Saved by Grace

Samstag, 26. Dezember 2009

Ιησοῦν

The Name of our LORD the Messiah Jesus is the Greek form of a Hebrew name, which had been borne by two illustrious individuals in former periods of the Jewish history - Joshua, the successor of Moses, and Jeshua, the high-priest, who with Zerubbabel took so active a part in the re-establishment of the civil and religious polity of the Jews on their return from Babylon (see Ezra 3:2ff).
Its original and full form is Jehoshua, becoming by contraction Joshua or Jeshua. Joshua, the son of Nun, the successor of Moses, was originally named Hoshea (saving), which was altered by Moses into Jehoshua (Jehovah (our) Salvation) (Num 13:16). The meaning of the name, therefore, finds expression in the title Saviour, applied to our Lord
(Luke 1:47; Luke 2:11; John 4:42).

Joshua, the son of Nun, is a type of Christ in his office of captain and deliverer of his people, in the military aspect of his saving work (Rev 19:11-16).
As God's revelation to Moses was in the character of a law-giver, his revelation to Joshua was in that of the Lord of Hosts (Jos 5:13, Jos 5:14). Under Joshua the enemies of Israel were conquered, and the people established in the Promised Land. So Jesus leads his people in the fight with sin and temptation. He is the leader of the faith which overcomes the world (Heb_12:2). Following him, we enter into rest.
The priestly office of Jesus is foreshadowed in the high-priest Jeshua, who appears in the vision of Zechariah (Zec 3:1-10; compare Ezr 2:2) in court before God, under accusation of Satan, and clad in filthy garments. Jeshua stands not only for himself, but as the representative of sinning and suffering Israel. Satan is defeated. The Lord rebukes him, and declares that he will redeem and restore this erring people; and in token thereof he commands that the accused priest be clad in clean robes and crowned with the priestly mitre.

Thus in this priestly Jeshua we have a type of our “Great High-Priest, touched with the feeling of our infirmities, and in all points tempted and tried like as we are;” confronting Satan in the wilderness; trying conclusions with him upon the victims of his malice - the sick, the sinful, and the demon-ridden. His royal robes are left behind. He counts not “equality with God a thing to be grasped at,” but “empties himself,” taking the “form of a servant,” humbling himself and becoming “obedient even unto death” (Phil 2:6, Phil 2:7).

He assumes the stained garments of our humanity. He who “knew no sin” is “made to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in him” (2 Cor_5:21). He is at once priest and victim. He pleads for sinful man before God's throne. He will redeem him. He will rebuke the malice and cast down the power of Satan. He will behold him” as lightning fall from heaven” (Luke 10:18).
He will raise and save and purify men of weak natures, rebellious wills, and furious passions - cowardly braggarts and deniers like Peter, persecutors like Saul of Tarsus, charred brands - and make them witnesses of his grace and preachers of his love and power.
His kingdom shall be a kingdom of priests, and the song of his redeemed church shall be, “unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his own blood, and made us to be a kingdom, to be priests unto his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen” (Rev 1:5, Rev 1:6, in Revelation).

It is no mere fancy which sees a suggestion and a foreshadowing of the prophetic work of Jesus in the economy of salvation, in a third name closely akin to the former. Hoshea, which we know in our English Bible as Hosea, was the original name of Joshua (compare Romans 9:25) and means saving. He is, in a peculiar sense, the prophet of grace and salvation, placing his hope in God's personal coming as the refuge and strength of humanity; in the purification of human life by its contact with the divine. The great truth which he has to teach is the love of YHWH to Israel as expressed in the relation of husband, an idea which pervades his prophecy, and which is generated by his own sad domestic experience. He foreshadows Jesus in his pointed warnings against sin, his repeated offers of divine mercy, and his patient, forbearing love, as manifested in his dealing with an unfaithful and dissolute wife, whose soul he succeeded in rescuing from sin and death (Hosea 1-3).

So long as he lived, he was one continual, living prophecy of the tenderness of God toward sinners; a picture of God's love for us when alien from him, and with nothing in us to love. Hosea was prophetic; our LORD Jesus Christ is the living GOD, HE is the fulfillment of HIS own WORD.

Sonntag, 6. Dezember 2009

The Answer

Some say "We are community of questioners"  -
Do you want to know the answer?
There is only ONE. The answer to all our questions is:
Yeshua HaMashiach, ben Elohim.

Every human, even the Jew, is a sinner and needs GOD's SALVATION
to be saved.
Tehillim 14:3



Salvation is not by works but by GOD's Grace through Faith
in the LORD Jesus Christ!

You have to repent and believe in the LORD Jesus Christ in order to get saved,
there is no other way!
Jew or Gentile, if you will not believe in the Name of the only begotten Son of God, you will be lost in HELL forever!
Read Yochanan 3:18. GOD speaks clear words about this, do not get fooled by people, even if they call themselves Rabbi an teach you otherwise!

Every time the Tanakh uses the word SALVATION, except when the word is impersonal, especially with Hebrew suffix meaning “my”, “thy” or “his”, it is the very same word: YESHUA.

Did you know that the Messiah was already here on earth?
It was more than 2009 years ago!
His name ist Jesus Christ or Yeshua HaMashiach, HE is Adonai Elohenu Yeshua HaMaschiach.
Jesus Christ is YHVH in the flesh. See Kolossaeus 2:9.
HE died for our sins, buried, and has been raised on the third day as prophecied in the Tanakh.
HE is alive! And HE sees you: Be'er LaChai Roi (Beresheet 16:13-14).
You can call upon HIS Name!

There is only one GOD, he revealed himself to us in three persons being ONE:
GOD (Father, Son, Holy Spirit).
So each person is GOD and there is an eternal full unity
between the three persons of GOD to be ONE GOD.
We call it the triunity of GOD. (Echad)

You may wonder why we speak out the name of the LORD our GOD.
For us believing in the LORD Jesus Christ (which is his name) -
we are not under Torah law anymore, because Jesus Christ fullfilled the Law and now HE became our righteousness.
We are now under the law of Christ.
GOD inspired the B'rit Chadashah in greek language, 
so HIS name is Ἰησοῦς Χριστός which is transliterated
Jesus Christ or reverse-transliterated Yeshua HaMashiach in hebrew.
Even under the law of Mosheh you should call the name of GOD but not in vain! See Devarim 5:11.

I wont't say G'D or Hashem because our GOD, the GOD of Israel,
Adonai Yeshua HaMashiach, the LORD Jesus Christ,
the son of GOD, has a real name which i know now
(Read Ketuvim, Tehillim 2:12) and he told me in HIS Word
(and even HE quotes from Yoel 2:32):
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Rhomaios 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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I cannot explain this but only understand it through believing -
because i believe in the LORD Jesus Christ - Adonai Elohenu Yeshua HaMaschiach; the Son of the living GOD!
HE is GOD came in the flesh but without sin.
GOD became man, fully human with flesh and blood (so as being human he could die),
the second Adam without sin, but HE also remains GOD,
so Yeshua is both GOD and perfect man without sin.

From his human perspective HE is ben David;
and even ben Yosef as it appears to the people.
But Yosef was not HIS real father because Jesus was begotten from the Holy Spirit, so his father is GOD. But he was born from the virgin Miryam, so in that way he had a human mother and as Yosef she also was from the line of David.
Maybe this is why in Markos 9:12 "the Son of man" ἄνθρωπος is singular.

HE is the son of the living GOD and HE existed eternally without beginning or end,
before he became human HE eternally preexisted and you find HIM in the Tanakh as the Angel of the LORD or the Schechina. 
In Yochanan 1:14 you find this treasure, the word ἐσκήνωσεν (dwelt) is used here which literally is tabernacled. This is the same principle described in the Neviim Rishonim, Shemuel Bet 7:6.

HE is the truth, the Messiah, the Word himself, Memra, Logos,
(Hashem as some of us call HIM to avoid calling HIS real name according to Halakha, but this appears in Vayikra 24:11 and Halakha has it taken out of context) - 
and you find HIS word written in Tanakh and B'rit Chadashah.
Read Yirmeyahu chapter 31 verse 31, HE will make a brit chadasha with ha bayit Yisrael, and with ha bayit Yehudah. 
But this b'rit is already in effect for us believing in Adonai Elohenu Yeshua HaMashiach. See Rhomaios 11:16-27.

The LORD will soon return, HIS second coming is near!

The LORD Jesus Christ after his resurrection ascended into heaven. Since his resurrection HE has a glorified body and can never die again, so HE remains GOD and Human forever, as glorified Human and GOD himself he sits now at the right hand of GOD (see Hebrew 10:12).
But soon HE will return to earth in the same way he ascended, as GOD and glorified Man, visible to every eye. (see Matthew 24:30)
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Zecharyahu 14:1-4 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. (2) For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. (3) Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. (4) And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
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HE is my Saviour, by HIS grace HE saved me from my sins,
because he died for our sins on the cross and HE has been raised on the third day. See Kórinthos Alef 15:3-4.

The Bible (Tanakh + Brit Hadashah) is GOD's Word, completed, without error,
inspired by GOD the Holy Spirit and written down by HIS holy Prophets and Apostles.
The whole holy scriptures tell from our LORD Jesus Christ! Read Yochanan 5:39.
Achdut - In the Devarim we read the Shema:
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5 Mo 6:4 HEAR, O ISRAEL: THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE.
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The only Salvation is by GOD's Grace through Faith in the LORD Jesus Christ!

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Ephesios 2:8-9
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:
it is the gift of God: (9) Not of works, lest any man should boast.

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Baruch Atah YHWH Eloheinu Melekh ha'olam,
asher natan lanu et Derekh ha-yeshuah b'Mashiach Yeshua.
Amein

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