Intro: Regardless of when I read Psalm 2, it’s as if it is ripped from that day’s headlines.

Verse 1 portrays the nations as raging and people plotting in vain.

Verse 2 describes how the earth’s leaders set themselves against God and his Anointed/messiah.

Verse 3 personifies the world’s powers as wanting to cast off all restraint and oppose God.

You don’t have to be paying too much attention to world events to possibly think to yourself, “Hmmm? Why does this sound so familiar?”

Regardless of our worldview or our political leanings, surely we can all admit that we’re living through a civilizational shift:

• Artificial Intelligence seems to pop up in almost every article or story.

• The Middle East is a powder keg.

• Religious iconography is being profaned and/or completely perverted.

• Some politicians continue to be revealed as being bought and paid for by wealthy lobbies.

The list goes on and on.

Questions: What does the Lord, according to Scripture, think of all this? Is he taken aback? Is he befuddled? Just let Scripture speak for itself:

4He who sits in the heavens laughs;
    the Lord holds them in derision.
⁵ Then he will speak to them in his wrath,
    and terrify them in his fury, saying,
⁶ “As for me, I have set my King
    on Zion, my holy hill.”

⁷ I will tell of the decree:
The Lord said to me, “You are my Son;
    today I have begotten you.
⁸ Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
    and the ends of the earth your possession.
⁹ You shall break them with a rod of iron
    and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.” (Ps 2:4-9)

It’s almost as if God knows his creatures’ proclivities and natures through and through–almost as if he is sovereign, almost as if he’s letting people learn lessons. Meanwhile, the drama continues. It all plays out.