The psalm is clearly divided into two parts: a processional song
*The movement of the psalm seems to follow the movement of the people.
It traces the community’s worship procession, both spatially and spiritually, through 3 progressive states.
I. State One: Worship of the Creator through Contemplation (24:1-2).
II. State Two: Worship of the Savior through Consecration (24:3-6).
A. The Probing Questions Inviting Consecration (24:3);
B. The Proper Qualities Indicating Consecration (24:4-6).
III. State Three: Worship of the King through Commemoration (24:7-10).
Verses 1-2:
God is over all because He created all.
Psalm 24:1 The earth [is] the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
The whole universe, all the formed globe, both land and water, and the surrounding air, and all that is therein.
1 Corinthians 10:26 For the earth [is] the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
Psalm 24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in His holy place?
"Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD?":
Mount Zion; called the hill of the LORD, because it was the place designated for His worship, or the place of His abode Psalm 15:1).
The ideas here are: "Who shall ascend there with a view of abiding there? Who is worthy to dwell there?"
The question is equivalent to asking, what constitutes true religion?
What is required for the acceptable worship of God?
What will prepare a person for heaven?
"Or who shall stand in his holy place?"
Psalm 24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Psalm 24:7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
David speaks here of the gates and doors, either first of his royal city Zion, through which the ark was now to pass to the tabernacle which he had built for it.
And he calls these doors everlasting, either on account of the durableness of the matter of which they were made; or from his desires and hopes that God would make them everlasting, or of long continuance, because he loved the gates of Zion (Psalm 87:2).
And the King of glory shall come in.
God was regarded as dwelling between the cherubim on the mercy-seat, where the Shekinah from time to time made its appearance."
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God is over all because He created all.
Psalm 24:1 The earth [is] the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
The whole universe, all the formed globe, both land and water, and the surrounding air, and all that is therein.
1 Corinthians 10:26 For the earth [is] the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
Psalm 24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in His holy place?
"Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD?":
Mount Zion; called the hill of the LORD, because it was the place designated for His worship, or the place of His abode Psalm 15:1).
The ideas here are: "Who shall ascend there with a view of abiding there? Who is worthy to dwell there?"
The question is equivalent to asking, what constitutes true religion?
What is required for the acceptable worship of God?
What will prepare a person for heaven?
"Or who shall stand in his holy place?"
Psalm 24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Whatever is in our heart, is what we are.
Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.Psalm 24:7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
David speaks here of the gates and doors, either first of his royal city Zion, through which the ark was now to pass to the tabernacle which he had built for it.
And he calls these doors everlasting, either on account of the durableness of the matter of which they were made; or from his desires and hopes that God would make them everlasting, or of long continuance, because he loved the gates of Zion (Psalm 87:2).
And the King of glory shall come in.
God was regarded as dwelling between the cherubim on the mercy-seat, where the Shekinah from time to time made its appearance."
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