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Lesson #16/P3

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PSALMS 87
Lesson #16/P3
THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM AND THE NEW JERUSALEM

  • MEMORY VERSE: PSA 87:6

 

  • BECAUSE THIS PSALM IS IN THE “LEVITICUS SECTION” OF THE PSALMS, IT IS RELATED TO WHAT WE FIND IN THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS….WORSHIP.

 

    • READ PSA 87:1-7
    • SUBTITLE: “A Psalm or song for the sons of Korah”
      • THE SONS OF KORAH WERE FROM THE TRIBE OF LEVI. THEY WERE PRIESTS SPECIFICALLY IN CHARGE OF WORSHIP.
      • KORAH WAS A GRANDSON OF KOHATH IN CHARGE OF WORSHIP AND A TEAM OF SINGERS.
      • 12 PSALMS WERE WRITTEN FOR OR TO THIS GROUP OF SACRED SINGERS.
    • “

His foundation is in the holy mountains.”

      (1)

      • THIS PSALM RELATES TO CHRIST’S MILLENNIAL KINGDOM ON EARTH FOR 1000 YEARS. WHEN WILL THIS KINGDOM BE ON EARTH?
        • READ REV 20:4
          • THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM BEGINS AT THE EVENT OF THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON.
          • AFTER CHRIST DEFEATS THE ANTICHRIST, JESUS CHRIST WILL ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM ON EARTH.
        • READ ISA 2:2
          • PEOPLE FROM ALL NATIONS SHALL COME TO WORSHIP JESUS CHRIST IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM.
          • READ ZEC 2:10-11
            • ONCE A YEAR DURING THE THOUSAND-YEAR REIGN OF CHRIST, ALL NATIONS WILL SEND A REPRESENTATIVE TO BRING TRIBUTE TO CHRIST.
            • A NATION THAT REFUSES TO HONOR THE LORD IN THIS WAY WILL SUFFER A LACK OF RAINFALL.
      • THE CENTER OF THE MILLENNIAL GOVERNMENT WILL BE LOCATED ON MT. ZION, THE HOLY MOUNTAIN OF ISRAEL.
        • READ PSA 48:1-2
          • MOUNT ZION IS THE HIGHEST POINT IN THE CITY OF JERUSALEM. JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED ON THIS HIGHEST POINT. THE MOUNTAIN RUNS FROM CALVARY SOUTHEAST TO THE TEMPLE MOUNT WHERE SOLOMON BUILT THE FIRST JEWISH TEMPLE.
          • A GOVERNMENT PALACE AND A NEW MILLENNIAL TEMPLE WILL CHARACTERIZE THE CENTER OF CHRIST’S RULE ON EARTH IN JERUSALEM.
        • READ EZE 45:6-8 AND EZE 48:10
          • A PORTION OF THE LAND WILL BE SEPARATED AND DESIGNATED AS A HOLY PLACE FROM WHERE CHRIST WILL RULE.
          • THIS PORTION IS CALLED THE “HOLY OBLATION”.

 

  • “The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob

 

      .” (2)

      • THE DWELLINGS OF JACOB REFER TO JACOB’S OLD NATURE OF DECEPTION, MANIPULATION, AND AN OPPORTUNIST THAT ATTEMPTED TO GAIN WEALTH BY HIS OWN EVIL WAYS. HOWEVER, GOD CHANGED HIM AND CALLED HIM ISRAEL.
      • THE GATES OF ZION REFER TO THE GATES OF JERUSALEM THAT GOD GAVE TO HIS PEOPLE.

 

  • “Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.”

 

      (3)

      • THE CITY OF JERUSALEM IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM WILL BE A GLORIOUS CITY BUILT TO THE GLORY OF GOD.
      • THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY WILL HOUSE THE KING OF KINGS.
        • THERE IS A “SELAH” AFTER THIS VERSE. THAT MEANS IT IS IMPORTANT TO CONTEMPLATE ALL ASPECTS OF THIS CITY.
        • MAN BUILDS SOME BEAUTIFUL CITIES TODAY WITH ALL TYPES OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY, BUT THE CITY BUILT BY GOD WILL EXCEED ANYTHING MAN BUILDS.
          • THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE TODAY THAT BELIEVE WE WILL HASTEN THE LORD’S COMING IF WE BUILD THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY.
          • MAN’S EFFORTS ARE INFERIOR TO GOD’S WAYS. THE TOWER OF BABEL IS THE BIBLICAL EXAMPLE.

 

  • “…O city of God”

 

      (3)

      • BESIDE THE CITY OF JERUSALEM ON EARTH DURING THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM FROM WHERE CHRIST WILL RULE, THERE IS ALSO ANOTHER CITY THAT IS ALSO THE CITY OF GOD.
        • READ REV 21:1-2
          • THIS CITY IS CALLED THE “NEW JERUSALEM” AND DESCENDS FROM HEAVEN.
          • DURING THE MILLENNIAL REIGN OF CHRIST FOR 1000 YEARS ON EARTH, THIS NEW JERUSALEM WILL BE SUSPENDED LIKE A SATELLITE OVER THE EARTHLY CITY OF JERUSALEM.
        • THE NEW JERUSALEM WILL BE CONNECTED TO THE EARTH BY A HOLY HIGHWAY FOR BELIEVERS ONLY.
          • READ ISA 35:7-9
          • READ REV 21:10-27
            • THIS HOLY CITY CALLED THE NEW JERUSALEM WILL BE THE HOME OF ALL RESURRECTED BELIEVERS IN JESUS CHRIST FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE RAPTURED BELIEVERS FROM THE CHURCH AGE, AND THE TRIBULATION SAINTS THAT WERE MARTYRED FOR THEIR FAITH.
            • AT THE END OF THE THOUSAND YEARS OF THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM OF CHRIST ON EARTH, GOD WILL CREATE A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH. THEN THIS SATELLITE CITY OF THE NEW JERUSALEM WILL DESCEND TO SET ON THE NEW EARTH FOR ETERNITY. (REV 21-22)
      • THE NEW JERUSALEM SITUATED ON THE NEW EARTH FOR ETERNITY, WILL BE THE HOME OF ALL BELIEVERS IN JESUS CHRIST. JESUS CHRIST WILL BE THERE.

 

  • “I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre,…”

 

      (4)

      • RAHAB AND BABYLON:
        • THIS IS NOT THE HARLOT, RAHAB, OF THE BOOK OF JOSHUA THAT HID THE SPIES IN THE CITY OF JERICHO.
        • READ ISA 51:9 AND PSA 89:10
          • THIS IS RAHAB OF EGYPT.
          • SHE REPRESENTS THE SOUTHERN WORLD POWERS.
          • THE NAME RAHAB MEANS = TUMULT.
        • BABYLON BEGAN IN THE DAYS BEFORE THE TOWER OF BABEL IN GENESIS.
          • BABYLON MEANS = CONFUSION (THE CONFOUNDING OF TONGUES).
          • BABYLON REPRESENTS THE NORTHERN WORLD POWERS.
      • PHILISTIA AND TYRE
        • THE PHILISTINES WERE A STRONG ENEMY OF ISRAEL THROUGHOUT HER HISTORY, BUT THEY ARE NO MORE.
        • TYRE WAS A STRONG TRADING CENTER FOR THE PHOENICIAN TRADING SHIPS. THIS WAS A CITY THAT SAID THEY COULD NOT BE DESTROYED, BUT ALEXANDER THE GREAT DESTROYED IT. (332 BC)
      • IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, NATIONS WILL BE WARNED NOT TO REBEL AGAINST THE REIGN OF CHRIST. CHRIST WILL POINT TO THE DESTRUCTION OF ALL THESE NATIONS IN PAST HISTORY THAT THOUGHT TO ORDER THEIR OWN DESTINY ONLY TO FALL IN DESTRUCTION.

 

  • “…Ethiopia; this man was born there.”

 

        (4)

        • THE ETHIOPIAN THAT CAME TO SALVATION THROUGH PHILIP IN THE BOOK OF ACTS IS THE OPPOSITE EXAMPLE. (ACT 8:26-39)
        • HE TOOK THE GOSPEL BACK TO HIS NATION AND MANY WERE SAVED.
      • IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, ENTIRE NATIONS WILL BE CONVERTED TO CHRIST AND JOIN TOGETHER TO WORSHIP JESUS CHIRST. LIKE THE ETHIOPIAN, THEY WILL TRAVEL TO JERUSALEM TO PAY HONOR AND TRIBUTE TO THE KING OF KINGS. (ZEC 14:16-21)

 

  • “And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her…”

 

      (5)

      • IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, THERE WILL BE AN EXPLOSIVE BIRTH RATE WITH MANY CHILDREN BORN AND PEOPLE LIVING FOR A THOUSAND YEARS.
      • ALL OF THESE HUMANS WILL NEED SALVATION JUST AS MAN DOES TODAY, AND JUST AS MAN DID THROUGHOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT.
        • GOD’S PLAN OF SALVATION THROUGH ALL HUMAN HISTORY PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE HAS NOT CHANGED.
        • ALL HUMANS NEED TO RECEIVE JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR LORD AND SAVIOR BY FAITH.
          • THE OLD TESTAMENT SAINTS BELIEVED BY FAITH IN THE PROPHECIES OF A PROMISED MESSIAH THAT WOULD FORGIVE THEIR SINS AND GIVE THEM ETERNAL LIFE. BY FAITH THEY LOOKED FORWARD TO THE CROSS.
          • THE BELIEVERS OF TODAY HAVE ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR SAVIOR BY LOOKING BACK AT THE CROSS AND RECEIVING THE FORGIVENESS THAT JESUS CHRIST PURCHASED BY HIS SHED BLOOD ON THE CROSS.
          • THE MILLENNIAL BELIEVERS WILL ALSO LOOK BACK AT THE CRUCIFIXION AND RECEIVE THE PROMISE OF FORGIVENESS AND SALVATION BY FAITH IN THAT PAST EVENT.
        • HUMANS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD WILL GO TO JERUSALEM TO HONOR JESUS CHRIST AND RECEIVE FORGIVENESS AND ETERNAL LIFE. THEY WILL BE BORN AGAIN IN JERUSALEM AT THE FEET OF JESUS.

 

  • “and the highest himself shall establish her.”

 

      (5)

      • JESUS CHRIST IS THE HIGHEST. HE IS THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. HE WILL ESTABLISH JERUSALEM AS HIS CAPITAL. IT WILL BE A CITY OF SALVATION AND GLORY DEDICATED TO GOD, THE FATHER.

 

  • “The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.”

 

    (6)

    • JESUS CHRIST WILL KEEP COUNT OF ALL THOSE WHO ARE BORN AGAIN DURING THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM.
    • “SELAH”. IF WE STOP AND THINK ABOUT THIS, GOD HAS KEPT TRACK OF ALL THOSE IN HUMAN HISTORY WHO HAVE COME BY FAITH TO TRUST IN CHRIST.
      • OF WHAT SIGNIFICANCE IS VERSE 6 IN THIS NEW TESTAMENT AGE?
        • READ REV 21:27
        • ONLY THOSE PEOPLE THAT ARE BORN AGAIN, HAVE A NEW NATURE BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE. IN OTHER WORDS, THEY HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.
        • ONLY THOSE WRITTEN IN THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE WILL BE ABLE TO ENTER INTO THE NEW JERUSALEM FOR ETERNITY WITH GOD.
      • EVERY HUMAN SHOULD SERIOUSLY CONSIDER WHETHER OR NOT HIS NAME IS WRITTEN IN THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE.
  • APPLICATION:
  • IF YOUR NAME IS NOT IN THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE, IT IS EASY TO HAVE IT WRITTEN THERE! YOU ONLY NEED TO PRAY AND ASK JESUS CHRIST TO COME INTO YOUR HEART AND LIFE TO FORGIVE YOU OF YOUR SINS AND TO BE YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR.
  • THEN, YOU NEED TO TELL SOMEONE ACCORDING TO ROM 10:8-10.

HOMEWORK
PSALMS 88
This is a self-study. Please do not send homework answers to the teacherfor correction.

  • APPLICATION FOR PSA 87
    • WHAT NEW THINGS HAVE YOU LEARNED ABOUT YOUR ETERNAL FUTURE?

 

  • DO YOU HAVE AN ETERNAL FUTURE WITH GOD?

 

  • IF YOU DO NOT, YOU NEED TO MAKE A POSITIVE DECISION BECAUSE TODAY IS THE DAY OF SALVATION. THE TIME IS COMING WHEN IT WILL BE TOO LATE!

 

  • PREPARATION FOR PSA 88
  • READ PSA 88:1-18
    • ON WHAT MUST THE NON-BELIEVER CONTEMPLATE ACCORDING TO THE “SELAH” IN VERSE 7?

 

  • WHAT IS THE ANSWER TO THE SECOND QUESTION IN VERSE 10?

 

  • MEMORY VERSE: PSA 88:1

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I came to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ in 1963 giving my heart to Jesus in a Billy Graham crusade in Los Angeles, CA. I have been teaching the Word of God since 1964, Usually two to three adult classes a week.

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