Who will God vex in His sore displeasure according to the psalm?
According to Psalm 2, God will vex the nations of the world and Israel in particular in His sore displeasure. This wrath and vexation is identified as the coming seven-year tribulation, the next prophetic event after Christ’s crucifixion and ascension, before He sets up His Kingdom.
Les explains that God will vex them—the nations of the world and Israel in particular—in His sore displeasure, which is the tribulation. He connects this to Psalm 2, showing that after Christ’s crucifixion and ascension, the next event in the Old Testament prophetic program is God’s wrath and vexation, the seven years of the tribulation. Then Christ will come and set up His Kingdom, for the psalmist writes, “I have set my King upon the holy hill of Zion.” Les notes that the church age is missing from the Old Testament prophetic program, but the sequence given is wrath and vexation followed by the Kingdom.