Why Jesus?

If human kind is saved from death in Hell by “faith,” why Jesus?

Jacob’s children, many of whom frequent these forums to express their disdain and loathing for the New Testament and Jesus as Messiah in the New Covenant, will cite Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zechariah, Amos, Hosea and Ezekiel suggesting that Elohim, working through these prophets by divine inspiration, declares that He will save the Israelite who repents from wickedness and that Elohim’s chosen people, Israel, “all of Israel will be saved” (Isaiah 45:17; Romans 11:26).

First of all,

The promises of Elohim to Israel’s children relevant to the one who repents and turns from his wicked ways shall be saved are the very same parameters every human being has been subject to from Adam forward. When a man or woman in the Old Testament expressed sorrow for their sin, a contrite spirit toward behavior that condemned their conscience, and that man or woman expressed “faith” in Elohim as Creator, Provider, Sustainer, they entered into a covenant of righteousness (a right standing) with the Father (Hebrews 11).

When the individual Israelite or Jew under the Law Covenant expressed sorrow for sin and honored Yahweh by faith through believing in Him as Elohim, our Creator who is True, Holy, Faithful, that Israelite or Jew was saved from death in Hell by their “faith,” not Torah Law, not self-righteousness, not through a Rabbi or Priest or animal blood or diet or days.

Second,

There exists no special salvation dispensation in Scripture based upon one’s genetics or affiliations. Every Old Testament Israelite, every Jew, every Gentile, must come to the Father by “faith” in order to establish a covenant of righteousness (a right standing) with Elohim.

Why Jesus?

Where the Jew and Israelite err and ultimately find them self in Hades-Sheol/Torments subsequent death of the body is their spiritual lack of knowledge, their stubbornness and refusal to believe that Yeshua is Messiah and that His blood shed for them at Golgotha is the only atonement the Father will accept as payment for sin (John 3; John 14:6; 1 Peter 1:19).

Though Old Testament men and women initiated a righteous relationship with Elohim via faith, their sin had not received the mandated atonement first pictured in Genesis 3:21 and codified in Leviticus 17:11 and reiterated in Hebrews 9:22; that is, without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin.

Yes, these Old Testament saints honored Elohim through repentance and faith but the primary requisite for entrance into the Kingdom subsequent death of the body in Time is forgiveness of sin via blood atonement, NOT just any blood (Hebrews 10:4) but the blood of the Spotless Lamb of Elohim who entered Time specifically “to destroy the works of the Devil” (death, Hell, the grave) via blood atonement provided at Golgotha and confirmed by Messiah with the words “It is finished” (1 John 3:8b; 1 Peter 1:19; John 19:30).

The Soul and Sheol,

Every Old Testament saint that died in body having established a relationship of righteousness with Elohim, the soul of that saint was relegated to Sheol-Paradise awaiting Messiah’s blood atonement.

Messiah, while His body of flesh lie in the tomb for three-days, Messiah entered the region of Sheol (“Hades” in the Greek text) and preached liberty to the captive saints there and escorted them in disembodied spiritual form into the Kingdom “where nothing impure is permitted to exist” (Ephesians 4:7-10; 1 Peter 3:19; Luke 16:19-31; Revelation 21:27).

The Soul subsequent Messiah’s blood atonement,

Today, subsequent Messiah’s blood atonement and resurrection, every Christian that dies in body is immediately translated into the presence of our Lord awaiting the resurrection of the righteous (2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 3:21; Acts 24:15; Luke 14:14).

Every man or woman who has died in body from Adam forward having rejected relationship with Elohim by faith and those born in the Age of Grace who have rejected Messiah Jesus for the forgiveness of sin, these unrighteous dead are interned in Sheol-Hades/Torments to this very day awaiting the Judgment of the Condemned that will manifest immediately subsequent Messiah’s Millennial Reign (Revelation 20:11-15). Sheol-Paradise is currently vacated.

In conclusion,

There has never existed a Path to the Kingdom of Elohim subsequent death of the body in Time other than through Jesus Christ our Messiah by faith (John 14:6).