What is the meaning of Acts 2:27? You will not abandon my soul to Hades Peter is quoting Psalm 16:10 to show that God promised the Messiah would not be left in the realm of the dead. • “Hades” here speaks of the unseen world where the departed go (Luke 16:23; Revelation 1:18). Jesus really died and went there, yet the Father’s plan never included leaving Him there. • The empty tomb proves God kept this promise (Matthew 28:5-6). Jesus Himself had foretold, “The Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:40), but not a moment longer than the plan required. • Because Christ was not abandoned, believers have assurance that death cannot sever their fellowship with Him (John 14:19; 2 Corinthians 5:8). His victory becomes ours. Nor will You let Your Holy One see decay Decay begins the moment a body is buried, but God intervened before corruption could touch His “Holy One,” a title Peter applies uniquely to Jesus (Acts 3:14). • On the third day the women found “the body of the Lord Jesus” gone (Luke 24:3). Unlike Lazarus, who emerged still bearing grave clothes and the marks of death (John 11:44), Jesus rose in a glorified, incorruptible body (Romans 6:9). • Paul echoes Peter, citing the same psalm to prove Jesus’ resurrection was physical and unique: “David served his own generation … and saw decay, but He whom God raised did not” (Acts 13:36-37). • This promise reaches forward to our own resurrection. “He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies” (Romans 8:11). The grave cannot keep the one who belongs to Him. summary Acts 2:27 anchors Peter’s sermon in the certainty of Jesus’ bodily resurrection. God did not leave His Son among the dead, nor allow corruption to touch Him. The fulfilled promise confirms Jesus as Messiah, assures believers of their future resurrection, and calls us to live now in the power of His victory over death. |
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