Psalms 10

Psalms 10:1

There are two things that characterize the wicked in these verses: pride and boasting. Do you want to know who the wicked are as you look around the world? They are those who are filled with pride, the “great” of the earth, who have no place for God in their lives. Also they do a great deal of boasting. I don’t know how you feel, but I am not impressed by politicians and world leaders who are always boasting that they will solve the problems of the world. They remind me of what Isaiah said about a mountain that travailed and brought forth a mouse! They boast of doing great things, but they accomplish practically nothing. What a picture we have here of the wicked and the “wicked one,” the Antichrist, who will be the false messiah. He is identified in this psalm. Pride identifies him.

Psalms 10:4

“God is not in all his thoughts” is better translated: “All his thoughts are: there is no God.” Antichrist will be an atheist. In the time of David there began to emerge for the first time in history those who were atheists. There were no atheists at the beginning because they were too close to the mooring mast of revelation. After all, Noah knew a man who knew Adam. When you are that close to the time of creation, you are not apt to deny the existence of God. When the Ten Commandments were given, there was no commandment against atheism; but there was one against polytheismthe worship of many gods. The first commandment is: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” The second commandment is: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth” (Exo_20:3-4).

There are two commandments against polytheism, and none against atheism because there were no atheists. However, David will mention atheism several times. The Antichrist at the end times will be characterized by atheism, filled with pride and boasting.

Psalms 10:5

This also characterizes man in our dayboasting of his prosperity and self-sufficiency. He feels no need of God. Now notice something else that will characterize Antichrist:

Psalms 10:13

Not only does he not believe in God, but he despises Him. It is inconsistent to despise Someone who does not exist; apparently He has to exist to build up this kind of bitterness and hatred. When he says, “Thou wilt not require it,” he is saying that there is no judgment. There is a great multitude of people emerging in our contemporary culture who are saying there is no God, or, if He exists, He is too far away for them to bother with; and they are confident there will be no judgment. My friend, if you take that position, anything goes. It is that philosophy that is behind the movement to abolish capital punishment or any kind of punishment or any kind of imprisonment for a criminal. The argument I hear is that methods used today do not reform criminals. Whoever said that the purpose of punishment and prisons was to reform?

It never was intended to reform; it was intended to deter crime. God gave these laws to protect the innocent. And God’s judgment is inevitable upon the earth. The closer we get to it, the less man believes it is coming. God is probably the most unpopular Person in the World right now. Why? Because the wicked are in the saddle. We are moving toward the time when the sin of man will lead to the “man of sin,” this final Antichrist.

Psalms 10:16

“The man of the earth” is Antichrist. These are remarkable psalms, my friend, because they amplify a great many truths which we get historically and prophetically in other portions of the Word of God.