Exposition of Psalm 91 in the Light of Psalm 110 – Part 6
April 11, 2010
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Having g one
through 12 verses of Psalm 91 in Parts 1 through 5, it is apparent this is a Psalm affirming the promises
of God that he will deliver his children in
his own way and time. We have seen the promise God fulfilled in delivering his only begotten Son from harm until the appointed time of the man Christ Jesus’ death. We have been led back into David’s life and the many times that God delivered him from harm until the time his death was to occur. And we are well aware of many examples of other saints in the Old and New Testaments that God protected until it was time for their scheduled appointment with physical death, such as Simeon at Christ’s circumcision, and John on the Isle of Patmos. In all these cases, God delivered them
from spiritual harm by demonic forces, men, the elements of nature, fiery furnaces, and now, in verse 13, we see the picture of God protecting his flesh and blood Son from death by acts of the animal and reptilian king dom
s. There are other examples such as Daniel in the Lion’s den, and Jonah in the whale, and David from the animals that threatened his flocks.
PSALM 91:13 – Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
Hebrews 9:27,28 – 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.
God knows the appointed time of my physical death. So, until that time, I believe he will protect me in the same way he has protected his children down through the ages. I have long tried to have the attitude of Queen Esther – “And if I perish, I perish.”
God has always controlled the non-human reptilian and animal kingdoms, including their normal diets and their cravings for flesh or plants, and he will change their normal habits and diets during the Millennium. God gave Adam dominion over the animals and reptilians in the beginning, but he lost that dominion when he sinned in the Garden of Eden. The dominion of man over the animal and reptilian kingdoms will be restored after Christ returns at his Second Advent as the great Lion of Judah.
Even small children will not be attacked during this period.
Isaiah 11:6-10 – The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
[7] And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. [8] And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den. [9] They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
[10] And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
Isaiah 65:25 – The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
The main emphasis in this part of the Psalm concerns God’s protection of the man Christ Jesus during his life in the flesh, and gives an insight to the love Jesus had as a sinless man for this heavenly Father, and the reaction of his
Father to that love.
PSALM 91:14 – Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
John 17:1-10 – These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: [2] As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. [3] And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. [4] I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. [5] And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. [6] I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
[7] Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. [8] For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them,
and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. [9] I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
[10] And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
John 10:28,30 – And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. [29] My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. [30] I and my Father are one.
Philippians 2:8-10 – 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;