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　　Psa. 68:27-29 ...The princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali. Your God has commanded your strength; strengthen, O God, that which You have done for us. Because of Your temple at Jerusalem, kings will bring a gift to You.

　　Dwelling at the haven of the sea (Galilee) for a haven of ships (Gen. 49:13), Zebulun typifies Christ as the "haven" of the evangelists for the transportation and spreading in the preaching of God's gospel. The gospel has been accomplished, but there is the need of the spreading of the gospel by means of "ships." On the day of Pentecost, at least one hundred and twenty gospel "ships," all of whom were Galileans, set out to spread the gospel.

　　Genesis 49:21 tells us that Naphtali is a hind let loose and that he gives goodly words.

　　Naphtali typifies Christ as the One who is released from death in resurrection, signified by the "hind let loose" (Psa. 22, title; S.S. 2:8-9), and gives goodly words for the preaching of His gospel (Matt. 28:18-20). In resurrection Christ came to His disciples and charged them to disciple the nations.

　　People of both Zebulun and Naphtali were men of Galilee (Matt. 4:12-17; Acts 1:11), from whom the gospel of Christ has been spread, preached, and propagated....In typology Zebulun and Naphtali form a group for the spreading and the propagating of the glad tidings of Christ's redemption for God's salvation. (Life-study of the Psalms, p. 334)

　　[Psalm 68:28b-29a] indicates that following God's strengthening of what He has done for His elect, the influence of the enjoyment of God in His house would spread to the entire city of Jerusalem because of the house of God, which was at Jerusalem.

　　The house of God signifies the local church, and the city of Jerusalem signifies the kingdom, the strengthening and the safeguard of the church.

　　Psalm 68 concludes with a word about the gaining of the earth for God (vv. 29b-35)....The influence of the enjoyment of God will gain the whole earth for God....According to verse 29b, kings of the nations will bring a gift to God.

　　Verse 31 indicates that nobles will come out of Egypt to visit Jerusalem, the city of God, and that Cush (today's Ethiopia) will quickly stretch out its hand to God.

　　The scenery portrayed [in verses 29b through 35] will consummate in the coming age of restoration (Matt. 19:28), in which all the earth will come to Jerusalem to worship God and to receive instruction and enlightenment (Isa. 2:2-3; Zech. 14:16-17).

　　In this concluding verse [Psa. 68:35] the psalmist praises God and blesses Him. (Life-study of the Psalms, pp. 335-337)

　　We need to pray that God will strengthen that which He has done for us out of the church...(Psa. 68:28-29)....God has put Satan to death already. We do not need God to repeat this act, but we do need Him to strengthen us. God has put our self, our old man, on the cross already—God has done this, and He need not reenact it. However, we need God to strengthen this experience within us. The Bible tells us that we have ascended with Christ to the heavens—God has done this already. Today what we need is the strengthening of this experience within us. This strengthening is in the temple.

　　When we experience the strengthening of God in the local church, the church is transformed from a house to a city. The temple becomes Jerusalem. The house is surrounded, protected, and safeguarded by the walls of the city. Then, because we are so victorious, so overcoming, so transcendent, we have the sense that all the kings of the earth will bring a gift to the Lord [Rev. 21:24]....Psalm 68:31 and 32...indicate how the whole earth will be gained by the Lord. Through the city the Lord recovers the earth. (CWWL, 1969, vol. 3, "Christ and the Church Revealed and Typified in the Psalms," pp. 100-102)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1969, vol. 3, "Christ and the Church Revealed and Typified in the Psalms," ch. 10