God Responds to Opposition - Digging Into the Psalms

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Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? If you understand how I did it, then tell me (Job 38:4). Can you, who argue with God, teach God (Job 40:2)? So then, why do the nations rage and people make worthless plans? Why then do kings and rulers plan in opposition to the Anointed One (Psalms 2:1-2)?


"He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision (Psalm 2:4 KJV)."


Can the created ones explain how God spoke creation into existence? Yet the created ones are in constant rage, and the created ones are constantly making plans in opposition of the Creator. Is there any human intelligent enough to teach God? Yet humanity counseled, planned, and killed the Anointed One. Humanity still plans and opposes those now anointed of God.


God sits on his throne in heaven (Revelation  4:2), and the psalmist says he laughs. God sits in heaven and laughs, mocking the plans made to oppose him. God isn't laughing because the raging, the counselling, and the planning are comical. God doesn't think opposition is funny. God laughs in mockery of the worthless plans of humanity to oppose him. Opposition displeases and angers God:


"Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure (Psalm 2:5 KJV)."


Wrath and displeasure aren't words which proclaim joy. The Contemporary English Version Bible renders verse 5 as, "The Lord becomes furious and threatens them. His anger terrifies them." The warnings and threatenings God gives to humanity who oppose him are numerous throughout the entire Bible. The first chapter of Psalms closes with one such warning, "But the way of the ungodly shall perish."


Psalm 2:5 states another warning or threat. God will vex those in opposition. I find the word vex interesting. Translated from the origonal Hebrew it means to tremble inwardly or to be suddenly alarmed or agitated. Pick up a newspaper. Listen to the news. Is anyone alarmed? Is anyone agitated? Is anyone trembling inwardly due to the fear caused by the rapidly deteriorating condition of this world?


"Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion (Psalm 2:6)."


This prophecy of Jesus Christ is exactly why God sits on his throne mocking those who dare to oppose him. "I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord (Revelation 1:8 KJV)." God laughs because opposition is pointless. Those who oppose God, those who oppose those anointed to carry out the work of God, are guaranteed to lose. Psalm 2:6 is the guarantee. God is victorious.


God can do anything and everything, and he knows everything (Job 42:2). Thus any opposition of God is bound to lose. We'll dig into the details of the victory next time. Until then, your comments are always welcome. God bless...