With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.
Psalm 45 is a prophetic song of Christ and His church, dwelling explicitly on the Saviour's work of redemption as the promised righteous King and Prince of peace. With gladness and rejoicing describes the marriage festival and celebration when the Bride, the Lamb's Wife, with her companions is brought to enter the King's palace. That entrance is entry into His everlasting kingdom and presence forevermore at His personal return in glory, when all things in heaven and earth are gathered together in Christ. Then the church is presented purified and glorified without spot, clothed in heavenly raiment and fadeless beauty, greatly desired and loved by the King. It is the reward of those who resist evil and remain faithful to the end, made kings and priests to behold the King and share the joy of the redeemed.
Prophetic Song of Christ
Psalm 45:15 belongs to a prophetic picture and prophecy of Christ and His church. It is part of a beautiful prophetic song of Christ and the church. The whole of Psalm 45 is a Messianic psalm dwelling explicitly on the Saviour's work of redemption for the human race. It is read as part of the Bible's witness to the promised king and his kingdom.
Psalm 45:1-17 foretells that Messiah was to be a righteous King and emphatically the Prince of peace. This is fulfilled in Jesus Christ, who was eminently distinguished as a righteous person and the great peacemaker both on earth and in heaven. The psalm is prophetic of Christ coming to the world through the Gospel, represented by a rider going forth conquering to win the world to Himself. He comes in this veiled way because the world, and even His own people, cannot bear the full brightness of His glory.
The verse is a prophecy of Christ and His wonderful work and triumph. It stands with Psalms 42-45 as songs of joy and cheer and help that encourage and help after strong, faithful denunciations. The joyful entrance into the king's palace is understood as part of a prophecy of the queen of Sheba's visit to Solomon at Jerusalem.
Wedding Entrance into Kingdom
The verse describes the marriage festival and celebration of Christ and His church, when the queen, the Bride, the Lamb's Wife, with her companions, is brought with gladness and rejoicing to enter into the King's palace. It is a literal description of the millennial era and reign, when Christ advances and rides forth triumphantly, the people fall under Him, and He sits upon His own throne forever and ever. It is a promise of His personal, pre-millennial return rather than a fit emblem of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and the Bridegroom who espouses the church is the second person of the Trinity, Christ Himself.
The entry into the palace is entry into His everlasting kingdom, presence, and power forevermore. It happens when Jesus comes in His own and His Father's glory to be glorified in His saints, in the regeneration when the Son of man sits on His glorious throne, in the dispensation of the fullness of times when all things in heaven and earth are gathered together in Christ. Those who forsook all to follow Him are then made kings and priests to reign and rejoice with Prince Messiah, delivered from corruption with vile bodies changed like His glorious body.
The church is then purified and glorified, loved with unchangeable love and espoused in a sure covenant, presented without spot or wrinkle, blooming in heavenly health and fadeless beauty with earthly servitude laid aside. She is clothed in heavenly raiment of wrought gold and raiment of needlework, with bridal diadem and immortal jewelry as stars, looking forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, majestic as an army with banners, all glorious within and acknowledged as a divine princess. The King greatly desires her beauty and she is praised and admired as worthy of His love, amid the Alleluia that the marriage of the Lamb is come and His bride has made herself ready. The palace entrance is also the reward of those who resist evil and remain faithful to the end: they enter heaven, behold the King, and share the joy of the redeemed.
Psalm 45 is a prophetic song of Christ and His church, dwelling explicitly on the Saviour's work of redemption as the promised righteous King and Prince of peace. With gladness and rejoicing describes the marriage festival and celebration when the Bride, the Lamb's Wife, with her companions is brought to enter the King's palace. That entrance is entry into His everlasting kingdom and presence forevermore at His personal return in glory, when all things in heaven and earth are gathered together in Christ. Then the church is presented purified and glorified without spot, clothed in heavenly raiment and fadeless beauty, greatly desired and loved by the King. It is the reward of those who resist evil and remain faithful to the end, made kings and priests to behold the King and share the joy of the redeemed.
Prophetic Song of Christ
Psalm 45:15 belongs to a prophetic picture and prophecy of Christ and His church. It is part of a beautiful prophetic song of Christ and the church. The whole of Psalm 45 is a Messianic psalm dwelling explicitly on the Saviour's work of redemption for the human race. It is read as part of the Bible's witness to the promised king and his kingdom.
Psalm 45:1-17 foretells that Messiah was to be a righteous King and emphatically the Prince of peace. This is fulfilled in Jesus Christ, who was eminently distinguished as a righteous person and the great peacemaker both on earth and in heaven. The psalm is prophetic of Christ coming to the world through the Gospel, represented by a rider going forth conquering to win the world to Himself. He comes in this veiled way because the world, and even His own people, cannot bear the full brightness of His glory.
The verse is a prophecy of Christ and His wonderful work and triumph. It stands with Psalms 42-45 as songs of joy and cheer and help that encourage and help after strong, faithful denunciations. The joyful entrance into the king's palace is understood as part of a prophecy of the queen of Sheba's visit to Solomon at Jerusalem.
Wedding Entrance into Kingdom
The verse describes the marriage festival and celebration of Christ and His church, when the queen, the Bride, the Lamb's Wife, with her companions, is brought with gladness and rejoicing to enter into the King's palace. It is a literal description of the millennial era and reign, when Christ advances and rides forth triumphantly, the people fall under Him, and He sits upon His own throne forever and ever. It is a promise of His personal, pre-millennial return rather than a fit emblem of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and the Bridegroom who espouses the church is the second person of the Trinity, Christ Himself.
The entry into the palace is entry into His everlasting kingdom, presence, and power forevermore. It happens when Jesus comes in His own and His Father's glory to be glorified in His saints, in the regeneration when the Son of man sits on His glorious throne, in the dispensation of the fullness of times when all things in heaven and earth are gathered together in Christ. Those who forsook all to follow Him are then made kings and priests to reign and rejoice with Prince Messiah, delivered from corruption with vile bodies changed like His glorious body.
The church is then purified and glorified, loved with unchangeable love and espoused in a sure covenant, presented without spot or wrinkle, blooming in heavenly health and fadeless beauty with earthly servitude laid aside. She is clothed in heavenly raiment of wrought gold and raiment of needlework, with bridal diadem and immortal jewelry as stars, looking forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, majestic as an army with banners, all glorious within and acknowledged as a divine princess. The King greatly desires her beauty and she is praised and admired as worthy of His love, amid the Alleluia that the marriage of the Lamb is come and His bride has made herself ready. The palace entrance is also the reward of those who resist evil and remain faithful to the end: they enter heaven, behold the King, and share the joy of the redeemed.