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(Continued-Chapter XIV) CONCLUSION The connection between the suffering Messiah of verses 1-21 and the delivered triumphant Messiah (who is the same Individual) of verses 22-31 may be illustrated by a lantern which gives the dissolving effect. At first one picture is thrown upon the screen which in its general outline gradually disappears, but which retains and carries over certain characteristics or elements into the new picture which gradually appears in the same ratio as the former one disappears, and which finally displaces the former. Thus disappears the picture of the sufferer. Before one realizes it, the picture of suffering has dissolved and gives way to that of the triumphant victor who stands in the midst of the great congregation consisting of those whom he terms brethren and before whom he stands as peer. In the latter verses He sits upon the throne of God and reigns over the entire world. The interval between His first coming and rejection, and His second coming in glory and power is passed over without mention in this Psalm but is to be supplied from parallel passages. |
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