Psalms 45:3

"Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one,

Thy glory and thy majesty.

And in thy majesty ride on prosperously,

Because of truth and meekness and righteousness:

And thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

Thine arrows are sharp:

The peoples shall fall under thee;

They are in the heart of the king's enemies."

These verses depict the coming of the Son of God at the end of the age, who will at that time judge the world in righteousness, and receive unto himself his glorious Bride the Church. According to the New Testament, The Marriage Supper of the Lamb, the Final Judgment, the Assignment of both the Righteous and the Wicked to their eternal Destinies - all these things are to be simultaneous events at the time of the Second Advent.

"The sword ... thy glory and thy majesty" (Psalms 45:3). According to Rawlinson, the sword of the Lord here is actually called the "glory and majesty" of Him. A similar vision of the Christ coming upon the world for judgment is found in Revelation 19:22ff.

"Terrible things" (Psalms 45:4). This harmonizes with the Biblical view that the coming of Christ in judgment will be a time of "mourning" for "all the tribes of the earth" (Revelation 1:7).

"The peoples shall fall under thee" (Psalms 45:5). The vast majority of mankind living at the time of the Second Advent will be destroyed, according to God's Word (See Matthew 7:13-14; Revelation 6:14ff, etc.); and we believe the tremendous scope of this passage equates it with conditions in the Final Judgment. Note the plural of "peoples" making it a reference to vast populations.