Psalms 2:1-7

Excerpt: … time, not to celebrate our decline but— to regain Adam’s loss in the day when Christ ordains—not His militant—but His triumphant son. The psalmist David said more of that special day. He couched it in a time of trouble, an obvious allusion to this dreaded day of MAGA Republicanism, when he declared the following: “ 1 Why do the heathen rage … against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, 3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us … 6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. 7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.” —Psalms 2: 1-7 The Lord said to David what was a poetic soliloquy for his son today, “this day have I begotten thee”: Remember as you mentally assess this poetry that, according to Matt 22, when David cites the Lord, he is referring —not to Father but— to Christ…