Psalms 2:12

"Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way,

For his wrath will soon be kindled.

Blessed are all they who take refuge in him."

"Kiss the son." This was an accepted act of adoration, submission, and homage, paid to ancient kings and rulers. It was also adopted by pagan worshippers as a manner of honoring their false gods. The once-worshippers of God in the times of Hosea were saying, "Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves"! (Hosea 13:2). "Kissing the calves, or kissing the hand toward the calves or idols was an act of devotion or homage expressed toward the false deity."[4] How incredible was it that intelligent men should kiss the image of a bull calf! "Behind Hosea's statement is an utter disgust, unmatched elsewhere."[5]

However, it is just as disgusting when some egotistical son of the Devil such as the late Joseph Stalin was commanding all the children of the USSR to thank him for their daily bread!

"And ye perish in the way." Sinful, mortal, fallible men indeed "perish in the way," because as stated in one of Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas, they are, "Here today and gone tomorrow, yes I know, that is so!" However, there is another, a more terrible "perishing" which awaits all of the wicked in the judgment of the Last Day.