that the New Testament, as we have seen, should look backward through Old Testament history and understand the crown and kingdom of David to refer, not to an endless political reign, but to the kingdom of Messiah as promised in Psalm 110. And so, the writer to the Hebrews has no difficulty reading a royal wedding ode like Psalm 45 (which was originally written for a Davidic king on his wedding day) and using the anagogical sense of Scripture to see in it a reference to the ultimate Son of David—Messiah