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Psalm 110:1 - Free at last, free at last - Day 293

Happy Independence Day

While we celebrate the day the founders declared independence, we didn't really become independent until Yorktown.  Even then, the British were not really willing to let us go.  That is why we had to do it again in War of 1812.  Glenda and I were watching a show about "how the states got their shapes".  This episode was about how "mother nature" impacted the shape of states.  Did you know that just after the British burnt the capitol and the White House, a tornado swept through DC and the British promptly left town.  Sounds like divine intervention to me.  

It was for freedom, that Christ set us free.  You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.

Blessings,

Jeff

I don't know if this is this is most quoted verse of the most quoted psalm in New Testament, but it has to be close.

Some observations: 

The LORD - YHWH, the I AM. 

my Lord - Adon, sovereign, i.e. controller (human or divine): — lord, master, owner.

Calvin comments - Jehovah said to my Lord. What is here stated might to some extent be applied to the person of David, inasmuch as he neither ascended the royal throne illegally, nor did he find his way to it by nefarious artifices, nor was he raised to it by the fickle suffrages of the people, but it was by the direct authority of God that he reigned over Israel. Psalms 110:1

However, if David meant it to apply to him and only him, He would have simply said "Jehovah said to me".  

Sit at my right hand - David's adon is to sit at YHWH's right hand.  No sinful human could possibly be invited to sit at the right hand of God.  

Until I make your enemies your footstool - your is one of the supplied words.  Hebrew is make enemies footstool.  To keep the sense of the first portion, your refers to David's adon, not to David.

While David was a victor physically in many ways, he could not be and was not a victor over sin.

When Jesus uses this verse to corner  the Pharisees in each of the synoptic gospels about whose son the Christ would be, they all knew he would be David's son, but they had never really considered the implications of this verse.


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