1 The Lord is king! He is robed in majesty.
Indeed, the Lord is robed in majesty and armed with strength.
The world stands firm
and cannot be shaken.
2 Your throne, O Lord, has stood from time immemorial.
You yourself are from the everlasting past.
3 The floods have risen up, O Lord.
The floods have roared like thunder;
the floods have lifted their pounding waves.
4 But mightier than the violent raging of the seas,
mightier than the breakers on the shore—
the Lord above is mightier than these!
5 Your royal laws cannot be changed.
Your reign, O Lord, is holy forever and ever.
Two of the clearest themes of the Psalms are the King who is God and the Word of God or His law. Both the word of God and the King who is God point us unmistakably to Jesus Christ whom we learn is the King of kings and the Lord of Lords, and who is the Word of God. So when we read at the beginning of verse 1 it is the Lord who is king, we have no further to look to see this is a Messianic Psalm.
Main Point: Jesus is the eternal king on the throne ruling over all things for all time.
Israel left Egyptian slavery with a King. As this Psalm so clearly teaches us it is the Lord who is king. But humans don’t want God to be their king; they want to be ruled by one of their own.
"Do everything they say to you," the LORD replied, "for it is me they are rejecting, not you. They don't want me to be their king any longer.
God considered himself to be the King of Israel but the people wanted a human representative, which God warned them against (1Samuel 810-18).
I’m going to work this through further but hopefully you can see where this is going. Jesus is the God/Man King. Through the incarnation, man has a Man as his King, and God is no less king of His people. What the Israelites never seemed to actually understand is that God was and is always the king. When Joseph dreams that he is a bundle of wheat and that the sun, moon and stars are bowing down to him, he is showing that God is King. When Joseph rules one under Pharaoh, He is showing that God is King. When God hardens Pharaoh's heart, He is showing who is the King.
On Mount Sinai when Moses receives the law, God is being King. And when Daniel reveals through Nebuchadnezzar’s dream the plans for rulers for centuries to come, God is demonstrating that He alone is actually king. No human institution, government or ruling authority gets its power or legitimacy without the intention and sovereign decision of God.
“He said, "Praise the name of God forever and ever, for he has all wisdom and power. 21 He controls the course of world events; he removes kings and sets up other kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the scholars.”
And Jesus confirms this very principle to Pilate because it is foundational to all human interaction. And Paul instructs all believers to submit because God is the sovereign who decides who gets power.
God has never relinquished the role of King of the heavens and the earth to anyone, not Satan, not Adam, not humans, not powers and principalities. They all play a role in His plan over which He the God Man Jesus and His Father have always had control.
“Your throne, O Lord, has stood from time immemorial.
You yourself are from the everlasting past.”
Adam was a sort of vice regent over the earth when God says man will have dominion or reign over the creatures of the earth. When we pray the Lord’s prayer that Jesus taught us, we are acting again in this role by taking authority to invite God’s rule to extend through our request once again over the earth.
And once again this fact of God’s eternal Kingship is confirmed by Paul to Timothy:
“All honor and glory to God forever and ever! He is the eternal King, the unseen one who never dies; he alone is God. Amen.”
And the last book of the Bible begins and ends with the recurring theme of the eternal throne of God and hammers the image home by mentioning the throne 47 times and King 28 times in the book of Revelation.
Conclusion: And it is the mighty eternal holy reign of God that Psalm 93 declares. There is only one King who has an all-powerful, eternal, holy reign. And that is the King of kings, King Jesus.
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