The poetic movement of Ps 148 is a descending invocation issued from the throne room of glory. As the decree travels through the realms of creation, the call to worship is echoed and heeded in each domain as the message condescends to earth. The call 1^st reverberates through the upper registers of creation and then plummets to plumb the depths of the seas as it reaches earth. Then it arises again from the oceans to summon the weather systems to praise. From this vantage point, the decree falls again to the mountains, then hills, trees, beasts/livestock, and creeping things before arising to the flight of birds finally alighting upon all humanity down to the smallest child. Fascinating views from aircraft, drones, low earth orbit satellites providing sweeping overhead perspectives come to mind as one reads this song. We are compelled by the vantage point of sovereignty. We retain the cultural memory of Eden's mountain and we seek thereby in some way to be freed from the confining shackles of our banishment. This hope is foreshadowed in the imagery an prophecy of Ps 148 even as it is ultimately fulfilled in Christ (Eph 2:6). Emmanuel would be realized through incarnation and humiliation followed by exaltation. The arc of Ps 148's cosmic call to worship the Creator/Savior is mirrored in the condescending herald angels on the night of Jesus' birth and fulfilled in His incarnate work. A fitting call to worship given the miraculous occasion.