Insight from Psalm 34:<\/p>\n
\u201cPsalm 34:19\u201320 refers to a specific righteous male person whose bones Yahweh will not permit to be broken \u2026 (\u2018He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken\u2019). This text referring to Yahweh\u2019s treatment of this individual follows five verses (34:15\u201319) where Yahweh describes the salvation he will grant to a multitude.\u201d \u2014<\/span>Tom Kelby, \u201cChrist\u2019s Prayers and the Saints\u2019 Songs: The Eschatological King and His People in Book One of the Psalter\u201d (PhD diss., Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2024), 249.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSignificantly, the typology in the historical superscription in Ps 34 prepares the reader for the direct prophecy of the righteous man as the Passover lamb: \u2018Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away.\u2019 In the superscription, God\u2019s people (i.e., David and his men) live in exile under a foreign ruler. David fears he may die. David does not battle with the Gentile king. Rather, he \u2018changed his behavior\u2019 and was driven from the king\u2019s presence. In this way, David saved his people and brought them into God\u2019s land. Thus, David\u2019s deliverance led numbers of people to gather around him. In a far greater way, Christ \u2018changed his behavior\u2019 before both Pilate and Herod. Both leaders marveled at his silence in their presence. Jesus, like David, was delivered and brings God\u2019s people to God\u2019s place. His deliverance led to a far greater ingathering of people than David experienced.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe poetic text of Ps 34 directly predicts how God\u2019s people are delivered. The eschatological king will die as the Passover Lamb. This Passover reference immediately connects the psalm, in keeping with the imagery beginning in Ps 1, with an exodus event and the safe passage of God\u2019s people into God\u2019s place.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u2014Tom Kelby, \u201cChrist\u2019s Prayers and the Saints\u2019 Songs: The Eschatological King and His People in Book One of the Psalter\u201d (PhD diss., Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2024), 255\u201356.<\/span><\/p>\n Insight from Matthew 22:30<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cChrist is the substance to which all biblical symbols point, but unlike some pictures such as the temple and clean and unclean laws, which have reached their terminus in Christ\u2019s first appearing, the distinction between males and females will continue at least to the consummation (as is clear in texts such as Ephesians 5:22\u201333 and 1 Timothy 3:4\u20135). And even then, while earthly marriage will be no more (Matt. 22:30)\u2014the picture being overcome by the reality\u2014there is no reason to think that the distinction between men and women, heads and helpers within the community of faith, will alter in the new heavens and earth (cf. Rev. 21:24, where \u201ckings\u201d are distinguished). Maleness and femaleness will most likely provide an eternal reminder of God\u2019s order in reality, in which he is supreme over all.\u201d \u2014 Jason S. DeRouchie, <\/span>How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament: Twelve Steps from Exegesis to Theology<\/span><\/i> (Phillipsburg: P&R, 2017), 448.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_crdt_document":""},"class_list":["post-4485","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reading-plan"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}