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Seeing Jesus in Psalm 117

  Psalm 117 [1] Praise the Lord, all you nations. Praise him, all you people of the earth.  [2] For his unfailing love for us is powerful;  the Lord’s faithfulness endures forever. Praise the Lord! Psalm 117:1-2 MAIN POINT: No one is excluded from the invitation to join the choir called to sing, ”Christ conquers all with His love”, so Praise the Lord. I see Jesus in the ever-expanding kingdom described in Psalm 117. Do you see that you are invited to join? This invitation to praise what we will later see is a colonising love of God is extended to the nations and then to the whole earth. And the word praise here if I understand it correctly is used to say, let your voice shine about Yᵊhōvâ (יְהֹוָה) ( LORD (used 6,510 times in the Bible)) Jehovah = "the existing One". I wonder if it isn’t more than poetic Hebrew parallelism but actually a mindset of saying all you civilised people with nations and governments praise God and all the rest of you people in tribes and far flun...