Devotional Short Note to Psalm 20: It is a Psalm of David and some question that fact but it is not necessary. David is not speaking of his own condition as king. It is a “King-Psalm” with others lined-up later, but the King is not a human but divine. Why? He is mentioned in 20:10 “The Lord causes to save, the King will answer on the day when we call.” This King is the Lord. It is in the context also of Revelation 11:10 when the seventh trumpet shall sound and the door of Mercy Closes and the choir announced: “the Kingdom of the World became of our Lord and His Christ”. It should not confuse us. Christ is Lord says the Gospels, the Father is Lord and the Holy Spirit as well. Unfortunately the inroad of Preterism made the Rabbis of the Middle Ages, Rashi, Ibn Ezra and Kimchi to place the events in the past and surrounding events in David’s day and have said that it is a thanksgiving Psalm after one of David’s battles. Shelve those Jewish and all Reformed-orientated commentaries with the same trend. They missed the future verbs in the Psalm again and translated it past tense as if David experienced it. It is not the “Lord answer thee in the day of trouble” it is “The Lord will answer you in the day of trouble [The day of Jacob’s Trouble, an expression for the severe trouble that will come over the world just before Jesus comes, as in Daniel 12:1]. The name “Jacob” is used also in this verse 20:2b. It does not read “send forth Your help” but “He will send Your help from the sanctuary [heavenly sanctuary where Jesus will have just completed His Highpriestly role in the Most Holy] and from Zion [synonym for the New Jerusalem in heaven] (20:3). “He will remember all your meal-offerings and will accept your burnt-offerings. Selah”. It is not the plural “you” but singular. It is the Messiah Christ that gave Himself as an offering for us (Isaiah 53). The Selah ended this part. Now a new part started with the concept that the He [the Father] will grant You [Christ] according to Your [singular = Christ] heart and fulfill all Your [singular = Christ] counsel” (20:5). One needs to be perfect without any stain of sin to have “all counsels” granted. We will still come there but in Psalm 46 the Battle of the Warrior Messiah is depicted at the Hell event and in 46:12 the saints shouted of joy when the winning Christ comes back from the Battle. Here it reads “We will shout for joy in Your [Christ’s] victory and in the name of our God we will set up our standards. The Lord [the Father] will fulfill all Your [Christ’s] petitions” (20:6). Christ is very special and David saw the Resurrection morning of the slain Christ and said: “Now I know that the Lord saves His anointed [Christ the Messiah], He will answer Him from His Holy heaven [the Father spoke at Christ’s baptism when the Holy Spirit came down in the form of a dove] with the mighty acts of His saving right hand” (20:7). From verse 7 David is speaking his confidence in Christ the Warrior Messiah. He says that in his day and ours “some trust in chariots and some in horses [military hardware] but we will remember in the name of the Lord our God” (20:8). In his vision of the Eschaton or last events of the Warrior Messiah, he could see the evil as “they are bowed down and fallen” and the faithful as “we are risen and stand upright” (20:9). David then made a petition that is general in every generation and especially in the Great Time of Jacob’s Trouble, “Save Lord” (20:10a). David has confidence that “the King [of Kings and Lord of Lords] will answer us in the day we call” (20:10b). There is no fighting done at all by any humans. There is no divine war where God is using humans to fulfill His schemes. It is from start to finish not about an earthly king but the Divine King Christ.