Psalms 2:10-12
¹⁰Be wise now therefore, O ye kings:
be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
¹¹Serve the LORD with fear,
and rejoice with trembling.
¹²Kiss the Son, lest he be angry,
and ye perish from the way,
when his wrath is kindled but a little.
Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Kiss =nâshaq-Hebrew
to equip with weapons: to arm/fastening up.
The same word nâshaq is found in Psalms 78:9- being armed.(Psalms 78:9
The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows,
turned back in the day of battle.)
The text is a warning from God for men to submit to His “Anointed One,” also called the “Son,” to avoid His wrath. “Kiss the Son” is a call to show submission and homage to this divinely appointed ruler, who is later identified in Christian theology as Jesus.
Mark 14:44
And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.
While Kiss in this context is Phileo in greek signifying a mark of tenderness, personal attachment and an expression of brotherly Love.
We know it was an unholy kiss for it was was used to mark the Christ in the believers worlds greatest betrayal.
Luke 7:45
Thou gavest me no kiss:(philēma) but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss (kataphileō-kiss earnestly:) my feet.
With reasonable probability, Luke, Paul and Peter share that men ought to salute each other with a Holy Kiss while Peter calls it a kill of Love possibly referencing men away from the unholy kiss of death from Judas.
1 Peter 5:14
Greet one another with a kiss of love.
We are Called to Love God in Christ Jesus, signifying that we must show our love in truth in watching over the body of Christ/ the bride of Christ that at His return as the groom, He should find faith in the earth.
Luke 18:6-8
⁶And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. ⁷And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? ⁸I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
The great betrayal was not from a stranger but a Disciple and an Apostle
(1 Corinthians 10:12
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.)
Prophetic Utterance:
Matthew 22:37-40
³⁷Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ ³⁸This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁴⁰All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
I Love the Lord with all of me.
Guiding text:
2 Timothy 3:1-9
¹This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. ²For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, ⁴Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; ⁵Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. ⁶For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, ⁷Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁸Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. ⁹But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.