Has Won

won for himself the victory.

 - from Psalm 98

A thousand years before Christ, the Psalmist declares that God "has won for Himself the victory."

"Has" won? As in, already done? Twenty generations before Christ, a hundred generations before our time . . it was already done. The victory has been won . . . way before the Cross?

The victory? The victory? Isn't there only one victory in all of Scripture, between the two Testaments, that counts?
If you had to pick only ONE victory in all sixty-six books of the Bible, thus qualifying to be defined by the article "THE" wouldn't it have to be the Cross?

And yet the Psalmist says it's already been done?

Yes, because it had already been done. God sits in a throne above and beyond the timeline. He casts forth His will in a moment, dividing the ages from the eons. He speaks the word but once . . . and while in our timeline it takes millennia, yet to God it is already done. It is over. It is finished. 

We were saved before. We are saved now. We will be saved tomorrow.

God has already won the victory. In the Beginning was the Word. Everything. The whole thing. From beginning to end. That single Word from God. It was spoken and it's complete.