myDistruggles for life, love & 'lekkere hapjes' ~~

(DB)
"This day
I have begotten
you" means this day
you have been enthroned.

Militating against any literal sense
in which the king was taken as son of g d
& divine is the "this day," which, it seems, may only
mean on this the day of your accession to the throne. Another
moment in the Psalms where we find the King as the Son or G d is
in the crucial verses of psalm 110 (the very verses that also contribute the notion
of the exalted Cjristians seated at the right hand of Power (Mark 14:62). In this psalm we read,
"IN SACRED SPLENDOR, FROM THE WOMB, FROM DAWN, YOU HAVE THE DEW WHEREWITH I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU!"
This verse is notoriously difficult, & I (DB) shan't here go into the complications of its emendations & interpretations,
but one thing seems clear: G d says to the king here too, "I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU!" THE bottomline of this
demonstration is that early on the term "Son of G d" was used to refer to the Davidic ling without any
hints of incarnation of the deity in the king: "I WILL BE TO YOU AS A FATHER, AND YOU WILL BE TO ME AS A SON!" The king is indeed very intimate with G d and a highly sacralized person ~ but not god! The kingship is promised to David's seed forever. Something rather dramatic and tragic happened, however, in the history of the People of Israel! During the 6th century BC, the kingdom of the Lord's anointed ones in Yerushalayim was destroyed & the Davidic line was lost?! As the story is narrated in 2 Kings 25, following a siege in 597 BC. Nebuchadnezzar had installed Tsedekiah as tributary king of Judah. However, Zedekiah revolted against Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar responded by invading Judah & began a siege of Yerushalayim in January 589 BC. In 587 BC, the eleventh year of Tsedekiah's reign, Nebuchadnezzar broke through Yerushalayim's walls, conquering the city. Tsedekiah & his followers attempted to escape but were captured on the plains of Jericho and taken to Riblah. There after seeing his sons killed, Zedekiah was blinded, bound & taken captive to Babylon, where he remained a prisoner until his death. After the fall of Yerushalayim, the Babylonian general Nebuzaraddan was sent to complete its destruction. Jerusalem was plundered & Solomon's Temple destroyed. Most of the elite were taken into captivity @ Babylon. The city was razed to the ground. Some Israelite people were permitted to remain to tend the land. Typical cases of conflict, cruelty & craziness! Thus the question was (and still is) to introduce to all taking part in a personal, social & universal peace program: isn't that what we've been waiting for?
No guilt or gewalt but graceful
goodness ~ 'jesus',
flower power,
occupy
..........??