Psalm 96: 9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
10 Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: He shall judge the people righteously. 11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof. 12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice 13 Before the Lord: for He cometh, for He cometh to judge the earth: He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

Psalm 96 is powerful and the writer knew God in a way that we all should. If we look at the people in Scriptures the Lord used from Noah to Jesus they did God's will and it all looks strange to us in our culture of how He did things. God did not change …

“Psalm 96: 3 Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people. 4 For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: He is to be feared above all gods. 5 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.”

We were all left not only the Scriptures but the Spirit of God to know how to worship and be ready for that day the world will be judged. There are seasons and steps the Lord laid out for us to know what He is doing and saying. We live in a time we can know everything about a human that we never have or will see . When people become a leader or popular their lives are exposed and they must be tough as nails to go through such exposure. That is a walk in the park to what we all will face on judgment day.
There have been hidden powers that make things happen or go away for centuries. God has been exposing some of those dark secrets and will watch what people do with that exposure. He is watching and has watched since Adam and not even a thought is hidden from Him. David that wrote most of the Psalms , shows us we never wanted earthly power and so did Jesus.
“Job 32:1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.”
“2 Thessalonians 2:2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”

There was and is powerful people that are Job's before chapter 40. Before Jesus returns the man made church will have become of no use to the Lord. The man made church will have become righteous in it's own eyes. We are getting to watch in our communities and the news daily the falling away.
The chain of events are very clear of what happens before Jesus returns. We were to know those things better than what we know of a popular persons life. Noah knew what God was going to do, Lot knew what God was about to do, Jeremiah knew what God was about to do, do we know what God is going to do??? Do we know what season He is in ??? Understand satan never wanted our eyes off these little kingdoms with great power...Man has created power so long they became “righteous in his own eyes,” that was never a place to go. The most well known, popular person on the planet ,is dust like the rest of us. There was only One of power , One that was popular and One that will fulfill the things to come...

“Job 35:7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou Him? or what receiveth He of thine hand?”
“1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.”

Look at any person that ever exalted or exalts self or humans , they are not of God , they are of the world. Know the difference, because God does...