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imprisonment--chains, fetters, cords! But this Psalm teaches that all societies and
cultures are harnessed in some degree by sovereign restraints and controls. The
wicked kick against these restraints by attacking the representatives of "The
Restrainer." It is the godly, upright, and righteous citizens of our nation that chain
the will and wishes of the wicked (Psalm 149:6-9).
Is America a post-Christian nation? Shall evil triumph? Not as long as the godly
refuse to bend and bow to the angry threats of modern day Nebuchadnezzars. We
are not ignorant of the enemy's devices (2 Corinthians 2:11). The believer is a son
of the light and the day (1 Thessalonians 5:4-6). It is the unbeliever who is blind and
the godless who are fools (2 Corinthians 4:4; Psalm 14:1). America will never be
without a powerful Christian witness as long as believers embrace the truths of
Psalm 2; for it is "unsurpassed [in its] buoyant, fierce delight in God's dominion."6
End notes:
1. Royal Psalms: 2, 18, 20, 21, 45, 72, 89, 101, 110, 132, 44.
2. See William H. Brownlee, "Psalms 1-2 as a Coronation Liturgy," Biblica52[1971]:321-36.
3. Gary DeMar, "Is Sin the Solution?," Biblical Worldview (July 1994) V10, N7, 7.
4. Francis A. Schaeffer, A Christian Manifesto(Westchester, Ill., Crossway Books, 1981),41-
51.
5. Ibid.,60.
6. Derek Kidner, Psalms 1-72, T.O.T.C. , Vol. 14a (Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP, 1973), 50.
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