Psalms that point to Jesus
Finding Jesus in the O/T
Reading: Psalm 118
Looking first at vs 22-24
The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
23 This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.
24 This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it…
{It seems that David is referring to the day of the Sacrifice…that great Day of Atonement, through which we are saved: The day of the Cross! David, like so many others who wrote the Scriptures, looks ahead to the promise of that Day (see Genesis 22:7-8)…and rejoices! How much more should we, who are now walking in its fulfillment also look back to that Day - and rejoice?…
For truly it is because of that day, that we can declare EVERY day: “This is the day that the LORD has made; l will rejoice and be glad in it!”}
This is why, earlier in this psalm he states:
14 The Lord is my strength and my song;
he has become my salvation.
15 Glad songs of salvation
are in the tents of the righteous:
“The right hand of the Lord does valiantly,
16 the right hand of the Lord exalts,
the right hand of the Lord does valiantly!”
17 I shall not die, but I shall live,
and recount the deeds of the Lord.
18 The Lord has disciplined me severely,
but he has not given me over to death.
19 Open to me the gates of righteousness,
that I may enter through them
and give thanks to the Lord.
20 This is the gate of the Lord;
the righteous shall enter through it.
21 I thank you that you have answered me
and have become my salvation.
Then reading from vs. 25 we see some very familiar statements:
25 Save us, we pray, O LORD! O LORD, (Hosanna!)
we pray, give us success!
26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD! We bless you from the house of the LORD.
27 The LORD is God, shining upon us.
Take the sacrifice and bind it with cords on the altar…✝️
{Compare Matthew 21:1-11 - they do not realize that the One who is the King, is also the One who will become that Sacrifice…}
***As a messianic psalm, traditionally sung during Passover, these are the words Jesus heard as he rode into Jerusalem as Yeshua - the One who will save us:
Ironically, it is likely that these are also the words that Jesus would be hearing one week later, despised and rejected by these same people, as he hung on the cross - as the fulfillment of this psalm - and of the Passover.***
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