Establishing the Kingdom - Digging Into the Psalms

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Psalm 2 can be divided into four divisions. We began our journey into the third division in the last posting. We discussed how this third division can itself be divided into three divisions. A Declaration of Christ was the first of these three divisions. Let's journey to the next one:


"Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession (Psalm 2:8 KJV)."


Psalm 2:8 is the second division of three in the final division of Psalm 2. The verse begins with the Anointed One, Jesus Christ, continuing in the declaration of what "the LORD hath said (Psalm 2:7)." Let's divide this verse into two parts:

• The heathen for an inheritance.
• The uttermost parts of earth for a possession.

We previously established the "heathen" as being the nations. There are the Hebrews and the "heathen" in the Old Testament. These are the same as the Jews and the Gentiles given in the New Testament. Listen to what the Anointed One says in the New Testament based on his knowledge of his prophetic utterance of Psalm 2:8:

"And other sheep I have (the Gentiles), which are not of this fold (the Jews): them also must I bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd (John 10:16 KJV)."

God gave a man, Abraham, a promise way back in Genesis, "And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed (Genesis 22:18 KJV)." Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of that promise.

Isaiah prophesied of Christ, "Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)." The fulfillment came here, "Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS (Luke 1:30-31 KJV)."

Isaiah continued with this prophecy with the promise of the Light to the Gentiles, "I will also give thee (Christ) for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth (Isaiah 49:6 KJV)."

Psalm 2:8 offers the earth, all of it, to Christ for a possession. God establishes his ownership of everything under the heaven (Job 41:11). He declares explicitly in Exodus 19:5, "For all the earth is mine." Now God grants total possession of earth to the Lord Jesus Christ.

God declared in Psalm 2:6 that he set Christ as king on the holy hill of Zion. There is a "prince of the power of the air (Ephesians 2:2)" who currently patrols and feigns to rule this earth. But as John worded it:

"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away...

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven... (Revelation 21:1-2 KJV)."

The apostle Paul wrote the whole creation groans (Romans 8:22), and the creature waits in earnest expectation (Romans 8:19). The creatures do this because they know they will be delivered from the captivity of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God (Romans 8:21).

You and I are the creatures waiting in earnest expectation. We wait because we know that soon we'll be delivered from the bondage of this human flesh to live forever in the glorious liberty of the new heaven and the new earth, the new Jerusalem, the eternal kingdom, the eternal possession of the King, the Lord Jesus Christ!

We'll take a look at the "flipside" of the "heathen" given to Christ for an inheritance in the next post. Until then, God bless...