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  COMMENTARY ON PSALMS 47-50
  by Chuck Smith
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Psalm 47 is a psalm for the New Year. This psalm is read seven times
before the blowing of the trumpet to announce the holy day, the
beginning of the Jewish New Year.

O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of
triumph. For the LORD most high is awesome; he is a great King over all
the earth. He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under
our feet. He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of
Jacob whom he loved. God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the
sound of the trumpet. Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises
unto our God, sing praises. For God is the King of all the earth: sing
ye praises with understanding. God reigneth over the heathen: God
sitteth upon the throne of his holiness. The princes of the people are
gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the
shields of the earth belong unto God: and he is greatly exalted (Psa
47:1-9).

This, again, is looking into the glorious New Age. The Jews looked at it
as their New Year. But it is a psalm really by which we will usher in
the New Age. The age in which Jesus establishes His kingdom and reigns
over the earth. It is going to be a whole New Age. And so, it is
significant that they would use it for a new year, because always in a
new year there is a hope of things better, a new day dawning, and so
forth. A new year dawning, new opportunities. But this is a New Age, the
Kingdom Age that is dawning. And this is the psalm that will usher in
the glorious Kingdom Age, as we clap our hands and shout unto God with a
voice of triumph, because He has now established His kingdom over all of
the earth and we are there with Him. He is the King over the earth, sing
praises.

Psalm 48

Psalm 48:

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in
the mountains of his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the
whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the
great King (Psa 48:1-2).

This is still looking forward into the Kingdom Age, when Jesus the great
King will dwell in Jerusalem. His throne will be upon Mount Zion. So it
is always so exciting to me when I go over to Jerusalem, one of my
favorite places in all of Israel is Mount Zion. I love to just stand on
Mount Zion and just say, "Wow, this is the place. I wonder where on this
Mount He is going to put His throne." The glorious King is coming; He is
coming soon. He\

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/chuck-smith/commentary-on-psalms-47-50/
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