The fundamental question is why do the Psalms teach a cultural attitude of mutual distrust and caution toward elected rulers? When God placed man in the peaceful garden, he was competent to rule himself. God conferred each man the sacred gift of ruling over the earth. Man was permitted to rule without being constrained by God. The Bible faithfully upholds free will. Gods established the law as the secure foundation of ultimate unity. The practice of the law achieved the comparable increase of the glory of man. This is why the law does not measure the desirable quality of the responsible action but it is pronouncing of eternal blessing to those who faithfully observe it. Simultaneously, it pronounces a curse upon those who breach it. But do not believe the law expresses two purposes. It does not pronounce destruction to prevent the good that God produced. Rather the curses prevent further destruction. The law is Gods reliable instrument of sovereigns preventing. The work of the law in the judgement of God separates the wicked from the righteous to conclude the victorious war and justly punish the guilty. The curse of the law in the ultimate sense is illustrated in earthy wars. God committed nations the mutual responsibility to exercise the curse in declaring a legal war. The legal war quells the wicked opposition.

 But man was opposed in the garden by the most beautiful and formidable fallen angel. The devil tempted man with an evil curse. Man had never been opposed by motivated violence. The first temptation by the devil was violent. Consequently, the devil ended mans blessed relationship to God and the earth by cursing man. The Psalmist is teaching the devil became the prince of the air by a violent attack. What was the explicit violence? It was twisting Gods word. Accordingly, the Devil was the first ruler who unlawful exercised his authority. Its like the exercise of authority between an adult and a child. The adult explains the conditions of the conduct to convince the child to comply. God does not exercise divine authority in this appropriate way toward His creation. Gods word is self-attesting and not an interaction of violence. The Psalmist teaching that temptation is not really giving in because of pleasure. We are opposed with a violent attempt of an assault on our souls. This is why the Psalms are filled with curses.

 Our first blessed estate was without mutual opposition or necessary tension. When man sinned, he received the violent tension. Sin bought self-violence and social violence. Man was ordained as a free moral creature because he justly applied the axioms perfectly. But when sin entered the corrupted man unjustly applies the axioms with violence. The Psalmist teaching the motivated violence is our incorrect application of Gods Law. God had to respond to the miss-application by cursing the violator. The apostle exhorts us to justly put sin to death. We must curse all mutual opposition because we live with corrupted desires and in a organizational culture of violence. When we get to the root of temptation, we are containing the evil desire with the lawful curse.

All communication in relationships is mixed with humanity and violence. Every responsible person gives into temptation because of motivated violence. We live in the world which the prince and power of the air is assaulting all sinners. We must be experienced in dissociating the personal attack of the violence from the universal struggle with violence of corruption. We contain the violence by cursing the violent curse. The Psalmist teaches violent authority is miss-applications of the axioms that assault the soul. All authorities are given the position with the potential of wrecking the lives of people. They rise to position of authority by miss application of the law. There is a natural distance from the people who they rule over. The Psalmist never presents the lifelong struggles in this world in the context of the avoidance of mutual pleasure but of mutual destruction and motivated violence.