Apocalypse Revealed # 664
664. "For just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints!" This symbolically means that everything that emanates from the Lord is just and true, because He is Divine goodness itself and Divine truth itself in heaven and in the church.
Ways symbolize truths that lead to good (no. 176). The title "king" in reference to the Lord symbolizes Divine truth, and "O King of saints" the Divine truth derived from Him in heaven and the church; for saints symbolize people who are governed by Divine truths from the Lord (nos. 173, 586). Consequently "just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints!" means symbolically that everything emanating from the Lord is just and true, because He is Divine truth itself in heaven and in the church.
The Lord is called a king in reference to His Divine humanity, because this is the Messiah, the Anointed, the Christ, the Son of God. Messiah in Hebrew is Christ in Greek, and Messiah or Christ is the Son of God, as may be seen in no. 520 above. It is well known that Messiah in Hebrew means both king and anointed.
The Lord as king is the embodiment of Divine truth because that is the symbolic meaning of the title "king" (nos. 20, 483). Kings accordingly symbolize people who possess Divine truths from the Lord (Revelation 1:6; 5:10).
It is because of this that heaven and the church are called the Lord's kingdom, and that His advent into the world is called the gospel of the kingdom.
Heaven and the church are called the Lord's kingdom in Daniel 2:44; 7:13-14, 27; Luke 1:33; 4:43; 8:1, 10; 9:2, 11, 27; 10:11; 16:16; 19:11; 21:31; 22:18; 23:51. And His advent is called the gospel of the kingdom in Matthew 4:23; 9:35; 24:14. 1
But more on this subject may be seen in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord.
[2] That the Lord is called a king is apparent from the following passages:
These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings. (Revelation 17:14)
(He who sat on the white horse) is called the Word... And... His... name (is) Lord of lords and King of kings. (Revelation 19:13, 16, cf. Daniel 2:47)
Nathanael... said..., ."..You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" (John 1:49)
When the Son of Man comes in His glory..., ...He will sit on the throne of His glory... And the King will say to those on His right hand... (and) to those on the left hand... (Matthew 25:31, 34, 41)
...they cried out: "Hosanna! 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!' The King of Israel! " (John 12:13)
Pilate (asked the Lord:) "Are You a king...?" Jesus answered, ."..I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world...." (John 18:37)
Your eyes will see the King in His beauty... ...Jehovah our King, He will save us. (Isaiah 33:17 , 22)
I am Jehovah, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King. (Isaiah 43:15)
Thus said Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts: "I am the First and I am the Last, and beside Me there is no God." (Isaiah 44:6)
Jehovah shall become King over all the earth. (Zechariah 14:9, cf. Psalms 47:2, 6-8)
Lift up your heads, O you gates..., that the King of glory may come in... Jehovah of hosts, He is the King of glory. (Psalms 24:7-10)
I will raise to David a righteous Branch, (who as) a king shall reign... and execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. (Jeremiah 23:5, cf. 33:15)
And so on elsewhere, as in Isaiah 6:5; 52:7; Jeremiah 10:7, 10; 46:18; Ezekiel 37:22, 24; Zephaniah 3:15; Psalms 20:9; 45:11, 13-14; 68:24; 74:12.
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Psalms 103
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{[A Psalm] of David.} Bless Jehovah, O my soul; and all that is within me, [Bless] his holy name!
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Bless Jehovah, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
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Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases;
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Who redeemeth thy life from the pit, who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies;
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Who satisfieth thine old age with good [things]; thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
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Jehovah executeth righteousness and justice for all that are oppressed.
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He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
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Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness.
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He will not always chide, neither will he keep [his anger] for ever.
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He hath not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
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For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving-kindness toward them that fear him.
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As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
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As a father pitieth [his] children, so Jehovah pitieth them that fear him.
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For himself knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
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As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth:
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For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof knoweth it no more.
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But the loving-kindness of Jehovah is from everlasting and to everlasting, upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children,
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To such as keep his covenant and to those that remember his precepts to do them.
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Jehovah hath established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom ruleth over all.
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Bless Jehovah, ye his angels, mighty in strength, that execute his word, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
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Bless Jehovah, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his that do his will.
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Bless Jehovah, all his works, in all places of his dominion. Bless Jehovah, O my soul!
