0464. The Federation Against Christ

The Federation Against Christ

"Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

"The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against His Anointed, saying,

"Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us" (Psa_2:1-3).

In the 2d Psalm we discover the antagonism between Christ, the blessed Man of the 1st Psalm, and the antichrist, the ungodly one, of the 1st Psalm.

The verses under consideration give a picture of the nations tumultuously assembling. It is the story of a federation taking counsel and sitting in collusion against the Messiah. The final fulfillment of these words will take place under the reign of the antichrist and the federated kingdom, of the restored Roman empire. The verses anticipate the battle of Armageddon. They look forward to the time when the kings of the earth, dominated by a satan-empowered man of sin, will battle against the Son of God. The "get together" spirit is already in the air. Nations are affiliating with nations. The "League" idea is more or less the same as the "Babel" idea. God saw the tower of the latter, and He said: "Nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do." Therefore did God confound their language, and "scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth."

If the nations were amalgamating under Christ as King of kings, it would be different. But world nations have said: "We will not have this Man to reign over us." They have confederated against the Lord and against His Christ.

The heathen rage, the kings of earth, together all are found,

They gather and they set themselves, and by one oath are bound

To break the bands and cast away the cords God set around;

Against the Lord they counsel, and against Messiah, crowned.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR