Verse 5 is about something.
Verse 7 is possibly a reference to Genesis 44:5?
Ah ha, verse 5 is a later addition to the Psalm written for Solomon and the sons of David
that the spirit of King David is with them and they can use divination to summon the powers of the resurrected immortal King David, Ezekiel 37:24 to bring about the apocalypse Zachariah 12-14. But, nobody has yet chosen to do that. Warning: do not drink from the cup of Jacob.
Psalm 110 makes sense to me as being more an allusion to the two OT Jesuses, Jesus son of Nun and Jesus son of Jehozadak.
Jesus son of Nun in the book of Jesus chapters 9, 10, is fooled by old wine and bread from the Gibeonites, and forms a treaty protecting Gibeon and three other towns associated with Gibeon. Hearing of this the king of Jerusalem, Adonizedek leads 5 Amorite cities against the four at Gibeon. Jesus intervenes and defeats the 5 Amorite cities in a battle that includes the supernatural. Before killing Adonizedek, he has the Isrealite leaders step on the necks of the Amorite kings, thus “make your enemies your footstool”.
This story seems to be inverted as Genesis 14, where Abram fends of the 4 foreign invaders who chase the Amorties into the hills and then attack 5 cities. Abram, because he has to rescue Lot, chases down the four kings and brings all the loot back into Canaan. A high priest of Salem, Melchizedek, brings out wine and bread and blesses him. Adonizedek mean ‘lord is righteous’ and Melchizedek means ‘king is righteous’. Salem is generally accepted to be Jerusalem.
Most of Psalm 110 makes sense in light of Jesus son of Nun’s successful attack in Jesus 9 and 10. Verse 4, though, seems to be talking about the 2nd Jesus who led Israel into the promised land a 2nd time, after the exile. He was crowned high priest in Zechariah 3 and was crowned ruler (mayor? governor?) in chapter 6.
So the most quoted chapter in the NT seems to me to be about two OT Jesuses, perhaps even conflating the two.
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Jews are always at war and expecting a messiah. The psalm could be applied to anyone at anytime for any reason. When Jews are not at war and not expecting a messiah that means it has been fulfilled, for the time being. It’s not much different than a farmer hoping for rain.
I agree. However, from the perspective of the author of the epistle to the Hebrews Psalm 110 was very important, and 110:1 is used by Mark to poke fun at the idea that the messiah had to be Davidic.
Hebrews is clearly about at least two Jesuses, as it mentions the rest ‘not’ given by Jesus son of Nun and it goes all in on the high priesthood, which may be Jesus son of Jehozadak. Whatever celestial being is the Christ, Lord, or whatnot is the third Jesus.
So from the perspective of the author of the epistle to the Hebrews.
The WW2:Holocaust:1948 Israel is why there’s a remerging fad of studying the early history and literature of Christianity.
They’re all trying to make sense of the failed apocalypse prophecies of the 20th century Christianity that remerged once again after WW2.
Both my grandfathers served in the war, US Air Core and Navy, during WW2. They were the generation of Christianity that fully expected it to all end before their generation was dead. All we inherited from it was the 2008 financial crisis.
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