Links to elsewhere on this Web site: 1. /apologetics.html /book.html /doctrinal.html /essays.html /links.html /sermonettes.html /webmaster.html For the home page, click here: /index.html
Does Islam cause terrorism?
Click here: /Apologeticshtml/Moral Equivalency Applied Islamic
History 0409.htm
Is the Bible God’s Word?
Click here: /Apologeticshtml/Is the Bible the Word of God.htm
Why does God Allow Evil?
Click here: /Apologeticshtml/Why Does God Allow Evil 0908.htm
Is Christian teaching from
ancient paganism? /Bookhtml/Paganism influence issue article Journal
013003.htm
Which is right?: Judaism or
Christianity?/Apologeticshtml/Is Christianity a Fraud vs Conder
Round 2.htm
Should God’s existence be
proven? /Apologeticshtml/Should the Bible and God Be Proven
Fideism vs WCG.htm
Does the Bible teach blind
faith? Click here: /doctrinalhtml/Gospel of John Theory of Knowledge.htm
David
as a Type of Christ in Peter’s Pentecost Message
Eric
Snow, sermonette, June 11, 2011, UCG-Ann Arbor, Michigan
How
do we know that Jesus of Nazareth was the prophesied Messiah of the Old
Testament? Suppose you talked with a
Jewish neighbor or skeptical coworker who claimed the Christian interpretation
of its prophecies wrongly took verses out of context. How would you use the Old Testament to prove Jesus was the
predicted Savior of humanity? Both
Peter and Paul had to evangelize Jews and gentiles who didn’t assume Christ was
the Savior. Both quoted a verse about
David’s death and resurrection that was also about Jesus’ death and
resurrection.
S.P.S. King David’s death and future resurrection
served as a type of Christ.
In
order to understand Peter’s and Paul’s problems when evangelizing better,
pretend that you were a Jew who lived nearly 2000 years ago in the Roman
Empire. How would you know that Jesus
of Nazareth was the Messiah and Savior?
Would you just believe what some stranger said who showed up for the
first time one day at your neighborhood synagogue after the reading of the
law? Probably not.
David
served in general as a type of Christ.
That means that what he did and was foreshadowed what later Jesus was to
do and be. Skeptical Jews will point
out differences between any type Christians find in the Old Testament and its
fulfillment in Christ. However, a
type’s characteristics need not completely fit what will fulfill it. Hence, Jesus didn’t literally have to have
wool and four legs to be the lamb of God spiritually.
A
type is something, such as an
animal, ritual, or object, that will symbolically represent something else as a
forerunner of what is to come, but which doesn't make any direct, specific
predictions verbally. For example, the
Passover lamb was "an unblemished
male" (Ex. 12:5), which pictured Jesus, the sinless God made fleshly man who died for humanity's sins.
How
does King David’s life relate to Peter’s Pentecost sermon? Notice that Peter used King David’s death
and anticipated resurrection as foreshadowing what Christ’s miraculous
experiences would be.
Acts
2:23-28
Peter
makes clear that the Messiah died, just as King David did. Also correspondingly, He also was a physical
descendant of King David. The Pharisees
and many other Jews had expected the Messiah to be a Conquering King who will
take over rulership of the world from the pagan gentile Romans.
Notice
that this verse wasn’t fulfilled by David’s death, since his flesh did see
corruption, i.e., his body did rot.
Someone else later had to come along to fulfill it.
Verse
33:
Having
received the Holy Spirit, Jesus shared this gift with the rest of us.
Verses
34-35:
Jesus’
enemies not yet fully defeated. They
aren’t yet a footstool even today.
Paul
cited similar verses and reasoned similarly when giving his initial
presentation at the synagogue in Antioch.
Acts
13:22+
Verse
27
The
Jewish leaders didn’t recognize their own Messiah when He came, despite having
the Word of God that described Him centuries in advance.
Ironically,
they fulfilled Scripture by condemning Him!
Verse
33
Jesus
was “born again” at the resurrection (other definition).
Verse
36-37
David’s
corpse saw corruption, but not Christ’s.
David hasn’t yet been resurrected, but Jesus was.
So
in conclusion: The death and future
resurrection of David foreshadowed the death and resurrection of Jesus. The Old Testament predicts what’s fulfilled
in the New Testament. May we rejoice
that God planned so long and carefully in advance the means of our salvation!
Click here to access essays
that defend Christianity: 1. /apologetics.html
Click here to access essays
that explain Christian teachings: /doctrinal.html
Click here to access notes
for sermonettes: /sermonettes.html
Does Islam cause terrorism?
Click here: /Apologeticshtml/Moral Equivalency Applied Islamic
History 0409.htm
Is the Bible God’s Word?
Click here: /Apologeticshtml/Is the Bible the Word of God.htm
Why does God Allow Evil?
Click here: /Apologeticshtml/Why Does God Allow Evil 0908.htm
Is Christian teaching from
ancient paganism? /Bookhtml/Paganism influence issue article Journal
013003.htm
Which is right?: Judaism or
Christianity? /Apologeticshtml/Is Christianity a Fraud vs Conder
Round 1.htm
/Apologeticshtml/Is Christianity a Fraud vs Conder
Round 2.htm
Should God’s existence be
proven? /Apologeticshtml/Should the Bible and God Be Proven
Fideism vs WCG.htm
Does the Bible teach blind
faith? Click here: /doctrinalhtml/Gospel of John Theory of Knowledge.htm
Links to elsewhere on this
Web site: /apologetics.html /book.html /doctrinal.html /essays.html /links.html /sermonettes.html /webmaster.html For the home page, click here: /index.html