Read Psalm 110 at Bible Gateway.
1a) Psa 110:1-3, The returning Lord will wage warfare in holiness:
1) Psa 110:1-2, The Lord will rule until He subdues His enemies;
1a) Psa 110:1, The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool;”
central axis) Psa 110:2a, The Lord shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion;
2a) Psa 110:2b, Rule in the midst of Your enemies!
2) Psa 110:3a, Your people shall be volunteers In the day of Your warfare; {n}
3) Psa 110:3b, In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning, You have the dew of Your youth;
1b) Psa 110:4a, The Lord has sworn And will not relent, “You are a priest forever {n}
2b) Psa 110:4b, According to the order of Melchizedek;”
2a) Psa 110:5-7, The returning Lord will judge the nations as King:
1) Psa 110:5-6, The Lord will judge the nations and its kings;
1a) Psa 110:5, The Lord is at Your right hand; He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath;
central axis) Psa 110:6a, He shall judge among the nations;
2a) Psa 110:6b, He shall fill it with dead bodies, He shall execute the heads of many countries;
2) Psa 110:7a, He shall drink of the brook by the wayside;
3) Psa 110:7b, Therefore He shall lift up the head. {p}
This Messianic psalm is describing the return of Messiah establishing His kingdom on the earth, coming as ruler, priest, and judge – nearly all the authorities established by God among men and described in Deu 16:18-18:22. But then there is something interesting in the 2nd elements of the A pairs:
2) Psa 110:3a, Your people shall be volunteers in the day of Your warfare; {n}
2) Psa 110:7a, He shall drink of the brook by the wayside.
This reminds me of the victory of Gideon over the Midianites, doesn’t it? Only those were accepted into the army who volunteered; and the army was further culled down to only those who crouched down to drink from the brook, instead of those who knelt down to drink. With those 300 Gideon won a great victory from the Lord, over an army of thousands of Midianites, indeed:
Now the Midianites and Amalekites, all the people of the East, were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seashore in multitude. Jud 7:12
This psalm thematically connects Gideon’s victory over the Midianites with the victory of Messiah over the nations who come against Him, so the history of Gideon in Scripture is speaking prophetically about the future victory that is coming upon the Lord’s people.
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