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 more 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 who 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 in 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
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