“Joy To The World” -  In A Happy Piano Style

The words to the great Christmas Carol “Joy To The World” express great joy at the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, and celebrates the glory of when He will reign on earth in the kingdom promised to his “father” King David. Check out the 3rd and 4th verses – it is obviously future, since we aren’t done with sorrow or thorns.

Joy to the world, the Lord is come
Let earth receive her King
Let every heart prepare Him room
And heaven and nature sing
And heaven and nature sing
And heaven, and nature sing

Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns
Let men their songs employ
While fields and floods
Rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat, repeat the sounding joy

No more let sins and sorrows grow
Nor thorns infest the ground
He comes to make His blessing flow
Far as the curse is found
Far as the curse is found
Far as, far as the curse is found

He rules the world with truth and grace
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness
And wonders of His love
And wonders of His love
And wonders, of His love

Wikipedia: The words are by English hymn writer Isaac Watts, based on Psalm 98 in the Bible. The song was first published in 1719 in Watts’ collection; The Psalms of David: Imitated in the language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian state and worship. Watts wrote the words of “Joy to the World” as a hymn glorifying Christ’s triumphant return at the end of the age,^[2] rather than a song celebrating His first coming. George Frederick Handel is credited with composing some if not all of the tune.