For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance,
and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. Isaiah 34:8
Unknowingly, the world is waiting for an impossible people (who is not impossible?; Mk 10:26-27) to come to “everlasting salvation” (Isa 45:17), “at once”, “in one day”, at “the set time” (Ps 102:13; Isa 59:20; 66:8; Eze 39:22; Zech 3:9; 12:10; Mt 23:39; Ro 11:26; Rev 1:7) by the same power that raised Jesus (Hos 6:1-2; 13:14; Eze 37:9).
This will be according to the same pattern and by the same miraculous intervention by which Jesus was revealed to Paul on the Damascus road, “when it pleased God” (Ps 102:13; 110:3 with Gal 1:15-16), and not a moment sooner!
The controversy of Zion, as most clearly pronounced in Ps 2, is the united defiance of what God has declared He is determined to do in the face of the most determined opposition, namely, to set My Son on MY holy hill of Zion to judge and rule the nations with a rod of iron.




