HOLY PSALM OF DAVID (ZABUR) TWO

Jews, Muslims and Christians will all unite to proclaim,

“Great is the Lord God and greatly to be praised!” (ref Psalm 146 v 1)

However, prophet David commenced Psalm two with the words: -

1 Why are the nations so angry? Why do they waste their time with futile plans? 2 The kings of the earth prepare for battle; the rulers plot together against the Lord and against his anointed one[1]… 3 “Let us break their chains,” they cry, “and free ourselves from slavery to God.” 4 But the one who rules in heaven laughs. The Lord scoffs at them.

This prophesy has yet to be completely fulfilled, however we have seen in the last century and this, various communist governments organising and driving their populations to free themselves of all vestiges of Almighty God, and to proclaim instead atheistic humanism.  Note the Book says that God has an ‘Anointed Messiah’.  Although Jews, Muslims and Christians accept this concept, it is only the Muslims and Christians that acknowledge that this person is none other than Jesus of Nazareth.

Psalm 2 continues,

6 For the Lord declares, “I have placed my chosen king on the throne
    in Jerusalem, on my holy mountain.” 7 The king proclaims the Lord’s decree: “The Lord said to me, ‘You are my son[2]. Today I have become your Father. 8 Only ask, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the whole earth as your possession.

This Psalm of David may be a particular problem for Muslims.  It would seem that the prophet Mohammed in later years came to believe that Christians were proclaiming Jesus as the Son of God in the limited sense of the eternal God having sexual intercourse with Mary (in the same way that the Greek gods had sexual intercourse with humans).  Such an idea is & was an anathema to both Christians & Jews and does not come from the Book of God.  In Psalm 2, David is in fact proclaiming that the Christ (i.e., Messiah) will be God’s Anointed spiritual ruler and, as other parts of God’s Book reveal, that this appointment was not to be just for his life on earth, but for all of time until the Day of Judgement.   Thus, the Messiah would come as a Jew and live for the perfect glory of God (sinless in the way no other prophet or anointed person has or will ever be) and return to sit at God’s hand of power in order to effect God’s purposes of salvation for all who truly submit. 

This one and only Messiah, appointed by God Almighty for all of time, is in fact God’s Word become flesh.  Muslims and Christians acknowledge this in the person of Jesus Christ (however Islam teaches that he will return in glory as a Muslim). All three faiths believe humans are made in God’s image, but are fatally flawed in our complete inability to live for God’s glory.  This ‘Word become flesh’ is God’s Way of enabling us fallible mortals to begin to live to please Him, and to show that by loving all mankind including our enemies as Jesus did.

Psalm 2 concludes: -

10 Now then, you kings, act wisely! Be warned, you rulers of the earth! 11 Serve the Lord with reverent fear, and rejoice with trembling. 12 Submit to God’s royal son, or he will become angry, and you will be destroyed in the midst of all your activities— for his anger flares up in an instant. But what joy for all who take refuge in him!

If the rulers of this earth are advised to submit to God’s Messiah, do you not suppose that the earth’s peoples are also advised to submit before it is too late?    This submission to the Lordship of God’s Messiah is enjoined on Christians as on Muslims and Jews and all who hear the message of this Psalm of David.   We all need to submit to God’s Messiah, for he is the means that God has chosen to save us from the natural corruption of mankind and to bring those who submit to heaven.

A poem inspired by Psalm 2: -

O Lord God you have established

Your salvation, your Messiah

King David's greater son Jesus.

Let the nations bow their knee

O Lord our God as we proclaim.

Your saving love for everyone!                                              

 mjk 25/11/17

A prayer: - O God, bring your peace to this world. Amen

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[1] The term Anointed One, David is referring to the God’s Messiah (prophesied by Moses).  The term ‘Anointed Messiah (v2)’, ‘Christ (NT Greek)’ and ‘Son v.7)’ are all equivalent & refer to the same person.

[2] The term Son used here is the ancient Middle Eastern usage by an Emperor referring to a vassal king