The pinnacle of this praise and adoration psalm are verses 5 and 6. The Lord Most High, the great King over all the earth has ascended to his throne in the temple with the sounding of trumpets (ram’s horns). The psalm was penned by The Sons of Korah for the dedication of the Temple during the Feast of Tabernacles. (Leviticus 23:34; 1 Kings 8:1-14) The priests took the Ark of the Covenant up from the place that David had sent up in a tent to the temple Solomon built at the top of Mount Zion, now known as the Temple Mount. The silver trumpets and ram’s horns sounded.
The ceremony during Solomon’s reign mimicked the Lord coming to his people on Mount Sinai during Moses’ life on earth. “I am going to come to you in a dense cloud…” he told Moses to tell the people. Exodus 19:16-19 records, “On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the LORD descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, the whole mountain trembled violently, and the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder. Then Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him.”
The same will happen when Jesus will come again. The Apostles and all the first believers equated this psalm as a prophecy of Jesus’ second coming. Apostle Paul prophecized, “For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17) And Apostle Paul wrote, “Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed– in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.” (1 Corinthians 15:51-52)
Finally, Apostle John was commanded to record, “The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: ‘The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever.’ And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God,” (Revelation 11:15-16)
