On Friday 28 November 2003 07:55, Pastor Mark Eddy wrote:Dave, I think there could be a bit more to this. It is at least conceivable, although I am not arguing that it is true, that Psalm 22 was consciously and deliberately written as a prophecy of words to be spoken (or imagined or predicted as to be spoken) by a future Messiah - in the same way as Isaiah 9:1-7 and Jeremiah 23:5-6 seem to be conscious prophecies or predictions of a future Messianic figure.
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How can someone know that king David didn't think it was about Jesus?
I assume that you more or less mean "about a coming Messiah"? Part of the Christian viewpoint is that at times, the Hebrew prophets wrote things that foreshadowed events surrounding the future Messiah (whom we identify as Jesus) without really understanding that they were writing such foreshadowings. I would suggest that this might be one of those times, though to me it really doesn't matter whether David was aware of the messianic implications of this psalm or not, assuming the implications are there. The question of such implications, foreshadowings etc. is beyond the scope of this list, so that's all I'll say about it.
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