 Let me just pause it right there. You're saying if Jesus would one day be the Messiah, but is not yet Would there not be theories out there to say well, yeah Because he's coming like that first and all that stuff, but he hasn't come back is like the reigning king yet That's like still to come. So it's like it's still like gonna happen at some point So it's true that he has not yet put all his enemies under his feet, right? And yet the New Testament speaks of him as As being exalted at the right hand of the father Jesus himself says all authority after the resurrection has now been given to me in heaven and on earth like, okay, um The the the disciples and acts speak of Use the psalms psalm two and other places to speak of him as as the reigning Rightful Messiah that the nations rage against him against Yahweh and his anointed the Messiah, but You know, he's he's gods enthroned. He is the gods enthroned, you know king So it's true that he hasn't yet Exercised his judgment And and stuff but that that hasn't happened yet. He hasn't fully established his kingdom on earth as it is in heaven And yet It takes us it's actually an analogous situation to david. I think David's life where david is anointed king. He's the rightful king, but he wanders around for a while before Sort of god gives him Control over his enemies, right? Okay. So that makes sense. Yeah, and again all of the like the the disciples would would never allow You know to say well We'll give allegiance to some other rule king of israel Because and wait, you know, no, they're like no Jesus that the whole the whole idea is Jesus is the Messiah And once the Messiah has come you you he's the king And even if he has a weird twist and turns Um For how he runs his kingship. That's kind of his prerogative not not ours, right? Okay. So and this is I mean, this is how the gospels open up so um, Matthew opens up with Like really highlighting the davidic identity of jesus the book of the genealogy of jesus the Messiah the son of david And and then there's his genealogies that are structured around Um So it goes from abraham to david from david to the exile which is the loss of the davidic kingship And then the exile the loss of the davidic kingship to jesus being born i.e. the return of the davidic kingship Okay, yeah, and then it's I mean, um The wise men right are sorry the um The people that sort of the scribes and the priests recognize they tell hered And the wise men Oh you bethlehem in the land of juda are by no means among least among the rulers of juda for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd My people israel, right? There's this, um Understanding right away that this this is the true rightful king of israel and or in mar and luke's gospel We we read that um The angel right the angel gabriel speaks to mary When she announces when he announces the birth the uh conception and says don't be afraid mary You have found favor with god you will conceive in your room and bear a son You shall call his name jesus He will be great and will be called the son of the most high and the lord god will give to him the throne of his Father david and he will reign over the house of jacob forever and of his kingdom. There will be no end And I mean that's how luke chooses to you know kick off his gospel and then zekariah Says the same thing in his in the benedictus blessed be Yahweh god of israel before he has visited and redeemed his people He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant david As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets of old that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all Who hate us to show us the steadfast love promise to our fathers, etc um So like that front loads the whole whole expectation is the king has the davidic messiah the the true king of israel Has has arrived And from then on What it means to be part of israel Has to politically. I mean like nation the nation of israel in a sense Means Understands that these aren't metaphors that that it's not like the new testament authors is are saying nice Nice cute, you know theological things about jesus, but that they genuinely believe That this is the rightful descendant of david who is the rightful heir to the throne of israel So would would people that that have this other interpretation that we've been talking about would they look at that and just say well That's just figurative or that's going to be fulfilled at some point in the future, but it hasn't happened yet Like what's the response there to this passage? It's possible that there would be this I mean because no, I mean all christians recognize that this is true By definition. Yeah, I think there I do think there has been a tendency to spiritualize it a bit though. Okay um Yeah, and then also maybe to say well Like you said, maybe maybe when jesus actually returns or something like that Um, I think that's I think I've heard that one. Yeah for sure where it's like well Yes, that will happen. It just hasn't happened yet, right? But again, you have Matthew 28 jesus after after his resurrection says all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth or in or what peter says in the beginning of acts where he Um, he says you guys rejected him. That wasn't good So then he says Let all the house of israel know for certain that god has made him both lord and messiah this jesus whom you crucified he believes that um He believes that jesus is oh and he says that um That he ascended to heaven And having received the promise From the promise of the spirit from the father. He has poured this out So this is one of on the on his followers, right? This is one of his jesus kingly acts, right as the exalted messiah Um, he pours out the gift of the spirit, which is what the prophets basically said would happen, right? Yeah, um, where paul speaks of god having highly exalted him after his Humiliation and given him a name that is above every name So that at the name of jesus every knee will bow the bowling maybe hasn't happened yet But the exaltation for paul has right god has exalt. He is the exalted Uh the exalted messiah