Seeing Jesus in the Psalms

  Psalm 150 1 Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary;     praise him in his mighty heaven! 2 Praise him for his mighty works;     praise his unequaled greatness! 3 Praise him with a blast of the ram’s horn;     praise him with the lyre and harp! 4 Praise him with the tambourine and dancing;     praise him with strings and flutes! 5 Praise him with a clash of cymbals;     praise him with loud clanging cymbals. 6 Let everything that breathes sing praises to the Lord! Praise the Lord! Psalm 150 3 And they were singing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb: “ Great and marvelous are your works ,     O Lord God, the Almighty. Just and true are your ways,     O King of the nations.[a] 4 Who will not fear you, Lord,     and glorify your name?     For you alone are holy. All nation...

  Psalm 72 “All kings will bow before him, and all nations will serve him.“ Psalm 72:11 NLT Although Solomon might have been proud of his daddy, King David, he could only have been talking about one King to whom all kings will bow and all nations serve. And although Solomon might not have known that He would be named Jesus, he must have known that He was the promised Messiah. So let’s pick through the royal well-wishing rhetoric and find us a King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Psalm 72 ends the second of five books within the Psalms. The chapters that make up the five books are 1–41, 42–72, 73–89, 90–106, 107–150. And we get two pieces of information that will help us understand the Psalm better, first in the title that attributes the Psalm to Solomon and second at the end in verse 20 that probably refers to this second section or book (chapters 42-72) as being the prayers of David.  “Jesus came and told his disciples, "I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. “ ...