Psalms 97-98
Dear RTB’ers,
Another two psalms today… Hopefully you all have been reading the additional comments that John sends along every day. We noted in those comments from back in 2022 that we are in the midst of eight “Kingship” psalms, a groups of psalms praising the Lord God as King of all creation. Today’s reading reminds us of that from the very first verse, the first three words, “The Lord reigns…”. Then we see His majesty extolled in both psalms today as the psalmists tell us of the beauty and the power of the Lord in all creation. Yes, the Lord reigns!
I wondered yesterday, but didn’t comment on it (v. 96:13), what the Israelites from three millennia ago thought about the Lord’s coming: Let the rivers clap their hands; let the hills sing for joy together before the Lord, for He comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity. (vv. 98:8-9) What sort of a “coming” did they expect? We post-Crucifixion, post-Resurrection Christians have some idea of what to expect of Jesus’ return, but that’s in part because we have seen what He had done when He was with us, plus we had His own words describing the Endtimes. But I wonder what those Israelites thought way back when…!
Blessings.
Fred