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Originally Posted by mfblume

So thrilled to have just shown another believer that Jesus Christ is ruling right now, by comparing Psalm 110:1 and the language used, with 1st Corinthians 15:25. If he's seated until all enemies are his footstool, and that seating is occurring now, Then he's ruling at the same time due to the terminology. People think that he's waiting for Dominion to be given to him when all enemies are put under his feet. But the Bible actually teaches that he's waiting for them to be destroyed when they're put under his feet. Being put under his feet means those enemies are destroyed. Not that they're put there in subjugation so he can rule over them. He's ruling now until all enemies are put under his feet.

The emboldened part above doesn't ring true to me.

I see Psalm 110:1 being fulfilled, not as a means of destruction, but of salvation.

Consider:

Jesus is quoted in more than one place teaching us to love our enemies (Matthew 5:44, Luke 6:27 & 35).

Is He not the standard? Are we expected to love our enemies, but Christ is exempt from His own teaching (See and compare, e.g. Romans 12:20)?

Secondly, Paul makes the following claims:

Romans 5:10,

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Colossians 1:21,

And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

Paul is pretty clear than humanity in general, at least at the first, are enemies of Christ and God, but individually, across the expanse of time, as the Gospel is heralded, and people receive and obey it, those who were once Christ's enemies become His friends, even His brothers, members of His family and the household of God.

This being the case, compare the footstool language of Psalm 110:1 with the following verses:

1 Chronicles 28:2,

Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:

Psalm 99:5,

Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.

Psalm 132:7,

We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.

Lamentations 2:1,

How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

All four of these verses indicate that the footstool of the LORD is merely a reference for the temple. Lamentations 2:1, especially, is unmistakably so.

Is it not therefore better to understand the prophecy of Psalm 110:1 in this light, that the making of, or turning of, the Messiah's enemies into His footstool by YHVH, is the process of conversion through the Gospel whereby enemies of the Lord are brought into the faith and saved from the wrath to come?

Then, it isn't about the destruction of His enemies, and the loss of their souls in Hell, but rather, about the salvation of His enemies, by the atoning blood shed at the cross, and the gaining of their souls for life everlasting in the New Jerusalem.

That seems more in line with a message of hope and reconciliation. If Psalm 110:1 is about destruction, it looks more like a message of despair and retaliation, such as you appear to have posited it.

At least to me.