Question:
About Psalms 50:5, to what time does this apply? When will the gathering take place?
Answer:
The text under question reads: “Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice” (Psalms 50:5).
The gathering will occur when our Lord Jesus Christ shall gather home His people. Verses 3 and 4 read: “Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.” A clear reference to the coming of our Lord in glory.
The covenant by sacrifice is that covenant which centers in the sacrifice of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. That does not mean that His people will not sacrifice. They will give all, even as they accept all, but no sacrifice can make effective a covenant except the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ. His is the sacrifice, ours the acceptance, and the acceptance is the renunciation of our all upon the altar (Luke 14:33).
