This Week’s Focus Passage: The Second Psalm ‘Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.’
This Week’s Focus Passage: The Second Psalm
‘Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.’
There are, at least, several important questions put forward here at the very beginning of this second Psa.Let us attempt to consider each one; moving along.
Why do the nations rage? Why do the peoples meditate a vain thing? Why do the kings of the earth set themselves? And why do the rulers take counsel together? Why against Jehovah? And why, against His anointed? Who do they wish, and determine to, break their bonds asunder and cast their cords from them?
Sin, of course, is the culprit in this radical opposition from nations and peoples to the living and true God. In the beginning, it was not so. In the beginning, God created all things good, we read from Genesis 1:26-28, of the creation of man:
And God said, Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruit-ful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Furthermore, picking up at verse 31, we are privy to a declaration:
And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. Understand, that this everything that God had made; everything including man [man and woman], was stated, unequivocally, to be very, very, good. And there was evening, and there was morning , the sixth day.
“Everything was very good.” This included, of course, man and woman; it included all mankind. So how came it to be that we must read in this second Psalm, asking the question, Why do the nations rage? Things did not continue as they were left at the conclusion of the sixth day. We may read, at the beginning of the third chapter of Genesis, infamous words:
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Now this response of the woman was patently false. We may read the original instructions given to the man, by God, in verses 16-17, of this same second chapter.
And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. [dying, thou shalt die].
Does this not, perhaps, expose some certain latent bent toward sinfulness already? The woman, at this early stage, is willing to treat the truth lightly, at the very least. Adding the notion, neither shall ye touch it, tends toward making God seem harsher, does it not? And has not mankind been contributing such factors ever since, making God into that ‘mean old man’ stereotype that we hear from the generality of man, all the time. or putting it more in the language of the second psalm of our focus passage, this is what the nations are ‘raging about.’ They ‘meditate’ a vain thing; the kings of the earth set themselves; they take counsel together, against Jehovah, and against His anointed. They determine to break their bonds asunder; to cast their cords from them.
Indeed, is this not what was done almost immediately, by our first parents? Upon the very first seduction set before them by the serpent, they fell. Did they not, actually, ‘meditate a vain thing?’ Was it not a vain, and selfish; yes, full of self, thing that they did, swallowing the lie of the serpent, that they would not die, as God had told them, but rather, that they would become as gods, knowing both good and evil?
And has man not been raging against God ever since? Was not the effort made by the people to build the tower of Babel not, in essence, a raging against their Creator? This raging is tantamount, almost synonymous, is it not, with rebellion. Mankind has rebelled against God from the beginning. When Adam and Eve planted their feet against their Maker, in their determination to ‘go their own way,’ this was rebellion.
This culminated in the eventual; eventual because it was by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God Himself, that His Son; His Anointed, would be hanged upon a cross, to die in the place of all those whom the Father had given Him. They would be laid on Him, and through the shedding of His blood, as the Lamb of God, He would satisfy the Justice of God against sinners and their sins. This deicide was the height of rebellion and wickedness. Yet it was by the design of God Himself. After Pentecost, and Peter’s sermon on that day, we are guided by God the Holy Spirit, to see this raging against God and His anointed being applied to His followers when, in Acts 4, Peter and John are arrested, and brought before the Sanhedrin. They are, ultimately, released, and returning ‘to their own company’ they all together, lifted up their voices, and applying the second psalm to this persecution, gave thanks to God for His mercies; reflecting on how this was an example of ‘nations raging.’
Who by the Holy Spirit, by the mouth of our father David thy servant, didst say, Why did the Gentiles rage, And the peoples imagine vain things? The kings of the earth set themselves in array, and the rulers were gathered together, Against the Lord, and against his Anointed: for of a truth in this city against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together, to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel foreordained to come to pass.—Acts 4:25-27.
And in Acts 13:32ff. we find Paul, in his dissertation at Antioch of Pisidia, rehearsing this wonderful history, and speaking of this being God’s fulfillment of His magnificent promises concerning the Christ; among other things, showing that our psalm is indeed the second psalm, as elsewhere that the human author was David.
And we bring you good tidings of the promise made unto the fathers, that God hath fulfilled the same unto our children, in that he raised up Jesus; as also it is written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
David Farmer, elder
Fellowship Bible Church
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Matthew 28:15 ‘This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continueth until this day.’March 12, 2017
Matthew 25:7 ‘Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.’March 5, 2017
Romans 5:8 ‘Christ died for us.’February 26, 2017
Romans 1:16 ‘For I am not ashamed of the gospel.’February 19, 2017
Matthew 20:31 ‘Lord, have mercy on us, thou son of David’February 12, 2017
Psalm 37:1 ‘Fret not thyself…….’February 5, 2017
Exodus 16:25 - ‘To-day is a Sabbath unto Jehovah: to-day ye shall not find it in the field.’January 29, 2017
Psalm 24:3 ‘Who shall ascend into the hill of Jehovah?’January 22, 2017
Matthew 10:16 - ‘Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.’January 15, 2017
Acts 9:5 ‘And he said, who art thou, Lord?’January 7, 2017
Acts 8:34: ‘Now the passage of the scripture which he was reading was this.’January 1, 2017
Acts 2:39: ‘For to you is the promise, and to your children.’December 25, 2016
John 21:25 ‘The world itself would not contain the books that should be written.’December 18, 2016
Malachi 3:16 ‘Then they that feared Jehovah spake one with another.’December 11, 2016
John 17:9 ‘I pray not for the world.’December 4, 2016
Revelation 2-3 ‘He [or him] that overcometh.’November 27, 2016
Revelation 2:1 ‘To the angel of the church in Ephesus, write.’November 20, 2016
John 12:41 ‘These things said Isaiah, because he saw his glory, and he spake of him.’November 13, 2016
John 9:25 ‘One thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.’November 6, 2016
1 John 1:1 ‘Concerning the Word of life.’October 30, 2016
John 8:12 ‘I am the light of the world.’October 23, 2016
John 7:5 ‘For even his brethren did not believe on him.’October 16, 2016
1 Peter 2:2 : ‘As newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile.’October 12, 2016
John 3:14: ‘As Moses Lifted Up the Serpent In the Wilderness.’October 2, 2016
Jeremiah 6:16: Ask for the old paths, where is the good way.September 25, 2016
Jeremiah 3:6: ‘Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done?’September 18, 2016
Proverbs 19:8: ‘He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul.’September 11, 2016
‘Today shalt thou be with me in Paradise.’September 4, 2016
'Say not thou, I will recompense evil: Wait for Jehovah, and he will save thee.'August 28, 2016
‘He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul.’August 21, 2016
Wherefore they called these days Purim.August 14, 2016
‘Rightly dividing the word of truth.’ (KJV)August 7, 2016
‘Ninety and nine righteous persons, who need no repentance.’July 31, 2016
‘To leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place.’July 24, 2016
‘Let everything that hath breath praise Jehovah.’July 13, 2016
‘That we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men.’July 10, 2016
‘That ye abound more and more.’July 3, 2016
‘Admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.’June 26, 2016
‘There was carried out one that was dead.’June 19, 2016
‘Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision.’June 12, 2016
‘To all the saints in Christ Jesus that are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons.’June 5, 2016
‘And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit.’May 22, 2016
‘And they compel one passing by, one Simon of Cyrene.’May 15, 2016
‘Holy and reverend is thy name.’May 8, 2016
‘We take thought for things honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord.’May 1, 2016
‘Are ye able to drink the cup that I drink?’April 24, 2016
‘Salmon begat Boaz; Boaz begat Obed; Obed begat Jesse; Jesse begat David.’April 17, 2016
‘According to the Scriptures…….according to the Scriptures.’April 10, 2016
‘The cup of blessing which we bless.’April 3, 2016
‘If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.’March 27, 2016
‘The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.’March 13, 2016
‘for my brethren’s sake, my kinsmen according to the flesh.’March 6, 2016
‘But God commendeth his own love toward us.’February 28, 2016
‘None can by any means redeem his brother.’February 21, 2016
‘Thy much learning is turning thee mad.’February 14, 2016
‘I will build my church; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.’February 7, 2016
‘Let them alone.’January 31, 2016
‘unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living.’January 24, 2016
‘Until Shiloh come.’January 17, 2016
‘Sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.’January 3, 2016
‘The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.’December 27, 2015
‘Salmon begat Boaz of Rahab, and Boaz begat Obed of Ruth.’December 20, 2015
‘Blessed are they that wash their robes.’December 13, 2015
‘Who is a God like unto thee?December 6, 2015
‘They that regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.’November 29, 2015
‘And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead.’November 22, 2015
‘Jesus answered him, if I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.’November 15, 2015
‘The chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death.’November 8, 2015
‘He that entereth not by the door into the fold of the sheep.’November 1, 2015
‘And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.’October 25, 2015
‘No man can come to me, except the Father that sent me draw him.’October 23, 2015
‘Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake.’October 4, 2015
‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son.’September 27, 2015
’Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth.’September 20, 2015
Neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith JehovahSeptember 13, 2015
‘Look unto me, and be ye saved.’September 6, 2015
‘And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and beat him.’August 30, 2015
Focus Passage: Hebrews 2:12August 20, 2015
‘They shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head. [ASV]’August 20, 2015
‘For we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day.’August 20, 2015
‘Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.’August 20, 2015
Walk with wise men and thou shalt be wiseAugust 20, 2015
‘Because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through thee.’July 19, 2015
‘Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians.’July 5, 2015
‘If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?’June 28, 2015
‘For this cause we also, do not cease to pray and make request for you.’June 21, 2015
‘Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you.’June 18, 2015
‘I am become a stranger unto my brethren.’June 14, 2015
‘For which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.’June 7, 2015
‘Quicken me, O Jehovah, according unto thy word.’May 31, 2015
‘It seemed good to me also.’May 24, 2015
‘He moved David against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Judah.’May 17, 2015
‘Blessed is the man that feareth Jehovah.’May 10, 2015
‘What we are in word…are we also in deed.’May 3, 2015
‘Bless Jehovah, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name.’April 26, 2015
‘Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another.’April 19, 2015
‘Why doth this generation seek a sign?’April 12, 2015
‘Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God.’April 5, 2015
God Made Him Lord and ChristMarch 29, 2015
‘For I was envious at the arrogant.’March 22, 2015
‘But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked.’March 8, 2015
‘He that spared not his own Son.’March 1, 2015
‘through whom we have received the reconciliation.’February 22, 2015
‘Friend, I do thee no wrong.’February 15, 2015
‘Lord, have mercy on my son.‘February 8, 2015
I acknowledged my sin unto theeFebruary 1, 2015
Jehovah will fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.January 25, 2015
'I AM THAT I AM'January 18, 2015
The Lord is my ShepherdJanuary 11, 2015
Judah and TamarJanuary 4, 2015
The wicked is snared in the work of his own handsDecember 28, 2014
‘And Jehovah God said unto the serpent.’December 21, 2014
Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!December 7, 2014
Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truthNovember 30, 2014
Ephraim is joined to idols, let him aloneNovember 23, 2014
We have sinnedNovember 16, 2014
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myselfNovember 2, 2014
‘If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins.’October 26, 2014
God Gives and Takes AwayOctober 19, 2014
They Walked With Him No MoreOctober 12, 2014
Remember Thy Creator in the Days of Your YouthOctober 5, 2014
No Redemption apart from RighteousnessSeptember 28, 2014
Born Again only by the Will of GodSeptember 21, 2014
But ye were washed!September 14, 2014
Herod and Pilate Became Friends With Each Other That Very DaySeptember 7, 2014
A False Witness Shall PerishAugust 31, 2014
The Logos of GodAugust 24, 2014
The Vineyard ParableAugust 20, 2014
In The Days Of NoahAugust 20, 2014
Seek Out the Man of WisdomAugust 3, 2014
The Apple of Thine EyeJuly 27, 2014
The Nature of a ServantJuly 20, 2014
A Psalm of praise; of DavidJuly 13, 2014
Seek Wise CounselJuly 6, 2014
Dwelling in UnityJune 29, 2014
What is the GospelJune 22, 2014
Count you're BlessingsJune 15, 2014
God's Sovereignty and Man's ResponsibilityJune 8, 2014
The Word of God in Psalm 119June 1, 2014
God is Doing His WillMay 25, 2014
David: The Permissive FatherMay 18, 2014
Easy BelievismMay 11, 2014
Jesus Christ: Both Lord and High PriestMay 4, 2014
‘I AM THAT I AM'April 27, 2014
The Love of GodApril 20, 2014
A Prayer of Moses the Man of GodApril 13, 2014
As Many As Touched Him Were Made WholeMarch 23, 2014
The Inability to Restore OneselfMarch 23, 2014
Seven Sayings from the CrossMarch 16, 2014
The Prayer of David, but the Psalm of SolomonMarch 16, 2014
Strive to do the things that are clearly revealedMarch 9, 2014
Do not argue with GodMarch 2, 2014
HypocritesFebruary 23, 2014
Snake bittenFebruary 16, 2014
David's RepentenceFebruary 2, 2014
The Wisdom of GodJanuary 26, 2014
Wait on GodJanuary 19, 2014
Judas IscariotJanuary 12, 2014
The Death of StephenJanuary 5, 2014
Little White Lies?