God Promising the Gentiles to His Messieh

    I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand; I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, as a light to the Gentiles . . . It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, that You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth. (Isaiah 42:6 and 49:6)


    As we have seen, God, the Father, promised to give Jesus, the Messieh, to His people as the new covenant of grace. "I, the LORD . . . will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people." Thus, all of the resources of God's Grace are only available through relationship with Christ. Furthermore, the Father promised that His covenant of grace through his Son would extend to all the Gentile nations: "that You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth."

    It is clear that the Messieh's mission would initially be to the house of Israel, to the Jewish people. " 'Behold, the days are coming,' says the LORD, 'that I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah: In those days and at that time I will cause to grow up to David a Branch of righteousness' " Jeremiah 33:14-15. Jesus' initial instructions to His disciples were in line with this truth. "These twelve Jesus sent out and commanded them, saying: 'Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel”' Matthew 10:5-6.

    Yet, God's promises were much larger than solely reaching His chosen people, Israel. "It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel." God wanted His light to shine out into the nations. "I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles." The Father wanted His saving grace to extend throughout the world: "that You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth."

    At the appropriate time, Jesus also instructed His followers in the world-wide dimensions of His mission. "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations . . . Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature . . . that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem . . . But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth" Matthew 28:19; Mark 16:15; Luke 24:47; and Acts 1:8



Isaiah 42: 1- 9 (6)

Isaiah 42:1-9 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delights; I have put my spirit
upon him (Jesus of Nazareth the Christ): he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor
lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax
shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he has
set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
    Thus saith God the LORD, He that created the heavens, and stretched them out; He that spread forth the earth, and that which comes out of it; He that gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: I the LORD have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them. (This took place in Acts 1- 11)



Isaiah 49:1-10 (6)

Isaiah 49:1-10 Listen, O isles, to me; and hearken, you people, from far; The LORD has called me (Jesus of
Nazareth the Christ) from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name. He
has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand has he hid me, and made me a polished
shaft; in his quiver has he hid me; and said to me, you are my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for naught, and in vain: surely my judgment is
with the LORD, and my work with my God.

    Now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength. And he said, It is a light thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation unto the end of the earth.


    Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to him whom man despise, to him whom the nation abhorrers, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose you. Thus said the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you: and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages; (this ; is a time period break) That you may say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places. They shall not hunger nor thirst; (this ; to is a time period break) neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that has mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

 
    In both of our verses (6) of interest we have the word “LIGHT” to which we have the testimony of the following scriptures: Isaiah 51:4-5; (60:1-3 for Israel and 1 Peter 2:9); Luke 2:32; John 1:4-9; 8:12; Acts 13:47; 26: 18, 23 (to the Gentiles); the word “Covenant” Luke 1:69-72; Romans 15: 8-9; 2 Corinthians 1:20; Galatians 3:15; Hebrews 8:6, 9: 15, 12:24, 13:20



Word means: in the ancient writings AHLB with Strong’s Light H216 and covenant H1285:

H216 has a group of boxes used to mean storage or to pen in a thing, the symbol for a source of light; the box has an entrance, a small hole, which when viewed from inside, is lighted through the hole, of the entrance; H1285 covenant means: it shows grain, used to feed, with the picture of a tent which represents the family. As the seed clusters at the head of a stalk, the grain is gathered and the stalk is burned to form potash, which is cleaned and used to make soap. This is used to polish, to make a thing bright or pure. It also means to fatten or to fill up; the filling up of man with life and the image of God. It is also used (the grain) to fatten livestock used for sacrifice and to cut into two pieces through which the parties of a covenant pass. If one party fails to meet the agreements of the covenant then the other may do the same to them.



Strong’s Word Dictionary:

H1285

From H1262 (in the sense of cutting (like H1254)); a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh): - confederacy, [con-]feder[-ate], covenant, league.

H216

From H215; illumination or (concretely) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.): - bright, clear, + day, light (-ning), morning, sun.



We’ll examine Matthew 28: 19 -20 as spoken by Christ after His resurrection: “Go therefore, and teach all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to
observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, unto the end of the
world.”


The first word we’ll look at is nations:

G3686

Thayer's Definition:
1) name: univ. of proper names
2) the name is used for everything which the name covers, everything the thought or feeling of which is aroused in the mind by mentioning, hearing, remembering, the name, i.e. for one’s rank, authority, interests, pleasure, command, excellences, deeds etc.
3) persons reckoned up by name

4) the cause or reason named: on this account, because he suffers as a Christian, for this reason

Part of Speech: noun neuter

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from a presumed derivative of the base of G1097 (compare G3685)



The next word is name:

G3686

Thayer's Definition:

1) name: univ. of proper names

2) the name is used for everything which the name covers, everything the thought or feeling of which is aroused in the mind by mentioning, hearing, remembering, the name, i.e. for one’s rank, authority, interests, pleasure, command, excellences, deeds etc.

3) persons reckoned up by name

4) the cause or reason named: on this account, because he suffers as a Christian, for this reason

Part of Speech: noun neuter

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from a presumed derivative of the base of G1097 (compare G3685)

G1097

Thayer's Definition:

1) to learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of perceive, feel

1a) to become known

2) to know, understand, perceive, have knowledge of

2a) to understand

2b) to know

3) Jewish idiom for sexual intercourse between a man and a woman

4) to become acquainted with, to know

Part of Speech: verb

G3685 for comparison

Thayer's Definition:

1) to be useful, to profit, help

2) to receive profit or advantage, be helped [or have joy]

Part of Speech: verb

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: a prolonged form of an apparently primary verb (onomai, to slur), for which another prolonged form (onao) is used as an alternate in some tenses [unless indeed it be identical with the base of G3686 through the idea of notoriety]


The next word is Father:

G3962

Thayer's Definition:

2) metaphorically

2a) the originator and transmitter of anything

2a1) the authors of a family or society of persons animated by the same spirit as himself

2a2) one who has infused his own spirit into others, who actuates and governs their minds

2b) one who stands in a father’s place and looks after another in a paternal way

2c) a title of honour (honor, modern use)

2c1) teachers, as those to whom pupils trace back the knowledge and training they have received

2c2) the members of the Sanhedrin, whose prerogative it was by virtue of the wisdom and experience in which they excelled, to take charge of the interests of others

3) God is called the Father

3a) of the stars, the heavenly luminaries, because he is their creator, upholder, ruler

3b) of all rational and intelligent beings, whether angels or men, because he is their creator, preserver, guardian and protector

3b1) of spiritual beings and of all men

3c) of Christians, as those who through Christ have been exalted to a specially close and intimate relationship with God, and who no longer dread him as a stern judge of sinners, but revere him as their reconciled and loving Father

3d) the Father of Jesus Christ, as one whom God has united to himself in the closest bond of love and intimacy, made acquainted with his purposes, appointed to explain and carry out among men the plan of salvation, and made to share also in his own divine nature

3d1) by Jesus Christ himself

3d2) by the apostles

Part of Speech: noun masculine

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: apparently a root word


The next word is Son:

G5207

Thayer's Definition:

2) son of man

2a) term describing man, carrying the connotation of weakness and mortality

2b) son of man, symbolically denotes the fifth kingdom in Daniel 7:13 and by this term its humanity is indicated in contrast with the barbarity and ferocity of the four preceding kingdoms (the Babylonian, the Median and the Persian, the Macedonian, and the Roman) typified by the four beasts. In the book of Enoch (2nd Century) it is used of Christ.

2c) used by Christ himself, doubtless in order that he might intimate his Messiahship and also that he might designate himself as the head of the human family, the man, the one who both furnished the pattern of the perfect man and acted on behalf of all mankind. Christ seems to have preferred this to the other Messianic titles, because by its lowliness it was least suited to foster the expectation of an earthly Messiah in royal splendor.

3) son of God

3a) used to describe Adam (Luke 3:38)

3b) used to describe those who are born again (Luke 20:36) and of angels and of Jesus Christ

3c) of those whom God esteems as sons, whom he loves, protects and benefits above others

3c1) in the OT used of the Jews

3c2) in the NT of Christians

3c3) those whose character God, as a loving father, shapes by chastisements (Hebrews 12:5-8)

3d) those who revere God as their father, the pious worshipers of God, those who in character and life resemble God, those who are governed by the Spirit of God, repose the same calm and joyful trust in God which children do in their parents (Romans 8:14, Galatians 3:26), and hereafter in the blessedness and glory of the life eternal will openly wear this dignity of the sons of God. Term used preeminently of Jesus Christ, as enjoying the supreme love of God, united to him in affectionate intimacy, privy to his saving councils, obedient to the Father’s will in all his acts

Part of Speech: noun masculine

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: apparently a primary word


The next word is Holy:

G40

Thayer's Definition:

1) most holy thing, a saint

Part of Speech: adjective

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from hagos (an awful thing) [compare G53, G2282]

G53 clean:

Thayer's Definition:

1) exciting reverence, venerable, sacred

2) pure

2a) pure from carnality, chaste, modest

2b) pure from every fault, immaculate

2c) clean

Part of Speech: adjective

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from the same as G40

G2282 warm:

Thayer's Definition:

1) to warm, keep warm

2) to cherish with tender love, to foster with tender care

Part of Speech: verb

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: probably akin to thallo (to warm)


The next word is Ghost:

G4151

Thayer's Definition: pneuma

1) the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son

1a) sometimes referred to in a way which emphasizes his personality and character (the \\Holy\\ Spirit)

1b) sometimes referred to in a way which emphasizes his work and power (the Spirit of \\Truth\\)

1c) never referred to as a depersonalized force

2) the spirit, i.e. the vital principal by which the body is animated

2a) the rational spirit, the power by which the human being feels, thinks, decides

2b) the soul

3) a spirit, i.e. a simple essence, devoid of all or at least all grosser matter, and possessed of the power of knowing, desiring, deciding, and acting

3a) a life giving spirit

3b) a human soul that has left the body

3c) a spirit higher than man but lower than God, i.e. an angel

3c1) used of demons, or evil spirits, who were conceived as inhabiting the bodies of men

3c2) the spiritual nature of Christ, higher than the highest angels and equal to God, the divine nature of Christ

4) the disposition or influence which fills and governs the soul of any one

4a) the efficient source of any power, affection, emotion, desire, etc.

5) a movement of air (a gentle blast)

5a) of the wind, hence the wind itself

5b) breath of nostrils or mouth

Part of Speech: noun neuter

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from G4154

G4154

Thayer's Definition: pneō

1) to breathe, to blow

1a) of the wind

Part of Speech: verb

A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: a root word


    Now we come to John’s gospel record of Jesus found in the sixth chapter, He had just feed a great multitude with five barley loaves and two fish, which starts His (Jesus’) teaching on the Covenant and the hidden meaning of it for those who have eyes and ears to both see and hear what the Spirit of Holiness is saying to the spiritual Body of Christ. What we need to understand is found in the word meanings given above. Remember that Jesus (as the federal head of the church of God, in the flesh of natural man) is the testator of this covenant and humanity is the beneficiary of the covenant or will. Remember that we’ve found out that if one party violates the covenant the other party is bond to exact the penalty revealed in the terms of the covenant on the other party.


John 6:26-66 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say to you, You seek me, not because you saw
the miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves, and were filled. Labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give to you: for him has God the Father sealed.
    Then they said to him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said to them, this is the work of God that you believe on him whom he has sent.
    They said therefore to him, what sign show you then, that we may see, and believe you? What do you work? Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Then Jesus said to them, verily, verily, I say to you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father gave it to you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which came down from heaven, and gives life unto the world.
    Then said they to him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believes on me shall never thirst. But I said to you, that you also have seen me, and believe not. All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and him that comes to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me. This is the Father's will which has sent me, that of all which He has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. This is the will of Him that sent me, that every one which sees the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

    The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. They said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that he said, I came down from heaven? Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, and they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, comes to me. Not that any man has seen the Father, save he which is of God, he has seen the Father.

    Verily, verily, I say to you, He that believes me has everlasting life. I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eats of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

    The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, how can this man give us his flesh to eat? Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say to you, except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoso eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. (Exodus 16:8; Luke 10:16; Romans 13:1-5)


    For my flesh is true meat indeed, and my blood is true drink indeed, he that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him. As the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eats me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eats of this bread shall live for ever. (Study 1 Corinthians 10:16-23 and is else where referenced)

    These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard said, this is an hard saying; who can hear it? When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Does this offend you? What and if you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? It is the spirit that quickens; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, are spirit, and are life. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
    He said, therefore said I to you that no man can come to me, except it was given to him of my Father. From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.


Now lets look what John’s testimony of Jesus is:


John 1:1-14 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. The light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
    There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light that all through him might believe. He was not that light, but to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lights every man that comes into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
But as many as receive him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, to them that believe on his name: which are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.


John 1:16-18 Of His fullness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses,
but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which
is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared Him.

    How does this all tie together the New Covenant based on better promises with the Old Covenant between Abram and God as found in Genesis 15: 8-21; 12:1-7; 15:1-6? This Grace and Truth which has come through Jesus Christ? To find out we’ll need to look at Acts 13:38-39; 1 Corinthians 1:30; Romans 10:4 and Hebrews 9:7-14; 10:8-12, and 14.

Gen 15:8-21 He said (Abram), Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? He said
to him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old,
and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. He (Abram) took to him all these, and divided them in the midst, and
laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. When the fowls came down upon the
carcasses, Abram drove them away. When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
    God said to Abram, Know of a surety that your seed shall be a stranger in a land not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
You shalt go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come here again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
It came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
    In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

What was the foundation for this covenant action? We’ll find it in Genesis 12.


Genesis 12:1-7 Now the LORD had said to Abram, Get out of this country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, to a land that I will show to you: and I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing: I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curse you: and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.
    So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite were then in the land. The LORD appeared to Abram, and said, to your seed will I give this land: and there built he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared to him.

How does this compare with what the Lord told Abram in the first part of Genesis 15?


Genesis 15:1-6 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: “I am” your shield, your exceeding great reward. Abram said, Lord GOD, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house this Eliezer of Damascus? Abram said, behold, to me you have given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. The word of the LORD came to him, saying, this shall not be your heir; but he that shall come forth out of your own bowels shall be your heir.
He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and tell (count) the stars, if you be able to number them”: and He said to him, So shall your seed be. He believed the LORD; and He (the LORD) counted it to him for righteousness.


    Now we can see that there is a difference between these two promises in chapter 12 Abram is promised the land for his natural seed (blood line) and in the second he is promised a spiritual line of heirs. These are not both of the same line of heirship but rather two separate seed lines, one carnal or natural, the other is spiritual, those of the same faith or trust in Jesus Christ, though they can be a mixing as Paul tells us Romans 4:18; Hebrews 11:12.

Now we’ll look at Romans 4.

Rom 4:1-18 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has found? For if
Abraham were justified by works, he has whereof to glory, but not before God. For what say the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Now to him that works is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that works not, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
    Even as David also described the blessedness of the man, to whom God imputes righteousness without works, saying, blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Comes this blessedness then upon the circumcision or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. How was it then reckoned? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: and the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being uncircumcised.

    For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: because the law works wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

    Therefore it is of faith and that by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations, before him whom he believed, God, who quickens the dead, and calls those things which be not as though they were. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, so shall your seed be.


Rom 4:19-25 Being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an
hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through
unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he
was able also to perform.
    Therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; but for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.


Hebrews 11:8-16 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive
for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land
of promise, as a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same
promise: for he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
    Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
    These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for He has prepared for them a city.


    We could like so many get off on the promise of the land but that is not our focus of this study. We’re
about the promise of the Grace of God, which is the foundation of our Gospel for this economy of God. But
before we get into that we need I think establish that God is a just God, a righteous God, a Holy and jealous
God and a consuming Fire. Because man does not walk in the fear of God set before his eyes. For this we
should look at Israel’s first acts of disobedience and the results of that disobedience turn to Numbers 16:16-38 and for emphasis the Lord repeats this again in chapter 26. Now these men brought unholy fire, did Israel remember this and learn from it? No, but what about our guilt of not having reverence for the word of God in this day? Are we guilty of the blood and cross of Christ by our actions and words of our mouths? Just
something for us to consider and think about, now on with our study.


Romans 1:1-10 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, separated unto the Gospel of God,
(Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) concerning His Son Jesus Christ our
Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; declared the Son of God with power,
according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: by whom we have received
grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name: among whom are ye also
the called of Jesus Christ: to all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called saints: Grace to you and peace from
God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

    First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers; making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.


    So far we’ve found that it is of the same faith that Abram had, that the seed of promise are made of. Jesus
and Paul are examples of this seed of faith to which, that the Grace of God is given. We’ve also learned that
Paul’s Gospel is different from that preached to Israel by Jesus, though the risen Jesus Christ is the author and Publisher of God’s secret Gospel of Grace. I say this because Paul said: “that it pleased God to reveal Christ in me.” How can this be? Look at Galatians 2:20 and Philippians 4:13.

Galatians 3:1-7, 8-18 O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth,
before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of
you, Received the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh? Have you suffered so many things in vain? If it be yet in vain.

    He therefore that ministers to you by the Spirit and works miracles among you by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Know therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

    The scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel to Abraham, saying, In you shall all nations be blessed. So then they which are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

    For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident: for, the just shall live by faith. The law is not of faith: but, the man that does the works of the law shall live in them.

    Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree: that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

    I speak after the manner of men; though it is but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannuls, or adds thereto. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He said not, and to seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.

    This I say, the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

Galatians 3:22-23, 26-29 But the scripture has concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus
Christ might be given to them that believe. But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto
the faith which should afterwards be revealed.


    For we are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus for as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. If you be Christ's, then are you Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.


Again let’s look at what the word of Jesus reveals about covenant or testament in this old verses new.


Matthew 9:16-17 Jesus said unto them: No man puts a piece of new cloth on an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up takes from the garment, and the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runs out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved. Also in Marks gospel:

Mark 2: 21-22 Jesus said unto them: No man also sews a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up takes away from the old, and the rent is made worse. No man puts new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.


    Now despite what you may have been told these two verses are saying the same thing. The old cloth and the old wine skin are metaphors for the old testament or covenant which is about to be done away with by Jesus as He fulfills the requirements of it. He is about to establish a new and better testament or covenant of Grace of which He is the testator, the new cloth and the new wine. Now Paul in his letter to the Hebrews puts this new or better covenant into perspective for both the Jews that are on the fence, undecided about a total
commitment of release of their Jewishness and for the learning by Gentiles. Let me also point out that this
Gospel was a mystery to Peter and the others, listen to what Peter said as found in his letter to the “Christian
Jews” of his day in 2 Peter 3:14-18. One other point to consider is that Paul does not use the term “Christian” in any of his letters, but rather saints Let us examine just a few verses:

Hebrews 7:14-25 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah; of which tribe Moses spoke nothing
concerning priesthood. It is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there arises
another priest, who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless
life. For he testified, Thou are a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. For there is truly a
dis annulling of the old commandment going before, for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For the
law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope by the which we draw nigh to God.

    Inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said to him, The Lord swore and will not repent, you are a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) by so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

    They truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: but this man, because he continues ever, has an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come to God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.



Hebrews 8:6-13 But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of
a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless,
then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he said, behold, the days
come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead
them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the
Lord.

    For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: and they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.


In that he said, a new covenant, he has made the first old. Now that which decayed and waxed old is ready to vanish away.


Hebrews 12:23-29 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn (this would be Israel the seed of
faith), which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than
that of Abel. See that we refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on
earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven: whose voice then
shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

    This word, yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: for our God is a consuming fire.

From here we’ll return to our list of scripture as referenced earlier connected to John 1:17 and are as follows Acts 13:38-39; 1 Corinthians 1:30; Romans 10:4; Hebrews 9:7-14, 10:8-12 and 14 which follow.

First for a refresher John 1 :17
John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Act 13:33-41 (38-39) God has fulfilled the same to us their children, in that He has raised up Jesus again; as
it is also written in the second psalm, ‘Thou are my Son, this day have I begotten you’.

    As concerning that he raised him up from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. Wherefore he said also in another psalm, ‘Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.’

    For David, after he had served his own generation as a prophet by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid to his fathers, and saw corruption: but he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption. Be it known to you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins: and by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

    Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; “behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.”



1Corimthians 1:17-31 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of
words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that
perish foolishness; but to us which are saved it is the power of God.

    For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?” That in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God; it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

    For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness; but to them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yes, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are: that no flesh should glory in His presence.

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that, according as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.


Romans 10:1-4 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I
bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of
God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves
unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.


Hebrews 9:6-10 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first
tabernacle, accomplishing the service. But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not
without blood, which he offered for himself, and the errors of the people: the Holy Ghost this signifying, that
the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: which
was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make
him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; which stood only in meats and drinks, and
divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed until the time of reformation.


Heb 9:11-14 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; neither by the blood of goats and calves,
but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the
blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the
flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot
to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?


Heb 9:15-17 For this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the
redemption of the transgressions under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of
eternal inheritance. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a
testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator lives.

Heb 10:1-10 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can
never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because that the worshipers once purged should have
had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

    Wherefore when he came into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body have you prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do tour will, O God. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings for sin you would not, neither had pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; then said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O God. He toke away the first, that he may establish the second. By which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.



Heb 10:11-22 Every priest stood daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can
never take away sins: but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right
hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

    For by one offering he has perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, said the Lord, ‘I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.’

    Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. Having therefore, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; and having an high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

The Father Promising His Messiah as a Covenant

    I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand; I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people. Isaiah 42:6

    Once again, multiple promises reveal God's plan and guarantee His purposes. These promises are actually being made from God, the Father, to His Messieh, the anointed King (who is God, the Son). The promises show that the Messiah would be the new covenant of grace for His people.

    In the opening words, the Father is describing the call of His Messieh (later referred to as "My Servant" — Isaiah 49:6. "I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness." Also, the Father is promising full participation in His Messieh's mission. "I, the LORD . . . will hold Your hand; I will keep You." This would be essential, because the Messieh would go forth as a humble, dependent Servant ("My Servant"): "taking the form of a servant . . . He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross" Philippians 2:7-8.

    Then, the Father offers this great promise of Christ's primary role in going forth to earth. "I will . . . give You as a covenant to the people." Jesus Christ Himself would be given to God's people as His new covenant with them. The new covenant of grace was supplanting the old covenant of law. Yet, it was not just a matter of new terms being prescribed. Rather, a Person was being given, and He Himself would be the sum and substance of the covenant. "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us . . . full of grace and truth" John 1:14.

    This new covenant of grace that God has for His people is all related to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ. He Himself is the embodiment of all that the new covenant promises. In the new covenant, the Lord promises righteousness. This righteousness is found in a Person. " 'Behold, the days are coming,' says the LORD, 'That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; a King shall reign and prosper, and execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely; now this is His name by which He will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS' " Jeremiah 23:5-6. Peace is promised in this covenant of grace. This peace is also found in a Person. "But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been made near by the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our peace" Ephesians 2:13-14. Yes, all that the Lord promises by grace is entered into initially, and continually, by a humble, dependent relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.


1Timothy 3:16 Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh,
justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into
glory. (El, Adonai, Yeshua, Immanuel, Jesus Christ, Son of man, Son of God)



    The following is taken in part from a daily devotional by Pastor Bob Hoekstra, the KVJ Bible, Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, Strong’s Hebrew and Greek and Thayer’s Greek definitions, with the leading of the Holy Spirit who put it all together for me. There is of course much more that can be said in regards to the new covenant and our part in it. Like what is required of us to become partakers of it blessings of promise, and how to avoid the warnings of destruction for those who disobey it.

Redemption, part I

    The purpose of this paper is to help clear the air about what is meant by redemption and salvation and to come to a true Biblical understanding of both terms. To gain an understanding of what was lost that required redemption we must go back to the book of beginnings or the Book of Genesis. In Genesis are found the keys for unlocking our understanding of the whole of scripture, in Genesis is the pattern for the rest of scriptures unveiling; Genesis is the book of first principles in the way that God deals with man and the temporary state that all creation is now in known as sin and under a curse.



    Then the nation of Israel as His chosen people is to become a nation of priests onto God and to the world they are the chosen because Christ is to return through them. From Genesis chapter twelve into Acts chapter nine we learn Gods methods and means of training and dealing with a rebellious, hardhearted and unbelieving people as earthy man with some or a few exceptions, those who become righteous or spiritual. From this point God changes the program by turning to the Gentiles or nations and the birthing of the spiritual nature back into mankind as Israel refused it.


   We’ll see as we go along God’s dealing with man, Israel and mankind again but in different ways an in what He calls dispensations which are no more than time periods and ways of dealing or dispensings, like a druggist dispenses out your prescription. Each has its own does and do not’s or limits when these are met all goes well for everyone. Many of today mix the Old Testament up with the New which is based on better promises paid for by the blood of Christ and which He warns everyone not to do in His earthly ministry to Israel during His first advent [see Matthew 9:16-17 and Mark 2:21-22 Also the two thieves that were hung with the Lord point toward this.].


    We’ll see mankind is no longer in the period during which God was dealing with the nation of Israel only, but are now under the age of God’s dealing with mankind again under His Gospel of Grace which was kept hidden in the mind of God as a mystery. This is a stumbling block for the religious Jew in that he still believes that he is set apart from the Gentile as they were under the Old Testament. God changed the rules and the game play in Acts chapters 6, 7 and 8, when Israel refused the Kingdom of Heaven that was promised them by the stoning of Stephen. He even changed the chief leader from Peter to Saul of Tarsus whose name He also changes to Paul to indicate the change. Paul then begins the ministry that the risen Lord calls him to as He also called Moses to minister to Israel and bring them out of Egypt, but Paul is sent not to Israel again but to the Gentiles. This is where we are in this day an age of the church, a waiting the taking away of the mystical Body of Christ, some 2000 years after Christ’s first advent suffering, crucifixion-death, burial, resurrection and ascension in salvation to the right hand of God the Father into His Kingdom. In this Gospel of Gods Grace are revealed the mysteries and promises for our learning and understanding and the perfecting of our regenerated spirit. The Spirit of Christ in us again as He was in the beginning and the redemption and salvation for those who will come to this revelation knowledge by faith.


    So why does mankind need a redeemer and what was lost and by whom was it lost? What is man that God places such a high value on him? What are the required elements for the new birth of the spirit of fallen, dead man? I shall look at these questions in this paper and answer them. First things first let us go to Genesis to see what may be revealed to us, we’ll need to look with open eyes to see and open ears to hear what the Spirit tells us and not through rose colored glasses. A thought just came to me about salvation and now where does it fit and how does it work in mans redemption? In other words what actually is salvation?


    Remember that this is intended to be a Bible study therefore there is a lot of scripture used or referenced so if you are one that gets easily confused in the use of the word, follow along as this will train you how to read and come to an understanding of it. First things first PRAY for the understanding in all wisdom and truth, and then star the study.

But first we have to acquire some word knowledge.

Redeem: To purchase back; to ransom; to liberate or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying an equivalent; as, to redeem prisoners or captured goods; to redeem a pledge. To repurchase what has been sold; to regain possession of a thing alienated, by repaying the value of it to the possessor.

Thayer's Definition: redeem

1) to release on receipt of ransom

2) to redeem, liberate by payment of ransom

2a) to liberate

2b) to cause to be released to one’s self by payment of a ransom

2c) to redeem

2d) to deliver: from evils of every kind, internal and external

Part of Speech: verb

Thayer's Definition: redeem

1) the price for redeeming, ransom

1a) paid for slaves, captives

1b) for the ransom of life

2) to liberate many from misery and the penalty of their sins

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Thayer's Definition: redemption

1) to redeem

1a) by payment of a price to recover from the power of another, to ransom, buy off

1b) metaphorically of Christ freeing the elect from the dominion of the Mosaic Law at the price of his vicarious death

2) to buy up, to buy up for one’s self, for one’s use

2a) to make wise and sacred use of every opportunity for doing good, so that zeal and well doing are as it were the purchase money by which we make the time our own

Part of Speech: verb

Webster's 1828 Dictionary:
Redemption: Repurchase of captured goods or prisoners; the act of procuring the deliverance of persons or things from the possession and power of captors by the payment of an equivalent; ransom; release; as the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo. The deliverance from bondage, distress, or from liability to any evil or from forfeiture either by money, labor or other means. The liberation of an estate from a mortgage or the purchase of the right to re-enter upon it by paying the principal sum for which it was mortgaged with interest and cost; also, the right of redeeming and re-entering.


Redeeming: Ransoming; procuring deliverance from captivity, capture, bondage, sin, distress or liability to suffer, by the payment of an equivalent.

Kingdom: Of God the government or universal dominion, the power of supreme administration, without limitations reaches into the known universe and beyond. It does not touch that which is evil but does rule or preside over Satan’s realm. The governmental rule; supreme administration as the Kingdom of Heaven will have with Christ as He reigns as its federal King and the nation of Israel its primary ruling people. Also in nature’s history, as it is in division; as the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms as they had their beginning in creation.


Elohim: Hebrew for the triune God Head of the, Father, Son and Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost


Yeshua is Hebrew for the Son of God, angel of the Lord [Old Testament], means ever present one and progressive revelation, the ever revealing one, the Word of God, LORD, who is Immanuel, Yeshua or Jesus of Nazareth the Messieh, Christ [New Testament also revealed in creation], LORD, the Lord Jesus Christ and Head of the Body.


Church: 1.The worshipers of  the true God [El, Elohim, Yeshua Messieh, Jesus Christ]; as the Jewish church also called a synagogue or temple, in Acts the first Jews, Hebrew believers were called “Christians”.

2. The followers are believers of Christ in that they believe that He was a prophet or the Son of God, they are followers only.

3. The disciples in that they have learned the discipline of the cross and the mysteries of Christ assembled for worship in a particular place, as in a private house.

[Here we have three meanings for one word which has lead to the twisting of the scriptures because the word is not rightly divided or understood by natural men and his application of that word.]



Thayer's Definition: church or God’s family where qualified

1) a gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place, an assembly

1a) an assembly of the people convened at the public place of the council for the purpose of deliberating

1b) the assembly of the Israelites

1c) any gathering or throng of men assembled by chance, tumultuously

1d) in a Christian sense

1d1) an assembly of Christians gathered for worship in a religious meeting usually in a synagogue

1d2) a company of Christian, or of those who, hoping for eternal salvation through Jesus Christ, observe their own religious rites, hold their own religious meetings, and manage their own affairs, according to regulations prescribed for the body for order’s sake, which followed their Jewish roots or order of worship and government

1d3) those who anywhere, in a city, village, constitute such a company and are united into one body

1d4) the whole body of Jewish Christians scattered throughout the earth

1d5) the assembly of faithful Christians already dead and received into heaven

Part of Speech: noun feminine



Thayer's Definition: church

1) the body both of men or animals

1a) a dead body or corpse

1b) the living body

1b1) of animals

2) the bodies of planets and of stars (heavenly bodies)

3) is used of a (large or small) number of men closely united into one society, or family as it were; a social, ethical, mystical body

3a) so in the NT of the church

4) that which casts a shadow as distinguished from the shadow itself

Part of Speech: noun neuter


Thayer's Definition: redeem

1) to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction

1a) one (from injury or peril)

1a1) to save a suffering one (from perishing), i.e. one suffering from disease, to make well, heal, restore to health

1b1) to preserve one who is in danger of destruction, to save or rescue

1b) to save in the technical biblical sense

1b1) negatively

1b1a) to deliver from the penalties of the Messianic judgment

1b1b) to save from the evils which obstruct the reception of the Messianic deliverance

Part of Speech: verb


Thayer's Definition: family

1) lineage running back to some progenitor, ancestry

2) a nation or tribe

2a) a group of families, all those who in a given people lay claim to a common origin

2b) the Israelites which distributed into twelve tribes, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob, these were divided into families which were divided into houses

3) family, in a wider sense, nation, people

Part of Speech: noun feminine


Thayer's Definition: savor

1) generator or male ancestor

1a) either the nearest ancestor: father of the corporeal nature, natural fathers, both parents

1b) a more remote ancestor, the founder of a family or tribe, progenitor of a people, forefather: so Abraham is called, Jacob and David

1b1) fathers, i.e. ancestors, forefathers, founders of a nation

1c) one advanced in years, a senior

2) metaphorically

2a) the originator and transmitter of anything

2a1) the authors of a family or society of persons animated by the same spirit as himself

2a2) one who has infused his own spirit into others, who actuates and governs their minds

2b) one who stands in a father’s place and looks after another in a paternal way

2c) a title of honor

2c1) teachers, as those to whom pupils trace back the knowledge and training they have received

2c2) the members of the Sanhedrin, whose prerogative it was by virtue of the wisdom and experience in which they excelled, to take charge of the interests of others

3) God is called the Father

3a) of the stars, the heavenly luminaries, because he is their creator, upholder, ruler

3b) of all rational and intelligent beings, whether angels or men, because he is their creator, preserver, guardian and protector

3b1) of spiritual beings and of all men

3c) of Christians, as those who through Christ have been exalted to a specially close and intimate relationship with God, and who no longer dread him as a stern judge of sinners, but revere him as their reconciled and loving Father

3d) the Father of Jesus Christ, as one whom God has united to himself in the closest bond of love and intimacy, made acquainted with his purposes, appointed to explain and carry out among men the plan of salvation, and made to share also in his own divine nature

3d1) by Jesus Christ himself

3d2) by the apostles

Part of Speech: noun masculine


Webster's 1828 Dictionary:
Salvation: The act of saving; preservation from destruction, danger or great calamity, the taking out of harms way. Appropriately in theology, the redemption of man from the bondage to the sin nature and liability or penalty of eternal death caused by that sin nature, and the conferring on him everlasting life and happiness. This is the great salvation. (Taken from the Webster’s 1828 Dictionary)


Thayer's Definition: salvation

1) deliverance, preservation, safety, salvation

1a) deliverance from the molestation of enemies

1b) in an ethical sense, that which concludes to the souls safety or salvation

1b1) of Messianic salvation

2) salvation as the present possession of all true Christians

3) future salvation, the sum of benefits and blessings which the Christians, redeemed from all earthly ills, will enjoy after the visible return of Christ from heaven in the consummated and eternal kingdom of God.

Part of Speech: noun feminine


Thayer's Definition: salvation

1) saving, bringing salvation

2) he who embodies this salvation, or through whom God is about to achieve it

3) the hope of (future) salvation



Before we get into our study what many do not grab hold of is that there have already been three of four redemptions these are:

Adam lost and redeemed, Genesis 3:7 lost, Genesis 3:21 redeemed;

Israel lost and redeemed, lost in Genesis 37:26-28; 46; redeemed in Exodus 12; and 14:13; then again in Luke 1:67-78;

Humanity or Man kind lost in Genesis 3:7, redeemed in Romans 3:19-25, 26; 1 Corinthians 15:1-8, Galatians 1:11-12 (Galatians 3:10-12, 13 warning here);

Earth lost in Genesis 3:7 and is yet to be redeemed Revelations 16.

Many in our church economy or dispensation of this day are operating in the warning of Galatians 3:10-12 and they are not aware of it because they stay away from the scriptures that we are covering in this study.



Why a Redeemer

    We will be looking only at those scriptures dealing with man here in Genesis chapters one through three as our material of interest in this study will only be dealing with man kind or humanity as a whole.

    What was lost? Who lost it? How was it lost? What is man that that God is mindful of him? What are the required elements for the new birth of the spirit of fallen man, who is in truth a dead man because his spirit is separated from God?



In The Beginning

Gen 1:26-28 God [Elohim] said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over the whole earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. God created Man in His image, in the image of God  created He him; male and female created He them. God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every animal that moves on the earth. God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.


[Man or Adam is created in Christ with Christ in him as a divine creature made of the Elements of Spirit [light, fire and Spirit] eternal. Made a little lower than God, and crowned with glory and honor from the elements of the earth; earth and other materials, fire, and water. Man has in himself the ability to reproduce other like beings [see Matthew 1:14-23; Luke 1:26-35, 37-38] and is given authority over all of this renewed creation put over it to keep it under his feet, to subdue it and have dominion over it. He walks with God as a divine spirit being a true son of God a mirror image of Elohim in bodily form. He has eyes that see only the spiritual things of his creator in a marriage of eternal being. This is added to in Genesis 2:7-9]


[John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that has been made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not. [fallen man]


Col 1:15-17 He who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in Him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through [in] Him, and to Him; and He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.



Eph 1:4-6 Even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us for adoption as sons through [in] Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will, to the praise of His glorious grace, with which He has blessed us in the Beloved.



Eph 2:10 We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. The names for the Word are; Yeshua, the Son of God, the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit, Immanuel, Jesus the Messieh, Jesus Christ and many others. EHYEH-asher-EHYEH means progressive revelation or the ever revealing one, found in Exodus 3:13-15.]



Gen 2:7-9 God, Elohim formed Man, from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul. Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward and there put Man whom he had formed. Out of the ground Yehovah Elohim made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

(see also Genesis 1:26-28 above as these two are the same time frame of creation one has more information than the other. In this one the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is added as it was not in the first.)



[The Life force, the vary Divine nature and character, is composed of portions of the trinity each contributing a part of Himself so man is a mirror image of his creator. The Grace of God in Christ this new creation man a spirit being in which are life, love, and light, living in the glory and the Kingdom of God that is within him and that is the vary realm of his divine being, immortal. A love creature created to respond to God in love in perfect perfection. Man is born into the Divine life; he has the position of being in both heaven and earth a marriage union unlike any other. A spirit being, with a free will, made a little lower than the angels who also have a will made out of the earth in whom was breathed the breath of lives, in order to multiply and bring forth sons of like nature of perfection. Who has contact with his creator in heaven and on earth in perfect worship. The elements of the earth are wind, earth, water and fire. The materials of the earth are darkness, fire, death, wrath, sickness, and thickness. These relate to pride, selfishness, wrath, envy, and murder and all manor of evil. Nature is broken off from God because it contains all the materials and elements and is in its self self producing after its own likeness. All this was caused by the fallen angels of the rebellion when they hit the crystal sea. Producing earth and took possession of it by being increased within its thickness and darkness within its center, in eternity past. When the earth was still apart of the Kingdom of God in the Light a fluid nature like the crystal sea of Revelation 4:6, 22:1 to which it will return 2 Peter 3:12 .]



Gen 2:15 The Lord God took man, and put him into the paradise of pleasure, to dress it, and to keep it.

[This is heaven on earth, in the goodness, and pleasure of the Kingdom of God.]



Gen 2:16-17 Elohim commanded man, saying, “of every tree of the garden you shall freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will certainly die.” (: or ; is a time period break in many scriptures, so there was a time period between the two statements though some translations have removed this marking and thereby changing the meaning of scripture.)



[Here is mans first test of obedience to the voice of God and for us the word written of God, do we trust God? Can we hear God’s voice in His word printed with ink and pen? Or are we so in tune with ourselves and the spirit of the world? That we tune out the voice of God, when heard through His word or His voice spoken in our inner man? This is a spiritual separation from the nature and character, which reveals to us the Grace of God, who God really is. This is separation from Christ both inward and outward. This putting man on the level of the animal life: fleshly, carnal, earthy, reasoning, natural with the animals fearing man and man having the bestial nature or having the nature of all that is evil. The exchange of the divine nature and character of Christ (the separating of the conjoined divine being) to that of his free will and choice to having the eyes of man opened, from the heavenly things to which man is now blind, to the flesh and blood a son of man and the nature of the natural life that all the rest of creation experiences or lives in. We here see the first commandment with a promise or a law placed into effect that covers the earth and the entire human race and even reaches into nature or the natural order of things until it is removed or broken.]



[1Samuel 15:22 Samuel said, “Has God as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of God? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.”

Col 2:8-12 Take heed lest there shall be any one that makes spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ: for in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and in Him you are made full (having the fullness of the Godhead), who is the head of all principality and power (the head of the mystical Body of Christ): in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ (the opening of the mystical seed hidden in man); having been buried with Him in baptism, wherein you were also raised with Him (John12:24) through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

Rom 8:1-2 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus; for the Spirit's Law-- telling of Life in Christ Jesus--has set me free from the Law that deals only with sin and death.

Rom 7:4-6 Wherefore, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law in commandment, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from that law of commandment, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not the oldness of the letter.]



Gen 2:19-20 The Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name. Adam called all the beasts by their names, and all the fowls of the air, and all the cattle of the field: but for Adam there was not found a helper like himself.



[Adams first signs of craving or desiring through reasoning or an interest in worldly intelligence the nature of the creature, something more within himself, the spirit of the world is given seed causing a strong draw on him in his flesh, than his normal relationship with God and His love. Here then is a mystery as to the power of mans will and the desire for intelligence or knowledge that caused the tree of knowledge of good and evil to grow. This desire is a flaw of mans will and proves to become his down fall, just as it did the fallen angels who’s evil nature covers the earth in the form of dust. The animals have no ignorance of what concerns them, they have a sensible intuitive knowledge of everything that is required for food, shelter, protection and reproduction and Adam desired this knowledge. It is better known as the knowledge of the world or the spirit of the world. For all natural man sin and death. For the entire animal kingdom, plant kingdom and all nature carries this death of corruption and decay and material breakdown.]



Gen 2:18 The Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like to himself.



[Woman is mans first line of redemption, for Adams turning from God and His love, to desiring what he saw in the animal kingdom and nature, in the pairs and in the plant life. Woman is mans completion or help meet, being taken from Adam to carry the seed. As man is Christ’s help meet being taken from Him and will be reunited within Him again and the two shall become one flesh.] (Here there is another example of a change in the placement of scriptures, though it does not seem to be much it to does alter our understanding.]



Gen 2:21-23 Then the Lord God cast a deep sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he took one of his ribs, and filled up flesh for it. The Lord God built the rib which he took from Adam into a woman: and brought her to Adam. Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.


[Rule of the first is seen here in that He, Elohim, had created man a complete being in himself and therefore is required to take from that which was created to create again, a mystery hid in scripture. A thing that the fallen angels can not do, they are not able to reproduce or regenerate themselves. It is also during this operation that the mystery seed of Christ’s image and likeness is placed dormant within man as it will be required at some future time or epoch. Few of the gentiles and Hebrew children will energize this seed and they will be known as “righteous” men throughout the scriptures. ]



Gen 3:1-7 The serpent was more crafty (subtle, cunning) than any animal of the field which Elohim had made. It said to the woman, is it even so, that God has said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden? The woman said to the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God has said, you shall not eat of it, and you shall not touch it, lest you die. The serpent said to the woman, you will not certainly die; for God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be as god, knowing good and evil. The woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. The eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons.



[The chief angel, Satan, also called the dragon and the beast, that lead the rebellion, who took with him his regiment when thrown out of heaven and fell into the earth. He is the spirit of the world that corrupts everything on it and in it. Questioning the vary word of God and causing doubt, and reasoning [unbelief] that birthed lust in the mind of the woman. The seed of self-will self-love the desire or lust for the things of the bestial nature is given root in mans divine nature again. The eyes of the flesh will be opened and the eyes of the spirit or soul will be closed or veiled in man. Adams free will choice separates him from being a little below the angles, a spiritual being, that God had made him to be, and turns him into the bestial nature of the serpent. He takes on the animal nature of life, temporary as it is in its life to death, in corruption, and is now subject to the worldly spirit and all manor of evil, demonic and makes him a slave to that nature. The nature and character of God and the glory of God dies and becomes a seed within man, this seed then is passed on through woman. The blood is defiled, for the life of man is in the blood. This seed contains all the nature and likeness of God in Christ but requires the operation of God’s power in the fire, light and love, the work of the Holy Spirit and the death of the bestial nature for this seed to come to life again. An action of mans free will of choice, that allows the light of God contained in the word and the Spirit to give life to this seed. As a seed of grain has to have the out ward husk die an break open, this is the evil that sealed the good of God inside of it, it has to die before the ovule can bring forth new life, God in Christ in man again in regeneration. This seed when properly feed on the word of God grows into a large tree that is drawing it’s nourishment from the root which is also Christ held in a mystery. ]



Gen 3:9-13 The Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where are you Adam? He said: I heard your voice in paradise; and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself. He said to him: And who has told you that you are naked, but that you have eaten of the tree whereof I commanded you that you should not eat? Adam said: “the woman, whom you gave me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.” The Lord God said to the woman: “Why have you done this?” She answered: “the serpent deceived me, and I did eat.”



[The results of mans eating now having the inward knowledge of good and evil and the ability to see Gods hand in all of the creation or nature around him, his spiritual eyes are now closed. All mankind is without excuse for all is revealed to him by nature itself. The second encounter with deception and again the choice is turned to self will above that which was commanded the vary thing that caused Satan to fall in the first place. Now man is the slave of the bestial nature and all of its ugly components, the thing that the earth is made up of; darkness, fire, thickness, death, wrath, disease and all the offspring of them.]



[Eph 2:4-9 God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loves us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together within Christ--by grace you have been saved-- and raised us up within Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. By grace you have been saved through faith. This is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 1Cor 15:22 In Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.



[It should be noted that had Christ not been in all things from the beginning He could not have been allowed to do the works of righteousness in bring redemption to mankind. To redeem or buy back that which was lost of mankind and the earths rule and dominion and taking of the title deed from Satan which is now awaiting the seals to be broken that keep it sealed. Revelations 5:1-9]



Gen 3:14-20 The Lord God said to the serpent: “because you have done this thing, you are cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon your breast, belly shall you go, and earth shall you eat all the days of your life. I will put enmities between you and the woman, and your seed and her seed: she shall crush your head, and you shall lie in wait for her heel.” To the woman he said: “I will multiply your sorrows, and your conceptions: in sorrow shall you bring forth children, and you shall be under your husband's power, and he shall have dominion over you.” To Adam he said: “because you have hearkened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded you, that you should not eat, cursed is the earth in your work: with labor and toil shall you eat thereof all the days of thy life. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, and you shall eat the herbs of the earth. In the sweat of thy face shall you eat bread till you return to the earth out of which you were taken: for dust you are, and into dust you shall return.” Adam called the name of his wife Eve: because she was the mother of all the living. [now for six thousand years +/-]



[The seed of the devil that is at work in merchandising worldliness and its passions of self will and their evil offspring. The establishing of this covenant and the placement of the seed of redemption to reestablish the Kingdom of God in the soul of man, the way is made for the death of mans selfish will and slavery to all evil in his fallen nature which requires its being dealt with. The promise of a coming redemption for all mankind that will destroy the evil nature that is at work in and through fallen man. God is setting up for the wrath to come in the enmity of the two natures now found in man. One a physical, fleshly, earthy life in sorrow and shame under the lordship of a heavy task master the fear of death and the sting of that death. Man no more having the dominion over creation having lost that to the enemy of God and man, Satan called the dragon and beast. The curse reveals the fallen nature of all created creatures and nature, which has been broken off of God. All have only this consuming fire, which is a part of God, contained in them which are wrath and darkness because the presence of God is removed from them. Adam put out the life light and love of God and put man into the natural nature of the fallen angels and the creatures in this fallen nature, temporary as it is. Man is now the carrier of the seed in his/her soul that will be the destroyer of the power of darkness mans eternal separation from the love and light of God who will bring the truth, the way and the life back into fallen man, his redeemer. Man now carries the spiritual torch awaiting the flame to reignite the fire of eternal life the promise of mans redemption to a spirit being again and the future salvation in which we now hope for.]



[Mat 4:8-10 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, "All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me." Then Jesus said to him, "Be gone, Satan! For it is written, "'You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.'"



2Cor 4:3-5 Even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.



2Thes 2:7-12 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.



Rom 3:9-11 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.



Rom 3:21-26 But now apart from the law a righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction; for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God set forth to be a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God; for the showing, I say, of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.



The following is Paul’s explanation of the law of sin that is at work in mans flesh, and the requirement of death for the flesh for the awakening of mans spirit and the redemption of the same.



Rom 7:5-25 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members (physical body) to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter (the Old Testament and Levitical Law with its ordinances of men). What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shall not covet.

    But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. (The Gentiles were out side the law given to Israel but not the commandment of God given to a man in Genesis 2:16-17 as seen above.) For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, (Spoken to Adam and the serpent) which was ordained to life, I found to be to death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. (How? In Christ on the tree both laws were destroyed and ended in the flesh of the son of man, by revelation.)

    Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. (This is the Mosaic Law) Was then that which is good made death to me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. (The Law of Moses gave no place or room for neither repentance nor forgiveness it required death for disobedience.)

    For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. (covet or lust) Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.

    I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: (The Royal Law of loving God with all our soul, body, mind and strength and our neighbor as ourselves.) but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. (Here is where he is released from the law of sin and death through his seeing himself in Christ on the tree as it was revealed to him by the Lord. This is found in Galatians 2:19-21: For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.) Here we see another interesting phrase; faith in “the Son of God”, Paul uses this phrase many times in his letters but how did the Lord refer to Himself during His ministry? He used the phrase “Son of man,” this phrase was also used by the Prophets; Job, Daniel, and Ezekiel probably more than all the rest. This can be traced to reference Adam after he sinned. It is this nature “son of man” that was put to death on the cross in the flesh of Christ and in us when we see ourselves on that tree within Christ, as He was within the first man before his fall into the bestial nature. The term is used as a common reference by Christ Jesus to His relationship to natural man while He was in the flesh of man, as the Prophet Ezekiel used it when referring to himself.

Redemption, part II

    Because man had chosen to go this route, this disposition of enmity was a confirmed disposition. Man was so thoroughly locked into it that he could not rescue himself from it. Only the redemptive work of God could accomplish such a rescue.

     In addition to spiritual death, man became subject to disease, deformity, accidents, and physical death. The woman was cursed with pain in childbirth and with the desire to rule the man though she was given to man as his help meet and taken from him. The ground was cursed, thereby making man's work of growing food much more difficult. Man lost his perfect environment. Because man followed Satan's lead to rebel against God's rule, Satan was able to usurp the rule of the world system away from God temporarily. Instead of living in a world system ruled by the benevolent God. Who loved him, man was doomed to live in a world system dominated by a tyrant who would use man for his own selfish ends.

    In the midst of this dismal tragedy, at the end of the first dispensation God gave a ray of hope. In Genesis 3:15 He pronounced the first promise of the Redeemer. Who would be born of woman into the world during the course of history. As God progressively worked out His purpose for history, two of the great things which He would accomplish through the Redeemer would be the provision of redemption for fallen man and the defeat of Satan.The rest was hidden from mans view and understanding.


[1Cor. 15:45-49 It is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. It is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. [Genesis 1:26-28, 2:7-9; 5:3]

John 3:5-8 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God! That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, you must be born anew. The wind blows where it will, and thou hears the voice thereof, but knows not whence it cometh, and whither it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.


John 3:31-34 He that comes from above is above all: he that is of the earth is of the earth, and of the earth he speaks: he that comes from heaven is above all. What he has seen and heard, of that he bears witness; and no man receives his witness. He that hath received his witness hath set his seal to this, that God is true. For he whom God hath sent speaks the words of God: for he gives not the Spirit by measure.


Philip 3:18-19 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.


Philip 3:20-21 For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.


Rom 8:29-30 For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren: and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.


Rom 1:19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. His invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. Although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.]


In Genesis 4:3-7 God accepted Abel’s blood sacrifice but rejected Cain’s bloodless sacrifice. This implies that the special revelation which God gave to man for the second dispensation was that man was to approach God only by means of a blood sacrifice (cf. Heb. 11:4). Sinful man, no matter how sincere, could not come to God in his own way. He could come only in the one way that God had ordained


Gen 5:3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.


[Seth carries on in place of Abel (righteous) who Cain the earthy man killed. Seth is the father of Noah, Noah is the father of Shem, Shem is the great grand father of Eber a relative of Abram, [Who will become known as Abraham, a note of interest God changed Abram by adding the letter “H” to his name, this letter is the Hebrew symbol in their alphabet for grace because it is in faith that Abraham was counted righteous.] as found in the book of Jasher in it, it is told that Abram [at the age of ten] stayed with Noah and Shem to learn the ways of the Lord for twenty-nine years. Shem is the king of Salem and the high priest of the "el-yon," Most High, "el" God, the gentile rendering for Elohim. His heirs will become the children of Israel who will become the nation of promise through whom God will come in the flesh or the humiliation of man as Immanuel, Jesus the Messieh of Israel. And Paul will show by revealed revelation to be the redeemer of the world. In another study of Moses he receives another word name or title for El, also his name has important revelation for us as well.]


    Now from that which is said in the above we find that because of the fall, man now has two natures at work within him. The first is the bestial nature that is seen in the world around us, exhibited in our environment, and the nature of all animal and plant life and is called sin because it came from death, in man separated humanity from his creator which is death. This is to be set a part from Christ or God and is ultimately eternal separation from Elohim. This death as seen above is both physical and spiritual for those who as we will soon see do not choose to act upon the word. The second nature is laid dormant or hid as a seed of the Creator God within us, as also revealed above, which requires the work of our own free will to allow the Word, truth, light, and the Spirit to work their power within us. When these works have had their perfect work we are said to be born again, redeemed and have been put into salvation or are eligible for salvation the hope of our calling out to join the Lord in the air. This salvation does require our obedience and daily working with the word and the Spirit through the study of the word learning to rightly divide it, to the putting of it in proper order of epochs (seasons and times) and dispensations for our understanding. In order to grow in love and obedience to the Spirit of God this is Christ within us through the knowledge of His will in all things. The power or authority is the Essence of Grace or the Spirit of Christ and is the New Covenant of God's Grace which we become a part of, more on this else where. In this process of maturing we will be tried or tested which helps us to grow from glory to glory onto the perfect man in Christ for this we are required to take on the mind of Christ having a willingness to suffer the lost of all earthly things. As the lust or love of the thing is greater than our first love as He is invisible to us and the things are visible but only temporal in nature in that they perish with use or corrode (rot) with the lack of use.


John 3:3, 5-7 Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, [of a truth] I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.’”(Special note when one receives the revelation of Moses name and other events in his life the importance of this passage becomes clear.)


1Cor 15:1-8 Now I would remind you, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you--unless you believed in vain. I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.

Gal 1:11-12 I would have you know, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel. I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

(Now this is our Gospel for our salvation and redemption, which is not the gospel of Israel’s salvation as found in Matthew through John or the first ten chapters of Acts. Which is what many teach and preach; the gospel of the kingdom of heaven for the bases of their salvation though they are not Israel or even a Jew. Those who put their trust in this gospel have been deceived and are still in their sin, as that gospel has no power to save in this dispensational period. As it was for only Israel until they rejected it for the third time, this is found in chapter seven of Acts.)

Mat 7:24-29 Every one therefore that hears these my words, and does them, shall be like to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock. Every one that hears these words and does them not, shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand, and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof.
It came to pass when Jesus had fully ended these words; the people were in admiration at his doctrine. [teaching] He was teaching them as one having power, and not as the scribes and Pharisees.

[Jesus Christ is the rock the sure foundation upon whom all things are constructed, see Genesis 1. Even nature and the nature of all things is subject to Him. Those who reject the cornerstone, upon which the house is built Jesus Christ, reject Christ the creator of all things and who holds all things together by His word. These are the enemies of the blood and the cross of Christ who will become His footstool. Jesus in His earthly ministry saved the lost and is the action of this salvation they were healed and forgiven of sins power over them many though were not aware of the action of God upon them and returned to their old life style. Totally unaware of what they had other than their healing.]


Eph 1:9 Making known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Him.


Eph 3:9 To make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages had been hid in God who created all things.


Eph 1:15-21 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, [Who is among you? Yeshua] and the love [the very nature and character of God, agape-LOVE] which is toward all the saints, cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him; having the eyes of your heart [soul] enlightened, [opened as from a deep sleep] that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints is, and what the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward [When we accept our redemption on His terms He takes us away from Satan and his influence over us.] who believe, according to that working of the strength of His might which HE wrought in Christ, when HE raised Him from the dead again and made Him to sit at HIS right hand in the heaven lies, far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.


[This divine light causes the new birth of God’s seed that is dormant inside all flesh of man from Eve on when received as Mary received the in grafted word that brought forth the body of Jesus. The power from on high that brings in the light which causes a regenerated life where there was only death because of sin. A seed does not bring forth new life until it first dies [this is what happened to Israel’s fathers and prophets] and the out ward shell is broken, then the sprout, then the blade, then the stalk and then the bud and then the seed in the bud.]


Col 1:9-17 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray and make request for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, to walk worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power, according to the might of His glory, to all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father, who made us meet [fit or able, acceptable] to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light; (receptive ones) who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of HIS Love; in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins: who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in Him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through Him, and to Him; and He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. [Genesis 1, 2, and 3]


[Their FAITH comes from the preaching of the cross and the finished work of it. This is a complete understanding because in it there is great FAITH, Power and LOVE. This translation is a fact and it is past tense a done deal it was done without our even knowing that it was taking place we had no physical sensation of it, a quite super power. The very power that raised Christ Jesus from the grave and caused new life to flow in Him as it does in us. We are now waiting it’s reality by the taking away of the Body of Christ into His salvation.]


1Cor. 2:4-14 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, [worldly intellectualism] but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, [Again the worldly intellectualism, which requires signs wonder and miracles of power.] but in the power of God. We speak wisdom, however, among them that are full-grown:[mature in the knowledge of God or in His completion] yet wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to naught: but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that had been hid, which God foreordained before the worlds to our glory: which none of the rulers of this world had known: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory: as it is written, things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, and which entered not into the heart of man, whatsoever things God prepared for them that love Him. But to us God revealed them through the Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yes, and the deep things of God. For who among men knows the things of a man, save [except] the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so the things of God none knows save [except] the Spirit of God. We received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God.

Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Spirit teaches; combining Spiritual things with spiritual. Now the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged. [Accepted, understood, and discerned.]

[The power which causes the new birth from above because of the truth and the light of life that this Gospel of Grace brings to its believer. This is not the same Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven that Christ brought to Israel and the Jew during His first advent. The enemy of God is the spirit of the world, reasoning’s as those ruled by their fleshly lusts and carnal minds or limited understandings and the knowledge of man in mans intellectualism.]


Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.

(This is like a young woman that marries a young man and takes to herself his name, she becomes known by his name, she is identified in his name. She is said to be one with him, “bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.” She is clothed with him and over time they begin to actually look alike and think alike.)


Rom 8:5-9 They that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh but they that are after the Spirit mind the things of the Spirit. The mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life [eternal life in Christ] and peace: [peace with God because we become sanctified by God] because the mind of the flesh is enmity [hostile toward God and full of wrath] against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be: and they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But we are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you. If any man has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.


[The mind of the flesh is earthy, carnal, natural, beastly, and practical and they depend on their reasoning power and make void the word of God and the power of God. In this action they put the Lord Jesus to death a new each day. The unsaved are those who have not suffered the regeneration of Christ. Those who have willingly suffered the discipline of the cross of Christ have therefore become His disciples and followed Him in the regeneration through that discipline of the cross and the deigning of self-will and self-love with its covetousness and lawlessness with wrath.]


Rom 8:10-11 If Christ is in you, the body is dead [crucified with Christ] because of sin; but the spirit is life [quickened, regenerated to His likeness in light, life and love] because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He that raised Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that dwells in you.


[The power that raised Christ is the power that enables us to be an over comer while still in the flesh and places us in the departure of the mystical Body of Christ the beginning of the day of the Lord. As found in 2 Thes. 2:2-3 where the apostasy or falling away is mentioned, both of these are wrong renderings for the word that was used in those Bibles printed prior to 1700 have “departure” which is the more correct word.]

John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished”: and he bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.


[All that He was sent to do was then finished for all who would come to trust in His Faith, in Him that is to be a part of His Body to have His nature regenerated in us. This nature was lost by Adam, for if Adam did not have this nature of Christ then Christ could not have been the second Adam and we could not become born again. The mystery hid in God from before the foundation of the world. Which no natural man can understand because he tries to reason a thing out, God requires us to simply believe and accept it.]


Rom 8:14-17 As many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. You received not the spirit of bondage again to fear; but you received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God: and if children, [sons] then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, [in His humiliation and crucifixion] that we may be also glorified with Him.

[How was He glorified, and when was He glorified? It is our salvation from the wrath to come as members of His Body.]


Rom 8:18 I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. [In us]


Col 3:4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.


2Thes 2:14 To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.


2Thes 1:5-12 This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering--- since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed. To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of His calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.


Rom 16:25-27 Now to Him that is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept in silence through times eternal, [before Adam was created] but now is manifested, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known to all the nations to obedience of faith:[this is Jesus' faith as seen elsewhere in Romans 3:22; Galatians 2:16, 3:22]  to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory for ever.

[My Gospel is the preaching of the cross and faith in His death, burial for the three days and three nights in the earth, and His resurrection and our being in Christ during His suffering as the Lord’s Table tells us. We share in His cup of affliction and are members of His broken body. See 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 the Gospel, (the Gospel of God’s Grace, His Gospel, the Gospel of Christ) 1 Corinthians 11:23-27 the cup and the bread as found in Matthew 26:26-30, Luke 22:15-20.]

2Pet 3:15-16 Count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you [the letter to the Hebrews] according to the wisdom and knowledge given him, as he does in all his letters [Romans through Philemon] when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, [the mysteries] which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

[The old testament, Genesis through Acts 11, the religious Jew had nothing to do with a Gentile and for God to have turned to the Gentiles with a message of Grace and Faith a lone was totally beyond them and their mind set or comprehension was in the works of the Law as required of them as their religious leaders directed.]


Eph 3:2-7 Assuming that you have heard of the stewardship [dispensation, or administration is given for a period of time] of God's grace that was given to me for you, how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations [dispensations of time] as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of His power.


[These are not the Prophets of the Old Testament but rather the followers of Christ’s discipline as Paul was and imitators of Paul as he was of Christ. As Paul had stated and required of his followers in order for them to be a pastor or minister of the mysteries. The mystery revealed that the Gentiles are heirs and co-heirs or members of the Body of Christ and are subject to His redemption and salvation or departure as He departed in His ascension. These are our requirements also.]


[1Cor 14:1 Follow after LOVE; yet desire earnestly spiritual gift, but rather that you may prophesy. This is the proclaiming of the Gospel of the Grace of God revealed in the mysteries, which only the apostles and prophets of Paul knew and understood, such as Priscilla and Aquila in Acts 18]


Rom 8:9-13 You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life [quickened or a live] because of righteousness. If the Spirit of Him that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He that raised Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that dwells in you. So then, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh: for if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.


[The body is dead or counted as dead when the discipline of the cross has had its perfect work in you. Those who mind the things of the flesh and do these things are not part of the mystical Body of Christ and will not be part of those of the departure. These will see the white throne judgment and the second death the lake of fire reserved for the devil and his comrades. To live by the Spirit this is to follow the Lord through the discipline of the cross, to take up your cross daily and put to death the lusts of the flesh and the deeds of unrighteousness.]


Rom 8:14-18 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you received not the spirit of bondage again to fear; [This is the death of the earthy and their judgment.] but you received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God: and if children, [sons] then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, [This is known as having the mind of Christ, which also requires our setting our thoughts on the things above where we are seated with Christ at the right hand of God.] that we may be also glorified with Him [the word with is a relationship word denoting union, in Him]. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.


[That is His death, burial and resurrection and for our faith in the revealed understanding of all that was finished on the cross. This is not by works but rather by faith in the finished work of the cross and our being a part of Him on that tree. To be glorified is the taking out of the Body of Christ a mystery. ]


Rom 15:8-9 I say that Christ has been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm [fulfill, that is of His coming as prophesied] the promises given to the fathers, and that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy; as it is written, therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.


[The confirming of the promises is Christ’s ministry work and assignment before the cross. Peter in 2 Peter 3:15-16 is saying that Paul carries the authority to the Gentiles as Moses carried in his ministry to Israel. Paul says a similar thing in Ephesians 3:8.]


Eph 3:8-12 To me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; and to make all men see what is the [fellowship of this] dispensation of the mystery which for ages had been hid in God who created all things; to the intent that now to the principalities and the powers in the heaven lies might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in Him.


[The principalities and powers are not the fallen angels that are being held in the bowls of the earth in thickness and darkness waiting for the final judgment. The church here is the Body of Christ that is not in division or denominationalized as we see in the church of the world today. There is no power or presence of God or the working of the Kingdom of God in such institutions. They do not fit the requirements revealed for the Body of Christ. They have nothing to do with the mysteries or the teachings of Paul and because of this as Peter says they bring destruction on themselves.]

1Cor. 4:1-2 Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of Christ, and stewards [an overseer or an administrator] of the mysteries of God. Here, moreover, it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful.


[This is what each member of the spiritual Body of Christ is to be doing in their daily life; it is their conversation or life style. We are required to have a full working knowledge of these secrets.]


1Cor. 4:16 I beseech you therefore, be imitators [learn from me] of me.


1Cor. 11:1 Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

[Paul in Acts 22:19-21 had direct communications with the Lord.]


John 1:6-8 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. [John the Baptist] The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, [John the Baptist] but came that he might bear witness of the light.

[Jesus Christ is the light that passed through the earth in creation as recorded in Genesis the light that gave life to man. See Genesis the untold store.]


John 1:9 There was the true light, the light which lights every man, [how many?] coming into the world.


Rom 1:18-21 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness; because that which is known of God is manifest in them; [The spiritual seed deposited in them in Genesis 2-3] for God manifested it to them. [All of nature bears witness to this fact.] For the invisible things of Him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, His everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: because that, knowing God, they glorified Him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasoning’s, and their senseless heart was darkened.


[All ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth here we see the institutions of religious ceremony that fall under the form of the Pharisees, Sadducees and scribes of the Jewish religion of Jesus’ day. There’s no room for debate salvation is available to all for God is no respecter of persons all mankind carries this seed in themselves, it is our free will choice to except or reject His Grace.

The whole of humanity from Cain on; all earthy, natural, carnal mankind will experience this wrath with a few exceptions: the spiritual man or woman who have turned from the vain things of the world.]


Titus 2:11-14 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world; looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ; who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to Himself a people for His own possession, zealous of good works.

[The works of love done as He directs them in love and obedience in His will as a loving son does what his father tells him.]


Eph 3:3-5 How that by revelation was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in few words, whereby, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ; which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit.

[These prophets are the men that follow Paul’s teachings and that are imitators of him as he is of Christ, i.e. Timothy, Barnabas etc.. These are not of the twelve or their group, at the first even after their meeting in Jerusalem found in Acts 15:1-29 and Galatians 2:1-10. Study Peters letter 2Peter 3:15 as shown above. ]


1Peter 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, [writing] to the elect who are sojourners [the scattered Jews] of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.

[This dispersion is of both that which took place 600 years prior and when Saul was hunting down the followers of the way that ran from Jerusalem.]

1Peter 1:9-11 Receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls. Concerning which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come to you: searching what time or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ [The Holy Spirit or the angel of the Lord as He was called in the Old Testament is who Peter is addressing here.] which was in them did point to, when He testified beforehand [from Job up through Malachi] the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow them.


[The sufferings of Christ in His death, burial and resurrection, and the Heaven on earth or the Gospel the Kingdom of Heaven that Jesus taught and spoke of in Matthew through Acts 2. The promises that had been given to the fathers starting with Abraham and the things that the prophets saw spoke of and wrote of by the spirit. See Isaiah 53:1-9 is just one example.]


Isa 53:1-9 Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of God been revealed? For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: [this is in reference to Bethlehem] he had neither form nor comeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. [You do not know that He is a King.] He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our grief, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, [He was the Supreme SIN sacrifice.] he was bruised for our iniquities; [First for Israel then for the whole human race.] the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Yehovah has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off [put to death] out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke was due? They made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.


[He was despised and rejected, they did not know who He was even after three years of proof they did not know Him. He bore our grief and sorrows He carried the full load not only for Israel but for the whole world all of Gods wrath, He was the sacrifice for all. Him stricken and smitten the whipping and the betting given Him for all. And afflicted the work of the cross that was required by all He took upon Himself in love for all. With His stripes we are healed this is not dealing with the physical nature of man but rather mans spiritual aspect. We have turned every one to his own way they choose not to except Him because He was born in Bethlehem, grew up in Nazareth, worked the works of God for three years and they still did not know Him. He was oppressed speaking of the finished work of the cross. Now Israel had no understanding that this was speaking about their Messiah because their eyes were veiled to it. This is what Peter is making reference to, this and other passages.]


1Pet 1:12 To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, did they minister these things, which now have been announced to you through them that preach the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.


[Remember to whom Peter is writing [the believing Jews that are scattered] and that he is a religious Jew under the Law that in his second letter he refers to Paul’s writings and tells these Jews that they are to study Paul’s letters to gain the spiritual understanding and full knowledge of God and His will for them.]


Col 1:12-17 Giving thanks to the Father, who made us meet [prepared us] to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light; who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love; in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins: who is the image of the invisible God, [ Yehsua, Immanuel, Jesus] the firstborn of all creation;[ Yeshua ] for in Him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through Him, and to Him; and He is before all things, [the pre-existent one] and in Him all things consist.


[We are in the Kingdom if in deed we follow Him in the discipline of His cross in order to enter into the finished work of His cross the narrow way of the regeneration. As Isaiah said by His stripes we are healed that is to receive salvation. He is the Elohim of creation the Christ that was in Adam prior to the fall, that Christ whom Adam crucified by his action of rejection or disobedience. Genesis 1-3 see Genesis the Untold Story.]


Col 1:18-19 He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He might have the preeminence. It was the good pleasure of the Father [The Godhead Elohim] that in Him [Jesus Christ, Elohim of creation and more.] should all the fullness dwell.


John 1:1-2 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning God. [Elohim]


John 1:14 The Word [God, Yeshua, Immanuel] became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.


Heb 1:1-2 God, [Yeshua] having of old time spoken to the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners, has at the end of these days spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds.


[Christ’s first advent is the last days of Old Testament scripture because His coming was the end of the dispensation or the completion of the promises of His coming given to Israel. The people through whom God had chosen to bring in the redeemer, the seed of woman.]


To Paul a lone was this revelation given who the Son of Man and God the Son is. No one else in human history could have taken upon himself all that Paul reveals about the Son. When you realize that on Him was laid all Sin and that He was made to be Sin and that all the wrath and chastisement of God [Elohim] was laid upon Him. Had He been any less than who He is He could not have handled it. God [El, Elohim-Yeshua] Himself took upon Himself what was ours.


Question: Why and how did our Holy Jesus become our great redeemer?

Because, and only because, as a son of fallen man Adam, Jesus came into this temporal nature as head and fountain to lead the whole human race through the process of redemption back into the eternal nature to be seated at the right hand of God in Christ. This process is a requirement for everyone. To be a true disciple and true Christian one must follow Jesus through the proper gates, to inherit His conquering nature and eternal life. One must strongly desire this life and be willing to pass through these gates which are:

• Incarnation (the piercing or splitting of the seed in the soul)

• passion (the agony of separation from the spirit of the world)

• death (to the spirit of the world and its lusts)

• resurrection (the victorious new birth of Christ in you, your hope of glory)

• ascension into heaven (being taken out as a member of the mystical Body of Christ, to meet Him in the air to forever be with Him)

This meeting Him in the air is “The Day of the Lord” a trigger for the tribulation and revealing of lawlessness.

    Until one knows and understands just what it was that Adam lost in the fall, one can never really know true redemption and salvation that for now remains open to us. This is not a "one time shot" of speaking some prayer, believing that Jesus died and rose again. But rather, is a daily walk through these gates and the true carrying of your cross daily and the putting to death those passions and lusts of the world and their deadly system of deception. Continually staying on this narrow path that Jesus said, "Many there are that are called, but few are chosen." This meaning it's our choosing to be a doer of the word and not a hearer only. It's our choice to choose this eternal life or eternal death, it’s our choice to walk and work out our own salvation with fear and trembling, this is not a works as in some sort of working as one may do for a living. It is however the putting to death each day the things as lusts, pride, envy, boasting, malice, stiff and other natural, carnal evils. He made the way for us to follow Him. He told His disciples that they which follow Him through the regeneration, when He sits in the throne of His glory, they would also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. This was strictly for Israel; however, we all have to walk through this process of regeneration of redemption. There is NO other way!!


    Spiritual Salvation is by God alone (grace) thru believing (faith) (Eph. 2:8-9) in Christ alone (Rom. 6:23). This governing rule will never be set aside. Spiritual death that became a reality happened at the Fall. Rom. 2:16; Heb. 11:4; Gen. 3:15; 4:7. See Rom. 3:23-27 where faith in the shed blood of Christ on the cross; i.e., propitiation for the sins of the whole world provides justification unto eternal life and brought a-one-ment into play for all..

    Since the sole condition on the part of the individual is to receive eternal life is to trust alone Christ and since the sole condition of condemnation unto the Lake of Fire, i.e., since the only thing that gets you condemned to hell is not ever trusting alone Christ as Savior and since disobeying the gospel of salvation gets you condemned to hell then disobeying the gospel of salvation is the same thing as disbelieving it. One can disobey by doing something 'out of the line of the authority that you are under' and one can also disobey by believing something out of line.




All scripture is from the KJV, Weymouth New Testament, American Standard and English Standard Versions of the Bible with only a few changes in form for easier reading of today’s English.