Why is the derision happening now instead of in the past?
Because Israel rejected everything, including their king, the derision was pushed out into the future rather than occurring in the past. It is now unfolding in our own day and time as part of the Old Testament prophetic program, and the world is in a horrible dilemma.
Les explains that since Israel was rejecting everything, everything was pushed out into the future, including the derision, because we are seeing it now in our own day and time. He says that even people who know nothing of Scripture, if they watch the news with any intelligence, must conclude the world is in a horrible dilemma. He mentions missionary friends who worked in Rwanda and a whole congregation that was massacred, urging prayer for believers in the midst. He then outlines the Old Testament prophetic program: after they rejected their king, God will speak to the nations not in love, mercy, and grace but in His wrath, vexing them in His sore displeasure. God will pour out all the wrath and vexation during what we know as the Tribulation, described graphically in the book of Revelation.