Psalm 110:1-7: the Scriptures (ISR 1998)
KING DAVID’S MESSIAH
KING DAVID’S MASTER
PSALM 110
Psalm 110:1-7: The Scriptures (ISR 1998)
1יהוה said to my Master, “Sit at My right hand, until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.” 2יהוה sends Your mighty scepter out of Tsiyon. Rule in the midst of Your enemies! 3Your people volunteer in the day of Your might, In the splendors of set-apartness! From the womb, from the morning, You have the dew of Your youth!
4יהוה has sworn and does not relent, “You are a priest forever According to the order of Malkitseḏeq.” 5יהוה at Your right hand shall smite sovereigns in the day of His wrath.
6He judges among the nations; He shall fill the nations with dead bodies; He shall crush the Head over the mighty earth! 7He drinks of the stream by the wayside, therefore He does lift up the head!
Psalm 110: A Psalm of David - from the Greek Septuagint Version
The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. The Lord shall send out a rod of power for thee out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. With thee is dominion in the day of thy power, in the splendours of thy saints: I have begotten thee from the womb before the morning. The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou art a priest forever, after the order of Melchisedec. The Lord at thy right hand has dashed in pieces kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the nations, he shall fill up the number of corpses, he shall crush the heads of many on the earth. He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore shall he lift up the head.
Psalm 110: From the 1599 Geneva Bible
David prophesieth of the power and everlasting
kingdom given to Christ…A Psalm of David
1 The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right
hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
2 The Lord shall send the rod of thy power out of
Zion: be thou ruler in the midst of thine enemies.
3 Thy people shall come willingly at the time of
assembling 1thine army in holy beauty: the youth of
thy womb shall be as the morning dew.
4 The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou art
a Priest forever, after the order of 1Melchizedek.
5 The Lord that is at thy right hand, shall wound
kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall be judge among the heathen: he shall
fill all with dead bodies, and smite the head over
great countries. 7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore
shall he lift up his head.
Psalm 110: The Jerusalem Bible 1966 (published before the name “Yahweh” was taken out by order of Pope John Paul II)
Titled: The Messiah King and Priest
Psalm of David
1 Yahweh’s oracle to You my Lord: Sit at My right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for you. 2 Yahweh will force all your enemies under the sway of your scepter in Zion 3 Royal dignity was yours from the day you were born on the holy mountains,
Royal from the womb, from the dawn of your earliest days 4 Yahweh has sworn an oath which he never will retract: `You are a priest after the order of Melchizedek, and for ever.’ 5 the lord is at your right hand. When he is angry he shatters kings 6 he gives the nations their desserts, smashing their skulls, he heaps the wide world with corpses
7 Drinking from the stream as he goes, he can hold his head high in victory.
In Psalm 110, once again, King David takes up his role as a prophet. Like Psalm 22 and 24 and many other Psalms, some by Levites, the Psalms are filled with Messianic prophecies. Who was King David’s Messiah? He was none other than Yahushua, Son of Yahuwah. Who was King David’s Master? He was none other than Yahushua Messiah, Son of Yahuwah. This study from the whole of the Word will bring hopefully bring much rejoicing to His people.
Yahushua was the physical descendant of King David--from the loins of David through his son Nathan (i.e. Luke 3:32; Zechariah 12) Luke 3:23: Mary’s father was Eli. In the Jewish Talmud, Eli is known as being a descendent of David through Nathan. This Talmud curses Eli because they believed his daughter, Miriam, was a whore who brought forth “Yehoshua” by a Roman soldier and did miracles by “Ba’alzebub.” But, they also know that the House of Nathan carried the Davidic seed, not Solomon. (i.e. Zechariah 12:10-14) Yahushua was also a descendant of Aaron--a Levite through his mother’s relation to Elisheva, wife of Zechariah, father of Yochanan the baptizer. Yochanan was Yahushua’s first cousin.
The Hebrew word “lord,” “master,” or “owner,” is Ba’al/Baal. However, as in Psalm 110:1, “Adon” or “Adonai” is also used for “lord,” as per Strong’s Concordance #113. The translation of “Baal” as “Lord” is found 6, 823 times in the English Bible alone. Later the Phoenician “Adon,” or “Adonai,” a god of Phoenicia, a “lord” like Baal, became known as “Adonis”--a Greek god. Greece often adopted the gods of other nations and incorporated them into their Pantheon, like the god “Christos,” or “Christ” of Serapis worship in Alexandria, Egypt. Most likely, “Adon” was not used before the ten northern tribes began working with Phoenician sailors at the time of Solomon. “Baal” was probably not used before the Jews came from Egypt into the land of Canaan. Like “God/Gawd,” “Baal” was a Canaanite word used by the descendants of the son of Ham for their deity. In the book of Joshua we learn about a location known as Baalgawd/Baalgod, meaning “the lord of fortune.” In pagan cultures the chief deity was often known as “lord.” Later, the word “Master” took on a different connotation as one who owned a slave. Today, we call Yahushua “Master” because He bought us out of the darkness of slavery to Satan and became our new Master. We are His “bond slaves,” in training for reigning. We are also His faithful sheep who follow Him – (Psalm 23; John 10). Bottom line: King David would not have prophesied of Yahushua using a pagan title.
As Yahuwah showed me in the dream on April 6th that to use titles as a usual substitute for the precious Names of the Creators is to disobey the 3rd commandment, and bring the Name to “nothingness.” Affectionate titles, like “Abba” or “Beloved One,” or exalted titles like “Shaddai” are not in the same category as impersonal titles.
Most likely, originally written, King David, understanding who the Son of Yahuwah was as Son of Yahuwah, may have used the family name for both, writing: “Yahuwah said to my Yahuwah.” I am not alone in saying that. King David sees that Yahuwah is speaking to his Master--the ruler of his life. This “Master” sits at the right hand of His Father in the eternal throne room.
In Genesis 18:13-33, one of the 3 “angels” stays with Abraham to talk to him, and prophesies of the birth of Yitzak/Isaac. Abraham refers to Him as Deity. The Scriptures uses YHWH as the name of this Person. Messiah came in His Father’s Name. “Yahuwah” is the family name. “Yahuwah” means “I AM the eternal, ever-living One who breathes.” “Yahushua” means “Yahuwah is salvation.” Being a Son, He inherited the family Name, thus His full Name would be Yahushua Yahuwah!
In Genesis 3, a Person walked in the Garden with Adam and Eve. In Genesis 22 the “Angel of Yahuwah” spoke to Abraham through the eternal portal on Mount Moriah to stop his sacrifice of Yitzak/Isaac. Abraham may have recognized His voice as the One in Genesis 18. Throughout the Hebrew Scriptures, the “Angel of Yahuwah” is Yahushua; the “Branch” is Yahushua,” the “right hand” and the “right arm” of Yahuwah is Yahushua. In Genesis 34:23-32, Ya’cob/Jacob wrested with Yahushua, who changed his name to “Israel.”
Yahushua appeared on earth many times in His pre-incarnate state. He was also the voice that brought forth Creation in Genesis 1, John 1:1, 14, Colossians 1. Physics is coming to understand that matter can come from sound waves. It is the vibrating of “strings” of sound waves that hold everything together, even the most invisible particles. (Colossians 1:14-17; Hebrews 1) Hebrews 11:3: “By faith, we understand that the ages were prepared by Elohim, so that what is seen was not made of what is visible, but what is invisible.”
King David wrote Psalm 2. Psalm 2:7, the “Me” being Yahushua: “And Yahuwah said to Me, `You are My Son. Today, I have brought You forth.” The word used for “brought forth” primarily means “to have a baby.” It means for a child to come forth out of the loins, through the seed of a man, or through the “womb” of a woman, into physical existence.
Hebrews 1:1-3: “Elohim…has in these last days spoken to us by the Son, whom He has appointed heir of all, through whom He made the aions (ages), being the brightness of His esteem, the exact representation of His substance, sustaining all by the Word of His power…”
Yahushua Messiah said to Philip, John 14:8-9: “If you’ve seen Me, you have seen the Father.”
It is highly possible that King David personally knew Yahushua in His pre-incarnate state from the time he was a little shepherd boy, praising Elohim in song and on his 10-stringed harp out in the field, before Samuel ever anointed him King. David’s fearless boldness before Goliath is amazing. (I Samuel 17) It is obvious that from a young age David knew Elohim in a personal way--Father, and Son.
David heard from Yahuwah in his spirit. In Psalm 51, after his sin against Yahuwah, he said: “Take not Your Set-Apart Spirit from me.”
David put the Ark of the Covenant under a tent in his backyard on Zion--the City of David. He worshipped and praised Yahuwah along with many others for 40 years around that Ark. What revelation did he personally receive as he basked in the Presence of His Abba Yahuwah? We know that Psalms were also written by Levites attending the Ark were also highly Messianic and prophetic, like those of Aseph, Heman, Yedithan, and the “sons of Korah.”
Iyob/Job is the oldest book in the Bible, predating the Torah by hundreds of years. In Iyob 19:23-27, KJV, he wrote: 23 “Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! 24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! 25For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. 26And though, after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I shall see God. 27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.”
Who is this “He” that Iyob says will stand in the last days upon the earth. He says that he will “see God,” “see Elohim.” He will see the eternal one in his flesh on the earth. He will see Yahushua with his own eyes. Iyob was dying of leprosy when he wrote these words. Earlier he said in Iyob 14:14: “If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my struggle I wait, until my change comes.” Here is a man who lived over 400 years before Moses, yet he knew about the resurrection of the just, and that Deity would rule over the earth, whom He would see. If Iyob knew this, why not King David! Adam and Eve knew Yahushua, therefore so did Abel, so did Seth, so did Enoch, so did Noah. The first man who saw Him after the Flood was Abraham in Genesis 18. Abraham was a taught-one of Noah and Shem.
The Prophet Isaiah writes extensively about the death and resurrection of Messiah, about His second coming in the wrath of Yahuwah, and the characteristics of His Kingdom on earth. Isaiah writes the characteristics of Messiah, as in Isaiah 11. The Prophets give over 220 prophetic details of Yahushua’s birth, life, death, and return--from His bring brought forth in eternity past to His reign in eternity future. This is all in the Hebrew Tenach!
It is obvious that Psalm 110 is highly Messiah-related. How did King David know to relate Him to the Melech-Zadok (the King of righteousness)? In Genesis 14:17-24, this “priest of the Most High El” most likely was Yahushua, however some Bible scholars say he was Seth. Hebrews 7 goes into more detail that the Melech-Zakok was Yahushua. The High Priest at the time of King David, and initially during Solomon’s reign, was named “Zadok.” But, here in Psalm 110, King David speaks of this Melech-Zadok as his “Master.” I believe King David knew a whole lot more than most modern Bible scholars!
In Daniel 7, we see similar wording similar to Psalm 2 about Yahuwah giving His Son His inheritance. In Daniel 7, the Son approaches “the Ancient of Days” to receive His inheritance.
Psalm 2 in the Jerusalem Bible makes Yahushua’s “birth” from the loins of Yahuwah on His set-apart Mountain in heaven, very clear. To “beget” a Son has absolutely no relationship to something externally “created,” anymore than you created your children apart from your body’s involvement. John 4:24 tells us that Yahuwah is Spirit. II Corinthians 3:17-18 tells us that “the Spirit” is Yahuwah Himself. Thus, to have form, Yahuwah brought forth His own image in the form of a man. What’s so hard about that? He is the Almighty! Today, some religious fools who do not personally know Elohim reason that Messiah was a created being, an angel, or even not in existent at all. The Word is so simple. Men like Iyob, Abraham, Ya’cob, and King David knew Yahushua before He even incarnated.
King David understood that this royal Messiah was a military conqueror like he was – but He was all powerful against the enemies of Yahuwah. In “the Day of Yahuwah,” Messiah returns with the wrath of Yahuwah. (Isaiah 34, 63:1-6; Revelation 11:1;5-18, Revelation 19) [Refer to: “The Day of Yahuwah”]
I Corinthians 15:23-28: As the “right arm,” and “right hand” of Yahuwah--Yahuwah’s representative on earth--Yahushua will rule until the last enemy, death, is put under His feet. Then Yahuwah Himself will bring down His city, and the two of Them will rule over earth forever, with Yahuwah reigning as supreme Father. I Corinthians 15:25: “For He has to reign until He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy to be brought to nothing is death.”
TAKING EACH VERSE SEPARATELY FOR EXPANDED UNDERSTANDING:
Psalm 110:1-2: “Yahuwah said to my Master, `sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.’ Yahuwah sends Your scepter out of Zion. Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”
***Matthew 22:41-44, referring to Psalm 110:1: “And when the Pharisees gathered together, Yahushua asked them, saying, `What do you think concerning the Messiah? Whose Son is He?’ And they said to Him, `The Son of David.’ Then He said to them, `Then why does David in the Spirit call Him “Master,” saying Yahuwah said to my Master, “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet?” And no one was able to answer Him a word…” ’ ” (also see Mark 12:37)
Mark 16:19: “He was received into heaven and sat at the right hand of Elohim.”
Colossians 3:1: “If we are risen with Messiah, seek those things which are above where Messiah sits on the right hand of Elohim.”
Hebrews 1:3: “When He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.”
Hebrews 1:13: “But, to which of the angels did He say at any time `sit on My right hand until I make your enemies your footstool?” (Psalm 110:1)
Hebrews 10:12: “But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sin forever, sat down on the right hand of Elohim. From henceforth waiting till His enemies be make His footstool.”
Acts 2:32-35, “Elohim has raised up this Yahushua of which we are all witnesses. Therefore, having been exalted to the right hand of Elohim, and having received of the Father the promise of the Set-Apart Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear. For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself said, `Yahuwah said to my Master (Yahushua), `Sit at My right hand, until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet’ ”
Acts 7:55-58, Stephen speaking, “And being filled with the Set-Apart Spirit, Stephen looked steadily into heaven and saw the esteem of Elohim, and Yahushua standing at the right hand of Elohim. And, Stephen said, `Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Adam STANDING at the right hand of Elohim!’ And, crying out with a loud voice, they stopped their ears and rushed at him with one mind, and threw him out of the city and stoned him…” He saw into the dimension of Yahuwah. What a grand entrance! Compare with: Matthew 22:44; Mark 10:40, 12:36; Luke 20:42; Luke 22:69; Acts 2:34; Hebrews 1:13.
Luke 20:42-47: “And David himself said in the book of Psalms …”