Meditations

Open Line on January 21, 2023 hour 2.

Listener:

My question is kind of about Psalm 45 in general, I am reading out of the New King James and then this bible, it puts a little star when it is referring to Messianic verse or passage, so I want to know, it seems like it is talking about Christ as being the king, from verses 1 to , well the whole thing but at the end, like verse 9, the king’s daughter are among your honorable women, at right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir, then verse 10 switches to Listen, O daughter, consider and incline your ear, forget your people, then it sounds like it is an earthly wedding, I want to know how to read it, am I reading it prophetically as Christ, is there real wedding, then it sounds like it’s a queen that’s there and then another one that’s coming being brought to Him, to be married, as multiple wives, or is it going back and forth between prophetic and real?

Dr Michael Rydelnik:

You’ve got a great question here. Now, first of all, let me say, I believe, the whole book of Psalm is Messianic, not just isolated verses here or there. That the overall theme of the Psalms is Messianic. There are many many scholars who hold this view is sort of becoming fashionable again, to see the Psalms holistically as a book of Messiah. David C Mitchell, who wrote a book 20 years ago, called the “Message of the Psalter” and he came back to an older view which sees the book of Psalm as a holistic unified book with this key message being the coming of the Messiah. I agree with you too that Psalm 45 seems Messianic, the reason is because it is. Particularly, it seems to me, there may have been an allusion to historical event, I think it was intentionally, like some people say, it was Solomon that was getting married. This was referring to him but I don’t think it is. I think the groom is intended to be symbolic for the Messiah. The reason I say that is if you look at verse 6, “Your throne, O God is forever …, He’s calling whoever this is, this is God, boy, I am feeling giving a lot of books away. There’s a wonderful exposition by a man by a man named Seph Postell, who is a Moody grad, Jewish believer, who is the academic dean of Israel College of the Bible. He wrote on Psalm 45, Messiah as bridegroom, in the Moody Handbook of Messianic Prophecy and I think you would really be blessed by reading it. What I am going to do is since we are running out of time, we are going to send you a copy of the Moody Handbook of Messianic Prophecy.