Prophetic kings of the earth often name the rulers of the covenant land under judgment in the first-century crisis.
The church applies Psalm 2 to Herod, Pilate, Gentiles, and Israel in Jerusalem (Acts 4:25–28). The raging kings act in that city.
In prophetic idiom earth/land often means the ordered covenant world. Kings of that world are the authorities facing the Day of the Lord.
Pushing every such text into a remote global finale erases the fulfillment the apostles claimed for their generation.