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Ring of Truth provides 366 daily ‘proofs’ that the Bible is consistent throughout from Genesis to Revelation, and relevant for our lives today!
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Psalm 110:1
The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
Another ‘Messianic’ Psalm written by David.
This Psalm again seems so totally prophetic in the context that it is hard to comprehend that David really knew what he was saying without the ‘outside’ inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
Even the Jews of Jesus’ day struggled with the meaning of this Psalm (see Matthew 22:41-46). The chief priests and Pharisees were once more challenging Jesus and He asked them, “Who is the Christ?” They replied, “The son of David.” Jesus then referred them to this verse and asked, “If that is true, how is it that David refers to his son as his Lord, if He is his son?”
The Messiah had to be both man and God. Yes, Jesus was ‘of the line of David’ through his earthly parents’ family tree but more than that, He is God. He was born of a virgin because God was His Father and He was conceived by the Holy Spirit.
David didn’t just look to a time when he would see all his enemies become the footstool for his feet but by faith and inspiration from the Holy Spirit, he saw Jesus, the Messiah, putting His feet on all His enemies. He also saw Christ seated at the right hand of God.
This is a ‘Ring of Truth’! A common theme throughout Scripture. Paul used it when Christ had ascended to heaven and God “seated Him at His right hand in the Heavenly Realms” (Ephesians 1:20). The writer to the Hebrews gives us the same picture, “After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in Heaven” (Hebrews 1:3).
There’s another burst of inspiration. “The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind: ‘You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek’” (v 4). Where did that come from? As we saw in Genesis 14, Melchizedek, the King of Salem and the Priest of God, met Abraham. He came from ‘nowhere’ and disappeared again as quickly as He came. But that was one of the most dramatic events in Abraham’s life. Melchizedek brought out bread and wine. Abraham ‘took Communion’ before Christ’s life on earth.
Because Melchizedek came ‘out of the blue’ and returned there without dying, He was considered to be Eternal. He never failed in His priesthood. That is why he is a picture of Jesus. Jesus is a Priest to God for us. But He is more than a Priest. His is an Eternal Priesthood. He existed before He came to earth and lives today, having risen from the dead. But He is even more than an Eternal Priest.
He is our Sacrifice as well. Priests offered up the blood of bulls, sheep, and goats. Jesus offered up His own Body and His own Blood. No wonder His priesthood is the greatest, no wonder His enemies will become the footstool for His feet.
Please join me – let’s worship at His footstool today.
Exalt the Lord our God.
Exalt the Lord our God.
And worship at His footstool.
Worship at His footstool.
Holy is He.
Holy is He.
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