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PSALM 46 PROPHETIC

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 3, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 18.

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PSALM 46 PROPHETIC.

By Roswell F. Cottrell

Jesus said that all that was written of him in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, must be fulfilled; thus recognizing as a fact that the Psalms contain prophecies. And the New Testament records the fulfillment of some of them, the second being named, and the sixteenth referred to in Acts 13 : 33, 35.
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.” When Christ shall begin his reign, there will be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation (Dan. 12 : 1); and in that day of wrath the voice of God shall shake the heavens and the earth, and the mountains and islands will be moved out of their places. Rev. 6 : 14, and 16 : 17, 18, 20. But those who have made God their refuge will have no cause to fear, for they shall be delivered, their names being written in the Lamb’s book of life. Dan. 12 : 1. “Though the waters” of earth “roar,” and men’s hearts fail for fear (Luke 21 : 25, 26), the people of God will be secure. They are about to go to dwell in “the city of God”; and “there is a river” that will make glad the inhabitants of that city, the “river of water of life.” Rev. 22 : 1. “God is in the midst of her,” the city, “she shall not be moved.”
“The heathen raged,” “the nations were angry,” Rev. 11 : 18, “the kingdoms were moved”; the wrath of God shall come upon them, “thy wrath is come.” “He uttered his voice, the earth melted.” In the day of the Lord the earth and elements shall melt with fervent heat. 2 Pet. 3 : 10.
“Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.”
The time will come in the day of the Lord when the earth shall be “emptied, and utterly spoiled.” Isa. 24 : 1-3; Jer. 25 : 29-33; Zeph. 2 : 18, and 3 : 6. What a scene of desolation will it then present! Wars will verily cease to the end of the earth. How? All the nations will be broken with the iron scepter of the King, the Son of God, and dashed in pieces like a potter’s vessel. Ps. 2 : 6-9. Wars shall cease by the destruction of his enemies with their chariots and implements of war. Thus God “will be exalted in the earth.” The Lord of hosts is with his people; the God of Jacob is their refuge. “God himself shall be with them, and be their God,” and shall wipe away their tears by removing sickness, sorrow, pain, and death, in short, every cause of grief.
R. F. COTTRELL.