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A Seat at the Right Hand.

Psalm 110 — A king, a priest, and a promise that echoes through everything

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Only seven verses long, yet this is the most quoted Old Testament passage in the New Testament — it redefined what everyone thought the Messiah would be.

God invited the coming King to sit at his right hand with a guarantee: every enemy would become a footstool — total victory, decided before it plays out.
The final image is the most unsettling: after shattering kings and nations, he pauses for a drink of water and lifts his head — not even winded.

📢 Chapter 110 — A Seat at the Right Hand 👑

Seven verses. That's all this is — yet no Old Testament chapter gets quoted more in the New Testament. cited it. preached it. The writer of kept returning to it. Seven verses that reshaped how everyone understood the .

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wrote this — the king, the highest in . Yet he describes someone he calls "my Lord," someone above him, receiving an invitation directly from .

Sit Here 🪑

The opens with overhearing God speak to the one he calls "my Lord":

"Sit here at my right hand — I will make every enemy of yours a footstool beneath your feet."

The right hand was the position of highest honor. Enemies becoming a footstool wasn't metaphor — it was guaranteed victory. The King sits, because the one who invited him has already decided how this ends.

later asked the : if David calls the "my Lord," how can the Messiah simply be David's descendant? They had no answer.

Rule Right in the Middle of It ⚔️

The Lord extends your royal scepter from Zion. Rule — right in the middle of your enemies.

Your people will give themselves willingly on the day of your power, dressed in holiness — like dew born from the morning itself, your youth will never run dry.

This King doesn't rule from safe distance. He rules in the middle of opposition — his authority doesn't wait for the room to clear.

And his people aren't drafted. They offer themselves freely — like dawn breaking, like dew appearing because that's what morning does.

The Promise God Swore On 🔒

Then God makes an , and recorded it:

The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever — in the order of Melchizedek."

This King isn't just ruling — he's interceding as a . A . Both roles, one person. Unheard of in , where kings came from and priests from .

— a mysterious king-priest of who , received his , and vanished from the narrative. No recorded parents, birth, or . God swears this King belongs to that ancient order — not the line of , but something permanent.

The writer of spent three chapters unpacking this single verse. If this King is a priest forever, everything about how people access God just changed.

The Day Everything Is Settled ⚡

The Lord is at your right hand. On the day of his wrath, he will shatter kings.

He will bring judgment across the nations, the ground covered with the fallen — he will crush rulers across the whole earth.

He will drink from the stream along the road, and then lift his head.

The King sits now — but the day comes when he stands. Every power set against God's purposes will be broken.

The last image is striking. After all the and shattering — he drinks from a brook by the road and lifts his head. Not even winded. Somehow that stillness is the most unsettling image of all.

Seven verses. A king at God's right hand. A who serves forever. A who settles everything.