This part relates to clarifications of important issues in Psalm 110. For example, the Hebrew text for verses 1 and 4 used LORD when Jehovah-JHWH spoke and Lord when Adonai was addressed. So no misunderstanding occurs, the NIV uses Lord for both, leaving no doubt that God the Father talks to God the Son.
It also corrects satanic lies about Psalm 110. First, it’s nonsense to think that David had no awareness when speaking under the Holy Spirit’s direction. That contradicts his claims in II Samuel 23:2-7 and II Chronicles 28:11-19. Like Paul, David knew the difference between a decision his God-given discretion made and God’s Spirit-breathed into his mind. That Jesus pointedly noted David’s awareness of the Spirit’s guidance in writing strongly implies that his prophecy related to his future descendant, not to Solomon’s inauguration. Second, it’s blasphemy to think the Son of God deceived himself when claiming he actually fulfilled non-existent prophecy so the disciples would trust him. Especially to trust him when he would be punished by the leaders, beaten, spit on and, at their behest, crucified. In a culture where no one envisioned a suffering Christ, and certainly none of a crucified Christ. Who indeed believed that the “Christ will remain forever” John 12:34. Third, it’s also nonsense to think that Jesus didn’t believe the Holy Spirit dictated the words to David, but pretended faith in them as a concession to men who did. That approach is a favorite trick of liberals. They suggest this or that as the explanation in place of obvious hermeneutics—the Occam’s Razor principle that says the simplest explanation is the likeliest. The liberals refuse the simplest explanation because they constantly cultivate doubt in God’s word and, naturally, in the Holy Spirit’s Presence dictating it. They instead subtly suggest a possible alternative they feel is better, and certainly agreeable to their humanistic approach to scripture. In that way, increment by increment, they undermine confidence in God’s Word. As a result, instead of believers holding Rock-Hard confidence in the Bible, they find their mouths full of gravel from wrecked foundations of faith with only debris left on which to grind their teeth to the gums. All of these lies propose exactly the opposite of the truth: that an undisciplined teacher of theology in Nazareth somehow wandered into fame by bungling his way through ministry as a hapless idealist, then staggered his way to the cross where he died as a failed visionary! Never let the supposition of error in Scripture take root in your mind, Christians. Its fruit is toxic to mind, emotions and spirit. End Part VI
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