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We now see an example of how what happened in the Old Testament is only a shadow of the fulfilment that came in Christ. We also see the hard nosed realism. “David died and was buried”. They knew full well that when people died that was the end of them as far as the earth was concerned. Indeed, David’s tomb was there for all to see. This shows the importance of the empty tomb. If Jesus had not been raised from the dead they Roman authorities or the Jewish authorities could easily have pointed to it. But the only tomb they could point to was an empty one.
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Peter was not belittling David in anyway. David was a prophet. This shows that the term prophet went beyond the most obvious examples (ie Elijah, Isaiah etc), but includes people like David and Moses. In David’s life there was a significant amount of frustration and disappointment, much of it of his own making. David wanted to build a temple (1 Chron 17:1), but God said it was not for David to build the temple because there was too much blood on his hands (1 Chron 22:8). Yet David looked ahead, and knew that there was something far greater that lay ahead. In many of the psalms as well as describing what was going on in his own life, David got glimpses of the wonderful things that would happen in the future. We can experience disappointments in our own lives for all sort of reasons. We have a choice. We can dwell on the disappointments, or we can look ahead with faith.
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