Hello again and welcome to the program. We're here with a little strike for today. We conclude our little series in Psalm chapter 2. Have your Bible ready. In Psalm chapter 2 we read, Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine the vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel against the Lord and against his anointed. Now if we look in the early part of the book of Acts, we can see that the interpretation of this portion of scripture is pointing to when Jesus was here and how he was treated. but it also has an application to what is going on today. When it talks about the heathen here, we've mentioned before that it's the difference between the Jews and the Gentiles, and the Jews always referred back there in the Old Testament as the Gentiles as being heathen. Why are so many people against Israel today like they were and have been for the last 2,000 years? Actually, Psalm chapter 2 was written 3,000 years ago, and nothing has changed. They raged then and they're raging now. But as we are living in this age in which we are now, we may have a little political anxiety. Things are not going according to the way we would like them to go as Christians. Well, we can get anxious and worry about what's going on politically, or we can study verses like the ones we're looking at now and find that worship always conquers worry. In verse 2, we see the kings of the earth set themselves and take counsel with the rulers together against the Lord, the kings of the earth. Well, in verse number 6, God said, yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I have read the last chapter. I know who wins. The kings of the earth and the rulers, we read in verse 3, said, let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us. Well, verse 4 says, he that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh. So, as we look at Psalm chapter 2, verses 1 to 5, who do we have here? First of all, the heathen, which we've seen is referring to the Gentiles, and then the people, imagine a vain thing. Number 3, it refers to the kings. Number 4, the rulers. Number 5, we have here the Lord, and number six, his anointed. Who's who? Well, we've seen the heathen refer to the Gentiles. The people, in order to understand who that's talking about, we need to look at it in the context in which it appears. It can sometimes refer to people in general, and it can sometimes refer to a certain group, such as Israel. Then we have the kings and the rulers. In the scriptures, there are kings and rulers, both to do with Israel, and both to do with the Gentiles and it can be determined in the context who it is referring to. And here's an interesting one, it refers to his anointed. Now usually we would think of Jesus as being his anointed and he is referred to that way, but also in this portion of scripture, is it referring to Jesus or someone else? In Psalm 1850, we read, great deliverance giveth he to his king and showeth mercy to his anointed, whose is anointed? The next two words, to David and his seed. And so sometimes when we look at the anointed, it's referring to Jesus, and sometimes it's referring to the servants of the Lord, like David. And so we always need to check the context in which we see these words, rather than jumping to conclusion as to who they are referring to. The Bible says that perilous times will come, and they certainly have. We're living in a very, very troubled world today. However, Psalm chapter 2 verse 12 says, blessed are all they that put their trust in Him. That word blessed not only means happy, it means to be happy with condemnment. Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him.