PSALM‬ ‭110‬:‭1‬-‭7‬ ‭


“The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.” The Lord will stretch out Your strong scepter from Zion, saying, “Rule in the midst of Your enemies.” Your people will volunteer freely on the day of Your power; In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, Your youth are to You as the dew. ¶The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind, “You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek.” The Lord is at Your right hand; He will shatter kings in the day of His wrath. He will judge among the nations, He will fill them with corpses, He will shatter the chief men over a broad country. He will drink from the brook by the wayside; Therefore He will lift up His head.”
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Psalms‬ ‭110‬:‭1‬-‭7‬ ‭NASB2020

This passage was used by Jesus 1000 years after it was written to confound the wisdom of the religious teachers. In a sense, this was a fulfillment of its prophecy. But the truth of the passage speaks of a specific time as much as it speaks of an overall truth. Jesus is one of the Lord’s that it spoke of. God the Father is the other. Yet, the time when the two shall actively subdue the nations is still to come. And in another sense, when Jesus was incarnated, it already began. What one must truly take from this passage is not the time of events, but the nature of them. This passage reveals that God, at least, is a tandem being. He is both Lord and his own Lord. There are at least two aspects to his Lordness. These two interplay distinctly with each other and are outside of space and time. In fact, this is the specific part of the passage that Jesus chose to confound the teachers with. How can David call his descendant his Lord? We can look forward to a day when we can better understand this mystery. In the meantime, we can also know that God is, at least, two in one. We can know that there are two personalities who are in constant communication and submission, as we worship him.


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