12/05/2024 – Day 165- Psalm – Chapters 69 – 71 / “Psalm 69 Like Psalm 22. “Glimpses of the Suffering Messiah” – Multiple quotes in the New Testament.
Last cycle’s post on this reading is dated 08/11/2022.
Today, I am going to share summary excerpts of each of these three chapters from Henry H. Halley’s “Halley’s Bible Handbook”:
Psalm 69. A Psalm of Suffering
“Like Psalm 22. Glimpses of the Suffering Messiah. So quoted in the New Testament: 4,9, 21, 22, 25: John 2:17; 15:25; 19: 28-30; Acts 1:20; Romans 11:9; 15:3 (See further page 397.)”
So, here is pg 397, the last paragraph from Halley’s Isaiah 53 commentary, “The Messiah’s Suffering”:
“The most conspicuous feature in the Prophecies about the Coming King is that He would be a Sufferer. It was hinted in Abel’s Sacrifice, and in Abraham’s Offering of Isaac, and vividly fore-pictured in the Institution of the Passover Feast, and in the Annual Day of Atonement, and some of its details described in Psalm 22. And here, in Isaiah 53, detail upon detail is added, making the picture more complete. And in chapters 54,55,60, 61, the Suffering King Fills the Earth with Songs of Joy. Marvelous Forecasts of the Christian Era.”
Psalm 70. An Urgent Cry for Help
“God never failed David. The Believer’s Joy in God in a time of Persecution. About the same as the latter part of Psalm 40.”
Psalm 71. A Psalm of Old Age.
“Retrospect of a Life of Trust, beset by trouble and enemies all the way, with his joy in God undimmed.”
Soli Deo Gloria!
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Questions for fellowship generation, the lifelong sanctification process:
- What does the text reveal about God’s character?
- How has this reading generated prayer for you and/or us?
- What themes stand out to you in this bible study?
- How does our reading fit into the bigger picture (creation, the fall, restoration, etc.)?
- What verse(s) jumped out at you like never before? Is it explainable at this point?
- Do you have any questions you would like to put before the group as to how to interpret any particular verse(s) in our reading. Let scripture testify to scripture: Share with us where you sense contradiction between passages elsewhere.
- What did you find convicting and inspiring at the same time? Share with us how the Spirit of God is working within you as a messenger, both within and outside of our fellowship group.
- Share with the group how our study is calling or confirming to you a new mission to glorify God in our times.
Thoughts? Reflections? Questions? Prayer.
Comment: Psalm 69 – The people resonated with prophecies of the Messiah as the Conquering King, but everyone seemed to miss the prophecies of the Suffering Messiah. And so it would be with any people in any point in history.