{"id":10868,"date":"2021-05-09T08:30:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=10868"},"modified":"2021-05-09T08:30:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:30:36","slug":"acts-234-is-david-in-heaven-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/acts-234-is-david-in-heaven-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Acts 2:34 &#8211; Is David in heaven or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong> Peter seems to imply here that David was not in heaven. He wrote, \u201cDavid did not ascend into the heavens.\u201d Yet the Bible indicates that David was one of God\u2019s choice servants (Acts 13:22) who obviously went to be with his Lord when he died (cf. Matt. 22:42\u201346).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution:<\/strong> Peter is not speaking of David\u2019s soul here, but of his body. David\u2019s soul is in heaven along with all other believers, but his body is still in the grave (Acts 2:29). Since David\u2019s body has not yet been raised, it is clear that he has not yet \u201cascended\u201d bodily into heaven either. It is for this same reason that Jesus said to Mary, \u201cI have not yet ascended to My Father\u201d (John 20:17). The day He died, Jesus\u2019 spirit went to be with the Father (see Luke 23:43, 46). So, His spirit had been with the Father, but His body had not yet ascended into heaven when he spoke to Mary. The bodily ascension took place several weeks later (cf. Acts 1:3, 9\u201310). (See also comments on Eph. 4:9.)<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand (Acts 2:34)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: Peter seems to imply here that David was not in heaven. He wrote, \u201cDavid did not ascend into the heavens.\u201d Yet the Bible indicates that David was one of God\u2019s choice servants (Acts 13:22) who obviously went to be with his Lord when he died (cf. Matt. 22:42\u201346).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","category-history","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}