“Yahweh says…” “Yahweh has sworn…” And the person that Yahweh spoke to both times is the Lord, whom the early Christians now recognized as Messiah, namely, Jesus. Those two sentences provide the structure of the psalm: God the Father speaking to God the Son. They are the reason for the prominence of Psalm 110 in the early Christian community. These people were interested above all in hearing what God had to say to Jesus. Their thirst for the good news was insatiable. Their appetite for the Word of God was bottomless.
