Psalm 66:4

Psalm 66:4

All the earth bows down to You

In these days of mass unbelief and rejection of the Lord God it would be easy to dismiss this verse as being “pie in the sky.” It certainly doesn’t seem as if “All the earth is bowing down to Him, singing His praise, the praises of His name!”  However, the statistics argue rather differently, the latest figures show that there are 2.382 billion people in the world who call themselves Christian, which represents 31.11% of the population! Ok, so some of these people are nominal in their faith and maybe they are listed because they live in a “Christian” country, but the numbers are still some way ahead of the 2 million plus Israelites who were the only ones who acknowledged Jehovah when the Psalm was written!

What is more, the Bible teaches that there will be a day when “Every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord!” Isaiah 45:22-25. Romans 14:11. Philippians 2:10. The passage in Isaiah is particularly powerful, the Lord God says, 

“Turn to me and be saved, 

     all you ends of the earth; 

     for I am God, and there is no other.

 By myself I have sworn,
    my mouth has uttered in all integrity
    a word that will not be revoked:
Before me every knee will bow;
    by me every tongue will swear.
 They will say of me, ‘In the Lord alone
    are deliverance and strength.’”
All who have raged against him
    will come to him and be put to shame.
But all the descendants of Israel
    will find deliverance in the Lord
    and will make their boast in him.”

 

What a day awaits us! Yes, we may feel in a minority in our so-called cultured, educated land where His name is primarily used in blasphemy but because Adonai is God and there is no other, His name will be exalted by all. Hallelujah!

 

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