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Note the questions in verses 3, 8, and 10, Who is the King of glory? The first most important question is a “Who” question.
- Salvation is a ‘who’ question.
- Your daily decisions are ‘who’ questions. Bondage versus liberty is a ‘who’ question. Jesus Christ said take my yoke upon you. My yoke is easy, my burden light. Pharoah’s burden in the world is rigorous slavery.
- Paul says as a Christian employee you do your work as unto the Lord, as unto Christ, as to the Lord. Who’s your highest authority is more important than what you do.
- Whether you’re a recipient of God’s grace is a who question.
- Peace with God is a who question.
- Forgiveness of sins is a who question.
- Glorified body is a who question.
The King is the same as the Shepherd in Psalm 23. The identity of the King was a mystery to the Jews because they would not believe God. David prophesied the coming King was also the LORD, the God of gods. Look at verse 10; the LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. But throughout the psalm the LORD, capital L-O-R-D, looks for the man who will be King who will inherit His creation.
Who shall ascend?
- Jesus says, I am the way.
- Some dispensational teaching misreads this psalm to be a statement of old testament salvation. That someone would have to have clean hands and a pure heart to ascend to heaven, but this isn’t an old testament plan of salvation that tells people what to do. This psalm describes the work of the LORD Jesus Christ.
Who shall stand?
- Hebrews 8:1 We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched and not man.
Whose generation?
- Jesus Christ is the generation out of Jacob that does the will of the Father and seeks the work of the Father.
- Matthew 1 begins like this: the generation of Jesus Christ
- 24:6 This is the generation…
- 1 Peter 1:18-19 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
Who is the King of glory? (vss 7-9)
- Look up!
- Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
- Colossians 3:1-4
- The question is posed by some angel or some heavenly host or someone.
- Revelation 4 shows God the Father on the throne. Revelation 5:1, 6, 13, shows Jesus Christ as the Lamb, not yet the King. Notice that the Lamb is worthy. Revelation 6:16, 7:9-10. Then Revelation 19:11 he is King!
- Now David was anointed king, but it was a while before he became king. There were several years between David’s anointing and his actual reign. David understands the waiting period and he’s a great picture of Jesus Christ who will be King, but is not right now.
- Who is the King of glory? He’s the LORD from verse one who owns the earth by creation.
