1 Chronicles 28-29—May the Risen Christ brighten up your Easter Weekend!
What a sad strange passage to fall on Resurrection Weekend!
David makes a final plea for temple donations; he prays a final prayer for Solomon and the building of the temple; he offers one last sacrifice to the Lord; he leads one final celebration meal; and he oversees the ordination and consecration of Solomon as king and Zadok as high priest. Under the Lord’s direction, David has insured the continuation of the kingdom.
Then David dies.
But what about Psalm 16? In it, David had written, For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your Holy One see corruption (Psalm 16:10). What went wrong? Nothing.
Peter quotes this psalm on Pentecost and adds: Brothers and sisters, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne, he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.
Blessed Easter!
Monday, we finally build the temple!
Until then,
Pastor Gary
What a sad strange passage to fall on Resurrection Weekend!
David makes a final plea for temple donations; he prays a final prayer for Solomon and the building of the temple; he offers one last sacrifice to the Lord; he leads one final celebration meal; and he oversees the ordination and consecration of Solomon as king and Zadok as high priest. Under the Lord’s direction, David has insured the continuation of the kingdom.
Then David dies.
But what about Psalm 16? In it, David had written, For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your Holy One see corruption (Psalm 16:10). What went wrong? Nothing.
Peter quotes this psalm on Pentecost and adds: Brothers and sisters, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne, he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.
Blessed Easter!
Monday, we finally build the temple!
Until then,
Pastor Gary
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