There are four speakers in the Second Psalm. As covered in last week's column, David had his say in verses 1-3. This week we will hear from God the father and God the Son (Jesus). The following is also from John Hagee's book "Attack on America:"
" Let's consider God's reaction to those who would rage against His standards and sacrifice:
He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;
The Lord shall hold them in derision.
Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,
And distress them in His deep displeasure:
"Yet I have set My King
On My holy hill of Zion." (Ps. 2:4-6)
God laughs! That's His answer to puny, ignorant people who have sworn to throw Him out of the affairs of men!
If you can remove God, then you can lasso the stars from the heaven, pull down the blazing sun at noon, and command the wind and waves. Jesus commanded the wind and waves, and He controls the sun and stars.
Man, for all his talents, is still man. God is God - eternal, almighty, and infallible. He is all-knowing, all-powerful, and holy. He is sitting in the highest heaven, adored by angels and worshiped by men. There is no one like Him!
When the last peal of God's chilling laughter dies away, it will be replaced by a tide of fearful, holy wrath. God will speak to man from a well of deep displeasure and determination. He says, "Yet" - after all this - "I have set My King on My holy hill" - the Temple Mount - "of Zion."
Notice that though God speaks of things to come, He uses the past tense. As far as He's concerned, Jesus' appearance on the Temple Mount is a done deal!
Now God's glorious Son speaks:
I will declare the decree:
The Lord has said to Me,
"You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.
Ask of Me, and I will give You
The nations for your inheritance,
And the ends of the earth for Your possession.
You shall break them with a rod of iron;
You shall dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel." (Ps. 2:7-9)
If there is any doubt that the "Son" is Jesus, all doubts are erased by Scripture. John the Revelator referred to this psalm in Revelation 12:5 when he wrote of a woman, representing Israel, who "bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne."
Notice Jesus' "Sonship". If all the atheists, humanists, Communists, New Agers, and satanists exerted all their power at one given moment, they would not have the power to change this fact: Jesus is God's Son! Despite the inscriptions on the walls of the Dome of the Rock that read "God is One and has never fathered a child," Jesus is God's Son!
Notice Jesus' "sovereignty." God has promised to give Him anything He asks. In the temptation of Christ, Satan said, "Ask me for the kingdoms of the earth and I will give them to You," but Jesus refuted him with the Word of God.
What are we lacking today, and who are you asking to meet your needs? If you ask God for guidance, deliverance, healing, peace, salvation, and forgiveness, He will answer. The Bible says, "You do not have because you do not ask" (James 4:2).
Finally, notice Jesus' "severity", In one moment the Antichrist will be strutting into Jerusalem - the next, he and his armies will be dashed with a rod of iron, completely annihilated. Like pieces of pottery in the hands of a craftsman, the Antichrist will be shattered into pieces!
When Jesus reigns in the Millennium, He will come as the Son of Abraham, he will possess the Land of Israel in God's name, and He will assume the throne of David. He will be manifested as the Son of man, and as such will execute judgment at the inception of the kingdom and throughout the period of one thousand years. He will be King of righteousness and King over all the earth. He will be manifested as God the Son, so all can say "the tabernacle of God is with men" (Rev. 21:3). He will be redeemer, Judge, Rewarder of the saints, Teacher, King, Prophet, Lawgiver, and Shepherd.
In the Kingdom of peace we will see the full manifestation of the Glory of Jesus Christ. We will see the glory of "dominion" over the physical earth, to replace the dominion Adam lost when he sinned. We will see the glory of God in "government," to replace every flawed government the world has ever known. We will see the glory of God in the "judiciary," in which Christ, as the spokesman for God, will announce God's will and judge through the age. We will see the glory of God in the "temple," in which Christ will reign. "
Read part three of "Prophecy in the Second Psalm" next week.
By George Konig
1/28/2007
www.georgekonig.org
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