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Is the physical World controlled by the Spiritual?
The physical World is in the midst of an unfathomable spiritual war initiated by a rebellious cherub angel, a war that manifest in the Kingdom of Elohim and is causation for the creation of Time and physics and the human genome as a repository for rebellion that is not permitted in the Kingdom (Revelation 21:27).
Due Adam’s compromise with evil in direct rejection of Elohim’s precepts relevant to Covenant Relationship, Satan has been granted temporary dominion over the Earth; therefore, this fallen World is controlled by (1) the free will of human kind, (2) the wicked desires of Satan and (3) the necessary restraint of the Holy Spirit to prevent humanity from imploding in unrestrained narcissism in conjunction with guiding and directing Time toward a specific eschatological purpose (2 Corinthians 4:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:7).
This confluence of evil (demonic & human) partially constrained by the Holy Spirit is the Father’s eschatological will as the previous six-thousand-years of World history are a display, an example, to the faithful angelic creation of the horrors of disobedience and rejection of the Father’s will and His wisdom and love; the previous 6000-years of horror, death, suffering, perversion, unconscionable filth, will soon be countered by 1000-years of absolute peace manifesting during Messiah’s Millennial Reign; this, while Satan and his spiritual servants are confined and prevented from human interaction (Revelation 20:2).
The Millennial Kingdom, the holiness and peace that is present there, will provide the faithful angelic creation an undeniable, unmistakable, comparison/contrast between life lived in obedience to the Father’s will and life lived in disobedience at the behest of Satan; ultimately, at the conclusion of Messiah’s Millennial Kingdom, Satan will be released and he will be successful in deceiving the Nations and humanity will turn against Elohim in war but Elohim will destroy His enemies with fire and vengeance and the faithful angelic creation will wholeheartedly agree with the Father that their former boss, Satan, does indeed deserve eternal punishment in Hell, forever (Revelation 20:10). Through all of this unconscionable horror, horror resulting from disobedience, Elohim will have successfully maintained volitional love and intimacy with His cherished angelic creation that He loves more than the human mind can comprehend.
The 6000-years of horror, the 1000-years of peace while Satan is restrained, the instantaneous corruption of humanity the moment Satan is released from captivity, these millennia, in combination, will provided a bulwark against a repeat of Satan’s rebellion in the Kingdom as the faithful angelic creation will witness the unfathomable love and compassion of their Creator who suffered and gave Himself as a blood sacrifice for a wicked, vile, vulgar, defiled, human kind as Elohim destroyed the works of Satan via selfless love displayed at Golgotha (1 John 3:8b) via a Gospel ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10). These things the angels observe with awe (1 Peter 1:12).
Unfortunately, souls are daily entering Hades-Torments awaiting Judgment in spiritual ignorance as mass confusion exists relevant to the divergent application of law existing between the Covenant of Law relevant to Israel’s ancient theocracy initiated at Mt. Sinai and the New Covenant of Grace initiated through the blood of Jesus our Messiah at Mt. Golgotha (Calvary) (Matthew 26:28).
Torah Law, that which governed Israel’s relationship with Yahweh, the moral aspects of that written code, are rooted in, finds their genesis in, the Spiritual Law defined as the “Law of the Spirit of life” (Romans 8:2; Romans 2:14-15). Torah Law was provided Israel in a written format – codification, 10-Decalogue or Commandments etched in stone at Sinai, 603-Civil-Ceremonial edicts scratched upon parchment by the Hebrew prophet, Moses.
Purpose for Torah Law and Eschatology,
Torah Law was provided Israel as a bulwark against the failures of the Adamic and Noahic generations as these generations compromised themselves with the demonic via unconscionable violence and sexual perversion (Genesis 6); therefore, Elohim refused to introduce His Messiah through these demonically defiled, genomically compromised, men and women.
Elohim’s primary eschatological objective relevant to the creation of the Realm of Time, physics, matter, the human genome, is the destruction of Satan’s works, Satan’s rebellion, Satan’s defilement of the Kingdom of Elohim (1 John 3:8b); therefore, Elohim commissioned the Son (John 3:35; John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1) to employ elements from the unseen Spiritual Realm (Hebrews 11:3) to create our temporary Universe as a repository for the great Kingdom War and that Spiritual War is currently playing-out in the presence of humanity for the benefit of the faithful angelic creation as this spiritual battle is partially constrained by Time and physics – a Spiritual War that manifests around us and through us, daily (Ephesians 6).
Torah Law was given Israel as Israel’s children were sanctified, set apart, specifically for Elohim’s eschatological objective of destroying the works of Satan via the Messiah via a battle strategy to be introduced as “The Gospel of Grace,” a battle strategy that was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10). Elohim’s critical eschatological plan concerning His Messiah’s introduction into the Realm of Time mandated that Israel’s children be holy as Elohim is Holy (Leviticus 19-20; 1 Peter 1:15-17). Israel’s covenants with Elohim were overwhelmingly predicated upon strict obedience to every jot and every tittle of Torah Law (Deuteronomy 28) as Messiah’s primary function in Time would be “to destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b).
Torah Law – A National standard of compliance,
Torah Law was never given as a pathway to personal righteousness or personal covenant relationship with Elohim but Torah Law governed Israel’s relationship with Elohim as a Theocracy, a Nation, and blessing and cursing at a National level was contingent upon Israel’s compliance to Torah Law, compliance in the strictness sense of the word (Deuteronomy 28).
Personal covenant relationship with Elohim concerning the individual Israelite was predicated upon “faith” in Elohim as the One true Deity, faith-belief that Elohim existed, that Elohim was Creator and Elohim was Holy and trustworthy. This abiding “faith” being the very same prerequisite to righteousness (a right standing) with Elohim relevant to both the Adamic and Noahic generations.
Again, with emphasis, Torah Law was NEVER instituted as a path to personal relationship with Elohim but Torah Law regulated the Nation of Israel’s covenant status with Elohim while “faith,” “trust,” “belief,” in Elohim as Creator engendered “personal” covenant relationship with Elohim, NOT Law.
Blood sacrifices and Torah,
Furthermore, Israel’s “blood sacrifices” mandated by Torah Law were not instituted as a path to personal righteousness with Elohim but provided a temporary “cleansing” of national sin and disobedience; a cleansing of the Temple. It is most relevant to note that individual sin-offerings by the children of Israel DID engender righteousness with Elohim, NOT in response to the blood or the animal being offered (Hebrews 10:4) but due the “faith” of the one offering the blood as this individual “trusted,” “believed,” that Elohim would forgive their sin as He had promised; again, it is the “faith” of the one offering the sacrificial animal that engendered righteousness with Elohim, not the animal or animal blood (Hebrews 10).
Torah Law and Righteousness with Elohim,
Torah Law, if one sought Torah as a path to covenant relationship with Elohim, mandated absolute perfection in observance, obedience (James 2:10), but the individual Israelite was encumbered by a sin-nature from the Adamic curse (Romans 5:12); therefore, those who sought righteousness through Torah Law lived under a curse (Galatians 3:10) in self-righteousness as Torah Law only defined the individual’s sin but provided no form of lasting atonement (Romans 3:20); therefore, Torah Law has been defined by the Holy Spirit as “the Law of sin and death” (Romans 8:2).
The New Covenant and the Gospel of Grace
With the eschatological intent of Torah Law fulfilled in combination with 400-years of virtual silence from Elohim and the addition of spurious apocryphal writings, Messiah entered the Realm of Time via the seed (ovum) of the woman (Genesis 3:15) and Messiah introduced, revealed, the Father’s New Covenant Gospel that was ordained “before Time began” as the chosen battle strategy “to destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8b).
Elohim’s New Covenant of Grace was NOT to be a reformed or reconstituted Old Law Covenant or a new reiteration of Torah Law but the New Covenant would be eternally unique, different, as Elohim would bring to fruition His prophecies foretold in Genesis 3:15 and Genesis 3:21 as the Messiah born of the seed of the woman would do battle with the Serpent/Satan and the strategy for victory would be Elohim, Himself, shedding innocent blood to provide sinful humanity an imputed robe of righteousness while denying the work of humanity to cover, conceal, atone, for sin; ultimately, victory would be Elohim’s alone at Golgotha yet Elohim would share the fruits of that victory with sinful humanity via the catalyst known as “grace” that would be actuated by the age-old initiator of divine covenant with the Father, “faith.” The Father’s unfathomable love and the Son’s unfathomable sacrifice for a sinful, rebellious, human kind in order to defeat death, Hell, the grave (the works of Satan), will be honored and celebrated by the faithful angelic creation eternally.
The impotence of animal blood – the eternal relevance of Messiah’s blood (Leviticus 17:11)
As mentioned earlier, Torah Law, Noahide Laws, the Code of Hammurabi, the Spiritual Law, none of these possessed the ability to initiate eternal covenant with the Father but only sincere “faith” in Elohim as Creator and Divine Provider moved the Father’s heart toward reconciliation (Hebrews 11). Elohim’s grace through faith via blood atonement, though pictured first in Genesis 3:21, also established a precedent for the forgiveness of sin via the written code as per Leviticus 17:11 stating that without the shedding of blood there is no atonement for sin but we know that the blood of animals could never take-away sin (Hebrews 10:4) though the animal for a sin-sacrifice was expected to be perfect, spotless, the best of the flock or the cream of the crop; of course, those of us with the privilege of historical evidence know that Leviticus 17:11, the animal sacrifices, the festivals, the Sabbaths, these all foreshadowed the spotless Lamb of the Father, Messiah Jesus, who would take away the sin of the World (1 Peter 1:19-20; John 1:29).
Law of the Spirit of Life,
In the New Covenant, Elohim has placed emphasis on the “law of the Spirit of life” (Romans 2:14-15; Romans 8:2) the Spiritual Law extant as an arbiter of free will subsequent the creation of the angels. The elements of Elohim’s New Covenant are “grace” (unmerited favor unattainable through human effort); “repentance:” a turning away from, a sincere sorrow for disobedience, sin; “faith-trust” in Messiah as the One who shed His innocent blood for the sins of all humanity.
Those who place their sincere faith in Jesus as Messiah are gifted-imputed the sinless perfection of Jesus over their life and consequently declared “not guilty” by the Father, forever (2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 8:12); additionally, the redeemed in Jesus are gifted the indwelling Holy Spirit who takes-up residence within the faithful (Ephesians 1:13-14) and it is the Spirit that accomplishes within the redeemed that which Torah could never accomplish as Torah Law demanded perfection from the sin-nature of man, a sin-nature that could never comply in acceptable perfection (James 2:10; Galatians 3:10; Romans 5:12; Romans 3:23).
Application of “law” in the New Covenant,
In the New Covenant, a “written code” likened to that of Torah, plays a diminutive, almost irrelevant, role, as the redeemed in Jesus Christ by faith are not under the Law Covenant, a written code, the letter of law (Romans 6:14) but the Christian is methodically guided in the ways of obedience to the Father’s will via a redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) as the Holy Spirit employs both the redeemed conscience and the “law of the Spirit of life” written upon the heart at conception; the Spirit enlivens the Spiritual Law, makes that law applicable to every moral decision a Christian confronts in daily life as the Spirit motivates the production of righteous “fruit” (Galatians 5), fruit against which there is no Law (Galatians 5:22-24). Jesus did say that “you will know them by their fruit” (Matthew 7:15-20).
It is the “fruit of the Spirit” that validates one’s faith as true, legitimate, soul saving, authentic. It is faith in Messiah Jesus and sanctification through the Holy Spirit that brings peace with the Father in the New Covenant (Romans 5:1).
In conclusion,
Torah Law, its primary objectives, are eschatological in nature as Torah, the written code, was given specifically to Israel’s children and sojourner’s with them to act as a bulwark against the failures of the Adamic and Noahic generations as Elohim prepared Israel’s children as examples of blessing for obedience, cursing for disobedience (Deuteronomy 28); this, while Elohim’s eschatological objective for Messiah’s introduction into the Realm of Time would manifest in accordance with divine prophecy and order; this, “to destroy the works the of the Devil” via the chosen battle strategy “The Gospel of Grace” ordained “before Time began” (1 John 3:8b; 2 Timothy 1:8-10).
Also, Torah Law was to spiritually prepare Israel’s children as ministers of the Gospel via the “Great Commission” (Matthew 28) as Messiah would come directly to Israel’s children (Matthew 15:24) with the objective of proselytizing Israel’s children in the theological elements of “repentance, grace and faith” i.e. the “Good News” of the Father’s redemptive plan as Israel was to go into all the World and provide the lost, the blind, the hopeless, with eternal Truth and the Father’s plan of redemption through faith in His Son (John 3:16-17).
Torah Law was never a strategy for personal redemption but was National in scope and for eschatological purposes concerning Messiah and the Gospel and the Great Commission.
The New Covenant is NOT arbitrated by Torah Law or a written code but the New Covenant is arbitrated by the Father via the Holy Spirit via the theological elements of grace, repentance, faith in the Messiah as blood atonement for sin.
Torah Law, a written code, was weakened by the sin-nature and therefore subject to rationalization, obfuscation, spurious interpretation, in pursuit of narcissism but the New Covenant provides an enlivened “Spiritual Law” that works through the redeemed conscience; both the Spiritual Law written upon the heart and the redeemed conscience are arbitrated, divinely controlled, by the indwelling Holy Spirit; therefore, every moral decision, every aspect of discernment, in the Christian life is methodically addressed by the Holy Spirit’s influence and divine urging to choose holiness and righteousness via the daily process of sanctification; therefore, the Spiritual Law is eternally and internally superior to any written code or devices of men coercing obedience from the sin-nature; therefore, choose Jesus as your Messiah by faith and LIVE!
The New Covenant is initiated by grace – repentance – faith; does this mean the Christian is not required to submit to Elohim’s Law; that is, Torah?
People DON’T submit to God’s law…if they did, our World would not be fallen and Jesus would not have needed to suffer and die in your place. What I AM SAYING is this; if a man or woman truly desires a relationship with Elohim; they are sorry for the way they’ve lived; they desire forgiveness and intimacy with their Creator, to know Him and love Him and serve Him; the divine truth is that intimacy with the Father is ONLY POSSIBLE through faith in Jesus as Messiah (John 14:6).
The KEY to LIFE and PEACE with the Father,
The Father is only approachable through His Son (1 John 2:23)…this is the divine “Standard” that the Father has ordained through the New Covenant’s Gospel, a Gospel of Grace that was ordained-enacted “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10) and this Gospel was first pictured/demonstrated in Genesis 3:21.
God’s will, His “spiritual law” that is eternal (Romans 2:14-15), that spiritual law of the Spirit of life (Romans 8:2) is made alive-applicable-livable-doable-when one enters into life-intimacy-relationship with the Father by faith in the Son…THIS IS THE FATHER’S WILL (John 6:29; John 3:16-17). Once intimacy is established through New Covenant relationship with the Father, the Holy Spirit indwells, literally takes-up residence within the redeemed (Ephesians 1:13-14) and does the work of obedience by employing the spiritual law written upon the heart…NOT LETTERS etched in stone or scratched upon parchment as in Torah but the spiritual law infused within the heart of humanity at conception and infused within the human genome on Day-6 of Creation.
Christians and Torah?
Christians don’t pursue Torah Law, Sinai, Ordinances, Diets, Days, as these things only foreshadowed our Messiah, but the Christian walks in peace with the Father through faith in the Son, Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1), and the Christian walks in obedience to the Holy Spirit who methodically guides the redeemed conscience in obedience to the Father’s will (2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 5:16). This form of divine obedience is eternally superior to the coerced obedience of Torah Law which seeks perfection from the sin-nature, a condemned sin-nature that can never comply sufficiently (Romans 8:1-4; Romans 3:20; James 2:10; Galatians 3:10; Galatians 2:16).
This is why the Holy Spirit explains in Paul’s letter to the Church at Rome that what the Law (Torah) was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sin-nature, the Father did by sending His Son as a blood sacrifice for our sin and through faith in the Son, we can receive the Son’s perfection, righteousness, “gifted” – imputed over our life and receive complete forgiveness for sin by New Covenant promise (Romans 8; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 8:12). This is why the “law of the Spirit of life” is eternally superior to “the law of sin and death” (Torah Law) (Romans 8:2).
In conclusion,
As the Christian walks in the Father’s forgiveness and peace, the Christian is methodically guided, daily, by the indwelling Spirit and produces fruit (Galatians 5) that Torah could never achieve; this, as the Spirit methodically prepares the redeemed in Jesus for service in the New Jerusalem.
Torah Law was given to Israel and sojourners with them seeking the protective benefits of that theocracy. Only those under the Law Covenant were subject to Torah Law, Gentiles have always been under the spiritual law infused within the human genome on Day-6 (Romans 8:2; Romans 2:14-15).
Torah Law’ specific function was to act as a bulwark against a repeat of the failures of the Adamic and Noahic generations as their compromise with the demonic thwarted their ability to produce the Messiah but Elohim began anew with Noah, Shem and through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Elohim sanctified a people group through whom He would bring forth Messiah through Judah; in order for this eschatological mandate to manifest, Israel would have to be sanctified, made holy as Elohim is Holy and set-apart from the paganism that surrounded the Tribes and continuously sought Israel’s compromise with Baal and Molech; therefore, Torah Law and Israel’s covenants were overwhelmingly based upon strict obedience to the “letter” as per Deuteronomy 28; unfortunately, Israel ultimately failed Elohim, Israel failed their Messiah and their ordination as ministers of the Gospel via the Great Commission; therefore, the Gentiles were given custody of the Gospel and the Great Commission until the fullness of the Gentiles have entered the Kingdom via faith in Jesus as Messiah (Romans 11:25).
A warning to Israel’s children,
Israel’s children, to this very day, falsely believe their heritage and divine promises of forgiveness via covenants, covenants predicated upon obedience, shelter them from their need for blood atonement as per Leviticus 17:11 and from the ramifications of sin and Israel’s children falsely believe their self-righteousness through Torah negates their need for Messiah. Israel’s ONLY HOPE is Yeshua and New Covenant relationship with the Father granted only by faith in Yeshua as Messiah, a personal relationship with Elohim initiated by faith, alone.
Without Torah Law, how does humanity differentiate between good v. evil, righteousness v. iniquity?
How was sin judged in the Kingdom? How was Satan judged of covetousness that initiated his extrication from the Kingdom (Luke 10:18; John 8:44)? How were the Adamic and the Noahic generations judged of demonically inspired defilement worthy of extinction by water save eight (Genesis 6)?
“Where there is no law there is no sin” (Romans 4:15; 5:13); therefore, the Spiritual Law or “the Law of the Spirit of Life” (Romans 2:14-15; Romans 8:2) was actively working within the Eternal Realm and upon the Earth, thousand of years prior to Sinai, judging the thoughts and intent of man’s heart. Sinai’s laws were nothing new or novel but simply a codification of the Spiritual Law written upon the heart of humanity on Day-6 as Elohim created human kind in His spiritual image and imparted certain divine communicable attributes into human kind for the Father’s eschatological purposes going forward.
Torah Law was given exclusively to Israel’s children and sojourners with them as a bulwark against the failures of the Adamic/Noahic generations and their compromise with evil which thwarted their viability as progenitors of the Messiah who would enter the Realm of Time specifically “to destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8b) via a battle strategy now known as “the Gospel” which was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10; Genesis 3:21). In the New Covenant, the Spiritual Law is used almost exclusively by the indwelling Holy Spirit via a redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) to produce fruits of righteousness (Galatians 5) through the redeemed that honors the Father and furthers His eschatological work going forward.
Torah plays very little, if any, significant role in the work of the Spirit in the New Covenant as the Spiritual Law of the Spirit of Life (Romans 8:2) takes precedent and will continue to take precedent as Elohim’s arbiter of free will throughout Eternity as free will remains extant in Eternity by necessity.
Torah Law – “the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:2)…an explanation for the self-righteous legalist that frequents these forums…
Anyone who seeks Torah for eternal life will perish in sin because Torah is nothing more than a tutor, a road map, to Messiah and eternal life through faith (Galatians 3:24). Torah defines sin, explains man’s need for an Intercessor but provides no atonement which is essential to initiating eternal covenant with the Father (Romans 3:20; Leviticus 17:11; Galatians 2:16).
Torah’s limitations,
Torah mandates absolute perfection in word and deed if one is to initiate covenant with the Father thorough observant works (James 2:10) but human kind is under the Adamic curse (Romans 5:12); human kind is sinful by nature (Romans 3:23); therefore, anyone who seeks eternal covenant with the Father as a pardon from death in Hell via Torah Law, this person is “cursed” (Galatians 3:10) and lest they repent and trust fully in the pardon offered only by faith in Yeshua as Messiah (John 3; John 14:6), they will surely perish in their sin (John 8:24) and ultimately the Lake of Fire subsequent Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15).
You and millions like you who are rebellious and arrogant toward Messiah will suffer the second death in Hell lest you humble yourself and approach the Father in sincere repentance (Luke 13:3) and sincere faith-trust in Messiah Yeshua as your Lord and Savior who shed His innocent blood to pay your sin-debt for you (John 3)… a debt that Torah only defines but lack the ability to provide restitution (Romans 3:20).
Obedience that eternally pleases the Father,
The only human obedience that eternally honors the Father is the production of righteous fruit that is manifest through sanctification via the anointing of the indwelling Holy Spirit who is given as Guarantor of New Covenant with the Father by faith in Yeshua as Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14; Galatians 5). This production of righteous fruit manifests through a redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) that is arbitrated by the spiritual law written upon the heart (Romans 2:14-15) and methodically applied in the life of the redeemed during sanctification (Galatians 5:16). Works of Torah Law performed with the motive of initiating righteousness with the Father is equated to a “filthy garment” or “bloody menstrual cloth” in the literal Hebrew (Isaiah 64:6).
Torah – Quran – Yeshua,
Your self-righteous mindset through Torah is why only a “remnant” of Israel’s children and those deceived by the religions of Judaism and Islam (the Quran – a plagiarized Torah) will escape the second death in the Lake of Fire (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27); that is, unbelief, rejection, of Messiah Yeshua as atonement for your sin and Yeshua as the ONLY Path to imputed-gifted righteousness with the Father by faith, alone (2 Corinthians 5:21; Acts 4:12). Yeshua as Messiah by faith is the ONLY Way to life with the Father (John 14:6).
Many who frequent these religious forums possess a warped understanding of the Father’s passion relevant to His New Covenant, His eschatological desire for humanity going forward. Jews-Israelite’s-Hebrew Roots-SDA-factions of Pentecostalism-other cults and sects and religions possess a legalistic passion for “do this” and “do that” and “don’t do that” and “keep this” and “observe that” while those passions would be better focused and eternally more profitable by proselytizing the spiritually lost, the spiritually ignorant, the soul headed to death in Hell, and showing them the Way to establish New Covenant relationship with the Father through faith in the Son and then allow the indwelling Holy Spirit to take care of obedience through sanctification where the Spirit produces fruits of righteousness via a redeemed conscience, fruits, obedience, against which there is no Law (Galatians 5).
Law or Grace through Faith?
Man does not require more “law” but man desperately needs intimacy with his Creator and a redeemed heart, a new heart, that desires the things of Elohim and not the desires of the flesh (2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 5:16). True divine intimacy with Elohim is only possible by grace (unmerited favor) through faith in Jesus as Messiah which initiates New Covenant relationship with the Father via imputed-gifted righteousness and daily sanctification via the indwelling Holy Spirit (John 3; Ephesians 1:13-14; Galatians 5:16).
If Jesus is Elohim, Deity, why does He purport to not know the day or the hour of His 2nd-Advent but only the Father is privileged with this information? Matthew 24:36
Free will remains extant among human kind, the angels, as well as within the triune Deity, Elohim. Messiah Jesus, the Son, will not return to Mount Olivet to initiate His Millennial Reign until a specific number of redeemed via the Gospel of Grace have been readied for the Kingdom by faith. The Father has chosen to allow free will, volition, among human kind, to determine the initiation of the Tribulation Era and the encroaching nuclear horror that permeates and finalizes the Tribulation and the 2nd-Advent; in other words, “that Day” is fluid as men and women are choosing the Kingdom of Elohim by faith or choosing the kingdom of Satan via self-righteousness.
The Father, as Administrator of the Triune Elohim, knows the “number” of redeemed that will replenish the Kingdom which is now partially void as one-third of the Kingdom’s servants followed Satan in the great rebellion. It’s interesting to theorize that just as our physical Earth deplores a void, a vacuum, in its atmosphere, so does our Creator deplore the void left by Satan’s rebellion in the Kingdom; therefore, it is reasonable, plausible, to believe that until the number of redeemed in Jesus corresponds to the number of fallen angels who were extricated from the Kingdom due to rebellion and unfaithfulness, the Realm of Time will continue and the “age of grace” will endure until that specific number of redeemed has entered the Kingdom through the Gospel of Grace.
Your Salvation; Redemption of the Soul; a Divine pardon from death in Hell?
Your salvation, a divine pardon from death in Hell for sin, has absolutely NOTHING to do with Sinai or Torah or obedience, philanthropy, good works, self-righteousness. Your salvation, the initiation of soul-saving covenant with the Father, is a gift of grace (unmerited favor, a divine gift you cannot earn through human effort) through faith-trust in Jesus Christ as your Messiah believing that Jesus died for you to pay your sin-debt owed the Father…a debt you could never pay yourself.
The essential elements of salvation; that is, the process of establishing eternal New Covenant relationship with the Father are as follows,
1) Repentance – a sincere apology to the Father for your sin and your failure to live in obedience to His will for your life. A sincere desire to turn-away from a life of disobedience coupled with a sincere desire to pursue the Father’s will in all things.
2) A sincere belief, a sincere trust, that what the Father has said about His Son, Jesus Christ, is true and that you believe by faith that Jesus is Messiah who suffered, shed His innocent blood for the atonement, forgiveness, of your sin; a sincere faith acknowledging that Jesus died for you to pay a sin-debt you owe the Father, a sin-debt you could never pay yourself.
The deceit of self-righteousness,
If you could initiate covenant with the Father through Commandment-keeping, good works, philanthropy, genetics, Church attendance, baptism, Jesus would not have needed to suffer and die in your place (Galatians 2:21).
Obedience that actually pleases the Father is obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit who is gifted to everyone who enters into true New Covenant relationship with the Father; it is the indwelling Holy Spirit who is the Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father, Son and Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14) and it is the Holy Spirit who methodically walks the redeemed in Jesus in the daily process of sanctification where the Spirit employs the spiritual law written upon the human heart and the redeemed conscience to create the “new man or woman,” the “new creation” in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17) as the Spirit produces “fruits of righteousness” in the life of the redeemed, fruit that glorifies the Father, fruit that furthers the Father’s eschatological purposes on Earth and in the Kingdom, fruit – against which there is no law (Galatians 5; Matthew 7:15-20).
Peace with the Father,
Obedience that pleases the Father is NOT enslavement to a written code, Torah Law, religion, a denomination, but obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit during sanctification as the Spirit prepares the faithful in Jesus for service in the New Jerusalem (Galatians 5:16). It is faith in Jesus, obedience to the Holy Spirit, that manifests in enduring “peace” with the Father (Romans 5:1).
Initiating New Covenant with the Father; Obedience in the New Covenant of Grace…
If one seeks obedience that actually pleases the Father, they will first obey the Father’s will and “believe in the One He has sent into the World” to provide blood atonement for sin as per the mandates of Leviticus 17:11 (John 6:29); second, they will receive the imputed – gifted righteousness of Jesus over their life, a righteousness earned for them by Messiah’s perfect obedience to the Law (2 Corinthians 5:21) and having received this imputed righteousness, the redeemed in Messiah will be declared “not guilty” by New Covenant promise (Ephesians 1:13-14; Hebrews 8:12); then, the redeemed in Jesus will begin the daily process of sanctification where the indwelling Holy Spirit, gifted the faithful in Jesus as Guarantor of Covenant with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14), employs the redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) in combination with the spiritual law that is written upon the heart of humanity at conception (Romans 2:14-15) and the Spirit will methodically produce fruits of obedience against which there is no Law (Galatians 5:22-23).
Obedience in the New Covenant that honors the Father is obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit during sanctification that “follows” salvation. All works of “righteousness” prior to establishing covenant with the Father by faith in Messiah Jesus, these works are interpreted by the Father as a “filthy rag”…in the actual Hebrew “a bloody menstrual cloth” (Isaiah 64:6). Concerning works of obedience in the New Covenant, only those works done by the power, influence, inspiration, of the Holy Spirit will endure the BEMA Judgment (1 Corinthians 3:10-15).
In closing,
Christians don’t pursue letters or laws or days or diets to please the Father in the New Covenant, but the Christian walks by the Spirit (Galatians 5:16) in forgiveness and a Christian honors the Father through obedience to the Spirit who prepares them, daily, for service in the New Jerusalem; this is accomplished through the redeemed conscience, not enslavement to letters or laws etched in stone or scratched upon parchment (Galatians 2:16); in this, there is peace with the Father, forever (Romans 5:1).
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