0465. The Federation Overthrown

The Federation Overthrown

"He that sitteth in the Heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

"Then shall He speak unto them in His wrath, and rex them in His sore displeasure.

"Yet have I set My King upon My holy hill of Zion.

"I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said onto Me, Thou art My Son; this day have I begotten Thee.

"Ask of Me, and I shall give Thee the heathen for Thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy possession" (Psa_2:4-8).

The verses before us open with the derision which Christ manifests as He speaks forth His displeasure against the assembled and confederated nations. The Lord is sitting in the Heavens. He has not yet come to the Mount of Olives, but we believe He has come to the Heavens above.

The first stage of His Second Advent, which includes His descent into the air, and His rapture of the Church, has taken place. The day of the wrath of the Lamb has come; the day in which the Lord will save Israel and judge the nations. The verses show how Jesus Christ will break those who took counsel together against Him. He will "break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel."

When the Lord comes again He comes as the little stone without hands from the mountain side, falling upon the toes of the great colossus of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, and grinding it to powder. The antichrist and his combinations against the Messiah will be utterly overthrown.

The 6th verse describes Jesus Christ taking David’s throne. The holy hill of Zion refers to the Great City of the King. To this city our Lord shall come and on its throne our Lord shall reign. This was the promise given by the angel to Mary: "And the Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of his father David."

Verses 7 and 8 describe our Lord as He speaks to the Father and claims the fulfillment of a decree pledged to Christ concerning His inheritance of the nations and His possession of the uttermost parts of the earth. These words cannot be fulfilled until the First-begotten, the One raised from the dead, Jesus Christ the Son of God, comes and takes His throne.

It is folly for a missionary to pray this prayer. It is an impossibility for any missionary, let him labor ever so faithfully, and preach ever so diligently, to take the world for Christ. He may indeed take out of the nations a people for Christ’s name; but Christ alone, and Christ alone enthroned, can pray unto God and receive from God the nations for an inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for a possession. The Lord Himself will make good the investure of His Father, through a series of judgments. It can never be accomplished by the preaching of the Gospel of Peace by the Church.

The Lord Who sitteth in the air, shall laugh and them deride,

And in His wrath He’ll vex them sore, and in His anger chide;

And God the Father will declare–all His decrees abide–

That Christ the Son shall e’er possess the earth, both far and wide.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR