion or Jerusalem for the place
where His throne (ark) would dwell. We
have already spoken about the fact that God would not allow David to build the
temple, but there were two sinful acts that David did that had to do with the
building of this temple, and through these two sinful acts we can see the grace
of God along with the plan of God for the building of the temple. David was a man who confessed his sin when
confronted by God that he had sinned, and the two most famous sins that are
recorded in the Scriptures the murder of Uriah and the adultery with Bathsheba
which would eventfully produce Solomon who would be the next king after David
and it was he would build the temple.
Next the numbering of the people would cause the death of many innocent
people in Israel but when God was about to move His discretion into Jerusalem
He stopped at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. “David bought the threshing floor from
Araunah the Jebusite and he offered a sacrifice to the Lord on that place and
the Lord consumed the sacrifice with fire.
“Then David built an altar to the LORD there and offered burnt offerings
and peace offerings. And he called to the LORD and He answered him with fire from heaven on the
altar of burnt offering.”
(1Chron. 21:26) “2Ch 3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the
LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father
David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the
Jebusite.” We see here that the
threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite was on Mt. Moriah and this is where the
temple was built by Solomon. “Ge
22:2 He said, "Take now your son,
your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer
him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell
you.’” So we see in this verse from
Genesis 22:2 that the Lord had chosen this mountain to have Abraham offer Isaac
as a burnt offering to the Lord, but we know that because of the faith that
Abraham had God provided a lamb to be offered in his place on Mt. Moriah. Years later the temple was built there, and
years after that on this same mountain, the mountain where the city of
Jerusalem is God offered His Son for our sins, for He was the Lamb of God which
takes away the sins of the world.
We see in verses 14-18 of
Psalm 132 that God is reaffirming His covenant with the children of Israel that
He made with them in Lev. 26 and also in Deut 27-30. If the people and the kings of Israel wanted
to be blessed by God that means they must obey him, “12 ‘If your sons will keep My covenant And My
testimony which I will teach them, Their sons also shall sit upon your throne
forever.’”
Dr. Wiersbe points out that
“two special images are seen here—the lamp and the sprouting horn (v. 17) –and
both refer to David and to the promised Messiah, Jesus Christ. The burning lamp symbolized the king (2Sam.
21:17), the preservation of life (Psalm 18:28-30), and the perpetuation of the
royal dynasty (1Kings 11:36; 15:4; 2Kings 8:19; 2Chron. 21:7). The sins of some of David’s successors
deserved radical punishment, but for David’s sake, the Lord allowed them to
reign from David’s throne. A horn is a
symbol of power and strength, and the sprouting of the horn of David is a
picture of the coming of the promised Messiah.
The Hebrew word for ‘sprout’ is translated ‘branch’ in Isaiah 4:2,
Jeremiah 23:5 and 33:15, and Zechariah 3:18 and 6:12, and refers to Messiah,
‘the Branch.’ The word translated
‘flourish’ or ‘shine’ in verse 18 can also mean ‘to blossom,’ and is used that
way in Numbers 17:8, the blossoming of Aaron’s rod. This, too, is a Messianic image. So, the psalm ends by pointing to Jesus
Christ.”
Dr. Wiersbe also points out
that this psalm points to David’s greater Son, Jesus Christ, and also His
covenant with the Church. The Ark of the
Covenant points to Jesus Christ for the Ark was made of wood, and I learned
from a book that I was reading that the word for wood that was used to build
the Ark was a word for carpenter. We see
the wood of the Ark as the humanity of Jesus Christ, and then we see the gold
that the Ark was overlaid with as His deity.
We have already spoken of the rod of Aaron that budded, and there was
also inside the Ark the Ten Commandments along with a jar of manna speaking of
Christ as the “Bread of Life.” So there
is much that pictures Christ in this psalm.
We know that at this time Jesus Christ is sitting on the Throne of God
next to His Father, the Holy of Holies in heaven, so we see that this psalm
pictures the heavenly Zion “22 But you
have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly
Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, 23
to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in
heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made
perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator
of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the
blood of Abel.”
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: It is so
wonderful to live on the side of the cross that I am living on knowing what the
Bible teaches about it. My Lord is now
in heaven after His triumphal defeat over the world, the flesh, and the
devil. He has conquered death and is the
first fruit of all who believe in Him as their personal Lord and Savior.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Continue to work on being content and to
having my mind transformed by the Word of God from the inside out.
Memory verses for the
week: Psalm 130:1-2
1 Out of the debts I have cried to You, O Lord. 2 Lord, here my voice! Let Your ears be attentive to the voice of my
supplications.
10/30/2012 11:40:56 AM
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