god will make your enemies your footstool

Until I make your enemies your footstool.”’ġ Corinthians 15:25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. Until I make your enemies your footstool.”’Īcts 2:34-35 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, Luke 20:42-43 For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, Mark 12:36 David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”’ Matthew 22:44 “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”’ 110:1 is quoted or referred to in the NT, by Jesus and by others. We find plenty of passages there which say the same thing. ‘Everything is different in the New Testament.’ Well, not quite. ‘Ah, but that is the Old Testament’ you say. The Lord takes vengeance on His adversaries, Nahum 1:2 A jealous and avenging God is the Lord Until I make your enemies your footstool.” Psalm 92:9 For, behold, Your enemies, O Lord, Judges 5:31 Thus let all Your enemies perish, O Lord īut let those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might. Your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy. These are just some of them:Įxodus 15:6 Your right hand, O Lord, is majestic in power,

Plenty of Old Testament texts can be offered here. Here I will present some of the biblical data on this, and then discuss how we are to respond. The truth is, those who refuse to acknowledge God and his rightful place in their lives are living in enmity against God. But I am speaking here of those that God regards as enemies. There are of course those who hate God and resist God and see him as their one great enemy, even as so many of them deny his very existence. There are indeed enemies of God, and from both sides of the equation sadly. At least he cannot regard anyone as an enemy, even if others see themselves as enemies of God! Isn’t that right?’ Some of you might be asking: ‘What, enemies of God? God has enemies? But I thought he loved everybody, so he cannot have enemies. I regret that both tours to Bible lands that I had expected to lead this year in September and October have been cancelled because of the Delta strain of COVID-19.Yes there are those who are at enmity with God:

Let Jesus put those enemies under his feet. There are powers in our world we should want to see defeated: racism, greed, bigotry, warfare and all forces of death. The last enemy to be destroyed is death” (1 Cor. Of the risen Christ Paul said, “he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. Through cross and resurrection, the apostle Paul says, Jesus “disarmed the rulers and authorities. His weapons were forgiveness and love of enemy to the point of laying down his life. The Gospels show Jesus defeating the powers of prejudice, sickness, and violence. It comes from the apostle who heard Jesus say at Gethsemane, “put away your sword.” Peter knew that Jesus turned domination on its head. Peter’s sermon comes from the very disciple who in the Upper Room saw Jesus humbly kneel and wash his disciples’ feet. Peter at Pentecost declared that domination language in Psalm 110 found fulfillment not in David, but in Christ (Acts 2:34, 35). The early church repeatedly took Old Testament footstool imagery and applied it to Jesus. “The LORD says to my lord, ‘Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.’” God will “shatter kings on the day of his wrath” so the ruler of Israel can put his feet on foes. Hebrews were among Tutankhamun’s subjugated peoples.Īt times ancient Israel lapsed into a domination mentality, as we see in Psalm 110, probably written for the coronation of King David or one of his dynasty. Monarchs of the biblical world sought dominance, often symbolized by rulers placing images of conquered peoples on their footstools, as seen here on the throne chair of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in a Cairo museum. “Make America great again” in recent years was not a call for reciprocity it was a drive for dominance. G7 leaders meet in Europe to lay strategy for keeping their global reach strong! China drives to overtake a receding American empire! Russia presses to recover its clout! Dominance–-economic, political and military–-is the name of this game, and always has been for empires.

God will make your enemies your footstool