Exposition of Psalm 91 in the Light of Psalm 110 – Part 5
April 3. 2010
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PSALM 91 is one I have titled “God Watches over His Own, Past, Present, and Future – Trust Him to Watch Over You!” If you take that as the theme of this Psalm, you can make numerous duel applications of verses that can be applied to Jesus, David, the nation of Israel, and many of the faithful in both Old and New Testament examples. There are several verses that fit Jesus, some Jesus and David, some Jesus, David, and the nation of Israel, and some include all faithful believers, but there is a common thread that weaves them all together – God will provide deliverance, so trust him to do what he said he would do in his own way and time.
The concept of David recognizing that the Messiah, who was to come was also the Lord, is clearly stated in Acts 2:29-36 by Peter, by David in Psalm 110, and by Christ in Matthew 22:41-46. The Seven Part Exposition of the 110th Psalm in our Prophecy Update Archives sheds a great deal of light on our Exposition of Psalm 91.
PSALM 91:9 – Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
Matthew 22:41-46 – While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, [42] Saying, What think ye of Christ
? whose son is he
? They say unto him,
The Son of David. [43] He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, [44] The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool
? [45] If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? [46] And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask
him any more questions.
They had no answer for his question, because the only answer had to be that the Messiah was not only to be the living flesh and blood descendant of David, which they indeed believed, but was to be the Son of the living God, who they referred to as the “most High.”
Psalm 110:1 – The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Peter boldly proclaimed to Israel in Acts 2:36 that David’s Lord, sitting at the most high Lord’s right hand, was both t he flesh and blood Messiah, t
he man Christ Jesus, as well as the Lord God, in whom all he fullness of the Godhead dwelt bodily.
Acts 2:29-36 – Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. [30] Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; [31] He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. [32] This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
[33] Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. [34] For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, [35] Until I make thy foes thy footstool. [36] Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
PSALM 91:9 – Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
The refuge of David was his hope in the promised one, the anointed one, the Messiah, who he called the Lord, who he identified as being elevated to the position of being “the most High,” who inhabited Messiah in all his person.
Colossians 2:9 – For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Philippians 2:6-13 – Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: [7] But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: [8] And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. [9] Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: [10] That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; [11] And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Matthew 28:18 – And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
PSALM 91:10 – There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
Until it was time for Christ to be crucified, no evil able to take his life was allowed to befall him from the hands of man, the devil, or his demons.
John 8:59 – Then took they up stones
to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
John 10:30,31,39 – I and my Father are one.
[31] Then the Jews took up s
tones again to stone him.
John 10:39 – Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
Until it was time for Christ to be crucified, no plague, no fatal illness, was allowed to slay him by earth’s many foul diseases.
The physical life of the man Christ Jesus was protected and preserved from death until his appointed time on the cross by the angels of God, at which
time he would suffer death for all men.
PSALM 91:11,12 – For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep
thee in all thy ways.
[12] They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Hebrews 2:9 – But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Jesus kept his appointment with physical death for all men, so that all men might have the opportunity to keep their appointment with death knowing he had already kept it for them, and in believing this would be allowed by God to escape a judgment casting them into hell.
Hebrews 9:25-28 – Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; [26] For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. [27] And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: [28] So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.