Lesson #25p2

PSALMS 72
LESSON #25/P2
A GLORIOUS KINGDOM FOR A SON

• MEMORY VERSE: PSA 72:19

• THIS IS THE FINAL PSALM IN THE SECOND SECTION (THE EXODUS SECTION) OF THE PSALMS. THE BOOK OF EXODUS ENDS WITH THE PRESENCE OF GOD FILLING THE TABERNACLE TO RESIDE WITH GOD’S PEOPLE.
• IN THE SAME WAY, THE HISTORICAL PERIODS OF TIME ALLOTTED TO MAN END WITH THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM WHERE CHRIST WILL COME AND DWELL WITH HIS PEOPLE FOR A THOUSAND YEARS.
• THE SUB-TITLE: “A PSALM FOR SOLOMON”
• DAVID IS CLOSE TO DEATH. HE KNOWS HIS TIME ON EARTH IS SHORT. HE HAS IN MIND HIS SON, SOLOMON, WHO WILL BE HIS CHOICE TO TAKE HIS PLACE AS KING.
• THE PRIMARY AND PROPHETIC INTERPRETATION:
• READ PSA 72:1-20
• WHAT IS DAVID’S REQUEST FOR HIS SON, SOLOMON? (1)
• DAVID’S DESIRE IS THAT SOLOMON RULE WISELY. HE ASKS THAT GOD GIVE HIS SON JUDGMENT AND RIGHTEOUSNESS TO MAKE WISE, BENEFICIAL DECISIONS FOR HIS KINGDOM.
• AS BELIEVERS IN CHRIST WE MUST HAVE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST TO CLEANSE US FROM SIN SO THAT WE CAN MAKE WISE DECISIONS WITHOUT BEING COMPROMISED BY OUR OWN SINFUL NATURE.
• GOD ANSWERED DAVID’S REQUEST FOR HE GAVE SOLOMON A GREAT DEAL OF WISDOM.
• THE EXTENT OF GOD’S GRACE AND MERCY:
• IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM WHEN GOD GIVES THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM TO HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST, THERE WILL BE A TIME OF PEACE (3,7) ON EARTH WHEN RIGHTEOUSNESS (3,7) WILL COVER THE EARTH (ISA 11:19)
• NOTICE THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PEACE ARE TIED TOGETHER. IF EVERYONE LIVED RIGHTEOUSLY WITH EVERYONE ELSE, THERE WOULD BE INSTANT PEACE FOR PEACE IS THE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
• CHRIST WILL RULE JUSTLY SO THAT THE POOR WILL NOT BE OPPRESSED. (4, 12-14)
• IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, PEOPLE WILL FEAR GOD (5) BECAUSE CHRIST WILL RULE WITH A ROD OF IRON. (REV 19:15)
• THAT MEANS HE WILL RULE WITH PERFECT JUSTICE. THERE WILL BE NO OPPRESSION OR FAVORITISM, NOR CORRUPTION IN HIGH PLACES.
• “HE SHALL COME DOWN LIKE RAIN UPON THE MOWN GRASS, AS SHOWERS THAT WATER THE EARTH.” (6)
• THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL VERSE THAT SPEAKS OF GOD’S GRACE SHOWERED ON HIS PEOPLE.
• RAIN IS A SYMBOLIC ILLUSTRATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO REFRESHES, REPLENISHES, AND GIVES LIFE TO GOD’S PEOPLE.
• IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM OF CHRIST THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST AND THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL PROVIDE REFRESHING LIFE TO GOD’S PEOPLE IN THE FORM OF A RIVER THAT WILL FLOW OUT FROM THE TEMPLE THROUGH ALL THE EARTH. (EZE 47:1-12 ZEC 14:8-11)
• IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, IF ANY NATION DOES NOT SEND GIFTS OF HOMAGE TO CHRIST ANNUALLY, THERE WILL BE NO RAIN ON THAT NATION. (ZEC 14:16-17)
• THE EXTENT OF HIS KINGDOM
• “HE SHALL HAVE DOMINION ALSO FROM SEA TO SEA…UNTO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.” (8)
• OBVIOUSLY SOLOMON DID NOT HAVE DOMINION OVER ALL THE EARTH EVEN THOUGH DAVID’S KINGDOM EXPANDED UNDER HIS SON, KING SOLOMON.
• THE PROPHETIC REFERENCE HERE IS TO CHRIST’S KINGDOM THAT WILL HAVE TOTAL DOMINION OVER ALL THE EARTH FOR 1000 YEARS WHEN ALL MANKIND WILL BE SUBJECT TO CHRIST. (9)
• THE EXTENT OF HONOR:
• “THE KINGS…SHALL OFFER GIFTS.” (10)
• MANY NATIONS SENT SOLOMON GIFTS AND BRIDES. HE BECAME VERY WEALTHY. ALL THE POLITICALLY ARRANGED MARRIAGES OF STATE WERE SOLOMON’S UNDOING. THE FOREIGN BRIDES BROUGHT WITH THEM THEIR IDOLS AND THEIR IDOLATROUS PRACTICES THAT SPREAD THROUGHOUT ISRAEL.
• THE MOST NOTABLE OF SOLOMON’S BRIDES BRINGING GIFTS WAS THE QUEEN OF SHEBA. (1KIN 10:1-13)
• THIS PSALM MAKES A PROPHECY CONCERNING SHEBA AND HER GIFTS TO SOLOMON IN VERSE 15.
• I HAVE ALREADY MENTIONED THAT DURING THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM OF CHRIST, ALL NATIONS WILL SERVE CHRIST (11) AND BRING GIFTS TO HIM ANNUALLY. (ZEC 14:16-17)
• THE EXTENT OF HIS REPUTATION:
• “HIS NAME SHALL ENDURE FOREVER.” (17)
• IT IS NOT SOLOMON’S NAME THAT IS PRAISED AND WORSHIPED FOR ALL ETERNITY BUT THAT OF JESUS CHRIST.
• VERSES 18 AND 19 TELL US THIS FACT THAT THE PSALM IS NOT TALKING PRIMARILY ABOUT SOLOMON BUT ABOUT THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, WHO IS JESUS CHRIST REIGNING IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM WHEN THE WHOLE EARTH WILL BE FILLED WITH HIS GLORY. (20)
• DAVID SAYS HIS PRAYERS ARE ENDED BECAUSE HE IS ABOUT TO DIE, BUT GOD WILL REMEMBER DAVID’S PRAYER AND COMPLETELY FULFILL IT WHEN CHRIST RETURN S TO THIS EARTH AT HIS SECOND COMING. THEN CHRIST WILL ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM IN RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PEACE FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. HE WILL PROVIDE FOR EVERY NEED OF A GRATEFUL PEOPLE WHO WILL WORSHIP HIM AND HONOR HIM FOR A THOUSAND YEARS.
• APPLICATION:
• THOSE OF US WHO KNOW JESUS CHRIST PERSONALLY AS OUR LORD AND SAVIOR WAIT EAGERLY FOR HIS KINGDOM WHERE WE WILL RULE AND REIGN WITH HIM. (REV 20:6)
• DISCUSSION: OUR LIFE ON EARTH NOW IS IN PREPARATION FOR THAT TIME WHEN WE WILL BE EXPECTED TO RULE AND REIGN WITH HIM. THE QUESTION IS, ARE WE READY, AND IF NOT, HOW DO WE GET READY?

• WE SHOULD LEARN AS MUCH AS WE CAN ABOUT HIM, ABOUT HIS WORD, AND ABOUT WHAT HE WANTS EACH OF US TO DO WITH OUR LIVES. WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT WITH DIFFERENT GIFTS AND TALENTS. HE WANTS US TO DEVELOP AND PERFECT THOSE GIFTS AND TALENTS TO USE IN HIS KINGDOM YET TO COME.

THE END. MAY GOD BLESS YOUR LIFE IN CHRIST!