Text: The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers take counsel together against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying… (Psalm 2:2)
Intro: Language
I. Genesis 10
Genesis 10:5, 20, 31
Why verse 32
A usual pattern
II. Babel
What:
Why:
Problem:
…and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; (Acts 17:26-27)
Result:
And by this simple means, without any outward visible interference, did the Lord arrest the grandest attempt of man’s rebellion, and by confounding their language, “scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth. Therefore is the name of it called Babel, or confusion.” What a commentary does this history afford to the majestic declarations of the second Psalm! --Edersheim
Application 1: Language
A testimony
Pentecost
Application 2: Antithesis again
Favor & rebellion
Psalm 2
Whitney Houston