Psalm 110
A Psalm of David.
The Lord says to my Lord:
“Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies your footstool.”
In the Supper of the New Covenant, Jesus has placed (as John and James asked) His Disciples to His Right and Left side.
John's Gospel Chapter 13, we are able to see the reclining seating method positions of the four people involved in one of the conversations mentioned in the Last Supper: Jesus, John, Peter and Judas. Jesus Hosts the Last Supper, so reclined at the head of the table, in the middle of the centre couch. John, the Beloved Disciple, immediately to the right of Jesus, so his head would be level with the chest of Jesus. John would then be able to lean back and whisper to Jesus without the others hearing. Verse 23, the Greek text: “Falling back on the breast of Jesus."
The seating arrangement of the People, is the same.
The shape of the table could be arranged several ways.
In Formal State Dinners, the Head of Table is the Center of the Table.
Head of Table Roman Meal
Jesus felt Psalm 110 was so important, He mentioned this.
Mark 12
35 While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he asked, “Why do the teachers of the law say that the Messiah is the son of David? 36 David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared:
“‘The Lord said to my Lord:
“Sit at my right hand
until I put your enemies
under your feet.”’
37 David himself calls him ‘Lord.’ How then can he be his son?”
The large crowd listened to him with delight.
We can answer why this Plan of God's is so unanswered. The eyes seeing Jesus understood very well:
Jeremiah 36:4
So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and while Jeremiah dictated all the words the Lord had spoken to him, Baruch wrote them on the scroll.
John 18:40
They cried out again, “Not this man, but Bar Abbas!” Now Bar Abbas was a robber."
The Talmud recording the Sanhedrin at the Time of Jesus is in Scotland. The Talmud identifies the recorded discussion by Bar - Son of. If they had discussed Baruch ' Baruch Bar Neriah'. Thousands traveled to see Jesus. The crowds knew Jesus the Carpenter's Son. Jesus of Nazareth. The Sanhedrin discuss Jesus by calling Mary daughter of Heli. Luke 3. Joseph is Bar Jacob. Matthew 1.
The crowd listened in Delight because Jesus was teaching Jesus is the Son of Kings of David's Line. And Son of David, Non-royal. God has made provisions of Jesus as David's Line to the right and to the Left. The Peace in this delight of the crowd is the Abundant Life in God's Provision. The Plan of God has been fulfilled in all expectation.
John and James wanted Abundant Life to sit right and left. God provides as God Plans.
In the glimpse of the Hope of Holy Week, the first glimpse of Hope, we find God is putting us at His Right Hand. We are part of His Plans.
Peace. God's Plan is sufficient. His Plans will have a Hope and Future.
God's Timing will occur. Peace.
God is Giving us help to rule over our fears.
2 The Lord sends forth from Zion
your mighty scepter.
Rule in the midst of your enemies!
3 Your people will offer themselves freely
on the day of your power,
in holy garments;
from the womb of the morning,
the dew of your youth will be yours.
4 The Lord has sworn
and will not change his mind,
“You are a priest forever
after the order of Melchizedek.”
5 The Lord is at your right hand
He has shattered kings on the day of his wrath.
6 He will execute judgment among the nations,
filling them with corpses;
he will shatter chiefs
over the wide earth.
7 He will drink from the brook by the way;
therefore he will lift up his head.
During the Middle Ages, the Bubonic Plague was widely considered to be the wrath of God. This thought isn't to be rethought as modern man looks down on the history of mankind. The beginning of the Renaissance was enlightened. The most common death before the Plague was starvation. One in three died of starvation. A complete lack of mercy. Serfs were owned and would die of malnourishment and overwork. Half of the women were prostitutes and money was arranged by family or husband. The priesthood was celibate since the 1200s; and the priests had one or two wives, concubines and plenty of children without marriage. After the plagues, mankind was freed and the Renaissance began. The Age of Enlightenment.
What would Pandemic bring mankind? According to Jeremiah in 590 B.C., The New Covenant would tell us God Himself lives in us and we wouldn't need preaching to explain His Holy Spirit dwelling in us. God Himself tells us of His Holiness. We have been asked by a repeating message as we listen online to the Ministers, we Love. Pastors we lean in to. And Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Catholic Church, NYC. The message we hear asks us to find God leading us from dark into the Light of Christ. We will have memories of this time and be asked to explain this for generations to yet be born. In His Holiness, what will this time bring to us to favorably Changed? Even sorrow produces maturity. For many, we won't have the answer... yet.
Romans 5
1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
In His Time.
2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoiced in hope of the glory of God.
Faith is our assurance, this time will have Hope in His Glory, we have not seen yet. During the years I lived in Pennsylvania, my friend's father, Jim, spoke of the Spanish Flu influencing the life of his mother in Philadelphia. All her life she said, "If you can survive Spanish Flu, you can survive anything." This gave her bravery. She spoke often of the two baby twins in the news of 1918. One lived and one died and both were in God's Plan. The living twin lived to be 83 and often thought of her twin. The other twin would not forget her sister on earth.
Romans 5
Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings,
knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame,
because God’s love has been poured into our hearts
through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
We would honestly mutter rejoicing in our sufferings draws away from the strength of the Verses. God's Timing. We remember surviving 9-11 and the horror of learning the details. News seeking as we do - today. These sufferings will never be placed in the category of finding the missing sock. Because understanding required feasting. The Book of Revelation is the sadness in the Holiness oF God ending the life of mass murderers, Hitler, Stalin to protect the Beloved of God. Revelation has a glory in understanding the old order passes on and we find His Plan for His Heaven. Rejoice? Can be understood as "Astonished Care". We are cut to the very quick and find we have, "Astonished Care" as united to support the precious Rejoicing of Life.
Jesus tells us He gives Abundant Life. As we are thrust into, "Astonished Care", we find the every day is mundane in this Complete Awareness.
We in Astonished Care, are thrust into Great Shared sufferings, knowing suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
In God's Time, we will find what His Holy Spirit has placed in us to Love those we Love more clearly and value Life Abundant. Our God would have other portions of our time on earth to understand personal messages of God. In large medical trauma, healing has phases. We will know more as the days unfold. Faith is our assurance God has a Hope and Future for you.
7 He will drink from the brook by the way;
therefore He will lift up His Head.
Bethesda Fountain in New York City
Abba,
Even in Crisis we can have Beauty.
I dreamed of my mother's mother, my Grandmother Anita. She said to me, as a glimpse of her, from her Heavenly Home: "Each day is quiet at times and filled with quiet. Each day just put our hopes in Jesus. And as time progresses - we have done Exactly what Jesus has asked. The Plan of God we will not hurt, or impede or cause to be dismissed - as we believe Jesus is working today. Because Jesus is, of course, working today. With us. Around us. In us. Jesus is God. Jesus is King. We will believe Jesus today."
Anita prayed and even after her death, we saw her prayers answered, even more than a decade later. I dreamed of my grandmother twenty years after she passed on and felt her lovely spirit.
Because Jesus is Emmanuel - God the Father, God the King, God the Holy Spirit with us.
Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Father Almighty,
God in Three Places Blessed Trinity.
Father God, You are in our Thoughts, in our past, in our present and in our future.
You are part of our wonderful memories, You are part of our tarnished Blessings, You are part of the Building of Blessings and You will provide amazing days ahead.
God of the Impossible. God of the Eternal. God You own time itself. And John found You to be God of Love who appears to John one Sunday Afternoons saying - "Do not be afraid! This is Jesus!" Revelation 1.
We trust You Abba, with our Lives. With our Brokenness. We trust You with our Forgiveness. We trust You and take the right path. We trust You to work the Plan You have Given. We Trust You with the People we Love. We Trust You with the People we need to pray for more - You have given us. We trust You with the arrow prayers of the people we see in need of Prayer. In fact we trust You dearly with these Prayers. Father God - You are saving the world in Jesus.
In our Freedom, we want to seek God first, to find Your Heaven upon earth. Glimpsing Your Heavenly Kingdom. To Live Love, Peace and Joy.
Thank You. Blessings Upon You, Father God in Jesus.Life, Eternal Blessings. Amen.
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