Psalm 2 is originally about the king who wrote it, David, who in verse 7 writes “I will proclaim the Lord’s decree: He said to me, “You are my son;
today I have become your father” and in verse 8 wrote “Ask me,
and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.” However it is ultimately about Jesus because King David died but Jesus is immortal after dying and being raised by God. Here in this psalm the one called the LORD is not the same being as the one called His anointed. These are two distinct individuals. There is clearly the one who is greater than the other because the greater one called the LORD (Hebrew, יְ֝הוָה = Yahweh) promises power to the one who is lesser and is called the anointed (Hebrew, מְשִׁיחֽוֹ׃ = Messiah). The greater one is the God known to the people of this psalm’s time. The God is described as the father to the king, who is in turn described as the Son of this Father. The king, God’s anointed, is here spoken of prophetically as not merely a king, but the anointed king appointed by this people’s God. He is the Father’s solution to leaders rebelling against the authority of the Father, the answer to leaders undermining the ultimate divine authority of the Father, the answer to leaders rejecting the authority of those appointed and sent by the Father with authority over them. The Father first set this very famous ancient Israelite King, David, aside as His own appointed, anointed king in the holy hill of the Father, Zion. David was as a son to the Father in living and ruling righteously. He pleased the Father and did not rebel, and was his Father’s answer to the constant rebelling by other rulers. Yet this king David was clearly only a solution to rebellion at that time of this psalmist. David would eventually die. He was a mortal, short term solution. The psalm is prophetic and must be deeper and more long lasting in its meaning, as later prophecies revealed. The rebellion goes on after David has gone. The Father of David is eternal. He must have had in mind an eternal king, to anoint. Later prophecies showed this. Prophet Isaiah in particular prophesied of a servant of the LORD coming. Prophet Micah foretold one who would come of an eternal nature. It is in Jesus that we find an anointed son of this Father, as he proclaimed, and as the miracles given him by the Father confirmed. He was like David but was made to be eternal by the death he died for our sins on the cross leading to resurrection by the Father to live forever. He is master over the household of the Father who sent him, the household of believers in him, holding to his commands and teachings. The Father will eventually put everything under the feet of the Christ, causing all to submit to him, and when all are no longer rebelling, no longer undermining the authority of this Christ sent by the Father, no longer rejecting his authority, then the Christ will subject himself to the Father eternally. This will complete the solution to the rebellion. Then the Father will forever be God all in all, with the Christ ruling at His right hand, forever with the Father on His eternal throne. This Christ, who is anointed because he is worthy as the true Son of the Father, died for you.
