Page 49 - THE REVELATION OF THE THIRD HEAVEN and THE MEAT OF THE WORD

Whilst some of David’s statements seem to suggest that he was possibly even
saved (Psalms 40:8-10), David is not saved in the Old Testament time as is proved
by the sense of his sin overcoming him (Psalms 40:12) and his need for
deliverance (Psalms 40:13) spoken just after the sentiments of verses 8-10. He
acknowledges that he is yet continually in his sins (Psalms 51:3). David is aware
that God could take His Holy Ghost (Psalms 51:11) from him which can not
happen to a Christian, a Christian must deliberately reject it (1 John 2:12, 3:9).
David describes ‘our’ salvation in the present tense but clearly those referred to
were not saved, so this is an example of tense sense describing a future availability
(for those who choose it) as a present day reality because the eternal is ever present
even if it is in the ‘future’ from God’s eternal present perspective (Psalms 65:5).
David looks to the future to be saved (Psalms 80:19).

David looks forward to being saved and is not saved yet (Psalms 42:5). He talks to
his soul, which shows how far apart the conscious mind is from the mind of the
basic spirit of man which is part of the soul in life upon earth (Psalms 42:5). He
claims erroneously that he will keep God’s law continually for ever (Psalms
119:44).

Salvation in the Old Testament often means only the deliverance from danger in
this world.

The Law of Christ is salvation (Rom 10:4) and is distinct to the Law which is to be
fulfilled by being totally kept (Jam 2:10) and then by blood sacrifice (Gen 2:17,
Lev 17:11, Rom 8:3-4) a process of which Christians vicariously partake (Rom
8:3-4). Those ‘under the Law to Christ’ (1 Cor 9:21) are non Jews who are still
under the law unless Christians (Rom 3:10, 20, 10:4, 7:1, 1 Cor 9:21 'being not
without law to God').

The unfulfilled Law, the Tree of Knowledge (Gen 3:22, Rom 3:20), is fulfilled
(Mat 5:17-18, Rev 22:3) and eventually none are left under its jurisdiction but
rather all are eventually under the Tree of Life (1 Cor 12:3, Phil 2:11, Rev 22:3),
when the last being confesses Christ during the second Heaven and Earth (Mat
5:18, 1 Cor 12:3, Phil 2:11, Rev 20:15, 21:1, 22:3). The fulfilled Law (Deut 28:61,
30:10, John 1:1, 14, Mat 5:17), as God (Deut 28:61, 30:10, John 1:1), and as the
Tree of Life is eternal (Rev 22:2). The Tree of Knowledge which is the Law (Rom
3:20), the curse and death (Gen 2:17, 1 Cor 15:56, Rev 22:3), also eternal (Mat
5:18), is no longer eaten and all instead partake of the Tree of Life (1 Cor 12:3,
Phil 2:11, Rev 22:2), which is why the Tree of Life appears on either side of the
river in the second Heaven and Earth (Rev 22:2), whilst in the first Creation it is