Psalm 16:10-11 AMP
“For You will not abandon me to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead), Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay. You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.”
Long before the Lord Jesus was born into this world, the Spirit of God moved David to speak words that would properly apply to Christ’s resurrection from the dead—even before He would die! Foreshadowing Christ, David said to God the Father, “You will not abandon me to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead), nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay. You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore”, as in our reference text. Hallelujah! Certainly, it is Christ (but not the Psalmist) whose body did not “undergo decay”, accurately in line with what was spoken.
Way before His physical death would take place, Christ rested assured in the Father’s ability to resurrect Him and said, “You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy.” That “path of life” is from the nether world, the place of the dead, to God’s (literal) presence in heaven where there is “fullness of joy” and “pleasures forevermore.” Hallelujah! Thus, when death came knocking at His door over two thousand years ago, our Lord Jesus knew that it would only be a matter of a few days before He would stun the world with His resurrection! Yes, talking to the Jews, this is how Jesus covertly put it:
“Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up” (Joh 2:19 NKJV). Hallelujah! By “this temple”, Christ meant His physical body. Elsewhere, the Lord Jesus also hinted at His sure resurrection from the dead, saying, “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Mat 12:40 NKJV). It took only “three days” to change the spiritual trajectory of this world in the right direction by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Amazingly, Hosea’s prophecy has something to think about: “After two days He will revive us; On the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His sight” (Hos 6:2 NKJV)!
Pst. Emmanuel