“Let Israel rejoice in Him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.” (Psalms 149:2)
Have you ever wondered why God chose Israel to be His people out of all the nations of the world? I can think of a few reasons. One has to do with Abraham who evidently had a heart toward God, most probably was a man who followed the law when most descendants of Noah were worshippers of idols. Jewish tradition and more specifically the Quran mention Abraham’s father to be an idol worshipper, an idol sculptor and who was in business selling idols. This information is not in the Bible but taken from the Quran and the Midrash which is a Jewish book of traditions and stories. It states that Abraham believed in one God and many other details of the trials of his life as a believer of one God in a land of idol worshippers. So, it’s no wonder that God led him away from that land and made promises for his descendants. (Genesis 12:7) The Bible doesn’t go into details. It jumps from the Tower of Babel to the call of Abraham almost a hundred years later in Genesis 11 and 12.
Then in Deuteronomy after Moses delivered the Israelites from Egypt God says, “For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto Himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. The LORD did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: But because the LORD loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the LORD thy God, He is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations;” (Deuteronomy 7:6-9) God chose Abraham who believed on Him and God remained with the Israelites because of Abraham.
Before the prophet Samuel died, he addresses the people saying, “For the LORD will not forsake His people for His great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you His people.” (1Samuel 12:22) They were God’s people then and they are still God’s people. His covenant with them was eternal through Jesus Christ, the Messiah to come and reign forever. “And I will establish My covenant between Me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.” (Genesis 17:7) I have not heard, nor have I read that this everlasting covenant has ceased. It was fulfilled in Jesus. He is a descendant of David and will reign forever. All the promises of God fulfilled in the Thousand-year reign of Jesus on earth. “Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which My covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” (Jeremiah 31:31-34) This is a description of the Thousand Year reign of Christ.
It's unknown who wrote this psalm, but they encourage the people of God to praise and worship the King Who would reign forever and ever. This is none other than Jesus, King of kings and Lord of Lords.
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