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be the dispensationalists’ least favorite Bible passage, for good
reason.
The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until
I make thine enemies thy footstool. The LORD shall send the rod
of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies
(Psa. 110:1-2).
This passage makes it clear that a legitimate goal of God’s
people is the extension in history and on earth of God’s kingdom,
to rule in the midst of our spiritual enemies and opponents.
But more to the point, the Lord speaks to Jesus Christ
and informs Him that He will sit at God’s right hand until His
enemies are conquered. Obviously, God’s throne is in heaven.
This is where Jesus will remain until He comes again in final
judgment. Jesus sits tight while His people extend HiJ rule.
This is also what is taught by the New Testament’s major
eschatological passage, I Corinthians 15. It provides the context
of the fulfillment of Psalm 110. It speaks of the resurrection of
every person’s body at the last judgment. Jesus’ body was resurrected
first in time in order to demonstrate to the world that
the bodily resurrection is real. (This is why liberals hate the
doctrine of the bodily resurrection of Christ, and why they will
go to such lengths in order to deny it.)b This passage tells us
when all the rest of us will experience this bodily resurrection.
What it describes has to be the final judgment.
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward
Iennialists. Boyd, “A Dispensational Premillennial Analysis of the Eschatology of the
Post-Apostolic Fathers (Until the Death of Justin Martyr).” Gary DeMar summarizes
Boyd’s findings in his book, The Debate Over Christian Reconstwtion (Ft. Worth, Texas:
Dominion Press, 1988), pp. 96-98, 180n.
6. A notorious example of such literature is Hugh J. Schofield, The PQ.SSOVW
Plot: New Light on the l%to~ of Jesus (New York Bantam, [1966] 1971). It had gone
through seven hardback printings and 14 paperback printings by 1971.