Insight from Psalm 110<\/p>\n
The words of the Psalter are either about Christ or by Christ. In it we hear the prayers of the Christ and the songs of the saved. I say \u201cChrist\u201d for two reasons: (a) The Greek term [for] \u201cChrist\u201d is the translation of the Hebrew [for] \u201cMessiah\/Anointed One\u201d in texts such as Psalm 2:2. This monarch is the principal human figure in the Psalms\u2014both in suffering and in triumph. (b) The Psalms portray this hoped-for royal figure as the ideal king and human who embodies the hopes of the world. Accordingly, salvation history identifies this Savior-deliverer as Jesus of Nazareth and the New Testament tags him as \u201cthe Christ\u201d in light of the way in which books such as the Psalms spoke of him. The various laments, thanksgivings, and praises in the Psalter are either about the anointed king or by the anointed king, and they also become the music of all finding refuge in him. The Old Testament explicitly tags many of its psalm writers as \u201cseers\u201d who \u201cprophesied\u201d and whose words became the praises of Israel. Accordingly, Jesus, the New Testament authors, and the Old Testament prophets all read the Psalms as predictions of the Messiah. Also, David, the author of about half the psalms, was himself a prophet and was mindful both of his desperate state and that his hopes were in the one he called his \u201cLord\u201d (Ps. 110:1).<\/p>\n
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