Did David have special revelation to the death of his child? | Rapp Report Daily 0053 | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to The Rapid Pull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. As we looked at yesterday, 2 Samuel chapter 12 and verses 22, we see that David claimed, quite clearly, that when his child died, he said,
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- I shall go to him but he will not return to me. And many people take this as a prophecy or a promise that children go to heaven and David would go to heaven to be with his child, with Bathsheba, that passed away.
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- However, the Bible is 100 % accurate in what it records.
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- This is a historical narrative. And what we see in this verse is that what the
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- Bible teaches is what David actually said. We know that God recorded that David actually said this.
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- There's nowhere in here where we see any promise that his child would go to heaven.
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- We do not see any promise that he knew that he would see his child in heaven.
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- Now, looking at this passage, could David have been promised uniquely to him that the child that suffered by his sin would go to heaven?
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- We don't know. Could that be something that happened? It could be. And this is the thing we have to take into account.
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- We don't have all of the record recorded. And so we have to look at this passage and realize that this does not prove that all children go to heaven.
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- For David could have gotten information uniquely, just like he knew uniquely that this child was going to die from Nathan as a prophecy.
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- He could have known that this was special. This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry.