Commentary on Selected Psalms

                                Psalm 2:1-12

The second Psalm happens to be a prophecy about the millennial reign of Christ on the earth. During Christ's thousand year reign, Satan will be shut up in a prison which will be the bottomless pit under the earth. Revelation 20:1-3 (KJB). This fact can only mean that during Christ's reign the Devil will not be able to exert his evil influence over humans who live on the earth. Revelation 20:3 (KJB). Yet, even during the thousand year reign of Christ as related in the second Psalm, evil rulers and people will secretly hate Christ and conspire against Him to overthrow His rule. God in Heaven will laugh at their stupidity. These evil people and rulers will "imagine a vain thing." All through the Bible, it describes sin and evil as being "vanity." Vanity means both "excessive pride" and "emptiness." These evil rulers and people will be motivated by excessive pride which will eventually cause them to be reduced to emptiness. That happened to be the exact same result that happened to Lucifer when he rebelled against God. God stripped Lucifer of all the goodness that God had put into him, and He exiled him to earth as a completely empty and evil consciousness called Satan. Ezekiel 28:15-19 (KJB).

All of this put together can only mean that there exists such an entity as a negative consciousness. The negative consciousness is the opposite of a positive consciousness. The positive consciousness seeks to be creative and to do good, but the negative consciousness seeks only to do evil and be destructive. The bottomless pit under the earth happens to be full of these demonic consciousnesses, and somehow they found a way to emerge from the bottomless pit and enter into Heaven to influence Lucifer to cause him to rebel against God. But Satan, who happened to be more intelligent than the demons, became able to gain power over all of the demonic forces in the earth which still rules most of the people of the earth to this day. Matthew 4:8-10 (KJB). Satan does not rule in the bottomless pit. Satan rules his own evil kingdom in the world.

When Christ returns with all of the armies of Heaven to end the Tribulation period and to defeat all of the evil armies led by Satan's toadies called the Beast and the False Prophet, Christ will send an angel to pull that coward Satan from whatever hole he is hiding in and chain him in the bottomless pit. Revelation 19:11-21; Revelation 20:1-3 (KJB). Christ will then begin His thousand year reign on the earth. Christ will rule with a "rod of iron" which means He will severely punish any evil that manifests itself. For this reason, God exhorts the rulers and people of the earth to love and worship Jesus, and He will bless them for it. Psalm 2:10-12 (KJB). Yet, many rulers and people will secretly hate Christ and secretly plot to overthrow His rule. Since these people cannot be influenced by the Devil, then they must be influenced by whatever demonic forces that still exist in the world.

This condition could indicate the purpose for Christ's millennial reign. God will closely observe the bottomless pit to determine how the demons emerge from it to influence some of the people of the earth to rebel against Christ. Satan will be chained in the bottomless pit to prevent him from finding that way of escape. But at the end of Christ's reign, God will have learned how the demons emerge from the bottomless pit, and He will loose Satan from his chain to reenter earth to cause all those secret rebels to reveal themselves, and he will organize an evil army to openly rebel against Christ and attack Jerusalem where Christ rules. But God will use His fiery wrath against evil to utterly destroy the Devil and all of his evil army and cast it all into the eternal lake of fire. Revelation 20:7-10 (KJB).

All of this raises the question: If God is Omniscient, would He not already know how the demons emerge from the bottomless pit? The answer is that God is Omniscient in all that is positive; that is, all that is good and creative. God can know nothing about the nature of evil because it is all vain and thoroughly empty. Evil seeks to destroy by annulment all that is good and creative. But God can observe evil to discover how it operates. Habakkuk 1:12-17 (KJB). For this reason, God can make a plan to utterly purge all sin, evil, spiritual death, and the Devil from His entire creation and recreate it all to be righteous. In the end of the world, God will burn up the earth and even Heaven to thoroughly purge it all of any vestiges of evil that may remain. II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB).