We are progressing through Psalm 66, verse by verse. It is world-wide in scope! It is millennial, prophetically speaking. I’ve never seen such a victorious attitude in all the Bible! Unless the Prophets “out tell” this glorious Message.
The hymn writer worded it this way:
“Jesus shall reign wherever the sun …
Does his successive journeys run!
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore,
Till moons shall wax and wane no more.”
Wow!
Psalm 66:4 promises: “All the earth shall worship Thee (Lord), and shall sing unto Thee; they shall sing to Thy Name. Selah.”
The “selah” at line’s end probably is a musical sign, a “rest” or “pause” of some sort … as if inviting us to “ponder” what has just been said! The Hebrew “selah” means “to lift up, to exalt.” Surely a hint of worship being involved!
The verb “worship” itself is shachah,” used 172 times in the Old Testament! It literally means “to bow down” to show “obeisance.” And 99 times in the King James Bible it is translated “to worship!”
Who is going to so worship the Lord, the Lord Jesus?
Look … “all the earth!”
In Hebrew “kol” means “every bit, the entirety, no exceptions!”
And “earth” means “land,” or “dry land” as Jonah might have expressed it! Anywhere humankind can be found! A universal Revival. At, I believe, Jesus’ Second Coming! At the beginning of what is often called Jesus’ “Millennial Kingdom.”
Our verse again: “All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name.”
Note too the “parallel” verbs … “worship” and “sing.”
Sing is “zamar,” actually meaning “making music,” looks to me like “playing a stringed instrument!” Which generally accompanies singing.
Adoring God!
God the Son!
God our Saviour!
Studying with praise His Very Name!
Truly there is coming a time, yet future as I write, when: “The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.” Both Isaiah 11:9 and Habakkuk 2:14 use these words.
So maybe today we can pray: “Even so … come Lord Jesus!”
By the way, that prayer is the last one in the Bible, Revelation 22:20. “Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”
He will!
. — Dr. Mike Bagwell