This Psalm says it was written for a future generation, and that a people that were yet to be created would praise the Lord, and be used to set free those that were under the sentence of death.
"This will be written for the generation to come, That a people yet to be created may praise the LORD. For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary; From heaven the LORD viewed the earth, To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To release those appointed to death,
(Psa 102:18-20)
There was a people yet to be created that would be the people of the coming Messiah, the Christ, the Anointed One of God. This people would be filled with the Holy Spirit and would become known as the congregation or church of the Messiah, the church of Jesus Christ.
Read what the prophet Isaiah said about 500 years after King David wrote the above Psalm.
"The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, Because the LORD has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn, To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified." (Isa 61:1-3)
The Gentiles shall see your righteousness, And all kings your glory. You shall be called by a new name, Which the mouth of the LORD will name.
(Isa 62:2)
Are you a planting of the Lord? Are you a tree of righteousness? Are you one of those Christ followers that kings and prophets foretold would one day come to bring hope to the hopeless and bring freedom to those in bondage?
Yours in Him,
Pastor B.
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