Yeshua (Jesus)
Our Salvation
Now Think On This
Steve Martin
“This
Yeshua is the stone rejected by you builders which has become the cornerstone. There is salvation in no one else! For there
is no other name under heaven given to mankind by whom we must be saved!” (Acts
4:11-12 Complete Jewish Bible)
There has
always been an eternal plan, in the everlasting heart of love found in God the
Father, to redeem mankind (save, buy back, pay off the debt) after the Fall.
When Adam and Eve sinned, which is an historical fact by the way, the
relationship they had experienced with the Creator Father brought separation
and banishment from the Garden of Eden. Nothing they personally could do would
get that friendship back.
They needed to be saved, they needed a redeemer, or they would face the consequences of their sin, which would be eternal separation from God.
They needed to be saved, they needed a redeemer, or they would face the consequences of their sin, which would be eternal separation from God.
Sin
does that. It brings separation from the holy God. And He, the One God who sits
on His throne in heaven, requires that the sin be removed, covered by perfect
blood, before we can have that relationship with Him restored. He required that
blood be shed. That blood had to be without spot or blemish. It had to be
perfect. No animal’s blood would accomplish it, for it had to be totally
without sin itself.
Only
one person’s blood was perfect, who alone could be sacrificed. He himself had to
be perfect, to satisfy the holiness required. It was God’s only son, Yeshua,
who would and could be that only one.
Throughout the Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments, known as the Scriptures, the redemptive plan of salvation for mankind is found. God the Father unveiled it, using the chosen people, the Jews, to show it. Moses wrote it, the prophets spoke of it, the centuries since have proven it.
In
fact, their very own Hebrew/Jewish Tanakh (Scriptures/Bible) clearly states
this in Isaiah 53:1-12.
“Who
believes our report? To whom is the arm of Adonai revealed? For before him he
grew up like a young plant, like a root out of dry ground. He was not
well-formed or especially handsome; we saw him, but his appearance did not
attract us.
People
despised and avoided him, a man of pains, well acquainted with illness. Like
someone from whom people turn their faces, he was despised; we did not value
him. In fact, it was our diseases he bore, our pains from which he suffered; yet
we regarded him as punished, stricken and afflicted by God. But he was wounded
because of our crimes, crushed because of our sins; the disciplining that makes
us whole fell on him, and by his bruises we are healed.
We
all, like sheep, went astray; we turned, each one, to his own way; yet Adonai
laid on him the guilt of all of us.
Though
mistreated, he was submissive —he did not open his mouth. Like a lamb led to be
slaughtered, like a sheep silent before its shearers, he did not open his
mouth. After forcible arrest and sentencing, he was taken away; and none of his
generation protested his being cut off from the land of the living for the
crimes of my people, who deserved the punishment themselves.
He was
given a grave among the wicked; in his death he was with a rich man. Although
he had done no violence and had said nothing deceptive, yet it pleased Adonai
to crush him with illness, to see if he would present himself as a guilt
offering. If he does, he will see his offspring; and he will prolong his days; and
at his hand Adonai’s desire will be accomplished.
After
this ordeal, he will see satisfaction. “By his knowing [pain and sacrifice], my
righteous servant makes many righteous; it is for their sins that he suffers. Therefore
I will assign him a share with the great, he will divide the spoil with the
mighty, for having exposed himself to death and being counted among the
sinners, while actually bearing the sin of many and interceding for the
offenders.”
(Isaiah 53:1-12 Complete Jewish Bible)
The
reason satan (the devil, the fallen angel) hates Israel and the Jews so much, and
is continually seeking to destroy, kill and annihilate them, as he has done since
the creation of man, is because he knows of the plan. It is recorded in all
historical truths down through the ages.
Yeshua
is the plan.
We see
the enemies' purpose, for it commonly depicted with anti-Semitism in all the
world, and also Replacement Theology in the church. This fallen angel, eternal
enemy of Israel, Jews and Christians, knows that the Lord’s plan was and is to
bring salvation to the nations through Yeshua. It is Emmanuel (God with us), the
Almighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace, Who was born, raised, crucified
as the Lamb of God, buried in a borrowed tomb, and three days He gloriously rose from the
dead. Over 500 eyewitnesses were with Him after His resurrection.
Yeshua
(Jesus) then ascended into heaven and now sits at the right hand of the Father.
He will be coming back soon, as the roaring Lion from the tribe of Judah.
Kill
the Jews – kill God’s plan of redemption? Just read the end of the Bible, Lucifer.
From
the Tanakh (Hebrew) made up of the Torah (the five books of Moses, known as The
Law, from Genesis through Deuteronomy) the Prophets (Neviim – Joshua through
Malachi) and the Writings (Ketuvim – Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs,
Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and the two
Chronicles), and then continuing on with the New Testament (Matthew through
Revelation) the red thread of redemption, of the perfect sacrificial blood to
come, is revealed.
It may
seem as a total mystery to the masses. But those who seek the Truth will know
the truth, as the Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh) will guide all to Yeshua, Who alone
is the Way, the Truth and the Life. All who desire to know the truth will be
given the light.
“Then
Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who
follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life." (John
8:12, NKJV)
The
apostle John (his name being Yochanan in Hebrew), who witnessed the truth of
our Redeemer Yeshua, wrote this,
“In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He
was with God in the beginning. All things came to be through him, and without
him nothing made had being.
In him
was life, and the life was the light of mankind. The light shines in the
darkness, and the darkness has not suppressed it.
There
was a man sent from God whose name was Yochanan. He came to be a testimony, to
bear witness concerning the light; so that through him, everyone might put his
trust in God and be faithful to him. He himself was not that light; no, he came
to bear witness concerning the light.
This
was the true light, which gives light to everyone entering the world. He was in
the world — the world came to be through him — yet the world did not know him.
He came to his own homeland, yet his own people did not receive him. But to as
many as did receive him, to those who put their trust in his person and power,
he gave the right to become children of God, not because of bloodline, physical
impulse or human intention, but because of God.
The
Word became a human being and lived with us, and we saw his Sh’khinah, the
Sh’khinah of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth.
Yochanan
witnessed concerning him when he cried out, “This is the man I was talking
about when I said, ‘The one coming after me has come to rank ahead of me,
because he existed before me.’”
We
have all received from his fullness, yes, grace upon grace. For the Torah was
given through Moshe; grace and truth came through Yeshua the Messiah. No one
has ever seen God; but the only and unique Son, who is identical with God and
is at the Father’s side — he has made him known.” (John 1:1-18 Complete Jewish
Bible)
Adam
and Eve sinned. From that point on we all were separated from God. But the
Lord’s plan had always been to bring us back to Him, to redeem us, to save us, to
provide a way back to Him. There had to be a sacrifice made. But it could only
be a perfect sacrifice, for He is a holy God who requires it that way.
The
Jews were given the task of revealing the salvation plan of God. Through the
centuries they lived it, wrote of it, and through their lineage Yeshua came to
earth to fulfill it. Now they are living proof of His Only Son, Yeshua, as
their eyes too are being opened to the eternal plan of salvation.
After
being scourged, nailed to the tree (the cross), during the time of Pesach
(Passover), the sacrificial Lamb shed His blood for the forgiveness of sins.
Our sins. Through Him the relationship with God the Father is now restored, and
eternal life in heaven is the great reward.
Today you
too need to receive the saving blood of Yeshua, God’s Only Son, as our
sacrificial offering, if you have not done so already.
Mohamed
won’t save you. Allah certainly cannot. Buddha nor Confucius will ever do it
for you. Only Yeshua (Jesus) - the Son of God who came down from His throne in
heaven, can do it for you. He who lived on this planet, died an awful death, and
then gloriously rose from the dead - all to prove that He is Whom He said He is,
and share the love He has for us – is the only Way, the only Truth and the only
Life.
“For
God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world
to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
"He
who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned
already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of
God. And this is the condemnation, that
the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light,
because their deeds were evil. For
everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his
deeds should be exposed.
But he
who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that
they have been done in God." (John 3:16-21, NKJV)
There
is no other name under heaven by which man can be saved. Yeshua (Jesus) became
man to save us from our sins and eternal damnation in hell. Simple truth shared
in what is called the Gospel, the Good News.
Now
think on this, with His love and mine,
Steve Martin
Love For His People, Inc.
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Now Think On This - In the year of our Lord 12.27.15 - #225
–“Yeshua (Jesus) Our Salvation” – Sunday at 6:30 am
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