Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder
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Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder
Which end of the rod of iron do you want to be on? s30e109 ps2
For every ROD OF IRON, there is a ruling end, and a receiving end. Psalm 2 makes an argument to consider being on the ruling end of it. It is actually more of a plea than an argument.
Fortunately, for a time, everybody gets to choose whether to rebel or join the Lord in His reign.
Those that oppose will be overruled. Fury will follow foolishness.
Which end of the rod of iron do you want to be on? Listen and decide.
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Which end of the rod of iron do you want to be on? s30e109 ps2
Really two choices: the ruling end or the receiving end. Watch ps 2!
The Reign of the Lord’s Anointed
2 Why do the nations rage
and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us.” 2 do the nations really rage? And plot? And set themselves against individually and collectively? Yup
Are there some that set themselves in fighting position AGAINST
The Lord and against his anointed? Yup
Are there some that wish to be free from the cords of duty, the cords of devotion that are due to the Lord and his Anointed? yup
This is a psalm founded on REBELLION to the reign of the regent of David’s throne.
Anointed= Messiah in transliteration of the Hebrew
Anointed = Christ in translation of the Greek
This is a messianic psalm—the anointed is CAPITALIZED by the translators with intent—this psalm refers to Jesus, as an occupier of David’s throne; of being anointed as messiah and Christ
To rebel against the Anointed is the rebel against the Lord that established and put Him there. This is why Jesus teaches in Jn 15:23 Whoever hates ME hates my FATHER also
There is no daylight between the Father and Son and Spirit. Your attitude towards any one of the three reveals your attitude toward them all
4 He who sits in the heavens laughs;
the Lord holds them in derision.
5 Then he will speak to them in his wrath,
and terrify them in his fury, saying,
6 “As for me, I have set my King
on Zion, my holy hill.” 2 Revolt results in wrath
God surely has a sense of humor and laughs. Imagine there will be plenty of it in heaven. But not this kind of laughter.
But this isn’t chuckling at humor. This is Ha! I don’t think so…
You are powerless, you have no ability to stand against the rule and reign of the Kingdom of God.
To attempt otherwise is laughable.
Righteous wrath MUST go forth against such rebellion.
The Lord is going to HOLD people accountable, in derision for choosing the wrong end of the iron rod. We’re getting to that…
The fury correctly follows the foolishness of this posture
though the wicked have their day and may prosper for a time, In the end, God is not mocked and has the last laugh
7 I will tell of the decree:
The Lord said to me, “You are my Son;
today I have begotten you.
Acts 13. Paul is at a synagogue on the Sabbath in Anitoch in Pisidia. He explains how Jesus now occupies the throne of David, by Referring directly, and quoiting directly our psalm today: He makes this argument for Jesus: 30 But God raised him from the dead, 31 and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people. 32 And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, 33 this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm,
“ ‘You are my Son,
today I have begotten you.’ 2 Don’t let this go unnoticed. The NT refers to and quotes and gives the correct interpretation of the OT truths.
It clarifies what sometimes is unclear.
Here it claims that Jesus is God. Here it claims that Jesus fulfills the promise, made to David, that one of his Heirs, literally from his human lineage, will occupy the Davidic throne forever. From that throne will come unassailable dominion for all times.
Those that oppose it will be overruledthey will be on the wrong end of the rod of iron.
8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
and the ends of the earth your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.” 2 Christ will rule over all nations and all people for all timeand even when there is just eternity
Which end of the rod of iron do you want to be on?
Are you ready to be on the winning team? Or do you choose to be a rebellious piece of pottery when the proverbial “bull in a china shop” comes to dash all that stand in mutiny?
Fury follows foolishness.
Are you interested in following the ruling King Jesus?
Choose the Jesus end. The I’m with Him end. Not the end of ruin.