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Yes! There Is Good News!

Bill Rollins has been publishing each week a column in the local Elk Horn, Iowa paper for the past several years.
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Yes! There is Good News!                   August 16, 2019

4/24/2022

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“My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the King; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.” Psalm 45:1

This is how the Psalmist begins the great wedding song of the Psalms. In the physical realm of ancient times, we do not know who was getting married. What was the king’s name and who was his bride? Some speculate that King David commissioned this Psalm to be written for his son the future King Solomon and that may be true.

However, as with much of the Old Testament, we have here a picture painted for us of a future wedding being planned for the true and righteous King of kings and Lord of lords; the Son of God, Jesus Christ. The “Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world” will have a wedding feast. We read about this in the 19th
chapter of Revelation, “Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great
multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out, ‘Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory, for the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure’— for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.”

Now that will be the wedding for all time – there will be nothing like it in all of creation, in all of time.

Let’s go back to Psalm 45!! Starting in verse 2 we read, “You are the most excellent of men and your lips have been anointed with grace, since God has blessed you forever.” I consider this to be a prophecy of that future wedding. Jesus Christ is the most excellent of men – is he not? And His lips, what words they speak!!

In John 6:68 Peter says to Christ, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.”

The imagery of Psalm 45 talks about ‘a sword’, a ‘Mighty one’, clothing of ‘splendor and majesty’ (verse 3). He ‘rides forth victoriously’ in ‘truth, humility and righteousness’. (verse 4) The ‘nations fall beneath His feet’ (verse 5).

These are the same images that we find in Revelation 19, “Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. … He is clothed in a robe … and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. … From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations and he will rule them with a rod of iron. … On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.

Our Savior, our King, the Anointed one of God and the one who will take to Himself a bride at the conclusion of this age, is awesome in might and power and wisdom and honor and glory. We shall talk about His bride next time. Stay tuned!!
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