He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
Psalm 105 together with the psalms surrounding it belongs to the record of Israel's history and experience, to be studied carefully in order to appreciate God's goodness, mercy, and love. That same record of Israel's experience provides warning and instruction, and God's people in the last days especially need to study it regularly. The verse teaches that God faithfully remembers His covenant forever and keeps the word He commanded across generations. That covenant is the promise made to Abraham, sworn to Isaac, and confirmed to Jacob that Israel would receive Canaan as its inheritance.
The reference to a thousand generations means that God's commandments endure, including the Sabbath as a perpetual covenant and sign of obedience and loyalty. That Sabbath sign involves a definite, knowable seventh day to be preserved through the generations, while a rival sabbath seeks to destroy that sign. When the thousand generations end, the redeemed will be in the city of God, still keeping the Sabbath and coming to worship from Sabbath to Sabbath and from one new moon to another.
The forever-remembered covenant and commanded word are to be taken without distrust and appropriated to individual experience. They are to be thanked for as a stronghold, with holding to God as strength and front guard and rearward against discouragement and perplexity. Trust is to rest not in man or in human power or the arm of flesh, and such holding to God causes faith to increase rather than diminish.
Psalm 105 together with the psalms surrounding it belongs to the record of Israel's history and experience, to be studied carefully in order to appreciate God's goodness, mercy, and love. That same record of Israel's experience provides warning and instruction, and God's people in the last days especially need to study it regularly. The verse teaches that God faithfully remembers His covenant forever and keeps the word He commanded across generations. That covenant is the promise made to Abraham, sworn to Isaac, and confirmed to Jacob that Israel would receive Canaan as its inheritance.
The reference to a thousand generations means that God's commandments endure, including the Sabbath as a perpetual covenant and sign of obedience and loyalty. That Sabbath sign involves a definite, knowable seventh day to be preserved through the generations, while a rival sabbath seeks to destroy that sign. When the thousand generations end, the redeemed will be in the city of God, still keeping the Sabbath and coming to worship from Sabbath to Sabbath and from one new moon to another.
The forever-remembered covenant and commanded word are to be taken without distrust and appropriated to individual experience. They are to be thanked for as a stronghold, with holding to God as strength and front guard and rearward against discouragement and perplexity. Trust is to rest not in man or in human power or the arm of flesh, and such holding to God causes faith to increase rather than diminish.