No wonder the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy when earth's foundations were laid; the seas burst from the womb of the morning and the chains of the Pleiades were secured. Treasure the fact that as we gather together for our worship services today that this one to whom belong all things is the same one who walks amidst his churches. The connection between what is left and what one leaves God’s altar with is reinforced by the Hebrew verb “take up” or “lift,” which is used in both halves of the second stanza. He was the One Who laid the foundation on the seas and established it on the rivers. David brought the ark into Jerusalem. `The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof.' May we never forget to rejoice that our names are written in heaven, for You are our Maker and Redeemer and by the blood of Christ have been saved. "For he hath founded it upon the seas."

Heavenly Father, how we praise and thank You that YOU are the great King of glory and Lord of hosts, Who created the world and everything in it. Die Erde ist des HERRN und was darinnen ist, der Erdkreis und die darauf wohnen. The Psalm makes a pair with the Psalms 15:1-5 .

", "He flieth upon my wings", whispered the winds, and the gentle air added, "I am the breath of God, the aspirations of his benign presence." The psalm bears a three-part structure: 1 Declaration of the Lord as creator of all (verses 1-2) 2 Liturgy of the entrance of humans into God’s sphere (verses 3-6) 3 Liturgy of the entrance of the Lord into the human sphere (verses 7-10) The ending of the liturgical poem both completes the rhetorical movement of God into the human space and provides a fitting theological bookend to verse 1. Then the falling dew replied, "I will nourish thee, so that thou shalt be refreshed and rejoice, and thy infants shall bloom like the young rose." Grand chorus. We look also for a sublimer fulness when the true ideal of a world for God shall have been reached in millennial glories, and then most clearly the earth will be the Lord's, and the fulness thereof. An exhortation to receive it, Psalm 24:7-9. Who the King of glory is, Psalm 24:10. It was well to remind the great merchants of the largest commercial city in the world of the truth which it contains; it does much to describe the character of the British nation that it should be inscribed in a place so conspicuous, and, as it were, on the wealth of that great capital. “To the Lord the earth and its fullness, the world and the ones dwelling in it.”. Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. They who trust in worldly things build upon the sea; but we have laid our hopes, by God's grace, upon the Rock of Ages; we are resting upon the promise of an immutable God, we are depending upon the constancy of a faithful Redeemer. Use the scale on the left to tell how often the verses below are googled compared to each other. The whole round world is claimed for Jehovah, and they that dwell therein are declared to be his subjects. And when this was done, and the ark brought into it, this Psalm was to be sung, and indeed to this time it seems chiefly directed. God has a claim on people - upon their services, upon their talents, upon all that they can acquire by labor and skill; He has a right to all that fly in the air, or that walk the earth, or that swim in the sea. Verse 1. With this leading idea in his mind, the most cursory reader -- if there be cursory readers of the Bible -- cannot fail to be struck with the beauty and sublimity of this composition, and its exquisite suitableness to the occasion.

And light and darkness; day and night; dry land and sea; heaven and earth; sun and moon and the construction of the great domed firmament, that divides the waters above from the water below, was assembled with supernatural precision. Jeremiah 10:11 .

First, by donation of God his Father, having "all power given unto him in heaven and in earth" ( Matthew 28:18 ), even whatsoever things the Father hath are his ( John 16:15 ); and so consequently "made heir of all things." Chorus of priests accompanying the ark. Ancient gates had no parts that moved up and down–this is not a metaphor for the raising of a portcullis to allow entrance. He owns Donald Trump the same as he’s owned Barak Obama. The earth is full of God; he made it full and he keeps it full, notwithstanding all the demands which living creatures make upon its stores. Psalm 24 prepares us for the magnificent entrance of the King of Glory into the great city of Jerusalem. All things are God's; no ban is on the face of nature, nothing is common or unclean. He owns people.

Psalms 24:7 . Who may process from the profane space of the world into holy space of God’s Temple? The world is Jehovah's, because from generation to generation he preserves and upholds it, having settled its foundations. - The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. Use our substance, preach everywhere, claim all things for God. The King of glory approaches. What does this verse really mean? Arise, ye sons of men, give praises and thanks unto the Lord, for the King of glory approaches.". The title deeds which men treasure are merely the written permission of the societies in which they Five, conveying the right of use for the brief period of their earthly lives. All things then are Christ's, in respect of creation, by whom "all things were made" ( John 1:3 ); in respect of sustentation, as upholding all things by his mighty word ( Hebrews 1:3 ); in respect of administration, as reaching from one end to another, and ordering all things sweetly ( 8:1 ): in one word -- "Of him, and through him, and to him, are all things." All rights reserved. Entering God’s Space In the second stanza, the focus of the liturgy zooms in from the universal focus to a focus on the Jerusalem Temple–the intersection between heaven and earth. WORKS WRITTEN ABOUT THE TWENTY-FOURTH PSALM IN SPURGEON'S DAY. We learn from the rabbins, that this was one of certain Psalms which were sung in the performance of Jewish worship on each day in the week: --. The clouds gathered themselves together and said, "We are his nocturnal tent."

We are reminded that this coming King of glory is the eternal Lord of Hosts. Though short and concise, Psalm 24 is packed with praise, jubilation, and information about the King of glory. To show his right to choose any nation whom he pleased to be his peculiar people; which privilege being conferred upon the Israelites, was a great stumbling-block to the heathen nations. Light is the countenance of the Eternal, sung the setting sun: "I am the hem of his garment," responded the soft and rosy twilight. He who rules the fish of the sea and the fowl of the air should not be disobeyed by man, his noblest creature. The world is all God's world, and the food which is sold in the shambles is sanctified by being my Father's, and I need not scruple to eat thereof.

The Lord’s coming is not the hostile act of an invader conquering that which properly belongs to another. Psalm 24 is the 24th psalm of the Book of Psalms, generally known in English by its first verse, in the King James Version, "The earth is the L ORD 's, and the fulness thereof". He owns the trees. Who is the king of glory? The great Proprietor, his estates and his servants, his rights and wrongs. All belong to God, and He has a right to claim them for His service, and to dispose of them as He pleases. A Psalm of David. The fulness thereof; all the creatures, and especially the inhabitants wherewith it is replenished. The fee-simple is not with the lord of the manor nor the freeholder, but with the Creator.

A description of the persons that shall be of his spiritual kingdom, Psalm 24:3,4.

Literally – in the Hebrew word order – to the Lord, the earth and its fullness. He wrote a special psalm. The world is all God's world, and the food which is sold in the shambles is sanctified by being my Father's, and I need not scruple to eat thereof. The Concentration Of Spiritual Energy (part 1). And being a prophet, he speaks, as the prophets used, of things to come as if they were already present, and turns his speech to the temple and its gates, as if they were now built.

The Lord, strong and mighty. The whole round world is claimed for Jehovah, "and they that dwell therein" are declared to be his subjects. Verse 1. (last clause). Psalm 24 prepares us for the magnificent entrance of the King of Glory into the great city of Jerusalem.

Verse 1. The earth is the Lord's. Quotes available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. What does Psalm chapter 24 mean? The King of Glory of verses 8 and 10 is the same Lord who first established his kingship creating and founding the world (verse 1).