JESUS CHRIST IN THE BOOK OF PSLAMS 69-72 CHRIST REJECTED AND EXALTED
JESUS CHRIST IN THE BOOK OF PSALMS (69-72)
CHRIST REJECTED AND EXALTED
Tuesday Morning Bible Study, Oct. 7, 2025
Pastor Carolyn Sissom
Psalm 72 finishes what is categorized as the second Book of Psalms. As we have re-discovered in our journey thus far, the Psalms are a complete Bible in themselves. Possibly every subject that pertains to God and man in Creation and redemption’s name is referred to in these great themes.
After the resurrection, Jesus referred to the whole Book of Psalms with its messianic contents. Luke 24:44: These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.
PSALM 69:1: To the Chief Musician upon Shoshannin, a Psalm of David, SAVE ME OH GOD, for the waters have come up to my neck.
As we studied in Psalm 45, “Shoshannim” means “lilies” and reveals the principles of the Passover, Resurrection and Purity. Lilies are also used in the Bible as metaphors of God’s precious people. Psalm 45 speaks of the Messiah Prince, Jesus the Royal Bridegroom with His Bride.
Psalm 69 is one of the most outstanding Messianic Psalms and is a Song of Christ’s suffering and His Cross. This is often quoted in the New Testament. This reveals our Savior, betrayed, rejected, and marked by suffering. These four Psalms 69-72 prophesy of Christ rejected and exalted.
1. 1-6 are a cry of distress, piercing and passionate.
2. 7-12 He then declares this suffering has come in the path of loyalty to God.
3. 13-18 the cry for help is repeated with new emphasis and passion.
Suddenly the Psalm becomes a passionate cry for the vengeance of God. The passion passes, and a prayer follows which merges into praise, and culminates in a great affirmation of the singer’s confidence in his God.
1. 69: 1-5: A sea of trouble – 5: O God, You know my foolishness, and my sins are not hidden from you. I have prayed that prayer many times and continue to pray for my foolishness and naivete.
2. 69: 6-12: The sting of insult – Let not those who wait for You, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed because of me. Let not those who see You be confounded because of me, O God of Israel. I pray I do not cause others to lose faith, give up hope or fall.
3. 69: 13-18: The cry – 16: Hear me O LORD, for Your lovingkindness is good. Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.
4. 69: 19-21 – The cup – They gave me gall for my food and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
5. 69: 22-28 – The curse – The list of curses here should be prayed over and broken off ourselves, our families, and our churches. I broke the curse verse 22 off me. “Let their table become a snare before them, and their well-being a trap.” I break all curses of eyes being darkened, God’s indignation, God’s wrathful anger, desolation, persecution, gossip, iniquity added to their iniquity, separation from the righteousness of Christ.
6. 69: 29-33 – Praise from the heart - 30: I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify Him with thanksgiving.
7. 69: 34-36 – Praise from the host – Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them. for God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it. Also, the descendants of His servants shall inherit it, and those who love His name shall dwell in it.
In Psalm 45 under the banner of Shoshannim, The Bride is prepared for the King through her suffering, but the King gave his all to reach her. In Psalm 69, Jesus Christ is prepared for His exaltation as King.
PSALM 70:1: Make haste O God, to deliver me! Make haste to help me, O LORD! Let them be ashamed and confounded Who seek my life. Let them be turned back and confused who desire my hurt. Let them be turned back because of their shame. Who say, “Aha, aha!” Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; and let those who love Your salvation say continually, “Let God be magnified!” But I am poor and needy. Make hast to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer. O LORD, do not delay.
A Psalm of David to bring to remembrance of what is written in Psalm 40: 13-17. It is repeated here to complete the structure of the second book. I only briefly mentioned verses 13-17 when I was teaching Psalm 40, since it is repeated almost verbatim in the close of this book, Let me give it due diligence.
Psa. 40:13-17: Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me. O LORD make haste to help me! Let them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion who seek to destroy my life. Let them be driven backward and brought to dishonor who wish me evil. Let them be confounded because of their shame, who say to me, “Aha, aha!” Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You. Let such as love Your salvation say continually, “the LORD be magnified!” But I am poor and needy. Yet the LORD thinks upon me. You are my help and my deliverer. Do not delay. O my God.
PSALM 71: 1: In you, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be put to confusion.
Psalm 71 gives us one of the keys of faith of how we handle trouble and the ultimate victory of the faithful. According to the date on my sermon notes, I last taught this February 2014. As a nation we were under great tribulation due to the spirits of antichrist, Ahab and Jezebel operating under the Obama administration. We can now rejoice that we prevailed and are now rising out of the spirit of lawlessness, corruption and spirit of death brought in by Obamacare. We are in a different season of prayer and warfare than we were in 2014.
70:2-3: Deliver me in Your righteousness and cause me to escape; incline Your ear to me and save me. Be my strong habitation, whereto I may continually resort; You have given commandment to save me; for You are my rock and my fortress.
In these three verses we are given eight promises:
1. In you, O Lord, do I put my trust.
2. Let me never be put to confusion.
3. Deliver me in Your righteousness.
4. Cause me to escape.
5. Incline Your ear to me and save me.
6. Be my strong habitation, whereto I may continually rest.
7. You have given commandment to save me.
8. You are my rock and my fortress.
Ps. 71: 4-6: Deliver, O my God out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. For You are my hope, O Lord God: You are my trust from my youth. You have I been hold up from the womb; You are He that took me out of my mother’s bowels; my praise shall be continually of You.
God is not only doing something for us as He delivers us and is delivering us from tribulation, but He also destroys our persecutors and pursuers. Our enemies are His enemies. God is very efficient. He develops us for the next Kingdom invasion and destroys His enemies at the same time.
The church is called to be overcomers. Through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, we are the only force on earth with the power over the spirit of death, hell, and the grave. We apprehend our authority to be an overcomer. Leap over that wall. Mount that obstacle. We are the light of the world. We can run or break through every problem because of the strength, might and joy of the Lord.
Psalm 71: 7-11: I am as a wonder to many; but You are my strong refuge. Let my mouth be filled with Your praise and with Your honor all day. Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails. For my enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together, Saying, “God has forsaken him; persecute and take him; for there are none to deliver him”
This is the litmus test of friend versus enemy. It is the litmus test of love. There may be some who will flatter us when we are in the winner’s circle yet judge us when we are down. Not only will they judge us but will use that as their opportunity to take advantage. Your enemy will not come at you when you are strong. They will wait and watch for your moment of weakness or vulnerability to take advantage. They watch continually looking for your weakness. I am a testimony of those who judge competency with “old age” and the Lord has not forsaken me. Surely, I prayed this prayer over myself at some time in life and living now to see this Great Grace. I think I have overcome the anger of being judged for my age.
Psalm 71: 12-16: O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste for my help. Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my
hurt. But I will hope continually and will yet praise You more and more. My mouth shall show forth Your righteousness and Your salvation all day; for I know not the numbers thereof. I will go in the strength of the Lord God; I will make mention of Your righteousness, even of You only.
We are to possess the land. Be strong and of a good courage. The spirit of Antichrist shudders at the thought of the Overcomer who is within the Daughter of Zion:
“It is time to take the Kingdom.
Rise up, ye strong, ‘tis Christ’s command.
For every power and dominion is given now into your hand!
You that have ears to hear the trumpet,
You that have hearts to understand, it is time to take the Kingdom.
Rise up, you strong, possess the land!” (Kelly Varner)
Psalm 71: 17-21: O God, You have taught me from my youth; and presently have I declared Your wondrous works. Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God forsake me not; until I have shown Your strength to this generation, and Your power to everyone that is to come. Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who have done great things; O God, who is like to You! You, which have shown me great and sore troubles, shall quicken me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth. You shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
It is not a time for the defenders of the faith to sit back in “old age.” after years of warfare against the evil one, We must teach the next generations who are on the earth. A generation of believers are arising. They will go to the wise to show them the path of victory. The soul of our nation became woefully demoralized. Lawlessness abounded in the highest level of government. The eyes and ears of our nation lapsed into abominable idolatries and only a remnant protested. Eastgate Church you are part of that overcoming remnant who would not accept defeat to the kingdom of darkness. We know our God reigns and wins. Psalm 71 declares the promise of the strength of God to the overcomer who will not faint in the midst of the battle.
71: 22-24: I will also praise You with the psaltery; even Your truth, O my God: to You will sing with the harp, O You Holy One of Israel. My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to You; and my soul, which You have redeemed. My tongue also shall talk of Your righteousness all day long; for they are confounded, for they are brought to shame that seek my hurt.
The word of God says that we must through much tribulation enter into the Kingdom of God (Acts 14:22). the word for “must is “dei” (#1163) and means, “it is necessary.” We have fought the good fight, but our time is not up. Brother Keith made a call on Saturday for the Caleb’s to stand up. We must continue in the faith. We must not be weary in well doing. We must be strong and of a good courage that we may continue to show the strength of our God to this generation and His great power to everyone that is to come.
Kelly Varner describes this Psalm as “His Hope.” I say that this Psalm decrees Christ is our Hope and that Hope is a certainty.
GLORY AND UNIVERSALITY OF THE MESSIAH’S REIGN
PSALM 72:1: A Psalm of Solomon: Give the king Your judgments, O God, and Your righteousness to the king’s Son.
This is a great Kingdom Psalm, describing an exalted King, and the blessing of His reign. This is a Prayer for the King by a King. The Feast of Tabernacles is seen throughout this Psalm in detail.
The whole perfect order of God’s Kingdom is revealed. God is high over all and enthroned, actively governing. This song is a prophecy of hope. We have seen the King, and His perfect Kingdom must come. God cannot fail.
David is a type of Jesus Christ, the King’s Son, and Solomon is a type of His seed, the overcomer. Every verse of this Psalm is applicable to King Jesus, but it is consummated in Sons of God/Manchild company. The Kings’s Son points to the man whose name is the Branch (Isa. 4, 11,).
Isa. 11: 1-2: There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.
There is controversial interpretation over this verse as to whether Jesus is the “branch” or the “rod.” There is one school of interpretation that “We”, the church are the branches which are the extension of him according to Jesus’ own words;
John 15: 1-5: I am the true vine, and My Father is vine dresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
I personally do not see it as controversial. We are in Christ and Christ is in us. He is the head. We are the Body. Whether He or the church is the branch, we are one in the vine.
The beautiful and glorious branch of Isaiah 4:2 is the glory of the Christ, and the scepter of the king. The Davidic Covenant has to do with rulership and government. It has to do with the throne of God, which is the authority of God vested in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Branch man (Christ in His Body) is to bear rule! The Greek word for throne means a place or seat of authority. It is not (nor will be) a chair in outer space or the Middle East.
11:2: The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and Might, the spirit of Knowledge and of the Fear of the Lord.
The Spirit is the Ruach = “wind, spirit, breath” of the Lord. The new Testament parallel is “Pneuma” = “rest, settle down, to dwell, stay, let fall in place.” This is the Christ (Head and body) being the tabernacle, temple, sanctuary, building, pavilion, mansion, habitation, house of the Lord.
The King’s son points to Jesus, but he is now a many-membered New Man. The Prince of Peace becomes the King of Peace.
Royal Righteousness - 72:2-4: He will judge Your people with righteousness, and Your poor with justice. The mountains will bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
Endless Reign 72: 5-7: They shall fear You as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations. He shall come down like rain upon the grass before mowing, like showers that water the earth. In His days the righteous shall flourish and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.
Boundless Realm 72: 8-11: He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. Those who dwell in the wilderness will bow before Him, and His enemies will lick the dust. The kings of Tarshish and of the isles will bring presents. The kings of Sheba and Seba will offer gifts. Yes, all kings shall fall down before Him, all nations shall serve Him.
Compassionate King 72: 12-14: For he will deliver the needy when he cries. The poor also, and him who has no helper. He will spare the poor and needy, and will save the souls of the needy. He will redeem their life from oppression and violence, and precious shall be their blood in His sight.
Endless Blessing 72: 15-17: And He shall live, and the gold of Sheba will be given to Him. Prayer also will be made for Him continually, and daily he shall be praised.
Doxology and Conclusion 72: 18-20: Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, Who only does wondrous things! And blessed be His glorious name forever! And let the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and Amen. The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
Carolyn Sissom, Pastor
Eastgate Ministries Church
Scripture from N.K.J.B. I entered into the labors of Principles of Present Truth by Kelly Varner. Comments and conclusions are my own and not meant to reflect the views of those who I entered into their labors.