Upon This Rock (25): Robbing Christ of His Honor (17)
This article from the "Upon This Rock" series examines how the Psalmist David prophetically anticipated Christ as the fulfillment of Old Testament sacrificial types, particularly through Psalms 40 and 51. Doezema argues that David understood the obsolescence of Levitical ceremonies and the sufficiency of Christ's singular sacrifice, emphasizing that true worship requires contrition of heart rather than external ritual observance. The piece demonstrates Reformed typological interpretation by comparing David's insight with Isaiah's more explicit messianic prophecy.
Previous article in this series: January 15, 2016, p. 179. David, we said, was foreseeing in Psalm 40 and Psalm 51 the Gospel age, when not even the lowest place would be left for any of the rites that were strictly required under the Law. Not only, therefore, was he embracing the Antitype, but he was also dismissing the types. All of them. And that, as we pointed out, was no little thing. Whether we view it from the perspective of what went before, or of what came after, we see David standing...
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