February 25, 2019
Psalm 22:12-31
I cannot state with any authority that this part of the Psalm is referring to Jesus the Christ, but I believe with 100% accuracy that David is not referring to himself. But if one was to look only at history, it is described in Josephus's account of Jesus. Many have said that it was not written by Josephus, but that has been proven not to be true. Josephus lived from 37 A.D. to 100 A.D., and it does look like he may have read the Gospel of Luke that was an account of the early Church between A.D. 30 – 63, so it is possible that Josephus may have read this account and taken from it.
“About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was one who performed surprising deeds and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly. He was the Messiah. And when, upon the accusation of the principal men among us, Pilate had condemned him to a cross, those who had first come to love him did not cease. He appeared to them spending a third day restored to life, for the prophets of God had foretold these things and a thousand other marvels about him. And the tribe of the Christians, so-called after him, has still to this day not disappeared. Jewish Antiquities 18.3,3 (Based on the translation of Louis H. Feldman, The Loeb Classical Library)
But we who study the Bible both New and Old Testaments have a much better account of the many prophesy and the words of Jesus and the accounts of the apostles.
Let me close with Psalm 22:28-31, “For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations. All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, even the one who could not keep himself alive. Posterity shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation; they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he has done it.”
From the Back Porch,
Bob Rice
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