Thinking About Psalm 2

My old friend and pro-life colleague John Malek has been thinking about Psalm 2 and it's application to today's culture. Give a listen...

Why are the leaders of the nations in an uproar devising new ways to control and rule people and lands and resources? Virus’, Socialism, wars, shutdowns, shortages, Marxism, drug trafficking, historic revisionism, Communism, tyranny, etc., They take positions and counsel together against the Lord and His people, saying lets free ourselves from their constraints. Their bible, their “truth”, their moral absolutism, their insistence on a God who made us, their sense of justice and righteousness, is all holding us back from progress. 

Let’s throw off those constraints, constraints on morality or biology or history and go our own way. We can forge a better morality that takes us into a bright new future of hope and promise and progress in improving our lives and our planet, purifying mankind and endowing them with new superpowers.

The Lord who is in Heaven, laughs and scoffs at them, thinking they know better and are morally better, but He speaks to them and terrifies them with His anger and fury and they would be wise to take heed, because He has installed His own King over the nations, Jesus (indeed the begotten Son of Father God), who sits on Mount Zion – His holy mountain. He has given Him all the nations even to the furthest ends of the earth as His inheritance to rule and reign, not the petty kings who are now plotting against the children of God. 

God has given Him the authority to break the rulers of the nations with a rod of iron and to shatter them like clay vessels, so again, they would do well to heed the warnings from God and worship Him with reverence and rejoice in Him for the temporary authority He has given them in their nations. They should pay homage to the Son of God, so that He does not become angry with them and they perish as He removes their scepter to rule. It is likely His wrath will soon be kindled, so blessed are those who take refuge in Him. 

This is my layman’s paraphrase of Psalm 2 and it is why I see God as the one who will come to rescue us from the evil that is infesting all the earth. Isaiah 60:2 – For behold darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples; but the Lord will rise upon you and His glory will appear upon you.