Psalm 47 Commentary By
Dennis Edwards
47:1 O clap your hands, all you people; shout unto God with the
voice of triumph.
2 Corinthians 2:14 says,
“Now thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ.” Even in
death, “we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us,” Romans 8:36.
God, in the form of a man, “gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us
from this present evil world,” “and the power of darkness, and has translated
us into the kingdom of His dear Son,” Galatians 1:4, Colossians 1:13.
“For whosoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that
overcomes the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcomes the world? He
that believes that Jesus is the Son of God,” 1 John 5:4-5.
We need to keep the heavenly vision, for without a vision
the people perish, they faint and fall away. We keep the vision by, “looking
unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith,” Hebrews 12:2. “For
here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come,” that is, “an
heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for He has
prepared for them a city,” “the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of
heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband,” Hebrews 13:14, 11:16, Revelation 22:2.
Psalm
47:2 For the Lord most high is terrible; He is a great
King over all the earth.
A stone, in the heavenlies, cut out without hands, is ready to smite the kingdoms of this world. Christ the King will reign triumphant over all. "And the seventh angel sounded (at the end of the three and a half years of great tribulation); and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever," Revelation 11:15.
Psalm
47:3 He shall subdue the people
under us, and the nations under our feet.
Apostle Paul explains how Jesus will fulfil the subduing. 1 Corinthians 15:24-28 (NASB) “Then comes the end, when He (Christ) shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is death. For He has put all things in subjection under His feet. But when He says, “All things are put in subjection,” it is evident that He is an exception who put all things in subjection to Him. When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.”
We see the same imagery in Daniel 7:13-14 (NIV). “In my vision at night
I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man (Jesus), coming with
the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days (God the Father) and was led into
his presence. He (the Son of Man - Jesus) was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all
nations and peoples of every language worshiped Him. His dominion is an
everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that
will never be destroyed.”
Psalm
47:4 He shall choose our
inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom He loved. Selah.
We who
have believed on the name of the son of God have obtained the inheritance that
could not be obtained through the law. “Christ has redeemed us….that the blessing of Abraham might come on
the Gentiles through Him; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit
through faith,” Galatians
3:13-14. “There is
neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male
nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you be Christ's,
then are you Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise, Galatians
3:28-29. God will choose those that love and obey Him for His inheritance.
The blessing of Abraham shall come upon all those that believe and obey the
voice of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Psalm
47:5 God is gone up with a
shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
At Jesus coming we find the same imagery of shouting and trumpets sounding!
1Thessalonians
4:16-17 “For the Lord himself shall
descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the
trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then
we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so, shall we ever be with the Lord.
1 Corinthians
15:51-52 “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We
shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the
dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
Matthew
24:29-31 “Immediately after the
tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not
give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the
heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of
man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall
see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall
gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the
other!
Psalm
47:6 Sing praises to God, sing
praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
God dwells in the praises of His people. In Psalm 100:1-2&4,
we read, “Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all you lands. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before His
presence with singing…Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His
courts with praise: be thankful unto Him, and bless His name.”
The New
Testament has the same admonition. Colossians 3:15-17 “And let the peace
of God rule in your hearts, to the which also you are called in one body; and
be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom;
teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever you do in
word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and
the Father by him.”
Ephesians
5:18-21 “And be not drunk with wine,
wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves
in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your
heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the
Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Submitting yourselves one
to another in the fear of God.”
Psalm
47:7 For God is the King of all
the earth: sing praises with understanding.
Jesus
has gotten us the victory. Psalm 98:1 says, “O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvellous
things: His right hand, and His holy arm, has gotten Him the victory.” In
1 Corinthians 15:57 we read, “But thanks be to God, which gives us the
victory though our Lord Jesus Christ.” Daniel 2:44 “And
in the days of these kings, (the 10 kings of the Antichrist world government),
shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and
the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and
consume all these kingdoms, (and destroy the Antichrist, his government, and
military), and God’s kingdom shall stand for ever.”
Psalm
47:8 God reigns over the
heathen: God sits upon the throne of His holiness.
Jesus
sits at the right hand of the Father. Revelation 7:9-12 says, “After
this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all
nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and
before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And
cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sits upon the
throne, and unto the Lamb. And all the angels stood round about the
throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on
their faces, and worshipped God, Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and
wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for
ever and ever. Amen.” Romans 8:34 “It is Christ that died, yes
rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also
makes intercession for us.”
Psalm
47:9 The princes of the people
are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of
the earth belong unto God: He is greatly exalted.
The “shields
of the earth” signifies the leaders that protect the peoples of the earth. They
shall submit themselves unto God and to Christ at His coming.
In Isaiah
2:2-4, we read, “And it shall come to pass in the last
days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains,
and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
And many people shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of
the Lord, to
the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will
walk in His paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of
the Lord from
Jerusalem. And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many
people: and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears
into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war anymore.”
After
the terrible time of great tribulation and wrath of God, the millennium
dispensation will begin. Jesus will make the wars to cease, He will destroy all
armaments, burning much of them by fire. God will be exalted among the nations.
He will be exalted in the earth, Psalm 46:9-10.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea, Isaiah 11:9. Every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord over all the earth, Philippians 2:19-11 reads, “ Wherefore, God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Prayer: Lord, help us to walk in victory. Help us to shout and praise You in spite of the difficulties we may be facing at the moment. We know "that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us," Romans 8:18. Help us to keep the heavenly vision. For "eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love Him," 1st Corinthians 2:9. Help us not to be weary and faint in our minds, but to rise up and fight the good fight with praise and thanksgiving. "In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you," 1st Thessalonians 5:18. "Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice!" Philippians 4:4. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.
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