Psalm 22, Part 1, The Lament for the Crucifixion
Although this psalm has a heading that it is a psalm of King David, Israel’s second king who reigned for 40 years in the tenth century BCE, scholars take that with a grain of salt. And they are right. The headings came later, and there is no guarantee that the heading is correct. However, the Psalm 22 resides in a biblical section designated as the “Psalms of David,” and whoever wrote it was in my opinion a “seer” (a Spirit-filled psychic) of high magnitude. Thus, I assume that it was David until someone can prove that it isn’t. According to a passage in 1 Samuel, ecstatic prophecy was a respected phenomenon in those days, even to the point where the person prophesying is laid out helplessly on the ground for long periods of time ( 18:19-24 ). Today’s Pentecostals would have no problem recognizing such an event. Whoever wrote Psalm 22 was possibly in that kind of state, and not only saw it, but lived it. The scholars who analyze Psalm 22 will usually say something like, the sufferer ...