How was Psalm 2:2 fulfilled at Jesus' arrest and crucifixion?
At Jesus' arrest, betrayal, and kangaroo court, both the Romans and the Jews connived together to put Him to death. Not just the Romans, not just the Jews, but both together fulfilled Psalm 2:2, where kings and rulers take counsel together against the Lord and His anointed. This was not an accident but prophecy.
Les explains that Psalm 2 predicted the kings of the earth—Gentiles—and the rulers of Israel taking counsel together. He points to the night of Jesus' arrest, His betrayal, and His kangaroo court, when the conniving to put Him to death involved not just the Romans and not just the Jews, but both together. Les stresses this was prophecy, not an accident; the Romans' putting Him to death happened that way because it was foretold. The surrounding context adds that the nations said, 'Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us,' meaning they would not have God rule over them but wanted their own way. Heaven laughs and holds the nations in derision, and Les sees the nations today still in derision, past the point of return.
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,