THE RULING ANOINTING AND CROWN - Psalm 110
THE RULING ANOINTING AND CROWN
INVESTITURE – INAUGURATION
Sunday, January 5, 2025, the Year of Our Lord
Pastor Carolyn Sissom
The One hundred-tenth Psalm was esteemed by many of the early writers to be the Crown of all the Psalms. Martin Luther designated it as the “Crown Psalm” and said that it was worthy to be overlaid with precious jewels.
I felt by the Spirit, this crown jewel has a special message to us as we start the New Year, New Era, and New Day in 2025. The Psalm is pure gospel, concerning Christ, the Messiah. Yet, as I read it as the investiture of Christ, it is also the investiture of his anointed “people” as well as the investiture of President Donald J. Trump and his cabinet of young men and women. The Lord gives dominion to His chosen Ruler.
I was scrolling through some FB memories from the past ten years. We the Church through the rod of the Lord’s strength have brought down under our feet all our enemies. Yes, we have broken forth into a New Day. Yes, there will yet be powers and principalities to bring down. There will be more battles to fight, but we have won a great victory over our enemies.
Let us give heed to this new thing.
110:1: The LORD said to my LORD, Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.
110:2: The LORD shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies.
110:3: Your people shall be volunteers in the day of Your power; in the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning, You have the dew of Your youth.
110:4: The LORD has sworn and will not relent, You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
110:5: The LORD is at Your right hand. He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath.
110:6: He shall judge among the nations. He shall fill the places with dead bodies. He shall execute the heads of many countries.
110:7: He shall drink of the brook by the wayside. Therefore, He shall lift up the head. (N.K.J.V.)
Verse 1 is the most unique verse in the Old Testament in that it is quoted seven (7) times in the New Testament for a total of eight times in the Bible. Verse (4) is quoted three times in the New Testament for a total of five (5) times. This one Psalm is quoted 13 times in the Bible.
It is the most quoted Old Testament scripture.
Jesus used verse one to silence the Pharisees in Matthew 22:41-46: While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, Saying, “What do you think of Christ whose son is He?” They say to Him, “the Son of David.” He says to them, “how then does David who was in the Spirit call Him Lord, saying, The Lord said to My Lord, sit on My right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool? If David then calls Him Lord, how is He his son?” No man was able to answer Him a word; neither dare any man from that day forth ask Him any more questions.
Glorious things are here spoken of Christ:
110:2: The Lord will send forth the scepter of Your strength from Zion; rule in the midst of Your enemies (Amplified). The scepter with which the king has been awarded is destined to journey far. From this royal and religious capital of Zion, God will extend his dominion and make it radiate out against all the enemies of Christ UNTIL He make his enemies His footstool.
The King is assured he will have the loyal backing of the troops. They will enthusiastically identify themselves with their royal commander.
110:3: Your people will offer themselves willingly in the day of Your power, in the beauty of holiness and in holy array out of the womb of the morning; to You (will spring forth) Your young men, who are as the dew. (Amplified). “You have the dew of your youth (N.K.J.V.). These are they which have been redeemed.
In the American Revised version, it is rendered: “Thy people offer themselves willingly in the day of Thy power in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, Thou has the dew of thy youth (the youth are to you as dew…)
One translation reads, “in the day of your armies” instead of “in the day of your power.”
These shall be admitted by Christ into the beauty of holiness, as spiritual priests to minister in his sanctuary in the beautiful attire or ornaments of grace and sanctification. Christ’s soldiers will be clothed in these garments.
The dew of youth is prophetic of the number of young people who will be flocking to Christ at the time of Harvest. The womb of the morning will be the new day.
We are seeing thousands of young people in universities come to the Lord for salvation and healing. Donald J. Trump has chosen cabinet members, a Vice President and the Speaker of the House from Generation “X”, Xennials, and Millennials.
We can surely decree this verse refers to the Latter-Day outpourings of the Spirit and the mighty manifestations of the Lord in the midst of His people.
Spurgeon: “The LORD shall send forth the rod of Thy strength out of Zion. It is in and through the Church that, for the present, the power of the Messiah is known, Jehovah has given to Jesus all authority in the midst of His people, whom he rules with His royal scepter, and the power goes forth with divine energy from the Church for the in gathering of the elect and the subduing of all evil. We need to pray for the sending out of the rod of divine strength! It was by his rod that Moses smote the Egyptians and wrought wonders for Israel. Whenever the Lord Jesus sends forth the rod of His strength, our spiritual enemies are overcome.”
“O God of eternal might, let the strength of our Lord Jesus be more clearly seen, and let the nations see it as coming forth out of the midst of your people, Zion, the place of your abode! We look for a clearer manifestation of your almighty power in these Latter days. Your people shall be willing in the day of your power.” Let the Word of the Lord be preached with divine unction, and the chosen of the Lord will respond to it like troops on the day of the mustering of the armies; arrayed by grace in shining uniforms of holiness.
The subjects of the Priest-King are willing soldiers. In accordance with the military tone of the whole Psalm, the people are a mighty army. The word rendered “power” translates to “army.” That is literally the day when you muster your forces and go forth to battle; having set them in array. The King is going forth to conquest, but He goes not alone. Behind Him come His faithful followers, all pressing on with willing hearts and high courage.
The conquering King, of whom this Psalm sings, is a Priest forever, and He is followed by an army of priests, who are also of the order of Melchizedek. The soldiers are gathered in the day of this muster--- with high courage and willing devotion, ready to fling away their lives. They are not clad in armor, but in priestly robes, “You have the dew of your youth.” The word for Youth used here is a collective noun equivalent to “young men.”
Jesus Christ is presented as King, Priest, and Warrior. Those who follow him have received an investiture of His authority and the rod of His strength. I decree Donald J. Trump and His cabinet are anointed by the Lord Jesus Christ to fulfill this assignment to rule, reign and have authority over all enemies of the Kingdom of God foreign and domestic.
I decree the Church and those who are called into the in gathering of the Harvest are anointed by the Lord Jesus Christ to fulfill this assignment to rule, reign, and have authority over all enemies of the Kingdom of God on earth and in the heavens.
The host of His soldier subjects are described as a band of young warriors, whom He leads in their fresh strength and countless numbers and gleaming beauty, as the dew of the morning. “Thy youth are to Thee as dew” (R.V.).
Surely faith and courage will stir our hearts anew, as we who are alive are seeing the day dawning of which was written, the day of His power!
May I be among the willing people through whom He shall work His mighty works to the ends of the earth!
So. 6:12: Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Aminidab.” i.e. “Set me on the chariots of my willing people.” Or, as another version states, “My princely people” (ASV). This too is a picture of the LORD going forth in the midst of the princely (praying), willing (consecrated) people, going-swiftly in power and salvation to the ends of the earth.
The King and His Crown Jewels are ours, and we are His, for glorious conquest:
Mic. 5:4 he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.
“Now shall he be great to the ends of the earth!” This promise on which we base our faith was made by Jehovah, the Eternal One, to our Lord Adonai, His only begotten Son. The Father will keep His word to His Son. He shall see the travail of His soul and be satisfied. He shall see His enemies become His footstool.
1 Pet. 1:17: For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came a voice to him from the excellent glory. This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.
Foreign enemies will always exploit the new reign of an inexperienced king, but he is encouraged by a promise of divine aid.
110:5: The LORD is at Your right hand. He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath.
We are assured in this Psalm the Lord’s continuing help and total triumph over all opposition to his Kingdom.
In verse 1, the right hand of the Lord refers to divine honor. Here is verse five (5), it symbolizes divine protection.
110: 5-6: The Lord at Your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of His wrath. He shall judge among the heathen. He shall fill the places with the dead bodies; He shall wound the heads over many countries.
There is a set time for this great victory. “It is the day of His wrath.”
110:7: He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore, shall He lift up the head.
There are many lovely interpretations of “the brook in the way.” However, one is given by Leslie C. Allen that suits me. “There was known to be a royal ceremony at the spring of Gihon near the temple, during which the king ritually drank from the sacred fountain and symbolically received the vital resources necessary for his reign. Thus strengthened, thereafter he would enjoy an abundance of life. While his foes were doomed to lie prostrate, his destiny was a life of triumph.”
This would be the “fountain of living water, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Jer. 2:13; Jer, 17:13 ;) “the fountain of life”;
John 4:13-14: Whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Rev. 22:17: The Spirit and the bride say, Come. Let him that hear, say, “Come.” Let him that is thirsty come. Whosoever will let him take the water of life freely.
John 7:38: He that believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly, shall flow rivers of living water.
Edward Reynolds, writing of it in the sixteenth century has this to say, “This Psalm is one of the fullest and most compendious prophecies of the person and offices of Christ in the entire Old Testament, and is so full of fundamental truth, I would not shun to call it, ‘The prophet David’s creed.’ The doctrine of the Trinity is in the first words, ‘Jehovah said unto my Adonai. The Father is consecrating the Son, by the Holy Spirit, to be David’s Lord. Following this, we have: the incarnation, the sufferings, the completed work of Calvary, His resurrection, ascension, intercession and finally His Holy body, Zion. There is also the day of His wrath and the time of His final triumph.
Pastor Carolyn Sissom
Eastgate Ministries church, 10115 West Hidden Lakes Lane, Richmond, TX
Scripture from K.J.V. unless otherwise noted. I entered into the labors of Leslie C. Allen, F. F. Bruce Bible Commentary. PSALM 110 – “THE BROOK IN THE WAY” Pastor Carolyn Sissom10/23/2011; The King’s Crown Jewels by Frances Metcalfe. Comments and conclusions are my own and not meant to reflect the views of those who I entered into their labors.