My Lord

Many of the passage that show that there are two messiahs are familiar to most believers.  Although the focus is the Hebrew scriptures, we will start with the New Testament, Mark 12:35-37.

³⁵And Yeshua answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Messiah is the Son of David? ³⁶For David himself said by the Holy Spirit, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. ³⁷David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.

This should be a familiar passage.  It is also in Matthew 22 and Luke 20.  Similar statements are found in Acts 2:35 and Hebrews 1:13.  It is a quote from Psalm 110:1.

¹The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

To understand this verse, it is necessary to look up some of the Hebrew.  The first LORD is the Hebrew word Y^ehovah {yeh-ho-vaw’}.  This is easily identified because it is all capital letters in the King James Translation.  LORD is God Yehovah, our creator.  The second Lord is the Hebrew Word adown {aw-done’}.  It means Lord, master.  It is usually a reference to men.  The second Lord is the Messiah, this should become obvious as we continue.

Where is God now?  Psalm 11:4

⁴Yehovah is in his holy temple, Yehovah’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men

Therefore, what has to happen to sit at the right hand of Yehovah?  To sit at the right hand of God one has to die and ascend to heaven.

Psalm 110:2

²Yehovah shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

Now God sending out the rod.  Rod is the Hebrew word matteh {mat-teh’}.  It means staff, branch of a vine, Isaiah 11:1.

¹And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:

Rod is the Hebrew word choter {kho’-ter}.  It means branch, twig, rod.  These are different Hebrew words, but have the same meaning.  Who is this rod that is from Jesse?  It is the Messiah, further in Isaiah 11:4.

⁴But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

In this passage the rod has strength and it is ruling in the midst of his enemies.  This is the same as Psalm 110.  If the second Lord in Psalm 110 is the Messiah and he went to sit at the right hand of Jehovah.  That means He died, if later the branch which is the Messiah is sent forth that means He has returned.  That would be the 2^nd coming.  Therefore there would be two Messiahs.

Psalm 110:3-7

³Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.  ⁴Yehovah hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. ⁵The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. ⁶He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.  ⁷He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.

There should be no doubt that this is the return of the Messiah.  A Messiah that returns with power to establish a kingdom.  The first Messiah is Ben Joseph, the suffering servant.  The second Messiah is Ben Daviyd, the victorious king.  Two events with two different purposes, really it is just one Messiah with two comings.

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