Show Don't Tell: Psalm 110

Instead of saying "This Messianic psalm describes Christ's reign," hear the divine conversation. Of David—the most quoted psalm in the New Testament. "The LORD says to my lord: 'Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.'" David's lord—someone greater than David himself. Jesus used this to silence critics: whose son is the Messiah? "The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying, 'Rule in the midst of your enemies!' Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, your young men will come to you like dew from the morning's womb." Troops like dew—countless, fresh, appearing at dawn. "The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind: 'You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.'" Sworn oath, unchangeable. Priest-king—combining what Israel kept separate. Hebrews builds entire theology on this verse. "The Lord is at your right hand; he will crush kings on the day of his wrath. He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead and crushing the rulers of the whole earth. He will drink from a brook along the way, and so he will lift his head high." Battlefield scene—victorious warrior pausing for water, then head lifted in triumph. Seven verses. Infinite implications.