The King's Feast

Read Psalms 2, 22, 27    
 
Psalm 22:27-30 The whole earth will acknowledge the Lord and return to him. All the families of the nations will bow down before him. 28 For royal power belongs to the Lord. He rules all the nations. 29 Let the rich of the earth feast and worship. Bow before him, all who are mortal, all whose lives will end as dust. 30 Our children will also serve him. Future generations will hear about the wonders of the Lord. 31 His righteous acts will be told to those not yet born. They will hear about everything he has done.
 
POSSIBLY the most discussed text of Psalm 22 is verses 6-22. These words prophesy in agonizing detail Jesus’ abuse and suffering on the cross. It seems the psalmist had a video of Jesus’ passion on the cross as he wrote such vivid emotional words. For example, there is verse 14: as My life is poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, melting within me. True prophets often saw future manifestations as current events. Sometimes they used past tense words to write of future events as if they had happened. Take some time and read through verses 6-22 again. Be humbled to know Jesus suffering was God’s plan for you.
   Then we can look to verses 27-30 and joyfully celebrate the Father’s victory plan for the Son! Rejoice, too, that as Jesus’ suffering became his victory through his resurrection and ascension, the psalm defines God’s kingdom victories to come over the world’s opposition. One day the earth will be filled with families who are saved through Jesus’ horrible suffering. Out of the cross will come the redeemed relationship between God and mankind. All will worship the King, who rules the nations. People will be rich in their relationship with God, and they will join together to feast and worship. Lives will no longer end in dust because feasting in the kingdom is forever.
   To feast in the kingdom is a common image of redemption. Jesus spoke of it in Matthew 8:11 And I tell you this, that many Gentiles will come from all over the world—from east and west—and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob at the feast in the Kingdom of Heaven.
   His ministry on earth affirms this. He promised this eternal kingdom will come. generations will hear of God, and his righteous ways will be their knowledge.
 
Zechariah 14:9 And the Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day there will be one Lord—his name alone will be worshiped.