Thy Enemy Thy Footstool

“The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool” (Psa.110:1). “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you” (Lk.10:19).

First one is a prophecy of David. Looking unto the Son, Jesus Christ, God the Father says, “Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool”. We, who were enemies (Col.1:21) are now made as the footstool of Jesus Christ, as His resting place. The same authority He has given to His people. God’s promise for us is that He will make all the enemies which are working against us as our footstool, so that as He has overcome and sat at the right hand of Father, we too must take victory over them and sit with Him in His throne (Rev.3:21). Let us see, what we have to do for this.

1. Ye shall tread down the wicked : “And ye shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts” (Mal.4:3). Verse 1 says they are haughty and wicked. God says, I will bring the haughtiness and wickedness under your feet as dust and ye shall tread them. Last year due to such haughtiness and wicked characters, we might have faced many failures in our spiritual life. But it is possible when you fear His name and when God shall see your Godly fear, Sun of righteousness does righteous things and thereby you shall tread these characters. The spirit of wickedness may be work from our life itself and destroy our life. And from outside also through others we face such things, but if we fear His name, He will bring them under our footstool. Fear God and don’t fear the people who do wickedness.

2. They that despised thee and they that afflicted thee : “The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet, and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel” (Isa.60:14). God says, they that despised you and them that afflicted thee shall be under your feet and they shall bow before us. However, if you are afflicted or despised because of your mistake, you must be chastised. But without reason if anybody despise or afflict you, God will work in this manner. In other way, when you are being despised and afflicted by others without cause, God will raise you before them and they will be under your feet. When God bring them under your feet, they shall bow you and shall say you are Zion, City of the Holy One of Israel. When God shall shine upon us, we will be seen as a city or Zion. When God make you to shine, you should be a city upon a mountain and light in the dark world (Mat.5:15). This speaks that when you are despised and afflicted, God does a work of transformation and we grow from glory to glory. We are not telling it but the one who despised us will say, “you are the city of God”. God will be our everlasting light (Isa.60:20). When God makes us light, we should not keep darkness in our life. Hatred ness, bitterness, etc. are the works of darkness (Rom.1:20). We should praise God with a grateful heart and remove all such darkness from our life so that others may see us as God’s city.

3. Kings and Queens shall be your nurses : “And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers; they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me” (Isa.49:23). We are ordinary people, but kings and queens come under our feet and bow us. Satan is called “prince of this world”, “prince of the power of the air” (Eph.2:2); “rulers of the darkness of this world” (Eph.6:12). These powers bring hindrance in our spiritual life through the rulers of this world. Recently Christians faced such a trouble in India. World rulers may act as if they are favouring us but their intentions are wrong. Kings and Queens are nursing fathers and mothers. In order to live in this world peacefully, we need their favour (I Tim.2:1-2). They nourish us but their intention is to destroy us. However, we are precious before God. God sees their intention. He says, I will bring them under your footstool. But for this we should wait for His time. He says, I have a time to act and you wait for that time. Don’t be hasty. “He that believeth shall not make haste” (Isa.28:16). As per God’s plan, worldly rulers will work against God’s people but among the people of God, God wants to prepare a small group as His Bride and it is His intention that they should be preserved. Therefore, what we need is “faith to wait patiently for His time”.