Time in Jeremiah 31, Part I of III

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We are trying to understand time in prophecy. Many passages of prophecy could be used, but here we are going to use Jeremiah chapter 31 as sort of a prophecy laboratory. Jeremiah says that one day ALL the families of Israel will belong to the Lord. It is at a certain “time.”

“At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.” Jer 31:1 WEB

Jeremiah is speaking during the period of time when Israel and Judah were going into captivity into foreign countries and he says,

“Thus says Yahweh, The people who were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.” Jer 31:2 WEB

Now because of the usages of Jeremiah 31 in Scripture, it should be nailed down that this is talking about the Jews, not just about the new and broader Israel of the New Covenant. So Paul quotes Jer 31:31 of the Jews in the book of Romans.

27 This is my covenant to them,
When I will take away their sins.”
28 Concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.
Rom 11:27-28 WEB.

So indeed we shall have to return to Jer 31:1 again, before this study is over. God says in Jer 31:3 that “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love …” WEB. God says in verse 7 that they should sing aloud with joy, and publish this good news. God says that He is indeed going to bring them back from the foreign counties, and goes into talking in several verses following about their singing for joy. There was a return in time of Ezra, around 536 BC. Is that what was talked about? We will have to see.

Then God talks about crying and weeping in Ramah

“Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.” Jer 31:15 WEB

At this point we have a certain time marker. The Apostle Matthew says that was when Herod the Great killed all of the infants in a certain place called Ramah near Gibeon, and not far from Jerusalem. When exactly did this happen? It was when Jesus was a baby. Our modern calendar is off a little bit in calculating the birth of Christ. We know from secular history that Herod the Great died in 4 BC. So the date of the slaughter of the infants is say, somewhere between 4 BC and say 6 BC. Without know the time exactly, we still have a pretty good time marker in Jeremiah 31 here.

Jeremiah goes to say that Rachel should stop crying. The children shall return.

“Thus says Yahweh: Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says Yahweh; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.” Jer 31:61

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“But that is just figurative. How can we believe it?” Part III of III

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Jesus was to come with dark sayings.

“ I will open my mouth in a parable.
I will utter dark sayings of old, ”
Psa 78:2 WEB

Notice that most of the Sermon on the Mount is in figurative, symbolic language, and what does it say?

“Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,” Mtt 13:34 WEB

Should we say, Well that’s just figurative? And ignore these “parables”? Are they understandable? Yes but parts of Sermon on the mount indeed have been frequently misunderstood. All of this means that Jesus was fulfilling Psa 78:2, according to Mtt 13:35.

What should we do? Why not be study diligently? 2Tim 2:15.

Objection to figurative / symbolic language in prophecy
is a Cop-Out, double talk,
often unconsciously used because
what is said stretches beyond
what we are willing to believe
or accept, or even study.

For instance, Abraham could have found it “unbelievable” that he would have a child at age 99, Rom 4:13. He could have just said, “Oh yeah?”

Against what could be reasonably expected, Abraham believed God.

“Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your seed be.” ” Rom 4:18 WEB.

Without weakening, Abraham believed God, Rom 4:19-21.

Theological liberals find almost all Scripture beyond believing, especially prophecy, and some of that leaven has through graduate schools infected many of our own.

God often stretches us beyond we find “believable,” just to see if we will believe HIM, even when it seems to us “unbelievable.”

Seriously! Was this symbolic, or did it literally happen, or is it both?

Abraham is an example as Paul discusses in Romans 4. God often announces things we have trouble believing, and often we just reject these things out of hand. As Isaiah said, “Who has believed our message? …” Isa 53:1 WEB.

And what are some of the unbelievable things God announces in Isaiah 53? The messiah will be put to death by judicial murder, Isa 53:7-8. The Messiah? Unbelievable.

But He will prolong his days, Isa 53:10. Wait a minute. That’s a contradiction isn’t it? How can I believe that? And many didn’t believe what seemed to contradict common sense!

Beware! Unbelief, even of “figurative” prophecies, can cost you your soul. It did the Pharisees!

It could have cost Abraham his soul, if he had not believed those “unbelievable” things, and so it can us, and that is the point of Romans 4.

If we read the clear words, figurative or not, and say in our heart, “It isn’t so,” then we have made God a liar, 1Jn 5:10.

This is no drill.

Does this make you feel uncomfortable? Maybe it should. Especially if you have neglected large stretches of the Bible. It is ALL meant for our instruction, 2Tim 3:16-17, so that you will be thoroughly furnished. So that you will live forever.

Maybe we have been playing with half a deck.

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“But that is just figurative. How can we believe it?” Part II of III

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And there is figurative language later in Romans! In more than one place. For instance in Romans 12.

“Therefore
“If your enemy is hungry, feed him.
If he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.””
Rom. 12:20 WEB.

So Rom 12:20 says that if you do this (present tense), then it “will” have (future, and so also it is in Greek) the effect of heaping coals of fire on his head.

Is this literal? Is that soft coal or hard coal? Bituminous? High sulfur? Low Sulfur? Oh NO! Is this [shudder-r-r-r!] figurative? And it is future! It is a prophecy. It means God “will” (future) avenge you!

If you believe this prophecy, you will in “the present” obey this command.

If you don’t believe this prophecy (and many, perhaps most, even in the Lord, don’t) then you will not obey this command in the present, because you are not sure you can trust God to avenge you, therefore you need to avenge yourself.

Was this symbolic, or did it literally happen, or is it both?

Also there is figurative language about the second coming in Romans 13. When most people say, “Oh that is figurative,” they often really mean, it has no real meaning we can discern, and should be ignored.

“The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.”
Rom. 13:12 WEB.

Should I now reject Romans 13 for teaching? This is a prophecy and uses [shudder-r-r-r!] figurative language of the future!

You might say, I reject this! It is so imprecise! Well, yes, in a way it is. It does not tell us “exactly” what “at hand” means!

Throw this verse out for figurative language and being in men’s terms “imprecise”? Only at your own risk.

Can we misuse this verse? Absolutely! Peter says of the apostle Paul,

“as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.” 2Pe 3:16 WEB.

“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: ” 2Tim 3:16 KJV

So Scripture is not a cafeteria where you can choose to avoid parts of the Word of God just because you think someone misunderstood this one time. Throw this out? At your own risk.

If you call some man a pig, that is indeed symbolic language, figurative language. But it not without meaning.

Is it imprecise in some ways? Yes. But it is not without meaning.

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“But that is just figurative. How can we believe it?” Part I of III

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This is a common complaint about prophecy today. People often say this to mean: This has no real meaning, it is figurative. Ignore it.

Lets look at the book of Romans. Romans 1 refers to fulfilled prophecy of Jesus resurrection and views it as having been understandable.

“2 which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, 3 concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, 4 who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,”
Rom. 1:2-4. WEB

Look closely at the verses following Rom 1:2. Is not Paul right in treating these things as understandable?

Now most of these prophecies used symbolic language.

“He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn’t open his mouth.” Isa 53:7

Was Isaiah 53:7 about a sheep or a person. (We jest.) (Oh no! we might say, We cannot accept Isaiah 53 as evidence about Jesus. It includes [shudder-r-r-r!] figurative language!)

Was this symbolic, or did it literally happen, or is it both?

But then Paul goes on to discuss some of this subject as if Isaiah 53 and many other passages, all of which included figurative language, were very understandable, unless you have trouble accepting the Word of God, OR if you have decided that God cannot or would not ever foretell the future, Or have decided, “Well God would NEVER allow His Christ to die.” Was Paul wrong?

Was “prophecy” beyond comprehension?

Clearly if figurative language [shudder-r-r-r!] puts a prophecy out of bounds for evidence about the resurrection, then you do not have any prophetic evidence for the resurrection, and Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22 and all the rest, would be clearly out of bounds for use as evidence.

There is plenty about prophecy in Romans chapter 2 for instance, including:

“But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;” Rom. 2:5 WEB.

And,

“oppression and anguish, on every soul of man who works evil, on the Jew first, and also on the Greek.” Rom. 2:9 WEB.

These are prophecies of what God will do, which demand action on our part.

Romans 3 speaks a future justification by faith.

“since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.” Rom 3:30 WEB

It says “God who will,” or perhaps in your translation says “God shall,” all of which is future. That is right. It will be when God raises us from the dead. This is a prophecy of what God “will do, and that is the fabric of the discussion.

The whole book of Romans is about what God WILL do, and why you and I must change to fit what WILL happen! Is it understandable? Yes. But our resistance to the message may make all of this beyond what we are willing to comprehend.

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The Mystery Religions: An Overview

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The Mystery Religions are special type of religion which many people do not know much about. The Greek word for “mystery” is mus-t?-ri-on. A good place to start might be the definition given in A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, by Arndt and Gingrich, University of Chicago, 1957.

“secret, secret rite, secret teaching, mystery, a religious technical term, applied mostly to the mysteries with their secret teachings, religious and political in nature, concealed with many strange customs and ceremonies …

“A secret or mystery, too profound for human ingenuity …” pgs 531-532 (bold emphasis added. Abbreviations were eliminated in the above quote)

So “mystery” referred to a special class of religions which claimed to have special truths (mysteries) revealed to them by some “god” or “gods.” This revelation was supposedly made to some ancient and worthy person: Plato, or Pythagoras, or whoever. When some Jews and Christians became involved in such things, the claim was often made that the secret revelation was first made to Solomon, or Moses, or Abraham, or Enoch, or sometimes even to Adam himself.

These revelations were often communicated to the novice in powerful religious dramas in which the new person participated, knowing only his or her own part, and when to say their lines.

Then comes the next part: this revelation of truth was so high and holy, and so far above any public revelations of the “gods,” that it could never be revealed to just anyone. It had to be kept totally secret, and only revealed to certain specially selected “worthy” persons, who were just a little better than everyone else, and who could be trusted to keep these things a secret.

These “secrets,” these “mysteries,” were never to be revealed to the common man, and were never to be written down. They were memorized, and passed on verbally from generation to generation. The novice in such groups had to take terrible oaths of secrecy before being admitted, and even then were not given any true secrets at the beginning level. Some people just cannot a secret, no matter what they swear to.

Mystery religions were started for various reasons. Some for religious reasons, some merely to form social clubs, and some obviously for “religious and political” reasons. Despite that, if these groups grew and were viable, they almost always ended up being used for political purposes, whether good or bad. I was just too easy. Here were ready-made groups which were already trained in keeping secrets. Awesome power to rig the political process was also here, with few being the wiser.

There is more about the mystery religions in Prophecy Principles in the section on “Some Age Long Mysteries,” and in Revealing the Christian Age in the section “Excursus, What Might look This Look Like in History.”

Lastly, mystery religions were also a natural for concealing criminal activities or organizations, and as such often provoked the ire of governing authorities. Scripture mentions a “mystery of lawlessness” which is already at work, 2Thes 2:7. Also it mentions one Mystery Babylon the Great, a religio-commercial entity which seems to both facilitate and dominate world trade (Revelation 18), which rules over the kings of the earth (Rev 17:18), and which is drunk with the blood of the saints (Rev 17:6).

Rome: A Prophetic Failure? Or Symbolic?

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Many think the book of Revelation is very simple.

It is all about Rome and the Caesars, and the persecution of the early church.

There were bits and pieces of the book of Revelation that fit ancient Rome. Starting with Nero there was ongoing persecution of the early church. Revelation does clearly talk about the end of time, as do many other books of the Bible. But Revelation also clearly says it talks about “things which must shortly come to pass;” Rev 1:1 KJV. Many think it is only about things which must shortly come to pass. You might even get the impression that the Second Coming of Christ would be associated with the fall of Rome!

We must remember too that Revelation was not a secret book. It was publicly disseminated. Probably most early Christians thought it was about Rome, but many (just like today) did not know what to make of it. Because you see here is the other side, which is not often discussed.

Much of Revelation does NOT fit Rome, even from the first.

A page from a pocket copy of Revelation. Egypt, 300’s AD. From “Revealing the Christian Age.”

Many liberals think that the beast is supposed to one of the caesars, and that “Mystery Babylon the Great” is Rome. That fits only to a point.

First of all, Mystery Babylon is all about trade and filthy religious sex (Rev 17:4), and seduction. Babylon was the one,

“with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality.”” Rev 17:2 WEB.

Rome indeed ruled many kings, but by force, not by seduction.

Rome did at times buy or control commodities, like for instance wheat. However, Rome was not primarily about trade, but about government. Rome definitely did not trade in the wide range of goods described in Revelation 18. The tradesmen did, and many of the corporations which prospered in the Empire. Rome’s specialty was the practice of military power which few could resist. Rome did not try to seduce other to get the money she needed. Rome would simply demand in taxes what she thought she needed.

Additionally, the standard liberal interpretation has the caesars (the beast?) overthrowing Rome, their own power base! That should be an astonishing interpretation in anyone’s book. Of course, that never happened! Some are more than willing to treat Revelation as a false prophecy.

So many from the first realized that much of this did not fit Rome of their day, with much wonderment. Some thought the many missing parts would yet happen with Rome, but they never did. For instance a “mark” that was necessary for buying and selling. See the previous post “A Special “Mark” …”

There is more discussion of why Rome does not ultimately fit Revelation, in Revealing the Christian Age.

But remember in 2 Samuel 7, Solomon was a type, symbolic of Jesus, and both of them are in the prophecy, with no clear lines of division! (see the previous posts about “Two Sons of David.”) Are Rome and the caesars merely types, symbolic of what was to come later?

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The Jews Will Finally Convert to Jesus of Nazareth

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Yes it is true that it was prophesied that the Jews would reject their own Messiah, the Christ, Jesus of Nazareth. Some of the passages are stunning, even blood curdling.

“14 He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense  both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 Many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.” 
Isa 8:14-15 WEB

By now it is passe that the Jews as a whole have rejected Jesus, and everyone treats this as a permanent case. Even so, Scripture also says that the Jews will finally convert to Jesus!

This is far less widely acknowledged. In fact it is often emphatically disputed. Part of the issued is how wide has been the Jewish rejection, and how stubbornly consistent it has been over the centuries. Many during the centuries have seen that Scripture predicted a final conversion to Jesus, and thinking it was near, tried to turn the Jews to better ways … only to be faced with bitter failures. So many have come to treat their conversion as something that just wasn’t so, and never will be!

But many of the Scriptures are very clear and not at all conditional. For instance,

“Yahweh your God WILL circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.”
Deut 30:6 WEB.

Will the prophets of the Jews finally have the impact on that nation that they should have had all along?

That is not a wishy-washy prophecy, nor are many others. For instance:

“At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.”
Jer 31:1 WEB

Now David says that, “The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” ” Psa 14:1 WEB. Yet there is probably no nation on earth that has a greater percentage of atheist than the Jews. But Jeremiah 31:1 says that there will come a day when “says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.” Either this is a false prophecy, or it just has not happened yet!

And then there are prophecies like those of Zechariah. He points to day when,

“I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.”
Zech 12:10 WEB

In context this is ALL the families of Israel, Zech 12:11-13. That is to say, “all the families who remain,” Zech 12:14.

That would be an astounding day, an awesome day, which has never happen YET! And it happens during a time of great stress.

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A Second RETURN of the Jews

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Then there are prophecies like those of Zechariah. Now Zechariah was from the first return from captivity. He is listed in the book of Ezra concerning a return to fuller devotion to the Lord and completing the rebuilding of the temple Zerubbabel had been working on, Ezra 5:1 and 6:14. Zechariah said in Zech 1:1 that his prophesying had been begun “In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, ” which would be about the year 520 BC, well after the beginning of the first return from captivity. Zechariah talked about many things in his much neglected fourteen chapters, including the following.

I will scatter them among the peoples;
And they will remember me in far countries;
And they will live with their children, and will return.
Zech 10:9 nf

So at a time when the Jews have barely just begun their gathering from captivity, Yahweh, the Lord of Hosts is announcing through Zechariah that God is going to scatter the Jews a second time.

The Lord says that He will scatter them. The KJV is “sow them,” and they will be scattered as seed are scattered for sowing, but it does not seem to be describing any blessing that is being talked about in their being forced again into all the nations.

And when did the second scattering of Israel begin, the second sowing of them in foreign countries? No time fits this but the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD! Jesus says of those time,

“23 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people. 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.” Lk 21:23-24

But then God says, He will not only scatter them a second time, but that He will also gather them a second time!

I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt,
And gather them out of Assyria;
And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; And there won’t be room enough for them.
Zech 10:10 WEB

And a second return of the Jews when they will be so properous that “there won’t be room enough for them. ”

Isaiah writes before the first scattering of the Jews, and says,

“It shall happen in that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, who shall remain, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.”

But this is written before even the first return of the Jews after first scattering.

So a second scattering, and a second return of the Jews is forecast in the Old Testament. You tell me when the second return starts!

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Yes, There a Great Tribulation.

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In fact there are multiple times of severe persecution and stress during the Christian Age.

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.”
2Tim 3:1 KJV.

The word “tribulation” means to be suffering, or under severe pressure. The Greek word is “thlip´-sis,” and it is a word used for being under pressure, much as we speak today. Some translations use the words “affliction” or “oppression.” Paul even says of all Christians,

“…that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.”
Acts 14:22 KJV

So some stress is involved in being a true Christian. Further Jesus says,

“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” Mtt 24:21 KJV

Jesus associates this period of stress with the end of this present universe. 

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:”
Mtt 24:29 KJV.

Jesus says “then” He will come.

“30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his electfrom the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”
Mtt 24:30-31 KJV

Yes there are two grand subjects in Matthew chapter 24: the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, and the Second Coming of Christ. The “problem” (I speak as a man) is how to separate the two subjects. But notice that Mtt 24:30-31 is clearly about a time when “ all the tribes of the earth mourn, and … see” Jesus. And it is the time when Jesus shall gather his “elect” (the saved) “from one end of heaven to the other.” This also is something which clearly has not happened.

Also Rev 7:14 speaks of the “great tribulation.” The Greek here is very emphatic. If you translated it word for word it would be, “the great, the tribulation.”

Some want to maintain that the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD was the “great tribulation” of Mtt 24:21 which was worse than anything that will ever happen. But that of course makes nonsense of the Second Coming of Christ as clearly described in Mtt 24:30-31 which talks about “Immediately after the tribulation of those days.” As bad as 70 AD was, multiple events in history were worse than the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. Prophecy Principles discusses this in more detail.

At best, the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD is a “type,” symbolic, a prototype, of the end of the world. The end of the world will in some respects “like” the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. A “great” tribulation will precede the Second Coming of Christ.

This Great Tribulation is not some invention of men. This is Scripture.

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When the Facts Do Not Fit the Prophecy, Psalm 16:10

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When Jesus disciples were dismayed at how He had been abused and put to death, He explained that it was necessary that these things happen, Lk 24:26. Indeed it is a “necessity” that we see in many places in scripture.

That the Christ must die and be raised

In David’s Psalm 16 we see David speaking in of a special “Holy One.”

“For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, 
Neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.” 
Psalm 16:10 WEB.

David speaks in the first person in this psalm, and of “my soul” but calls the subject God’s “Holy One”. This is not a name that a bloody man of war such as David could claim. Indeed, for these reasons God had rejected David desire to build God a temple, for God told David,

“ … You have shed blood abundantly, and have made great wars: you shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.” 
1Chron 22:8 WEB.

But David goes on to say of this first person “Holy One” that God will not allow Him to undergo decay!! An incredible claim. And as the apostle Peter notes in Acts 2, this is not a description that fits the author David. For as Peter told his audience that David was dead and buried.

““Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.” 
Acts 2:29 WEB.

Later on we see that this is the same point Paul made.

“35 Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’ 36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay. 37 But he whom God raised up saw no decay.” 
Act 13:35-37 WEB.

As Peter goes on to explain that David, being a prophet,

“30 … and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne, 31 he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay. 32 This Jesus God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.” 
Act 2:30-31 WEB.

So the lack of fulfillment in the first person of David does not leave our prophecy hanging, for not a even the dotting of an “i” or the crossing of a “t” may fail of anything the prophets said, Mtt 5:17-18. What is lacking in David’s first person prophecy is fulfilled in Jesus death, burial and resurrection.

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