The family structure.

Ps 144 12 Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

13 Our barns will be filled with every kind of provision. Our sheep will increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields;

14 our oxen will draw heavy loads. There will be no breaching of walls, no going into captivity, no cry of distress in our streets.

15 Blessed are the people of whom this is true; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD. 

The history of redemption is developed by God showing Himself faithful to His covenant , as He advances to overturn mans system, in which He creates spiritual prosperity through the family of His elect who branch out in overcoming all opposition against the nations. The family is really not a government within itself as its identity but it is Gods display of His glory within the holistic creation of His universal government that was planned in His counsel from eternity past. This is why we must step back and in a universal way view how God is approaching the opposition through His covenant family. 

We must avoid the temptation to divide these different institutions and bring them down to the level of mans control. We must take seriously the bibles warning that in reducing mans liberty we fail to discern Gods purposes in this greater context of His universal kingdom. In this Psalm Gods redemption is successful only after we obtain victory. Because God has made man to advance His kingdom as each family is able to exercise their power as His kings and priest. Any other view is simply a pragmatic approach to these problems and will not advance true liberty. 

This question 3 O LORD, what is man that you care for him, the son of man that you think of him?"Is taken from Psalm 8 4 " what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?"5" You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. "The Psalmist is using this covenant promise that was given to Adam as a family representative who is a soldier in Gods army, to petition God for military victory. This is the typical way for the Psalmist as a representative of a greater government to obtain success with his own family. In Psalm 8 God is making a covenant promise but in this Psalm the family representative is using Gods words to plead for victory. This is why he says 4 " Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow" which is a quote from Psalm 39 (meditation is an art form for Gods future creation.)in which these words are a wish that the oppositions power would be reduced to being like the chaff of the wind. Its in the form of a wish which is like a curse. The Psalmist is enforcing Gods authority and reducing his own power over the opposition as a display that God alone should get the glory. "Not unto us Oh Lord, not unto us but to your Name be the glory."

You see the result of the victory that the social structure in Israel effects each families success. I believe the Psalmist is using metaphor in verse 12" Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace. " as in a mocking way to distinguish between the success of Gods family within His kingdom and the nations who use dead idols as their display of authority. So the Psalmist is saying that the family is on display by the success of victory as the nations erect idols as their failed identity. As Gods government prospers so goes the family.