Which Kings does Psalm 2:6 refer to?
"I have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain."
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Sign up to join this communityPsalm 2:6 “I have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain.”
Psalm 2:6-7 (ASV)
God speaks.
6 "Yet I have set my king Upon my holy hill of Zion."
Jesus, the Messianic King speaks.
7 "I will tell of the decree: Jehovah said unto me, Thou art my son; This day have I begotten thee."
Mount Zion was a hill in Jerusalem where David was installed as king over all Israel. But Jesus the Messianic King, will not sit on a throne in that city or elsewhere on earth.
The throne is in Heaven.
Revelation 11:15 (ASV)
15 "And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said, The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall reign for ever and ever."
Revelation 14:1-2 (ASV)
1 "And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads. 2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and the voice which I heard was as the voice of harpers harping with their harps:"