The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
The word dissolved pictures the inhabitants of the earth as melted with fear and trembling, filled with dark forebodings over what is coming upon them. Although the speaker in the first two verses is David speaking of himself, the voice that declares the bearing up of the pillars is God, for David could not sustain the world.
When the earth is sinking into nothingness and toward destruction, God bears up its pillars by his power, and this upholding work is the work of Christ as Mediator. One of those ancient pillars thus upheld is the Sabbath, established at creation by God's enduring decree. It remains fixed by that decree and has not been changed into the first day of the week.
The verse therefore assures the fearful that God, as the Divine Architect, sustains the structure of the world. What he upholds cannot be overturned by human threats.
The word dissolved pictures the inhabitants of the earth as melted with fear and trembling, filled with dark forebodings over what is coming upon them. Although the speaker in the first two verses is David speaking of himself, the voice that declares the bearing up of the pillars is God, for David could not sustain the world.
When the earth is sinking into nothingness and toward destruction, God bears up its pillars by his power, and this upholding work is the work of Christ as Mediator. One of those ancient pillars thus upheld is the Sabbath, established at creation by God's enduring decree. It remains fixed by that decree and has not been changed into the first day of the week.
The verse therefore assures the fearful that God, as the Divine Architect, sustains the structure of the world. What he upholds cannot be overturned by human threats.