KJV Ps 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
I always thought it an odious and detestable thing to hear the heathen rage. They stand at the very foot of hell and eternal damnation and they shake their fists at God as though they have the world conquered and immortal blood pouring through their veins.
?Why do they rage against Jesus…why do they shake their fist at Him as though they have conquered the Kingdom of God and stand at the balcony overlooking the profligate masses as though they are equals to Zeus or even the subdued Prometheus or the great myths, Titans and heroes of man’s imaginations of yesteryear?
Remember church….other religions have no God.
All the world’s knowledge of the afterlife, the whispers of eternity, the soul’s rest in heaven, the identity of the Godhead (the trinity)…..all of man’s knowledge of the love of God… all we know about the earth’s beginnings and where man came from -- all these questions and many, many more, come to that great confluence of wisdom and revelation given to man only by Jesus. Without the gospel, the church, and the Christ, man is left - at best - to the deep thinking philosophers of Greek mythology and their creative, but terribly shallow, explanations of how things are.
All the world’s knowledge of the afterlife, the whispers of eternity, the soul’s rest in heaven, the identity of the Godhead (the trinity)…..all of man’s knowledge of the love of God… all we know about the earth’s beginnings and where man came from -- all these questions and many, many more, come to that great confluence of wisdom and revelation given to man only by Jesus. Without the gospel, the church, and the Christ, man is left - at best - to the deep thinking philosophers of Greek mythology and their creative, but terribly shallow, explanations of how things are.
But when you come to Jesus, you don’t get a “Dagon of old” whose head and shoulders need put back on him because he can’t help himself. (1 Samuel 5)
And when you come to Jesus you don’t get the ridiculous story of a God falling from out of heaven from Jupiter (and that’s your explanation of God, or for God, or how he got here). A God who falls out of heaven?
And when you get Jesus, you don’t get the visibly absent, uncaring and otherwise preoccupied gods of Baal on Mt Carmel who failed to make an appearance and come down in fire to the reverent and desperate pleadings of 450 priests shouting, begging and cutting their bodies before thousands of witnesses to make themselves worthy to receive an answer….but who, in their rage never even heard a whisper from their god.
We can tell them what Elijah had already told them….. that all their worship was to a throne in their hearts and minds that never had a god in it in the first place…they did it all for nothing…..the same with Dagon…there is no God in it. The same with Zeus…he is no Divine…But Jesus, oh Jesus, He is different! He is God! Colossians 1:15-17 says about this Jesus, who the heathen rage against, that, “He (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God…..for by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him…..and in Him all things consist.”
And when you get Jesus, you don’t get the visibly absent, uncaring and otherwise preoccupied gods of Baal on Mt Carmel who failed to make an appearance and come down in fire to the reverent and desperate pleadings of 450 priests shouting, begging and cutting their bodies before thousands of witnesses to make themselves worthy to receive an answer….but who, in their rage never even heard a whisper from their god.
We can tell them what Elijah had already told them….. that all their worship was to a throne in their hearts and minds that never had a god in it in the first place…they did it all for nothing…..the same with Dagon…there is no God in it. The same with Zeus…he is no Divine…But Jesus, oh Jesus, He is different! He is God! Colossians 1:15-17 says about this Jesus, who the heathen rage against, that, “He (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God…..for by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him…..and in Him all things consist.”
……at least the heathen idol worshippers of today are a little different from those who revered Baal yesterday in that today they are at least vexing in the right direction….
