Psalms 2:8-9 (ESV Strong's)
Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
and the ends of the earth your possession.
You shall break them with a rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.”
Christ Will Reign
Psalms 2 is a Messianic song. It is written to tell Israel about their future King. Some historians date the Psalm during David’s Kingship and written by Nathan the prophet. God is telling the nation of Israel that He will send a King to them and that King will have power. The Psalm opens by saying, the nations” rage and plot vain things. The ruler’s of this world imagine and take counsel together and boast about destroying God’s chosen people. But, God promises a King that will do what the above passage tells us. God will give ALL the nations to Christ. God will give Christ all the earth’s possessions. This was what was so profound about the temptations of Satan to Christ. Note:
Luke 4:5-8 (ESV Strong's)
And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.” And Jesus answered him, “It is written,
“‘You shall worship the Lord your God,
and him only shall you serve.’”
Satan wanted to tempt Christ to become the king of the earth, but without the path of the cross. He “offered” the “reign over the whole earth” without being obedient to God’s plan of the cross. That is what temptation is all about ... getting something God had already promised, without being obedient to
God’s plan. When Satan tempted Christ, Christ defeated Satan by telling Satan you “shall shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve.” Jesus relies on this promise from Psalm 2, written over one-thousand years prior, to defeat Satan’s temptation. God promised to give Christ reign. Christ relied upon God’s promises to defeat sin. Shouldn’t we do the same thing?
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