That part of humanity that is dead in our trespasses and sins is considered to be God’s enemy, The Old Man that is lawless and “hostile to God” (Romans 8:7) is God’s enemy. This might come as a surprise to some, but WE are considered to be God’s enemies! At least, the wicked/evil, fallen nature within us is. And there is more! There are dozens upon dozens of passages in the Bible that concern this theme of subduing enemies under the feet. All in all this seems to be a very big and important concept in Scripture. This leaves us with a total of 11 direct references to this theme. The concept of putting Christ’s enemies under His feet is found several more times (Ephesians 1:22, Philippians 3:21 and 1 Peter 3:22) on top of the 8 direct quotes of the Old Testament verse in question. “…until I put Your enemies beneath Your feet.” (Matthew 22:42) A footstool, obviously, is what you use to rest your feet on and the passage in question concerns the feet, as the following alternate quote renders it, What we will focus specifically on in this blog is what it means to make an enemy into a footstool. “The LORD said to my Lord, ‘Sit at My right hand, until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet’” (Psalm 110:1) This is highly significant, it tells us that we ought to pay very close attention to what God is trying to teach us. In fact, of all the Old Testament passages that are quoted in the New Testament this one is quoted a total of 8 times! Far more than any other Old Testament verse. This subject concerns a certain Old Testament passage that is quoted in the New Testament. In the end I decided that since it clearly deals with Judgment it needed to be included here, however, I left it for last so that it would be a sort of bridge between the two it will be a fitting end to our series on Judgment and a fitting transition into the next series concerning the Restoration of All Things. It ties into Restoration so directly that I wasn’t sure whether I should save it for the next series on Restoration. The reason I saved this topic for last is, b/c as much as the other themes we have already looked at dealt with Ultimate Restoration, this one does so far more blatantly. To my knowledge there is only one more theme that needs to be addressed – Christ putting all His enemies under His feet. So far we have looked at Death (and the 2nd Death), the Lake of Fire, Destruction, Punishment, Wrath, Judgment and various other related issues. This is the last blog I have that will fall under the Judgment theme.
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