His return

DEVOTION

PSALMS

HIS RETURN

Ps 110

110:1 Of David. A psalm.

The LORD says to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet." 2 The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion; you will rule in the midst of your enemies. 3 Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy majesty, from the womb of the dawn you will receive the dew of your youth.  

4 The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek." 5 The Lord is at your right hand; he will crush kings on the day of his wrath. 6 He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.  7 He will drink from a brook beside the way; therefore he will lift up his head.

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Certainly this whole psalm is prophetic about Jesus. Every word is about Jesus. If this does not prove the majestic existence of God, what does? Of course we have the whole of creation to prove that God exists. Yet here we have David who lived hundreds of years before Jesus came to earth and he writes this song all about who Jesus is and what he will do. Melchizedek was a priest that there is no record of his birth, his ancestry or his death. He just appears in scripture. Jesus has no beginning nor in the reality of God, in the heavenly realms, Jesus lives forever and he has no end. Although he died in the flesh which he needed to in order to redeem us, he was raised from the dead to live forever. This first phrase about the LORD saying to my lord is about God saying to Jesus. How great is God? He is so great we cannot even express his greatest in our language. He inspired David to write about a future David had no idea about. He had no human knowledge about the future coming of Jesus to be the Savior of the world. All of Israel had knowledge of a future Messiah and perhaps this is just about this Messiah, but he is Jesus and he was in the loins of David. Nevertheless, we have a Savior, we have a Messiah, and we have Jesus who brings us life everlasting. He will come again, this time on the womb of the dawn. He will come on the clouds of glory, riding upon a white horse with ten thousands of angels. He will judge the whole earth. Not a single king can withstand his power. But first, before all that happens, we have another promise. He has told us to stand ready for a day is coming when he will lift us up from this earth to meet him in the air. We will be changed in a twinkling of an eye. This corruptible will become incorruptible. This perishable will become imperishable. We will no longer be flesh and blood, but changed into a gloried condition, as Jesus was after his resurrection. This is the Lord we serve. This is the Lord we bow to and give all the glory and praise to for every aspect of life. Come Lord Jesus, come quickly we await your return. He will return.