THE CREATOR GOD, OUR REDEEMER.
Psalm 33:6-12.
PSALM 33:6-7. “The word of the LORD” (cf. Psalm 33:4) is the same powerful, Creative word by which the cosmos was created (cf. Genesis 1:3). And Jesus is the Word (cf. John 1:1-3). “By the breath of His mouth” corresponds to the work of the Holy Spirit in Creation as there is only one Hebrew word for both “breath” and “Spirit.” The waters gathered together “as an heap” is also reminiscent of the Redemptive power of the LORD in the parting of the Red Sea (cf. Exodus 15:8).
PSALM 33:8-9. The whole earth is summoned to “fear the LORD” and “stand in awe of Him. For He spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.” All things of nothing!
PSALM 33:10-11. This same God confounds the counsel of the ungodly (cf. Psalm 2:2-3), and sets up His own unchanging counsel for all generations.
PSALM 33:12. “Blessed is the NATION whose God is the LORD; and the PEOPLE whom He hath CHOSEN for His own inheritance.” In ancient times, it was only Israel who had such a relationship with the LORD. Not that they chose Him, but that He chose them.
It is still true today that there is only one “people” who can thus be defined as those “whose God is the LORD… whom He hath chosen for His own inheritance.” That is the people referred to as ‘the Israel of God’ in Galatians 6:16 - the church of our Lord Jesus Christ - ‘chosen in Him from the foundation of the world’ (cf. Ephesians 1:4), and made up of both Jews and Gentiles (cf. Galatians 3:7-9). The word to the church is, ‘But ye are a CHOSEN generation, a royal priesthood, an holy NATION, a peculiar PEOPLE’ (cf. 1 Peter 2:9). It was His choice, not ours: but what a blessing it is! What an honour!
