The Resurrection in the Old Testament

Psalm 2:7 “Thou art my Son, this day have I begotton Thee”,
Psalm 16:10 “Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption.”
Isiah 55:3 “I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.”

Now if all I had were the Old Testament, I’m not sure that I would come to understanding that these scriptures are referring to the resurrection. Yet look at Paul’s speech before the Jews in Antioch….he quotes every one of these and then explains how each one is referring to the Lord Jesus Christ rising from the dead!

Acts 13:32-36  ^“And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: but he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.

If I were to exhume my Dad’s grave in our backyard in Mississippi, I’d find physical “corruption.” Yet, the Lord Jesus’ body was not in the ground long enough to see “corruption” (3 days and 3 nights! 1 Cor 15:4). He’s risen! Also, He has promised that “Because I live, ye shall live also’ (John 14:19), and Paul, inspired by the Spirit of God wrote “He which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also, by Jesus.” (2 Cor 4:14).
We have a lot to look forward to, and the great hope that this truth brings certainly makes me want to search the scriptures to find more of these “exceeding great and precious promises.” (2 Peter 1:4)