1 Peter 1:10

1 Peter 1:10 ‘As to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful search and inquiry'

“As to this salvation” -This salvation promised to the Christian.

“who prophesied of the grace that would come” -God's favor which would be manifested in Jesus Christ (John 1:17). This infers that passages in the Old Testament mention this grace, i.e. Jeremiah 2:34.

“made careful search and inquiry” -‘Careful search'-‘search out, search anxiously and diligently' (Thayer p. 222). POINTS TO NOTE: 1. The prophets had. definite interest in the messages being communicated through them. They had questions, they wanted to know more. 2. This verse is. great text concerning the inspiration of the Old Testament. Obviously, if the prophets had questions about what they said, they weren't the original authors of what they spoke. Therefore, we must reject any attempt to make the Old Testament into. book filled with human wisdom or the best thinking of that time. The prophets studied their own writings! And the messages from other prophets (Daniel 7:16; Daniel 9:2). The prophets were subject to their own writings. And apart from the Word of God,. prophet or an apostle was without guidance just like any other man (Proverbs 16:25). Inspired men were not individuals who had. natural or self-caused insight into spiritual truths, rather, they were simply men which God spoke through (Ephesians 3:3).