Dennis Edwards
Today’s study will be on
Psalm 2
Psalm 2:1 “Why do
the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?”
The first line in the psalm
seems to be depicting today’s world. The world is in a rage. We have black
against white, conservative against liberal, Pro-Palestine against Pro-Israel,
Pro-Abortion against Anti-Abortion, and the list goes on. It seems at every
level division is rampant and that the media is fomenting that division almost
as if it’s part of a prepared agenda.
In Scripture we
read about the time before Christ’s return,
Luke 21:25 “And
there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon
the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which
are coming on the earth…”
With all the confusion in
the world it seems that men’s hearts are raging and the stage is being set for
the pot to overflow, like we saw back in the French Revolution in 1789, the
Russian Revolution of 1917, and with Black Lives Matter riots in 2020.
When talking of Jesus 2nd
Coming Apostle Paul warned,
2 Thessalonians 2:3 “Let no man deceive you
by any means: for that day shall not come, except there comes a falling away
first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.”
The “man of sin” or “son of perdition” is commonly referred to as
the Antichrist or beast in the New Testament. The prophecy continues,
2 Thessalonians 2:4&7-8a “Who opposes and exalts
himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God
sits in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God…. For the mystery of
iniquity (or lawlessness) does already work: only he who now lets will let,
until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed…”
What Apostle Paul is saying is that the mystery of lawlessness
will end in the revealing of the Antichrist figure. As good Godly men
and women, or at least those that are sympathetic to Godly Laws, are removed
from the sphere of influence, the evil spiritual and physical forces will gain
power and might; finally the Antichrist shall stand up.
Revelation 12:15 “And the
serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might
cause her to be carried away of the flood.”
The Anti-God forces are causing a flood of false
ideas to sweep through much of the higher institutions of learning. Critical
Race Theory and other such ideas are being incorporated into the education of
the younger generation.
Daniel 8:12b “It (the Antichrist
forces) cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.”
In the Western formerly “Christian” nations,
we have seen a falling away from the faith as the anti-God culture has made
many inroads over the years with anti-God laws and agendas. In 1964 abortion
became legalized in America and later exported to other nations in South
America, Africa and Asia through different American and United Nations aid
packages. “Do you want the aid? Then follow the agenda and mend your laws to
permit these practices.”
Psalm 2:1b “and the people imagined a vain thing.”
Since the propagating of the Theory of Evolution in 1859 and all
the diabolical fruits of its theory, the people are definitely imagining a vain
thing. They believe they created themselves through some imaginary process that
fails to present a viable mechanism. They believe that the universe came to
existence from nothing and that there is no Creator God.
They further believe that life came about by chance over a period
of millions of years and accidently the first cell formed in some warm muddy
pond. Through natural selection and mutations, which do not add new functional
biological information to the genome, that single celled organism supposedly
mutated into all the life forms we see on earth today. Surely the people are
imagining a vain thing because they have removed God from their thinking.
The fruit today of such thought has led to the present situation
where truth is no longer “objective,” but rather “subjective.” A person’s
subjective reality takes dominance over objective reality. A man can claim to
be a woman, and a woman can claim to be a man. Like Solomon wrote, “Vanity of
vanities, all is vanity,” [Ecclesiastes 1:2]. Surely, the people are
imagining vain things because God is no longer in their understanding.
Psalm 2:2-3 “The kings of the earth
set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his
anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords
from us.”
Down through history rulers have had a choice: work for God and
His kingdom, or work against God and his kingdom. The Jewish rulers and Roman
officials conspired to kill Christ, God’s anointed. Today social and political
movements conspire against God and His people who always are trying to be beacons
for truth, justice, and peace. The evil forces sow division in Christian
communities and do all they can to prohibit true Christianity from having a
voice in the public square.
Psalm 2:4-5 “He that sits in the
heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall
have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them
in his sore displeasure.”
God’s judgments are coming. Though they tarry, they will come.
God’s word is true. The world will reap, what it has sown.
Psalm 2:6 “Yet have I set my king
upon my holy hill of Zion.”
When Jesus returns at the Battle of Armageddon to retake the
earth,
Zechariah 14:4 “His feet shall stand in
that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem.”
Psalm 2:7 “I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, You are my Son; this day have I begotten
thee.”
Both Apostle Paul in Acts 13:33 and the author of Hebrews
in Hebrews 1:5&5:5 quote the above verse in reference to
their defence that Jesus is the Son of God.
Psalm 2:8-9 “Ask of me, and I shall
give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the
earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt
dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.”
In the prophecy in Daniel 2 where the image of the Gentile
nations is destroyed by “the stone cut out without hands,” we read,
Daniel 2:35 “Then was
the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces
together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind
carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote
the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.”
And the interpretation:
Daniel 2:44 “And in
the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall
never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it
shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for
ever.”
Similar imagery is found in Daniel 7 where
the “Ancient of Days,” referring to God the Father, delivers the kingdom to
“the Son of Man,” referring to the Messiah, God the Son.
Daniel 7:13-14 “I saw in the night
visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven,
and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And
there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people,
nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting
dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be
destroyed.”
Psalm 2:10-11“Be wise now therefore, O
ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and
rejoice with trembling.”
God is instructing the leaders of the world to be wise and return
to faith in God, to return to a healthy “fear of the Lord” which Solomon said
was the beginning of knowledge.
Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of the Lord is
the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
Apostle Paul admonished his followers similarly before his death.
Philippians 2:12 “Wherefore,
my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much
more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”
Psalm 2:12 “Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish
from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that
put their trust in him.”
The prophecies predict that eventually every knee shall bow and
every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord
Isaiah 45:22-23 “Look unto me, and be ye
saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. I have
sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall
not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.”
Philippians 2:10-11 “That at the name of
Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and
things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ
is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Therefore, the rulers of the world would do themselves and us well
if they repent of their frowardness and fall at the feet of Christ. Blessed
will all those be who put their trust in Him.
Revelation 22:14 “Blessed are they that
do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may
enter in through the gates into the city.”
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