Yeah we’ll David didn’t write that after he died. Of course it’s future tense if he wrote it while he was still alive.
The word soul and spirit is used at least 1600 times in the Bible and never once are said to be immortal.Have a look at
Genesis 3:19-22 where God is quite clear that we die and that man did not take from the tree of life and does not live forever-unless God allows it.You will see what I mean from the following scriptures.
Genesis 2:17 where God says Adam will surely die if he eats from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil-and he did eat from it. Some other verses to look at are
Ecclesiastes 3:19-20,
Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 ,
Ecclesiastes 12:7.In the book of
Job 4:17 ,one of Job's friends asks ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?"
Obviously he knew man was mortal. In
Job 14:12-15 it says
12 so he lies down and does not rise;
till the heavens are no more, people will not awake
or be roused from their sleep.
13 “If only you would hide me in the grave
and conceal me till your anger has passed!
If only you would set me a time
and then remember me!
14 If someone dies, will they live again?
All the days of my hard service
I will wait for my renewal to come.
15 You will call and I will answer you;
you will long for the creature your hands have made.
Compare this with
2 Peter 3:9-10
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering(patient) toward us,
not willing that any should perish,
but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night;
in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Job's renewal was the resurrection of the dead spoke of in
Romans 2:6-7 "the righteous judgment of God, 6 will render to each one according to his deeds”: 7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality;
Revelation 20:12 says " 12 And I saw the dead,small and great, standing before God,and
books were opened. And another book was opened, which is
the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books."
The books here in this scripture is the Greek Biblion from which the word Bible comes from. These are the books of the Bible which God will show to those in this resurrection to finally understand and know Christ.
God is a merciful God and does not want any of His children to perish
but have eternal life..
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him
shall not perish but have eternal life."
So this verse tells us that we can perish and we do not have eternal life until we come to God-
John 5:39-40.
Rest assured that all who are dead and have never heard the name of Christ in all of history-cultures from all over the world-will have a chance to know and understand what Jesus came here for and to accept Him as savior at that time of resurrection and to be part of
God's kingdom here on earth.
Matthew 5:5.