El Salmo 49 hace una poderosa declaración sobre el destino de la muerte. Tanto los sabios como los necios, los ricos y los pobres, los buenos y los malos, todos tenemos el mismo destino de muerte. Al igual que las bestias del campo, todos perecemos. Job comprobó esta verdad cuando dijo: “Desnudo salí del vientre de mi madre, y desnudo volveré a él. El Señor me dio, y el Señor me quitó” (Job 1:21).
Pero, según el salmista, Dios redimirá nuestra alma de la tumba (Salmo 49:15). El Salmo 103:4 dice que Él “redime tu vida de la destrucción”. Seguramente, nuestra alma significa simplemente nuestra vida, no una entidad que pueda existir aparte de nuestros cuerpos, como afirman algunos cristianos.
Dios es el que nos resucita total y holísticamente de la muerte, del poder de la tumba. ¡Qué bendita esperanza tenemos!
Whereas Psalm 49 spoke about the fool who trusted in his wealth as having no hope in the resurrection, Psalm 71 spoke of David’s enemies without that hope.
David was certain that God would revive him again “from the depths of the earth” (Psalm 71:20). He was confident that his “soul” would once again sing praises to God, who had redeemed him (Psalm 71:23). (Remember, “soul” refers to the whole person. Genesis 2:7 said that after God breathed into Adam the breath of life, he became a living “soul”. He didn’t HAVE a soul; he WAS a soul.)
The hope of the resurrection was obviously real for these Old Testament writers. They looked forward to the time when their bodies would be restored. As Paul tells us, “We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed–in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” (1 Corinthians 15:51, 52).
