East3A23.   Acts of the Apostles 2:14, 22-33.  Peter said, “God had sworn an oath to him (David) that he would set one of his descendants upon his throne, he foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of Christ.”  God planned to send a descendant of David who would be enthroned to lead God’s People and who would not be subject to a death that would end his leadership of his People.  God fulfilled that plan in the person of Jesus.

Luke 24:13-35.  Jesus explained to two of his disciples on the road to Emmaus that God had revealed through the prophets his plan that the Messiah would have to suffer to achieve God’s purposes.  Jesus “then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, (he) interpreted to them what referred to him in all the Scriptures.”  In Matthew 16:21 Jesus predicted that he would suffer greatly at the hands of the Jewish authorities, “be killed and on the third be raised.”  “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.” (John 3:16)

1 Peter 1:17-21.  God had an eternal plan for our redemption. “He (Jesus) was known before the foundation of the world but revealed in the final time for you, who through him believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.” Rejoice in the salvation that is growing more and more day by day to one day bloom magnificently in our eternal life in heaven.