Psalm 22 provides remarkably detailed prophecies regarding the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus. This is all the more staggering, given that it was written by David 1,000 years before Jesus was born. David wrote "by the Holy Spirit" (Mark 12:36) and was a prophet who saw the Messiah's death and resurrection long before they happened  (Acts 2:30). The sheer precision with which these prophecies were fulfilled reminds us: God keeps His Word. It also reminds us of the importance of the sufferings, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus. This was the very means by which lost sinners could be saved from their sins; "Christ died for the ungodly" (Rom. 5:6).