Issachar Gazette: Common Sense in an Age of Vain Ideology
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1. The peoples of the earth are steeped in rebellion and want to be free of God, His divine and creation order, to assert a new regime for themselves. In this they rage and fret in spiteful opposition.They reject God because of the restraints and obligations of faith and they would be free of the cords or bonds of Conscience and Covenant, Commandment.
In so doing, they follow in the footsteps of satan and proclaim allegiance to the fallen being. What they do is a "vain thing", it has no resonance nor staying power.
Why do the nations rage,
And the people plot a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, (they goad each other in alliance)
And the rulers take counsel together,
Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us break Their bonds in pieces
And cast away Their cords from us.”
2. God is not an absentee landlord; He "sits in the heavens" but He is tuned into the affairs of man on earth. There are sanctions for opposing the Most High but God is not troubled - He will trouble, laugh at the kings of the earth because it is to Christ He has given the inheritance of the world. Even impotent rage is defeated.
He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;
The Lord shall hold them in derision.
5 Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,
And distress them in His deep displeasure:
6 “Yet I have set My King
On My holy hill of Zion.”
7 “I will declare the decree:
The Lord has said to Me,
‘You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.
8 Ask of Me, and I will give You
The nations for Your inheritance,
And the ends of the earth for Your possession.
9 You shall break[a] them with a rod of iron;
You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.
3. Wisdom for political rulers is to know that they are the servants of the LORD whose wrath will be displayed towards unrighteousness - there are no dictators beyond accountability. All will give an account before the Judge of the World over the "judges of the earth" No matter how man may scheme, plot and bluster, God is still in control and those who trust Him, who persistently and constantly see this reality, are 'blessed.'
Now therefore, be wise, O kings;
Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear,
And rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son,[b] lest [c] He be angry,
And you perish in the way,
When His wrath is kindled but a little.
Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.