DID A PSALM PREDICT THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST FROM THE DEAD?
The gospels are clear as is the supposedly risen Jesus, that his resurrection should not be a surprise for he rose from the dead.
Psalm 16:10. “You will not abandon me to Sheol (the place of the dead),
neither will You suffer Your holy one [Holy One] to see corruption.”
Alleged Fulfilment. The resurrection of Jesus from the dead.
New Testament Interpretation. Peter dishonestly said that God intended this
meaning (Acts 2).
The Truth. It does not say it is about the Messiah and presents itself as
King David's work.
Peter told the lie that David's tomb still had his body in it but nobody even knew anything about his remains then. So by a process of elimination he worked out it meant Jesus not David. That was trickery.
Read the Psalm and see that it never actually says that somebody will rise
from the dead. It could be talking about recovery from grave illness that took
the person to the brink of death. Any fake messiah could fake an illness like
that and make a dramatic recovery. Only false prophets use prophecies that are
not clear and specific. Peter was inadvertently accusing the psalmist of just
that. Jesus prophesied that his resurrection was predicted which proves that
whatever kind of prophet he was he was not a real one.
The only prophecies in the Bible that speak of a resurrection speak of that of
King David from the dead. There is no need to take them metaphorically in this.
David would rise to rule Israel in peace and forever according to the laws of
God (Jeremiah 30:9; Ezekiel 34:23-24 and 37:24). Therefore the resurrection of
Jesus marks him out as a false messiah sent by evil angels to get in the way of
David the true Messiah. How? Because with David going to rise there was no need
for Jesus to rise. And because nothing ever said in the Old Testament that
anybody else would rise in the way Jesus reportedly did. The prophets had to
avoid being vague to be considered seriously for examination to see if they were
real prophets so Ezekiel meant David when he said David.
We are asked to believe that the apostles had no intention of promoting Jesus and preaching until they got the Holy Spirit. Then as soon as this happens Peter comes up with this interpretation of the verse. This clearly shows pre-planning and manipulation.
Don't forget that Sheol meant a place where your lifeforce goes and is a
shadow of itself. If Jesus was there then your idea that he lived after he
died and the body was just given back is wrong. He was a ghost like
everybody or rather everything else in Sheol.
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The WWW
www.infidels.org/library/modern/jim_lippard/fabulous-prophecies.html
The Fabulous Prophecies of the Messiah by Jim Lippard
This site argues that Daniel’s prophecy if punctuated by the Masoretic method
gives a totally different meaning from the one Christians want it to have and
which eliminates all attempts to make the prophecy predict the year of Jesus’
death. It shows how Gleason Archer misrepresented a verse from Jeremiah as
referring to Judas betraying Jesus for money and left out bits that proved that
it did not refer to that event. For example, he deliberately hides the fact that
Jeremiah said 17 shekels while Jesus was betrayed for 30 shekels. The Christians
now say that Isaiah 7:14 was fulfilled in Ahab’s time but was meant to be a
double-fulfilment prophecy meaning that it predicted Jesus’ virgin birth as well
or that it could be applied to Jesus’ birth too and was meant to be. That is
ridiculous. You could say that Isaiah 53, where the suffering and death of
Christ is allegedly predicted, is geared towards a double fulfilment too. And
how could either it or Isaiah 7:14 be double prophecies when they each speak of
only one event? The double-fulfilment idea is just imagining prophecies of Jesus
where there are none and ignoring the wording of Isaiah. The site also tells us
how silly the claim that the contradictory genealogies in Matthew and Luke that
were given for Jesus that they can be reconciled is. The Catholic Church claims
that both lists are accurate but the differences are down to levirate marriage.
Levirate marriage is when a childless man dies his brother is obliged to take
his wife and impregnate her with babies that are considered to belong to the
dead man. So each gospeller just chose different people as part of the line.
This is garbage for they differ in the number of ancestors. And my comment is
that there would not have been that many levirate marriages.
www.infidels.org/library/modern/farrell_till/prophecy.html
Prophecies: Imaginary and Unfulfilled by Farrell Till
This site points out that in the original Hebrew, Micah 5:2 says that the
Messiah will come out of the house of Ephrathah in Bethlehem meaning the clan or
family of Ephrathah. Matthew thought it meant land. Since there is no evidence
that Jesus came from this family, there is therefore no evidence that the
prophecy was about him though the Gospel of Matthew tries to make out that it
was. Therefore it is an abuse of scripture to say that the prophecy means Jesus.
Also Matthew misread Zechariah and thought he said that the king would ride on
both an ass and her colt. My comment is that for Jesus to fulfil that he had to
be a proper king anointed and enthroned but Jesus was never anointed or sat in a
throne. He claimed to be a king but that was not much to go on. Otherwise
anybody would do as a fulfilment as long as they claimed to be king. God also
promised the land to the Israelites no matter what evil they did on account of
his having promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Deuteronomy 9:3-6) and indeed gave
them the land though he considered them totally undeserving (Exodus 33:1-6). His
promise was unconditional and yet many times they lost the land. My comment is
that in the last millennium the Jews were no better or worse than any other
nation and were good enough people and still their land was not theirs any more.
God broke his promise or the Bible is slandering him. But with Christians the
Bible will come first.
www.mindspring.com/~bab5/BIB/lessons.htm Daniel 9:17-27 Seventy Weeks of Years
This page argues regarding Daniel’s 70 weeks prophecy that since the author of
Daniel knew Jeremiah pretty well and how Jeremiah’s prophecy that Israel would
be exiled for 70 years proved false for it was 48 years that he probably assumed
that the 70 years were not literal and so he might have not meant his 70 weeks
to give a specific time span. It also points out how the conservatives often add
the before the word anointed in verse 25 to make it seem that Jesus is being
referred to and even go as far as to pretend that the seven weeks and the
sixty-two weeks add up to sixty nine weeks when they could be running
concurrently and indeed must be for the writer could have written 69 weeks
instead of 7 and 62 weeks. It shows that the Jewish year was not 360 days long
for they had reason to add on a month every three years which means that Jesus
would have died about 38 AD which Christians cannot accept for Pilate was axed
in 37 AD.
www.infidels.org/library/modern/steven_carr/non-messianic.html, Steven Carr,
Critique of Josh McDowells Non-Messianic Prophecies This Site cannot be overly
recommended. It is superb.
www.mindspring.com/~bab5/BIB/lessons.htm, The Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53
www.mindspring.com/~bab5/BIB/lessons.htm, Isaiah 53’s Suffering Servant Israel
http://human.st/jesuspuzzle/CTVExcerptsTwo.htm, Challenging the Verdict
www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/bp/890/interpretation.html, The Infamous Isaiah
Scam
http://web2/airmail.net/bennoahl/isa53no7.htm, What You Were Never Taught in the
Christian Church…The Truth About Isaiah 53
