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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