Acts 2:34-35 → Psalms 110:1

Peter clinches his argument that Jesus, not David, has been enthroned: “For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”’” (Acts 2:34-35, quoting Psalm 110:1). David, still in his tomb, cannot be the one who ascended; yet David, speaking by the Spirit, calls the enthroned figure “my Lord” — one greater than himself. Psalm 110:1 is the New Testament’s most-cited Old Testament verse, the charter of Christ’s present reign: the risen Jesus sits at the Father’s right hand, actively subduing every enemy until the last, death itself, is put beneath His feet. Peter’s conclusion follows irresistibly — “God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ” (2:36). The One David worshipped from afar now reigns as the divine-human King, and to behold Him enthroned is to find the world’s true and rightful Lord, in whom alone is refuge from the judgment His footstool-victory brings.