20 Can a athrone of destruction be allied with You,
One which devises mischief by decree? [1]
According to Vines Expository dictionary the word translated “devises” is yatsar (יָצַר, 3335), “to form, mold, fashion.”
And the word translated mischief is ˓amal (עָמָל,5999), “labor; toil; anguish; troublesome work; trouble; misery.”
For easier understanding, we can rephrase this as, “Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you? One which produces troublesome work by law?”
I don’t know what this throne of iniquity is, but it uses a law to enslave. God has no fellowship with this throne; he is against this enslavement and hard labor. The gospel (good news) of Jesus Christ shines through this verse because it is about the work that he has accomplished and how we can enter rest based on his accomplishment. We do not have to labor by a decree.
This is the good news of Jesus Christ: he is God in human form, he came to this world to live like a man and to die for the sins of the world. When Adam and Eve sinned, they died spiritually. The holy spirit in them departed.
We are all born of Adam, without the spirit of God in us, we are a reflection of what it is to be without the spirit of God in us. In Genesis 5:3, we are told that after Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own image and likeness. By this, we understand that though Adam and Eve were made in the image and likeness of God, after they died spiritually, they could only bear children in their image and likeness.
Jesus was not born of Adam but of a virgin through the power of the holy spirit (Matthew 1:18). He came here for our sake, to restore the image of God that was lost in Adam. To accomplish this, he had to resolve the sin issue that caused this death. Then he had to resolve the death issue, to restore the spirit of God to those who will receive him. He resolved the sin issue by paying for our sins on the cross where he died as a sacrifice for sin. The payment required for sin is death (Romans 6:23). He then resurrected himself and ascended to heaven, promising to send the holy spirit when he ascends (John 14:26). He is now calling all people everywhere to repent (Acts 17:30). Repent means a change of mind, from unbelief to belief, from not acknowledging, caring about the truth to an acknowledgement of the truth, agreeing with God on what he has revealed.
There is a lot that God has revealed, but the entrance to this life is believing the truth about our state and what Jesus has done to accomplish our salvation. He has paid for our sins by his death on the cross so that all sin is forgiven. Those who will believe in this sacrifice, the forgiveness of sin will rely on his grace and mercy and receive the gift of eternal life, his holy spirit restored to them, making them spiritually alive similar to how Adam and Eve were before the fall but a new creation in Christ Jesus, 2 Corinthians 5:17. Those who reject will reject God will continue in their state of being dead in their sin and trespasses. In the end, the dead will be judged according to their works (Rev 20:13).
Watch this, because the payment for sin is death (Romans 6:23), when death and the grave took a sinless one Satan thought he had won. Now, they must pay for their sin. The payment for sin is death, not an apology, not tears, not guilt and self-pity, not begging for forgiveness. In the case of death and the grave, Satan and his angels, Jesus did not die for them. They must die. And they will die, see (Revelation 20:14). But for you and I, Jesus died for our sins. What good news! When he rose from the dead, he defeated death and the grave. All his work is for his glory and our good. We love him because he first loved us 1 John 4:19. There is no other God that saves; this is the true God and eternal life.
[1] New American Standard Bible (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 2020), Ps 94:20.