The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in Psalm 2:1-3,
"Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, 'Let us break their chains and throw off their shackles.'"
This, of course, is a rhetorical question for our own observation. The Lord is fully aware of why the "nations" are in an uproar over the dominance of our Creator over his creation. Mankind is lost and fallen and at enmity against his Creator. Further, those who are estranged from God are under the influence and manipulation of the spiritual dark side in its rebellion against God.
In spite of the utter futility and insanity of rebelling against God, mankind, in its myopic, limited, and distorted vision is simply too shortsighted to see the folly in opposing the rule of God over his creation. As a result, the nations and peoples of the world have given themselves to very unenlightened and confused notions that communicate mankind's rebellion against God. Much of this is expressed in politics, the arts, academia and "news" media.
It gets expressed in uneducated and ill-informed notions of "evolution", fake religions, rebuilding the Tower of Babel through globalism and socialism, insistence upon acceptance of all that represents dying and decaying mental fitness, as in killing our babies through abortion, the embrace of the mental disease of transgenderism, the debauchery of homosexuality and pediphilia, and on and on...
The utter futility and insanity of rebelling against God is seen in verses 4-6 of this psalm, where we see God laughing at the foolishness of little man shaking his little fist at God Almighty! We are told the Lord scoffs at rebellious mankind and rebukes them in his anger. These unenlightened "rulers" of mankind will find that God has his own ruler that he installs over all mankind: his Son, Jesus Christ.
These rebellious people of the world will not be able to enjoy life in the kingdom of God with Jesus Christ sitting on the throne over all mankind as they will have been cast into a "fiery lake of burning sulfur", Revelation 21:8.
As I say, this rebellion against God and his anointed is utterly futile and insane. Knowing these things helps us to understand why it is we so much that bewilders us - how people can be so crazy...
A blog with my ruminations over the years can be found here: http://worshipfortoday.blogspot.com/
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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"Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, 'Let us break their chains and throw off their shackles.'"
This, of course, is a rhetorical question for our own observation. The Lord is fully aware of why the "nations" are in an uproar over the dominance of our Creator over his creation. Mankind is lost and fallen and at enmity against his Creator. Further, those who are estranged from God are under the influence and manipulation of the spiritual dark side in its rebellion against God.
In spite of the utter futility and insanity of rebelling against God, mankind, in its myopic, limited, and distorted vision is simply too shortsighted to see the folly in opposing the rule of God over his creation. As a result, the nations and peoples of the world have given themselves to very unenlightened and confused notions that communicate mankind's rebellion against God. Much of this is expressed in politics, the arts, academia and "news" media.
It gets expressed in uneducated and ill-informed notions of "evolution", fake religions, rebuilding the Tower of Babel through globalism and socialism, insistence upon acceptance of all that represents dying and decaying mental fitness, as in killing our babies through abortion, the embrace of the mental disease of transgenderism, the debauchery of homosexuality and pediphilia, and on and on...
The utter futility and insanity of rebelling against God is seen in verses 4-6 of this psalm, where we see God laughing at the foolishness of little man shaking his little fist at God Almighty! We are told the Lord scoffs at rebellious mankind and rebukes them in his anger. These unenlightened "rulers" of mankind will find that God has his own ruler that he installs over all mankind: his Son, Jesus Christ.
These rebellious people of the world will not be able to enjoy life in the kingdom of God with Jesus Christ sitting on the throne over all mankind as they will have been cast into a "fiery lake of burning sulfur", Revelation 21:8.
As I say, this rebellion against God and his anointed is utterly futile and insane. Knowing these things helps us to understand why it is we so much that bewilders us - how people can be so crazy...
A blog with my ruminations over the years can be found here: http://worshipfortoday.blogspot.com/
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just respond and let me know.
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