Psalm 110:1 –
The LORD said to my Lord, “Sit in the place of honor at my right hand until I humble your enemies, making them a footstool under your feet.”
I read this a few time because it was not clear who was talking to whom. The who are each of the Lords in this passage, since they are both capitalized? Most agree that the first Lord is God and the second is the Messiah. This is one of those chapters that appear to solidify the idea that the Messiah was going to be some great military leader. Passages like this solidify the belief that the Messiah was to be a great leader and not a humble servant like Jesus was. Hence you can understand the resistance Jesus got when He claimed to be the Messiah.
When Jesus was being “grilled” by the Pharisees in Matthew 22, His final response was quoting this verse. Interestingly that ended the discussion with these “leaders.” I would have asked why then did the Psalm continue to say “he will shatter heads all over the earth” and you are so gentile? But I assume they did not want to hear why or when that would or would not happen. Also, notice the slight difference between the last line in Psalms and Matthew, assume that’s due to translation from Hebrew and Greek.
We all tend to want to believe the good parts of the scriptures and not the bad. Or we take the good and say how can God be loving like this and do the bad stuff here? It’s complicated and difficult to understand in snap-shot scripture reading. You do this and the conclusions could end up like George Carlin’s “Religion is Bul$^%&” routine.
It’s amazing how it’s taken me a majority of my 50 years to have a limited understanding of God, yet people take a 10 minute comedy routine and base their theology or lack of it on it. It’s the lazy who don’t wish to seek answers to Mr. Carlin’s questions and just accept them as “gospel”! Interesting how many who try to disprove God end up becoming believers, because when you seek the truth you find it! It takes just as much faith to dismiss the beliefs of billions with thousands of years of documentation supporting their view as it does to believe a strung out comedian trying to make a buck.