The last six psalms are called, The Hallelujah Psalms, because they all start and finish with the word, Hallelujah! They offer a consummate praise to God for all He has done and for all that He is to His people. When the earth is fully recovered by God and is being brought under the reign of Christ in His kingdom (see Rev. 19:1-6; 11:15), the whole earth will resound with HALLELUJAH!!! to God!
Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! The whole creating is travailing and expecting, on tip-toe straining their neck to see it happen, that Zion would be built up, that God’s sons would be matured and perfected (see Rom. 8:19-21)!
A bird’s eye view of the Hallelujah Psalms
God is so majestic, He is so transcendent! When we see Him in what He does and in what He is, we will have at least once in our lifetime a private moment with the Lord in which we’re full of ecstatic praise! Nothing may change in your environment, but you’re ecstatic because He IS!
In Psalms 146 through 150 we see the consummate praise to God – they were written by Haggai and Zechariah after the return from captivity. They were ecstatic and full of great joy, praising God for the release and restoration of the people of Israel and for the rebuilding of the temple!
- Praise Jehovah for His reigning from Zion (Psa. 146:10) – Jehovah is the help of His saints, therefore praise Him! Praise Jehovah who will reign forever and ever! God reigns from Zion – praise the Lord! Once God gets Zion, once God gets the overcomers in the churches, there is much praise to His name!
- Praise Jehovah for the rebuilding of Jerusalem (Psa. 147:2) – Jehovah builds up Jerusalem, praise the Lord! It is not the people of Israel who build up Jerusalem and it is not the believers who through their efforts and hard labor build up the church. It is God who builds up the church, and we praise Him!
- Praise Jehovah for His exalted name and for His transcending majesty (Psa. 148:13) – The heavenly things and persons are charged to praise Jehovah from heavens, since they all were created by Him! His name alone is exalted (v. 14), and His glory is above the earth and the heavens! All His people, His faithful ones, the children of Israel, a people near to Him – praise the Lord!
- Praise Jehovah for taking pleasure in His people and His adorning the lowly with salvation (Psa. 149:4) – Sing a new song to Jehovah and sing His praise in the congregation of His faithful ones (v. 1). Let us rejoice in our Maker, and let the saints as the children of Zion exult in their King (v. 2). Praise the Lord! Praise His name with dancing and with singing psalms with the tambourine and the lyre! Praise the Lord!
- Let everything that has breath praise the Lord (Psa. 150:6) – every verse in Psalm 150 is on praising the Lord. I would encourage you to read it and pray over it and praise-read it! Praise God in His sanctuary and in the expanse of His power (v. 1). Praise God for His mighty acts and according to His vast greatness (v. 2). Praise God with the blast of the trumpet, the harp and the lyre, the tambourine and dancing, the stringed instrument and the pile, the loud cymbals, and the loud clanging cymbal (v. 3-5). Let everything that has breath praise the Lord (v. 6)!
The conclusion: Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!
Psalm 150 concludes with, Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! This is the consummation and the conclusion of the entire Bible, not only of the Psalms – see Rev. 19:1. The Psalms are like a miniature or an abbreviated version of the entire Bible.
Once God recovers His people from the law to Christ and Christ is enlarged to be the house, once the house is strengthened and uplifted to become the city and bring God’s kingdom to the earth, and once the whole earth is under the reign of God, there’s only Praise the Lord! and Hallelujah! When God gains Christ as everything to us, the church as the house of God, the city as the kingdom of God, and the whole earth, everything that has breath will praise the Lord!
The best instrument we can use today – in case we don’t have cymbals, tambourines, stringed instruments, etc – is our mingled spirit! The best praise we can offer God for what He gives us, what He does for us, what He is to us, and even THAT HE IS, is by exercising our spirit to praise the Lord! When we exercise our spirit, we make good music to Him!
Praise the Lord! Lord, we praise You for recovering Christ as everything to us in our daily experience! Praise You for gaining the church as the house of God, the habitation of God. Lord, we praise You for the city, the elevated, strengthened, and uplifted church to bring in Your kingdom! We praise You, Lord, for gradually and continually recovering the earth to be Your eternal kingdom! As we see what You are doing and what Your plan is, we just Praise the Lord! Hallelujah!
References and Further Reading
- Sharing inspired from, Christ and the Church Revealed and Typified in the Psalms (ch. 22) and Psalms 146-150, as partially quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on the Crystallization-Study of Psalms (2), week 24;
- Recommended reading: offering the consummate praise to God for the recovery of Christ, the house, the city, and the earth;
- Hymns on this topic:
# Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, / Let the earth hear His voice; / Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, / Let the people rejoice;
# Jesus Christ will get His kingdom / Notwithstanding Satan’s plans; / He’s obtaining something real by / Growing in the hearts of man.
# Sing aloud your praises to the Lord of all, / Now He is dwelling in Jerusalem. - Picture source: Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord! The best instrument we can use today is our MINGLED SPIRIT! The best praise we can offer God for what He gives us, what He does for us, what He is to us, and even THAT HE IS, is by exercising our spirit to praise the Lord! When we exercise our spirit, we make good music to Him! Hallelujah!