“Lift up your heads, ye gates
And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors;
And the King of Glory shall come in.
Who is this King of Glory?
Jehovah strong and mighty,
Jehovah mighty in battle.”
The Forty-fifth Psalm is a song of the Beloved, touching the King. He is described as coming in His Majesty and Splendor, how He deals with His enemies and that He will be surrounded by His own redeemed ones.
The Glory and dominion of His Kingdom He will receive is described in the Seventy-second Psalm. “He shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.” And other Psalms enlarge upon these glorious visions, which will all be true when the King comes. Then Jerusalem will be a praise in the earth. “Also I will make Him, my Firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth” (Ps. lxxxix:27).
And how rich are the prophets in telling us of the Glory of the King and the glories of His kingdom. “Behold a King shall rule in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment” (Isaiah xxxii:1). “Thine eyes shall see the King in His beauty; they shall behold the land that is afar off” (Isaiah xxxiii:17). “A King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth” (Jerem. xxiii:5). “And there was given Him dominion and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations and languages, should serve Him; His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His Kingdom, that which shall not be destroyed” (Dan. vii:14). “The King of Israel, the Lord, is in the midst of thee (the earthly Jerusalem); thou shalt not see evil any more” (Zeph. iii:15). “And the Lord shall be King over all the earth” (Zech. xiv:6).
These and many, many more utterances of God’s blessed prophets give us a vision of the King, of the Glory of Him, who was crowned with a crown of thorns, the thorns of man’s curse, and over whose cross it was written, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”