The physician Luke wrote how Peter spoke to the multitude gathered outside the house where the upper room was located concerning Jesus, “Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain. Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. For David spoke concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved. Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope”, and in chapter two and verse twenty-seven of the book of Acts Luke shared how Peter told the multitude King David prophetically said, “you will not leave my soul in hell” where we read:
Because you will not leave my soul in hell, neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption.
The verse begins, “Because you will not leave my soul in hell, ...” Luke began with the words, “because you will not leave” which means “since and on account that you, Father God, will not abandon, desert and utterly forsake” “my soul in hell” or “my, the Messiah's, heart and mind which is the seat of the feelings, desires, affections and aversions in Hades, the grave, death and the common receptacle for disembodied spirits”. Luke shared how “Peter” continued to tell the multitude how “King David” prophetically declared that God would not “abandon” the “soul” of Jesus in “Hades”, the grave or the place where disembodied spirits go after death.
The verse continues, “... neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption.” Luke added the words, “neither will you suffer” or “not at all nor in any way will you, Heavenly Father God, bestow, grant, furnish or supply” “your Holy One” which means “your, Heavenly Father God's, pure, sacred, undefiled, free from wickedness and pious One, the Messiah Jesus” “to see corruption” or “to observe, behold, perceive or know destruction and decay”. Luke shared how “Peter” continued “King David's words” that God the Heavenly Father would not allow His “Holy One”, Messiah Jesus, to experience “destruction and decay”.
When we think through Luke's words in this verse, we learn how “Peter” referred to “King David's words” concerning the way God the Heavenly Father was not going to allow His Son Jesus to remain “dead” in “destruction and decay”. “King David” spoke these words prophetically concerning the “Messiah Jesus”, and when God raised His Son Jesus from the dead, He fulfilled this scripture. Jesus did not remain dead, and because He defeated “death, hell and the grave”, anyone who believes and trusts in Him as their personal “Savior and Lord” will be forgiven of their sins and granted everlasting life with God. Let all who read these words carefully consider “Peter” and “King David's” words and surrender their lives to Jesus who is the “Savior and Lord” of the world.
Next time Luke shares how Peter tells the multitude King David said, “you have made known to me the ways of life”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.
Until tomorrow…there is more…
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