An Overview of the Tribulation.

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This is an important distinction that you are highlighting. Becoming a footstool for God is a blessing. In judgment on ancient Israel connected to Jerusalem's destruction by Babylon, God said this involved His rejection of His footstool in Jerusalem. As in Lamentations 2:1, which says, "How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!" This was the footstool which David referred to when he said, "Hear me my brethren, and my people; As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:"

A footstool is where a suppliant can have direct access to communication with a potentate and have their petition heard. To actually BECOME that footstool means that God has direct communication with that individual - such as having the Holy Spirit implanted within us.

All good observations, 3R. However, my response is similar to that which I gave Marilyn = be careful about interpreting imagery singularly and without explanations God Himself gives for that imagery. God used the word "footstool" quite diversely (as you've astutely noted).

Personally, I'm inclined to start with the very first verse in the Bible. It is the precedent upon which everything else is built and that opening statement was not happenstance; it is THE statement God chose to build upon. So, when scripture later states the heavens are God's throne and the earth if His footstool that go all the way back to "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." That's not scientific cosmology. Scientifically, the earth is one of many billions of planets spinning around and around in what we call creation. Cosmologically there is no difference or distinction between "the heavens" and "the earth." God is saying something different with the opening post in the Bible and He explains it incrementally over the course of a few millennia. Our brains explode when we read John 1:1 and think about the heavens and the earth and they're being a throne and footstool. Our brains fog up when we consider God exists external to that which He creates. He steps "inside" creation and has a seat and His "seat" is the heavens, not the earth. The finite and temporal earth is the footstool of the externally existing eternal God. I blow through it in a few sentences because meditating on all that scripture brings to bear on this matter of "footstool" takes to long to post in a single thread .

So be careful about singular, simple, simplistic, or monolithic explanations.

Because the building God had in mind to build is not built by human hands . That's not where God dwells. No such building could contain His throne (the heavens) or His footstool (no matter how He has used the term). Thinking that way creates a variety of contradictions within itself when it comes to an overview of the tribulation and its time frame.

The heavens are His throne.
The earth is His footstool.
The saints are His temple.
He makes a footstool of His Son's enemies .

Psalm 110:1
The LORD says to my Lord: "Sit at My right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.

The Lord sits until his enemies are made a footstool. He does not come back before then. He does not come and go. He sits. He is sitting at his Father's right hand when he extends his scepter from Zion. He's NOT on earth. He's not ON earth until his enemies are defeated. The Lord is seated until the LORD defeats his enemies (which were all defeated on Calvary). There's always a period of clean up after a war is won.

Matthew 28:18-20
And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

That was going to cause trouble long before they got to Caesar. It was just a matter of time before Saul was collecting coats.

Matthew 24:9
Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of my name.

Given all the power Jesus possessed and commanded to use it, they'd be handed over to tribulation.

Revelation 7:13-17
Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, "These who are clothed in the white robes, who are they, and where have they come from?" I said to him, "My lord, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. For this reason, they are before the throne of God; and they serve Him day and night in His temple; and He who sits on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them. They will hunger no longer, nor thirst anymore; nor will the sun beat down on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd and will guide them to springs of the water of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."

The Lord is seated in heaven (his throne) at his LORD's right hand until the LORD makes the Lord's enemies a footstool. Here's my power, you're going to be handed over to tribulation, and coming out of the tribulation having washed your robes in my blood while serving me day and night in My temple I'll cover you with my tabernacle. These (and others) are the passages that should be discussed in this op.

A footstool is where a suppliant can have direct access to communication with a potentate and have their petition heard. To actually BECOME that footstool means that God has direct communication with that individual - such as having the Holy Spirit implanted within us.

Yes, but that's a different footstool from the one described in Psalm 110. God is not implanting His enemies with His Holy Spirit. The enemies of God are not bowing, bending to place a knee on a footstool in supplication in Psalm 110 (or Psalm 2). They are being "shattered," and their nations filled with corpses.