“The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind: ““You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.”
~ Psalm 110:4
Hi James and Ellen,
Is your dad proud of you? What do you think that a kid needs to do to make his or her dad proud of him or her? David was proud of his kid Solomon. Why do you think that David was proud of his kid? Solomon was his dad’s choice to succeed him as king over God’s specially guys and gals – the Israelite people groups guys and gals. When the time came for Solomon to follow his dad as king over God’s specially chosen guys and gals, David may have written a psalm song – Psalm 110, as a dedication song for his kid’s installation. David may also have written this psalm song as a dedication song for a kid – Jesus, who would be born one day to a young gal in his extended family. David was very sensitive to hearing God’s voice as God – as God the Spirit, breathed words on him to scribe in psalm songs. This coronation psalm song has two brief oracles that introduce or lead into two thematically similar elaborations. The two initiating oracles precisely balance what is written in the core of this psalm song. David – for a guy whose survival depended on help from God – as God the Spirit, to constantly escape from guys or regularly kill guys who wanted to kill him, was an incredibly insightful psalm song writer. No one really knows who David was thinking of when he wrote this psalm song. The mention of Melchizedek in verse 4, “The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind: ““You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.”” is a clue to your grandpaa that David may not of been thinking of his kid Solomon in this psalm song but that he may have been looking ahead to a guy who would be from his extended family who would be a priest in the order of Melchizedek. Melchizedek was the priest and king of Salem when Abraham lived in the land that God would years later give to His specially chosen guys and gals – the Israelite people group guys and gals, to always to have to live in as their very own land if . . . the city of Jerusalem is associated with being Salem. Melchizedek was a Christ type. Melchizedek personifies – per the Hebrew Book’s author, the prototype priest/king leader – which Jesus was and still is.
This psalm song can be read as a Messianic King-Priest intro. This psalm song was written – with the divine help of God – as God the Spirit, for the enthronement of a new Davidic king. Jesus quoted this psalm song. Peter used this psalm song in one of his sermons. This psalm song is prophetic. Picture David sitting someplace – possibly on the flat roof of his palace that was located in the city of Jerusalem, meditating on what he would write in this psalm song. Your grandpaa can picture David sitting someplace perfectly still – almost in a trance, thinking about the words that were being breathed on him by God – as God the Spirit, and letting the words sink indelibly into his heart and mind. As the message from God – as God the Spirit, settled permanently into David’s heart and mind, your grandpaa can envision David boldly and with reason beginning this psalm song with wanting to communicate that the Lord makes His enemies His footstools, rules even in the midst of His enemies and has His troops always willing and ready to fight for Him against His enemies. As God – as God the Spirit, continued to give David the message that is today this psalm song, your grandpaa can visualize David fearlessly and with purpose finishing this psalm song with wanting to communicate that the Lord’s wrath will crush kings, that He will pile up the dead as He judges nations and that He will refresh Himself from brook water. David in this psalm song employs imagery from the battlefield – which he was very familiar with because of the years that he warred against enemy people group guys, to paint the picture of what life will be like under the new king – whoever (Whoever) the new king was who (Who) he was writing about in his psalm song. If David could catch a glimpse today of a global community that is now filled with peaceniks, compromisers and self-seeking politicians, what do you think that David’s reactions would be? Seventeen years have passed since this missive was written. Guys and gals today are openly living perverted lifestyles, canceling the lives of guys and gals who question them and using their position to selfishly accrue wealth.
For a psalm song that has seemingly a unique place of prominence among all the other psalm songs, this psalm song is filled with violence and brutality. David’s world – 3000 years ago, was filled with wars and hostility. One of David’s kids – Absalom, killed another one of David’s kids – Amnon. Absalom was killed when he thought that he would be a better king than his dad. Even though David had other kids, it seems that Solomon had special favor with his dad. Even though your grandpaa does not know if David was thinking of Solomon or of a future kid from his extended family while he was writing this psalm song, your grandpaa is very sure that David was thinking of God while he was writing this psalm song. Do you think of your dad when you are thinking or when you are writing something? Do you think of God when you are thinking or when you are writing something? Your grandpaa knows that his dad was very proud of him. Your grandpaa knows that his dad was especially proud of your grandpaa for being a missionary. Your grandpaa knows that his dad was not any prouder of your grandpaa than he was of any of his other five kids. Your grandmaa knows that her dad was very proud of her. Your grandmaa also knows that her dad was not any prouder of your grandmaa that he was of any of his other three kids. Even though your grandmaa and grandpaa are really proud of your dad and your aunt Lynn, your grandmaa and grandpaa are unreservedly proud to say that they know God in an unconditional way as being their Father, Savior and Counselor and that God always sees them as being holy and dearly loved as His specially elected kids who He adopted before He made planet Earth.
Psalm 110 (656)