Waterfall -----your quote ----
The priesthood was taken from Malchizedek and given to Abrahams children instead because, according to the Talmud he praised Abraham before he praised God.....so not likely Jesus.
Waterfall your grasping at straws -----the Priest hood was not taken from Melchizedek and given to Abraham ------wherever your getting this from is Wrong --Wrong and Wrong ------Period -----No where in this Psalm does it say that it was given to Abraham--
unsafe says -----
this is the footnote from this Psalm -----
Footnotes:
- Psalm 110:4 In rabbinic legend, Shem (the son of Noah) was Melchizedek, and God had planned to make him the first high priest. But when he blessed Abraham without first blessing God (Gen 14:18f), God gave the priesthood to Abraham instead.
- Psalm 110:5 Lit has smashed, probably a prophetic construction, and so in v 6.
Psalm 110 Amplified Bible (AMP)
The Lord Gives Dominion to the King.
A Psalm of David.
110
The Lord (Father) says to my Lord (the Messiah, His Son),
“Sit at My right hand
Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet [subjugating them into complete submission].”A)'>
2
The Lord will send the scepter of Your strength from Zion,
saying,
“Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”B)'>
3
Your people will offer themselves willingly [to participate in Your battle] in the day of Your power;
In the splendor of holiness, from the womb of the dawn,
Your young men are to You as the dew.
4
The Lord has sworn [an oath] and will not change His mind:
You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek.”C)'>
5
The Lord is at Your right hand,
He will crush kings in the day of His wrath.
6
He will execute judgment [in overwhelming punishment] among the nations;
He will fill them with corpses,
He will crush the chief men over a broad country.D)'>
7
He will drink from the brook by the wayside;
Therefore He will lift up His head [triumphantly].
unsafe says ------this debunks your theory there Waterfall --it seems the Jews changed the text according to this ------
Shem as Melchizedek: A test case for validating or falsifying the Septuagint Genesis 11 chronology as original
THE GREAT JEWISH FLIP-FLOP IN THEOLOGY:
a.
In 100 BC, the Jews universally viewed Melchizedek as a “messianic angelic being” and when Jesus Christ came, it was a perfect fulfillment with their messianic expectation.
b. In 160 AD,
Shem became Melchizedek who transferred his priesthood to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Jews wanted to disconnect Jesus Christ from being a priest after the order of Melchizedek (book of Hebrews) so they corrupted the text in their Hebrew pre-Masoretic Torah to counter Christian theology.
i. In 160 AD,
Seder Olam Rabbah was the nasty fraudulent and corrupt chronological document the Jews created for this purpose.
ii. In order for Shem to be the same person as Melchizedek, Shem must be alive at the time of Abraham.
iii. The original and authentic Septuagint chronology in Gen 11 makes it impossible for Shem to be Melchizedek because he dies hundreds of years before Abraham is born.
iv. At the time of Christ, the chronological numbers in Gen 5 and 11 in both the Septuagint and the Hebrew pre-Masoretic text were almost identical.
v. The Jews in 160-180 AD modified the chronological numbers in their Hebrew pre-Masoretic text by reducing the age of the earth and compressing the genealogy between Shem and Abraham.
vi.
Shem was second-born and NOT Melchizedek. Japheth “the Great” was firstborn in the LXX. They couldn’t suddenly redefine Shem as Melchizedek if his older brother Japheth was called “the great” in both the Greek Septuagint and the Hebrew pre-Masoretic text (MT)
3. As you can see, the chronological numbers Gen 11 for the time span between Shem and Abraham in the Septuagint (LXX), Masoretic (MT) and Samaritan Pentateuch (SP) are all different.
this is commentary on Psalms 110 ------
SUMMARY OF PSALM 110
SUMMARY OF PSALM 110
We have covered the first four Psalms of Book V, Psalms 107 to 110. Of these, Psalm 110 is the climax. In fact, no other Psalm is higher than Psalm
110 regarding Christ. It is a short Psalm with only a few main points, but these points are immensely significant.
The first is that Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. This refers to His exaltation and enthronement. The significance of this verse is seen in the fact that it is mentioned approximately twenty times in the New Testament. Even the Lord Jesus Himself quoted this verse frequently. It is profitable to look into all these New Testament quotations: there are some in the first three Gospels, some in the Acts, some in Ephesians, some in 1 Corinthians, and many in Hebrews.
The second point in this Psalm is the victory of Christ. He has won the victory, and He is going to win many more victories. The fact that God has promised to make all His enemies His footstool is an aspect of His victory.
The third point is His power, His authority, His scepter. He is the exalted One, the enthroned One, the Victor, and the One who has the scepter. The rod is in His hand (v. 2).
The fourth point is that Christ is still fighting, and He will fight to the end. In verse 3 we have this phrase: “In the day of thy power.” The word “power” in this phrase has another meaning. The margin of the American Standard Version says, “in the day of thy army,” and the Good speed translation has “on your day of war.” It is not only the day of His power, but also the day of His fighting. It is then that the people will offer themselves willingly in the splendor of their consecration. It is then that the young men will be as the dew out of the womb of the morning and as the brook on the way. Christ needs refreshment because He is fighting. On one hand this Psalm tells us He has won the victory, but on the other hand He is still fighting. He will fight to the end. So many things may be realized from this short Psalm.
The fifth point is that He is today the Priest. He is the King, He is the Warrior, and He is also the Priest. He is a Priest according to the order of Melchizedek, not according to the law of a carnal commandment, but in the power of an endless life (Heb. 7:16). We do not realize how much He prays for us, how much He is sustaining us all the day long, by being our Priest. He is there at God’s right hand as the King to care for God’s interest in the entire universe; He is there as the Priest to care for us; and He is also there as the Warrior, fighting against His enemies.
The sixth point is that He will eventually return.
It is clear, by combining all these six points, that Psalm 110 is the highest peak in the revelation of Christ. Christ today, according to Psalm 110, is at the right hand of God, the highest place in the universe. Hebrews 1:3 says that He “sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,” the highest place. Psalm 110 tells us not only where Christ is, but also what He is. He is the King, He is the Victor, He is the Warrior, He is the Priest, and He is the Coming One—at least these five items. In such a short Psalm of seven verses we see all these things. This Psalm, which gives the highest revelation of Christ, is not in the first book, but in the last book of the Psalms. In Book V, we reach the highest peak.
