“Gird your sword upon your thigh, O mighty one, with your dignity and your splendor.

Ps. 45:3

14. Why is the newly inaugurated King a “mighty one,” even as foretold in Isaiah 9:6?

¹⁴ In his dignity and splendor, as of an officially inaugurated king, Jesus Christ girds himself with the sword of war in order to lift it up against the opposing nations on earth. Being no longer a man of flesh and blood, but clothed with heavenly powers, he is now indeed a “mighty one.” The prophecy of Isaiah 9:6 says that one of his titles was to be “Mighty God.” The heavily armed nations of today must yet learn to know him as such a mighty one.