Psalm 98 is clearly a song of JOY and celebration, a remembrance of God’s faithfulness while also prophesying the future fulfillment of salvation by our LORD God. This is a psalm of JOY for salvation that has arrived and will come someday.
One theologian said of Psalm 98: “This psalm is to be understood prophetically of the redemption of the world by Jesus Christ.”
So why does the psalmist call for us to ‘sing to the LORD a new song’?
It is because the LORD has done a marvelous new thing although HE repeatedly and faithfully does marvelous things. He redeemed his people Israel from slavery in Egypt. He rescues HIS people Israel from captivity in Babylon and later from the Persians who overtook the Babylonians.
Yet there was to be another more marvelous thing … a wonderful victory that would be above all victories. God has [and will] ‘work salvation’ by his mighty arm and his powerful right hand.
