Jesus is God, Elohim, Creator, Messiah, Judge, (John 1; Colossians 1; Hebrews 1) and there is no other Name given under Heaven by which you must be saved. It is Jesus, alone, who left the Spiritual Realm and entered Time in flesh in order to fulfill the blood atonement mandate of Leviticus 17:11 and Jesus is the fulfillment of Genesis 3:15 and Jesus is the fulfillment of the imputed robe of righteousness pictured in Genesis 3:21 (2 Corinthians 5:21).
There is no access to the Kingdom of God lest one’s sins have been paid for, atoned for, by the blood of sinlessness and there is no sinless substitute for your sin but the spotless Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the whole World (John 1:29; 1 John 2:2) and permits access to that forgiveness by faith in Him, Jesus Christ, as Lord believing that Jesus died to pay your sin-debt…a debt you could never pay yourself (John 3:16-18; Romans 10:9-10).
The Law defines God’s righteousness and the Law defines your sin, your culpability before God but does NOT provide you atonement or reconciliation with God the Father as our sin creates a chasm between God and sinful mankind (Romans 3:20-23). The Law was meant to be our Tutor, our Schoolmaster (Galatians 3:24-26), to point us to Jesus and show us our need for Jesus by faith as our Intercessor, the One who kept the Law for us in perfection (John 8:46) and offers you and me HIS righteousness imputed into our lives by trusting in Him as our Lord, Messiah, Savior (2 Corinthians 5:21; Genesis 3:21).
It is ONLY by believing and trusting in Jesus as your Lord who died for you (Romans 10:9-10) that initiates covenant relationship with the Father (John 3:16-18; 1 John 2:23) and once that relationship is established and you have received the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of covenant relationship (Ephesians 1:13-14), your obedience to the Commandments of Christ, the will of God for your life, becomes relevant (Galatians 5:16) as it is your works of obedience that validate your faith as being life saving, true, faith (James 2:18). Your obedience to God’s will subsequent to establishing covenant relationship by faith in Jesus as Lord verifies that you are indeed a “new creation” in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 5:16).
The most relevant thing in this LIFE constrained by Time and physics is trusting in Jesus Christ as your Lord believing that He died to pay your sin-debt; therefore, study the word of God to show yourself a good disciple, a faithful servant of the Lord (2 Timothy 2:15) and everything else will begin to fall in place as the Holy Spirit will become your Teacher (1 John 2:27).
Israel’s Children are destroyed for lack of Knowledge, why? (Hosea 4:6)
Answer: Self-righteousness through Law as opposed to faith in Yeshua. It is written concerning the error of Israel’s children and self-righteousness,
“Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. 2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.” Romans 10 (NKJV)
An explanation of the Jewish/Israelite error in the following comment from a child of Jacob,
“Peter says, Paul is difficult for you to understand
Rom 2:13
For it isn’t the hearers of Torah who are righteous before El’ohiym, but the doers of Torah will be justified.”
What saving knowledge is lacking in this Jewish/Israelite comment?
Herein lies the problem that leads many of Jacob’s children to die in sin (John 8:24) and ultimately die the second death in Perdition…the Jew/Israelite refuses to understand that no one “does the Torah” (Romans 3:10) as the Torah demands perfection (James 2:10; Deuteronomy 27:26) and you are a sinner (Romans 3:23; Romans 5:12) dying in your sin in your own self-righteousness and lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6; John 8:24). Observance of/to the Torah does NOT establish covenant relationship with God (Romans 3:20) but ONLY by faith in Yeshua as Messiah will you be saved and THEN your observance of God’s will for your life VERIFIES your FAITH as VALID as the Spirit walks you in sanctification.
Please listen carefully that you not die in Hell…
The “doers of the word/Torah/Commandments of Yeshua” are those who have FIRST entered into covenant relationship with the Father by faith in Yeshua as Messiah believing that Yeshua died for them to pay their sin-debt (Romans 10:9-10; John 3:16-18) – THEN – subsequent to establishing covenant relationship, the Holy Spirit takes-up residence within the believer (Ephesians 1:13-14) and begins to methodically, daily, guide them in obedience to God’s will through the life-long process called “sanctification” (Galatians 5:16; John 14:26; 1 John 2:27)In fact, your works of obedience are NOTHING to God until such time you have FIRST established covenant relationship with God the Father by faith in the Son, Yeshua our Messiah (John 3:16-18; John 14:6); in fact, your works of self-righteousness are as a bloody menstrual cloth (in the Hebrew) in God’s nose (Isaiah 64:6) until you FIRST initiate covenant relationship and WALK in the Spirit in obedience and it is that OBEDIENCE SUBSEQUENT to establishing covenant relationship through Yeshua (John 14:6) that AUTHENTICATES the VALIDITY of your saving FAITH.
Your works of self-righteousness through an attempted obedience to the Law of sin and death will NEVER save anyone from death in Hell (Romans 3:20; Galatians 3:10; James 2:10; Romans 8-chapter).
2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For they being ignorant of God s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
If one trusts in Mary, indulgences, the Mass, the Eucharist, the Magisterium, the Church Canon, to supplement the sufficiency of Jesus to save by faith, alone…you are NOT a Christian.
It is ONLY by faith in Jesus as Lord believing that He died to pay your sin-debt that one enters into covenant relationship with the Father and receives the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of that relationship (John 3:16-18; Ephesians 1:13-14).
Question submitted to FB: Do Jews practice a religion today?
Christian response,
An overwhelming number of the Jewish population today is lost in self-righteousness (Romans 10:2-4), some are atheists, some are agnostics, some are enslaved by Law and a works salvation (a perverted form of Judaism) in pursuit of making themselves worthy of God’s mercy when our Lord has clearly told the Jew that works of the Law will never save them but only by faith-belief in the One God has sent into the World, Yeshua Messiah, to make atonement for their sin via the bloody cross at Golgotha will provide acceptable atonement (John 3:16-18) yet these Jews fight and clamor for their own self-righteousness in arrogance and stubbornness; for this reason, “unbelief,” only a remnant of Jews will escape the “second death” in Perdition and that remnant primarily manifesting in the Tribulation dispensation who see the 2nd-Advent of Messiah and enter into the Millennial Kingdom as servants of Messiah.
Who is Allah; What is Islam; Who is Muhammad; What is their role in eschatology?
Islam is a curse in and of itself and it was born out of adultery (sin) between Abraham and Hagar, Sarah’s handmaid (servant). The child born of this sinful union was Ishmael…a true “wild donkey” of a man as is apparent by the behavior of his descendants the Ishmaelites.
From the descendants of Ishmael, the World was burdened with the tribes of the Ishmaelites who birthed a 7th-Century pedophile murdering demon-possessed thief named Muhammad whose demonic religion, Islam, eventually formed the Islamic Caliphate which butchered, murdered, by the sword untold thousands of Jews, Christians, men and women and children over the following 1400-years until temporarily halted in the early 20th-Century. It is obvious that Islam’s “Allah” is Satan masquerading as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14) via the Arabic Moon God and that Islam via Iran (an Islamic coalition) will soon conspire with Russia and China and come against Jerusalem, Israel most likely during the final 3.5-years of the coming Tribulation dispensation; this nuclear threat/war with Israel will culminate in the death and suffering of many millions in that Day (Zechariah 14:12) and will initiate the 2nd-Advent of Messiah Jesus and the Millennial Kingdom.
Islam is the Kingdom of Darkness in our midst; Islam is eternal death and suffering via spiritual-demonic deception; Islam garners for Satan what he coveted in the Kingdom i.e. praise and worship and adoration that belongs exclusively to the Living God, Father-Son-Spirit. Islam is the reality within Time reflecting the struggle initiated by Satan in the Kingdom and that struggle having been extricated from the Kingdom and placed upon this Earth to be dealt with by the Son of God who entered Time specifically to destroy the works of the Devil/Allah/Satan (1 John 3:8b).
Living in the Law suggests one is attempting to keep a set of rules, often the moral law or Law of Moses/Decalogue, in order to attain righteousness (a right standing) with God through self-righteousness, human effort…this is often referred to as legalism.
God has clearly noted, beginning in Genesis 3:21, that mankind cannot earn his way to God’s favor but only by faith in the Son, Jesus Christ, as Lord and Messiah, believing that Jesus died to pay your sin-debt, will covenant relationship with the Father be initiated and the Holy Spirit given as the Gift and Guarantor of that relationship along with the promise of eternal life (John 3:16-18; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Ephesians 2:8-9).
No one but Jesus is justified by Law as Jesus is the only One who could keep the Law in mandated perfection (Matthew 5:17; James 2:10; Galatians 3:10).
Israel/Jacob-Judaism cannot save you from death in Hell; Arabia/Muhammad-Ishmael-the Koran cannot save you from death in Hell. Believing in Jesus Christ as your Lord, your Messiah, believing that Jesus died to pay your sin-debt and receiving HIS righteousness imputed into your life by faith is the only One—the Only Way–the Only Truth–the Only Path to life in Eternity. Any path other than Jesus is a dead-end.
Does James teach a works salvation? No…allow me to explain…
Grace (unmerited favor unattainable by human effort) through faith (believing-trusting) that Jesus Christ is Lord who suffered and died to pay your sin-debt is the KEY to initiating covenant relationship with the Father and receiving the Holy Spirit as Guarantor of that relationship (Ephesians 2:8-9; 1:13-14; John 3:16-18). No man or woman is saved by their works of self-righteousness and this was demonstrated as early as Genesis 3:21 as Adam sought to cover his sin and shame with fig-leaves that were rejected by Elohim who subsequently covered Adam and Eve in an imputed robe of righteousness (animal skins) Himself through the shedding of innocent blood. In fact, on your best day your works of righteousness are a filthy, bloody, menstrual cloth in the nose of God (Isaiah 64:6).
Not until such time that you have initiated covenant relationship with the Father through faith in Jesus as Lord, alone, will your works of obedience, righteousness, be accounted to you as justification as it is your works of righteousness done through the indwelling Holy Spirit that validate your faith as legitimate saving faith…you are a new person with new goals and aspirations in Jesus and good works naturally flow through sanctification. But…those works can never supplant or replace the necessity for faith in Jesus, FIRST.
Why did God the Father remove the promise of the Gospel from Israel as His purveyors of Truth and give that promise to the Gentiles?
Christian response,
The Gospel of Jesus Christ was ordained “before the beginning of Time” (2 Timothy 1:9-10) as the battle strategy by which the Son of God, Jesus Christ, would “destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b) as our entire creation is the resultant of a rebellion led by the Devil and that rebellion necessitating extrication from the Kingdom (Luke 10:18) where nothing impure is permitted to exist (Revelation 21:27).
God the Father, during the creation narrative and immediately subsequent to the Fall, demonstrated, articulated, that He would defeat His nemesis, Satan (Ezekiel 28:11+), through His own selfless love apart from the works of humankind (Genesis 3:15; Genesis 3:21-fig leaves); unfortunately, God’s plan to set apart a special people group through whom He would codify His Law, Law being the arbiter of free will, and ultimately introduce Himself in flesh was stymied by free will which manifest in the defilement of the Adamic and Noahic generations via their obscene perversity and compromise with the Devil (Genesis 6); therefore, God destroyed all but eight by water and began anew through Noah.
Soon, God commissioned Abraham as a Patriarch of a people group through whom He would reveal Himself to mankind and ultimately destroy the works of the Devil via selfless love and sacrifice via Messiah. To this end, God made a covenant with Abraham and promised Abraham that through him every family of the earth would be blessed (Genesis 12:3); this, referencing the Gospel of Jesus Christ that would be the property, the divine possession, of Abraham’s seed and through these people God originally planned to proselytize the entire Earth with the Gospel via the Great Commission (Matthew 28:16-20; Jeremiah 31); in fact, Jesus clearly articulated the truism that He had come only to the lost sheep of Israel (Matthew 15:24-25).
Unfortunately, Israel’s children rejected the Gospel message; Israel’s children rejected their Messiah and falsely accused Him of blasphemy; Israel’s children conspired with the Roman authorities to murder their Messiah upon a tree; Israel’s children demanded that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children; therefore, God ultimately took the Gospel intended for Israel’s children and gave that Gospel and the responsibility for the Great Commission to the Gentiles until such time the fullness of the Gentiles entering the Kingdom will have come to fruition (Romans 11:25; Acts 13:64).
For this reason, the Jew, the Israelite, continues to reject the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Israel continues to reject their Messiah and for this reason i.e. “unbelief,” only a remnant of Israel’s children will escape the “second death” in Perdition (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27); that remnant being those who witness Messiah’s second-advent and wail and mourn for the One they have pierced and subsequently believe in Jesus as their Lord and Messiah who died for them (John 19:37; Zechariah 12:10).
Though man’s free will reigns paramount, God’s eschatological Plan is undeterred via His omnipotence. God works through and around our personal decisions, our free will, to bring His eschatological will to fruition. God’s will be done! Amen!
