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Posted by Psalms on Tuesday, 9 February 2016
Psalms 132:17
There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.
132:17. There will I make the horn of David to bud. In Zion David’s dynasty will develop power and glory. The growth of the horns of stags is the natural fact from which we conceive the expression to be borrowed. As the stag is made noble and strong by the development of his horns, so the house of David will advance from strength to strength. This was to be by the work of the Lord—there will I make—and therefore it would be sure and solid growth. When God makes us to bud none can cause us to fade. When David’s descendants left the Lord and the worship of his house, they declined, for it was only through the Lord, and in connection with his worship, that their horn would bud.
I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed. David’s name was to be illustrious, and brilliant as a lamp; it was to continue shining like a lamp in the sanctuary; it was thus to be a comfort to the people, and an enlightenment to the nations. God would not let the light of David go out by the extinction of his race: his holy ordinances had decreed that the house of his servant should remain in the midst of Israel. What a lamp is our Lord Jesus! A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of his people Israel. As the anointed—the true Christ—he shall be the light of heaven itself. Oh for grace to receive our illumination and our consolation from Jesus Christ alone.
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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