"This honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD"

“…this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.”

Psalms 149:7-9

“this honour have all his saints.”  What honour?  What honour do the saints of God get, for doing what?

The word “honour” here has to do with “magnificence, splendor: excellency”.  So, what do the saints of God do to get this magnificence, or splendor, excellency?

“To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.” Psalms 149:7-9

Oh… that sounds terrible…

It IS terrible!  But this is also speaking of another day and time: the law of the Old Testament was harsh – “He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:” but we are told of a difference: “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.” 

Are you looking to Him for salvation, and for Him to return?

Moses tells us, and then Jesus also tells us, “the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.” “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:” (Hebrews 10:28, Hebrews 9:27-28, Numbers 21:8, John 3:14)

The past has been hard and harsh, and the future will bring judgment, but today..?  Today is the day of Salvation.  So may we kindly and with compassion warn those around us to look to Jesus NOW and live!