Mar 1995 - Notes On Psalm 2 - Bible Studies 1964

by John Miller | Category: Voices From The Past | Mar 1995

The psalm begins with the question,

Why do the nations (Gentiles) rage,

And the peoples imagine a vain thing?

Thrice over Pilate protested to the elders and chief priests, 'I find no crime in Him' (John 18:38; 19:4,6), and he asked, 'Why, what evil hath He done?' (Mat. 27:23). All that they could charge against the Lord was absolutely true, that He was the Son of God, and that He was King. The testimony of Judas the betrayer, who had watched His life from the beginning, was, 'I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood' (Mat. 27:4), and that of the dying robber to his fellow, 'We indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this Man hath done nothing amiss' (Luke 23:41), and again, the centurion who saw the Lord die, said, 'This Man was the Son of God' (Mark 15:39). Peter in a few words summed up the life of the Lord during the days of His ministry, when he said that He 'went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the Devil; for God was with Him ... whom also they slew, hanging Him on a tree' (Acts 10:38, 39). Then, we ask, why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples imagine a vain thing? What answer will they give in the day of judgement? The answer to the question of the psalm as to the cause of men's actions against the Lord was the innate and unreasonable hatred of men against God. The Lord speaking by the mouth of David said, 'The reproaches of them that reproached Thee are fallen upon Me', and 'reproach hath broken My heart' (Ps. 69: 9,20; Rom. 15:3).

Events surrounding the Lord's death have yet, if that is possible, to have a more fearsome aspect in the days of Antichrist, the beast and man of sin, he who is yet to arise. Then the kings of the earth and the rulers will take counsel together against Jehovah and against His Anointed (Messiah), saying,

Let us break their bands asunder, And cast away their cords from us.

They intend to make a clean breakaway of earth from heaven. It will be both an anti-God and an anti-Christ movement. All that binds earth to heaven and man to God will, so puny men will think, be broken and cast aside, and earth will be fortified in Palestine against the Lord's return to earth by an army of such dimensions as never before was seen in this world, for the great battle of Armageddon.

John Miller | Mar 1995
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