Psalm 2 is a pattern of the transition of earthly kingdoms and governments become the Kingdom of God. In fact John the Apostle captures this with the angel flying out from heaven declaring that the kingdoms of this world had become the Kingdom of God.
It has to start somewhere, when we have studied since January the lessons of this bridge called Captivity that spans the end of the earthly kingdom to the Kingdom of God played out through the Gospels, the earthly missions of Jesus, the Acts, the earthly acts of the Church, the epistles that provide a foundation of the spiritual priesthood of the Church, and then finally when we come to Revelation we see a revelation of a Messiah totally transfigured, permanently via exaltation and glorification.
Even the kingdom for which God instituted through David, a anointed worshipper, priest, prophet and king, declined as the decades went down. When we come to Jehoiakim we see a king and a throne devoid of virtue and glory. We see the constancy and predictability of human nature, to take the glory of He who is Glory itself, and we replace it with a skeletal structure of human opinions and human gains, gained through deception and empty promises. The fall of empires come when men forget the spiritual foundations that these same Kingdoms were founded. When vice replaces virtue. When vanity replaces glory.
They could not glory in their Temple, demolished, they could not look to a righteous king, nor could they possess truly by promise but look to the Babylonians for mercy. They were not the head but the tail. And the Psalm David wrote Psalm 2, is one which reverberates throughout time, because the Father Himself placed His chosen King, His Son upon the Throne.
The kings and the governments of the world must bow, must confess as Paul himself cites in Philippians 2, every knee shall bow, and every tongue would confess, that He alone is King, and He alone is Lord. This is the starting point for all of us, is that if we speak so highly of Kingdom, we believe we serve and have such vision, the first place we must come to is His Holy Mount, take off the sandals of our own self worth, and see He who was crucified and humiliated. They were the doorways to His eternal position.
Our own position is given to us in response to the fear we live by, according to Isaiah 11. What we must first do to be promoted is to bow, to speak with authority we must first confess Him, as Lord, higher than all.
He is the centre, the All. The nations that passed in that transition period from 587BC and 517BC, Babylon appearing to be unbeatable, is dethroned in one night. The mockery in bringing out the vessels of the Temple, to mock and glory in their own conquests, the Hand appears and tears from them the sense of comfort, as the Persians invade in the night and take away their dominance.
The Captivity is a process of humbling many nations, moving their spiritual influences, in preparation for the phases of the revelation of the Messiah. Yes the revelation came in phases, 1. His Earthly Mission 2. His Resurrected State 3. His Glorified State.
In these phases we see 3 different preparations, preparations to live in a new life, then commission those He chose to spread this Word, and then Prepare the world for the Eternal Kingdom. Without the Captivity there would have been no Messiah, because the Captivity would change the heart and cast out the idols.
Could it be the Church and Israel are having a heart change and casting out our idols? The surprise being that the idols we look for are our own selves. The self preoccupation has introduced the worst state of narcissism in the realm of the Church itself. The only deliverance is to see the Holy King on the Holy Throne in the Holy Mount.
When God demolishes the human thrones, human temples, we know He is making way for His Holy Throne and Holy Temple. So the Captivity is causing us to despise the natural and embrace the supernatural.
Simple fact is, when we come from the Captivity, commissioned to build God’s House, our condition is no longer the same. It is transformed as we have see His Throne, His King.
I think the most tragic reality of today is that our worship has descended on style, talent, tune, melody, and yet we have forgotten the constant adoration around the Holy Throne. When we see the Throne our Captivity becomes freedom, and we have come from a spiritual captivity waiting when our physical limitations are taken away.
May we deal not with external factors, but deal with our inner errors. Then the Captivity will have served its purpose.
Maranatha!!!
That is beautiful! You made my day.