Redemption

 

Isaiah chapter 63, vs 1 + 7 - 9            select verse segments

                                                                                not necessarily in order                                      

 

63:1 מי-זה בא מאדום חמוץ בגדים מבצרה זה הדור בלבושו צעה ברב כחו אני מדבר בצדקה רב להושיע

63:2 מדוע אדם ללבושך ובגדיך כדרך בגת

63:3 פורה דרכתי לבדי ומעמים אין-איש אתי ואדרכם באפי וארמסם בחמתי ויז נצחם על-בגדי וכל-מלבושי אגאלתי

63:4 כי יום נקם בלבי ושנת גאולי באה

63:5 ואביט ואין עזר ואשתומם ואין סומך ותושע לי זרעי וחמתי היא סמכתני

63:6 ואבוס עמים באפי ואשכרם בחמתי ואוריד לארץ נצחם

63:7 חסדי יהוה אזכיר תהלת יהוה כעל כל אשר-גמלנו יהוה ורב-טוב לבית ישראל אשר-גמלם כרחמיו וכרב חסדיו

63:8 ויאמר אך-עמי המה בנים לא ישקרו ויהי להם למושיע

63:9 בכל-צרתם לא צר ומלאך פניו הושיעם באהבתו ובחמלתו הוא גאלם וינטלם וינשאם כל-ימי עולם

 

… Who is this Who is coming with garments of glowing colors … majestic in apparel … in the greatness of His strength … it is … He Who speaks with righteousness … He Who is mighty to save … let us … praise the LORD ( YHVH ) for the abundance of His lovingkindness and compassion according to the goodness which the LORD ( YHVH ) grants to His people … it is the LORD ( YHVH ) Who says … these are My people … I AM their Savior … and … for their affliction He was afflicted … and so … He saved them … in His love and mercy He redeemed them … He has lifted them up and carried them … for they are His children …

 

… a little bit more comprehensive reading of Isaiah chapter 63 will indicate to the reader that here as in many other places in the Holy Bible the Word oF God is speaking to three very distinct groups of people on earth and throughout our six thousand year history … redemption and salvation are addressed to one of those three groups of people … the children of God … another group addressed are those folks who make a free will choice to embrace evil through sin … these the Holy Bible term the wicked … while they are alive the Holy Bible tells us that they have the opportunity to repent and become children of God however it is a very difficult process for an individual … the third group addressed by the Holy Bible are the folks between being a child of God and wickedness … the Holy Bible calls out to them to repent before it is too late … the content and context of Isaiah 63 serves as a nide example of the Word of God speaking to all three groups at the same time … for some who are not aware of the three groups or the reason for the urgency … some scripture can seem harsh … however … with a view of these three groups one can understand that the wrath of God is directed to evil and the wicked while His lovingkindness is directed to His children …

… redemption has come to humankind through the … life … death on the cross … and … resurrection from the dead of Jesus Christ Who is God - our LORD - our Savior - our Teacher - our Friend … He is Yahweh ( YHVH ) … He is Yeshua our Messiah … we are the children of God because of this redemption … which … from the time Adam and Eve left Eden to now and up to the new heaven and new earth … the definition of the righteous children of God extends to quite a few different categories of folks … including …

 @ all unborn of humankind who die in the womb for any reason …

@ all children who die before they reach the age of reason … the age of reason is when an individual of humankind becomes accountable for the consequences of their free will decisions …

@ all adults of humankind who die after they have reached the age of reason however cannot be held accountable for the consequences of their free will decisions because pf some physical or mental infirmity which has impaired their ability to make free will decisions with an understanding of both the  accountability and/or consequences of those free will decisions …

@ all Hebrew ( Jewish ) people who are older than the age of reason and fortunately for a life attentive to the Word of God and His will … do not meet the criteria … cut off from the people of God …

@ all other adults of humankind who are older than the age of reason and who confess that Jesus Christ is their LORD and Savior … and … who believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead on the third day …

 

… this list is not necessarily complete or inclusive however it provides the list documented for us in the Holy Bible … the impact of this understanding in our current time frame is that the anticipated … rapture of the church … will actually be the … rapture of the righteous children of God … essentially those redeemed and saved by Jesus Christ who have not unfortunately as adults have not recognized and accepted the opportunity offered to humankind with the … life … death on the cross … and … resurrection from the dead … of our LORD Jesus Christ … at the time of the … rapture of the righteous … the migration of the true Christian church to meet with Jesus Christ in the sky also include the migration of all children under the age of reason and all unborn children … and others … the tribulation time period will have no neonates and no children … each person will have the accountability and consequences of their free will choices … 

 

Romans chapter 10, vs 8 – 13

… the Word of God is near us … it is in our heart and in our mouth … it is the Word of faith … for … when we confess with our mouth that Jesus Christ is LORD … and … we believe in our hearts that God raised Him from the dead … we are saved … for with the heart a person believes and this results in righteousness … and … with one’s mouth a person confesses resulting in salvation … scripture says … everyone who believes in Him will not be disappointed … for … there is no distinction between Jew and Greek … our LORD Jesus Christ is LORD of all … all who call upon Him abound in the riches of His salvation for us … everyone who calls on the Name of the LORD will be saved …

 

Psalm 139   vs 13 – 16

139:13 כי-אתה קנית כליתי תסכני בבטן אמי

139:14 אודך על כי נוראות נפליתי נפלאים מעשיך ונפשי ידעת מאד

139:15 לא-נכחד עצמי ממך אשר-עשיתי בסתר רקמתי בתחתיות ארץ

139:16 גלמי ראו עיניך ועל-ספרך כלם יכתבו ימים יצרו ולא אחד בהם

 

… LORD ( YHVH ) … You formed my inward parts … You wove me in my mother’s womb … I am fearfully and wonderfully made … I give thanks to You … for … wonderful are Your works … my soul knows this very well … my frame was not hidden from You … skillfully I was made in the depths of the earth … I was made in secrete … and … Your eyes saw my unformed substance … the days of my life were written in Your book … before there was yet any of them …

 

Ephesians chapter 1, vs 3 - 14

… blessed be God our Father … the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ … Who has blessed us in Jesus Christ with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places … for … just as He chose us in Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before Him in love … He also destined us for adoption as His children through Jesus Christ … according to the good pleasure of His will … to the praise of His glorious grace that He freely bestowed on us in Jesus Christ … His beloved Son … for … in Jesus Christ we have redemption through His blood … shed on the cross … for … the forgiveness of our sin and trespasses … according to the riches of His grace that he lavished on us … with … all wisdom and insight … He has made know to us the mystery of His will … according to His good pleasure … that He set forth in Jesus Christ … a plan for the fullness of time … a plan to gather up all things in Jesus Christ … things in heaven and things on earth … so … in Jesus Christ we have obtained an inheritance … and … we are destined according to the purpose of Jesus Christ … Who accomplishes all things according to His counsel and will … so that we who have set our hope in Jesus Christ … will live for the praise of His glory … in Jesus Christ we have heard the Word of truth … the gospel of our salvation … and … when we believed in Jesus Christ … we were marked the seal of the promised Holy Spirit … this is the pledge from God of our redemption … our inheritance as God’s own people … to the praise of His glory ...

 

John chapter 16, vs 6                              Jesus Christ speaking

… I AM … the way … the truth … and … the life … no one comes to the Father except through Me …

 

John chapter 8, vs 42                              Jesus Christ speaking

… I have come here from God … I have not come on My own … God sent Me …

 

John chapter 14, vs 7                              Jesus Christ speaking

… if … you know Me … you know My Father as well … you know Him … and … have seen Him …

 

Ephesians chapter 1, vs 7 - 10

… in Jesus Christ we have redemption through His blood … the forgiveness of our sin and trespasses … according to the riches of His grace … that He lavishes on us … for … with all wisdom and insight … God has made know to us the mystery of His will … according to His good pleasure set forth in Jesus Christ … a plan for the fullness of time … which is … to gather up all things in Jesus Christ … things in heaven and things on earth …

 

Colossians chapter 1, vs 19 - 22

… in Jesus Christ … all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell … and … through Jesus Christ God is pleased to reconcile to Himself all things … whether on earth or in heaven … by making peace with us through the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross … and … so … we who were once estranged and hostile to God in our mind and doing evil deeds … Jesus Christ has now reconciled to God … through the death of His body … in order … to present us as … holy in His sight … blameless and without blemish … irreproachable which is free from accusation … before Him …

 

Mark chapter 10, vs 45                          Jesus Christ speaking

… the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve … to give His life as a ransom for many …

 

Romans chapter 3, vs 24 - 26

… we are justified by the grace of God … through our redemption that is in Jesus Christ … Whom God put forward as a propitiation by His blood on the cross … a grace which is received by us through faith that Jesus Christ is God … this shows God’s righteousness and divine forbearance in that He has passed over our sin … God is just and God Himself justifies everyone who has faith in Jesus Christ …

 

… the English noun in Romans chapter with the English translation … propitiation … is the Greek noun … HILASTERTON … Strong# Greek 2435 … with the literal meaning … to appease the wrath of God … or … the lid of the Ark of the Covenant … the root of HILASTERON is the Greek verb … HILASKOMOS … Strong# Greek 2433 … with the literal meaning … to show mercy … or … to forgive … or … to show favor … so … we again find HILASTERON used in Hebrews chapter 9, vs 5 with reference to the Mercy Seat ( e.g. lid of the Ark of the Covenant ) represented by Hebrew noun ( KAPPORETH ) in quite a few scripture passages of the Old Testament including … Exodus chapter 25, vs 21 … and … Exodus chapter 30, vs 6 … this concept is very consistent with the principal of Kinsman Redeemer … for … God’s love for us is independent of our sinful nature … God loves us because He created us  … so … God Himself has redeemed us from evil/sin so we will be able to receive His grace and live with Him forever … the reference to Hebrew noun … KAPPORETH … the Mercy Seat ( e.g. lid ) of the Ark of the Covenant applies because God established for the Hebrew ( Jewish ) people the Day of Atonement so that on one day of each year their High Priest could approach the Ark of the Covenant and sprinkle the blood of a sin sacrifice on the KAPPORETH ( e,g. lid ) to make atonement for the sins of the Hebrew ( Jewish ) people that year … essentiality propitiation …. 

 

John chapter 3, vs 16 – 21                   Jesus Christ speaking

… God so loves the world that He gave His only Son … so … that … everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have life with God forever … God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world … rather … that the world might be saved through Him … everyone who believes in the Son is not condemned … however … those who do not believe in the Son are condemned already because they have not believed in the Name of the only Son of God … so … this is the judgment of God … the light of God has come into the world through His Son … and … many people love darkness rather than the light because their deeds are evil/sin … for … everyone who does evil/sin hates the light of God and they will not come into the light so that their deeds may not be exposed … however … everyone who does what is true will come to the light so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God …

 

Matthew chapter 20, vs 28                                 Jesus Christ speaking

… the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve … to give His life as a ransom for many …

 

Colossians chapter 1, vs 13 - 14

… God has delivered us from the domain of darkness ( e.g. evil/sin ) … and … transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son … our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ … in Whom we have redemption … which is the forgiveness of sins …

 

Romans chapter 5, vs 8

… God has shown His love for us … in that … while we were still sinners … Jesus Christ died on the cross for us …

 

Romans chapter 6, vs 23

… the wages of our sin is death … however … the free gift of God is life forever with Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior …

 

 

Hebrews chapter 9, vs 15

… Jesus Christ is the mediator of the New Covenant … so that … those who are called will receive the promise of life with God forever … this is our inheritance which we receive by faith that Jesus Christ is God … for … Jesus Christ died as a ransom for us … to set us free from evil/sin …

 

1 Timothy chapter 2, vs 6

… Jesus Christ gave Himself as a ransom for all …

 

Titus chapter 2, vs 11 – 14                   select verse segments

not necessarily in sequence

… Jesus Christ gave Himself to redeem us from all lawlessness … in order to … purify for Himself a people for His own possession … who are zealous for good works by the grace of God in order to bring salvation to all … and … in doing so … He is training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions in this present age … as we wait for the Blessed Hope ( e.g. Rapture ) which is the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior … Jesus Christ …

 

Galatians chapter 1, vs 4

Jesus Christ gave Himself for our sins … to deliver us from this present age of evil/sin … according to the will of His Father …

 

John chapter 10, vs 10                           Jesus Christ speaking

… I have come that you might have life … and … have it abundantly …

 

1 Peter chapter 1, vs 18 - 19

… it is not with perishable things like silver or gold that we have been redeemed from the empty way of life that was  handed down to us through each generation from the times of our earliest ancestors … rather … we have been redeemed with the precious blood of Jesus Christ … Who is the Lamb without blemish or defect …

  

Revelation chapter 5, vs 9 - 10

… they sang a new song … worthy are You to take the scroll and to open its seals … for … You were slain … and … by Your blood … You have ransomed people for God from every … tribe … language … people … and … nation … so … You have us a kingdom and priests to our God … and … we will reign on the earth …

 

1 Corinthians chapter 6, vs 19 - 20

… our body is the temple of the Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit ) … He is within us … provided for us by God Himself … therefore … we are not our own … we have been redeemed with a price … the precious blood of Jesus Christ … so … let us glorify God in our bodies …

 

Ephesians chapter 4, vs 30

… we have been sealed … for the day of redemption … by the Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit ) …

 

… so … the word translated as English verb … sealed … is the Greek verb … SPHRAGIZO … Strong# Greek 4972 … with the literal translation … to seal … as in to signify ownership or authorization … the verb represents a legal signature or something equivalent to a legal signature …

 

John chapter 14, vs 16                           Jesus Christ speaking

… I will ask the Father … and … He will give you … another Advocate ( the Spirit of God …  Holy Spirit ) … Who will bpth … help you … and … be with you … forever …

 

John chapter 14, vs 26                           Jesus Christ speaking

… the … Advocate … the … Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit )… Whom … the Father will send in My Name … will … teach you all things … and … He will remind you of everything that I have said to you …

 

Colossians chapter 1, vs 12 - 14

… let us give joyful thanks to our Father … Who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of His holy people in the kingdom of light through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ … God has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and has brought us into the kingdom of His Son our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ … Whom He loves … and … in Whom … we have redemption … which is … the forgiveness of sins …

 

1 Corinthians chapter 1, vs 30

… Jesus Christ  is the wisdom of God for us who believe that He is God … that is … He is our … righteousness … holiness … and … our redemption …

 

Romans chapter 5, vs 10

… while we were still sinners God reconciled us to Him through the death of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior … and now having been reconciled … we will also be saved through His life … the life of Jesus Christ …

 

Galatians chapter 2, vs 20

… the life I now live in this body … I live by my faith in Jesus Christ the Son of God … Who loved me … and … Who gave Himself for me on the cross … consequently … I have been crucified with Jesus Christ … and … I no longer live but Jesus Christ lives in me …

 

2 Peter chapter 3, vs 9

… our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is not slow in keeping His promise … rather … He is patient not wishing that anyone who can avoid it will perish because of evil/sin … and so … He waits for everyone to come to repentance …

 

Romans chapter 2, vs 4

… God’s … kindness … forbearance … and … patience … is intended to lead us to repentance …

 

Romans chapter 8, vs 23

… we are the first fruits of the Spirit of God ( Holy Spirit ) … waiting eagerly for adoption as the children of God which comes with the redemption of our bodies …

 

Luke chapter 21, vs 26 - 28                                 Jesus Christ speaking

… people will faint from terror being apprehensive of what is coming on the world … there will be signs in the sun and the moon … nations will be in anguish … there will be perplexity with the roaring and tossing of the sea … at that time … the Son of Man will come in a cloud with power and great glory … so … when these things begin take place lift up your heads because your redemption is drawing near …

 

John chapter 20, vs 31

 … believe that Jesus is the Christ … the Son of God … and … by believing you will have life in His Name …

 

Romans chapter 3, vs 22

 … righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe … for … all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God … so … we are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Jesus Christ … 

 

… so … the unborn and children who die without reaching the age of reason are saved through this redemptive process automatically … and … for those of us who lived to reach the age of reason our redemption is received through our faith in Jesus Christ … note also that for some portion of the rest of mankind there is a criteria referenced by Jesus Christ in Matthew chapter 25 …

… the cornerstone or if you prefer the capstone of our redemption as adults  is the reality and our faith that Jesus Christ is God … note that in select verses we have reviewed the principle of repentance … repentance is a spiritual tool for both the unbeliever as well as for those who have faith in Jesus Christ and who are saved … with repentance an individual makes a free will choice to seek and draw closer to God …

 

2 Chronicles chapter 15, vs 2                           God speaking

15:2 ויצא לפני אסא ויאמר לו שמעוני אסא וכל-יהודה ובנימן יהוה עמכם בהיותכם עמו ואם-תדרשהו ימצא לכם ואם-תעזבהו יעזב אתכם

…. the LORD ( YHVH ) is with you when you are with Him … if you seek Him - He will let you find Him … but if you forsake Him - He will forsake you …

Zechariah chapter 1, vs 3                    God speaking

1:3 אסף אדם ובהמה אסף עוף-השמים ודגי הים והמכשלות את-הרשעים והכרתי את-האדם מעל פני האדמה נאם-יהוה

… return to Me … and … I will return to you … thus says the LORD …

 

Malachi chapter 3, vs 7                         God speaking

3:7 למימי אבתיכם סרתם מחקי ולא שמרתם שובו אלי ואשובה אליכם אמר יהוה צבאות ואמרתם במה נשוב

… return to Me … and … I will return to you … says the LORD of Hosts ... 

  

Galatians chapter 4, vs 9

4:9  וְעַתָּה אַחֲרֵי אֲשֶׁר־יְדַעְתֶּם אֶת־הָאֱלהִים וְיוֹתֵר שֶׁנּוֹדַעְתֶּם לֵאלׂהִים אֵיךְ תָּשׁוּבוּ אֶל־הַתִּיקּוּנִים הָרָפִים וְהַדַּלִּים הָהֵם אֲשֶׁר תִּרְצוּ לְהִכָּנֵעַ לָהֶם כְּבַתְּחִלָּה

… now that you have come to know God … or rather … to be known by God …

 

James chapter 4, vs 8

4:8  לָכֵן הִכָּנְעוּ לִפְנֵי הָאֱלׂהִים הִתְיַצְּבוּ נֶגֶד הַשָּׂטָן וְיִבְרַח מִפְּנֵיכֶם

… draw near to God … and … He will draw near to you …

 

Isaiah chapter 41, vs 10                        God speaking

41:10 אל-תירא כי עמך-אני אל-תשתע כי-אני אלהיך אמצתיך אף-עזרתיך אף-תמכתיך בימין צדקי

… do not fear … I AM … with you … do not be afraid … for … I AM your God … I will strengthen you … I will help you … I will uphold you with My victorious right hand …

 

… God seeks to abide with His people … the children of God … to dwell with them … to share Himself with them … for them to share themselves with Him …

 

Isaiah chapter 7, vs 14

 7:14 לכן יתן אדני הוא לכם אות הנה העלמה הרה וילדת בן וקראת שמו עמנו אל

… the LORD ( YHVH ) will give you a sign … the virgin will  be with child and she will give birth to a son … and the name of the child will be … Emmanuel …

 

… the Hebrew name … EMMANUEL … is the combination of 3 Hebrew words …

EMM                    means:                               with

ANU                     means:                              us

 EL                         means:                              God

  

Isaiah chapter 9, vs 6 + 7   

 9:6 לםרבה המשרה ולשלום אין-קץ על-כסא דוד ועל-ממלכתו להכין אתה ולסעדה במשפט ובצדקה מעתה ועד-עולם קנאת יהוה צבאות תעשה-זאת

9:7 דבר שלח אדני ביעקב ונפל בישראל

… to us a child is born … a son is given … and the  government will be on His shoulders … He will be called …  Wonderful Counselor … Mighty God … Everlasting Father … Prince of Peace … and … of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end … He will reign on David’s throne upholding justice and peace from that time on and forever …

 

Name of God:                                EHVEH              

… is the first person singular tense of the Hebrew word: HAVA

EHVEH means  “ I am “

Exodus chapter 3, vs  14 (burning bush)

John chapter 18, vs 4 - 6

               

Name of God:                       YHVH                       pronounced  YAHWEH 

… is the third person singular tense of the Hebrew word: HAVA  

YHVH means  “He is”

YHVH   - spelling of YAHWEH used on most Jewish web sites

- found 6,824 times in the Old Testament

 - Jewish folks do not speak this word because they believe that the word is too HOLY to be spoken, we respect this …

 YHWH              

- spelling of YAHWEH used on most Christian web sites

- In Christian Old Testament translations the word YHVH is  usually translated LORD  (all capitals)                           

Genesis chapter 15, vs 7 // Exodus chapter 20, vs 2

 

… Christians can speak the name YHVH however we should be considerate of any Jewish folks who may be present … the Hebrew root word for YHVH is:  ﬣ וּ ﬣ   which means … "to exist“ … for many Jewish people this is an unpronounceable word out of reverence for God … that is … the unspeakable name of God … to us this perspective is one of valid reverence and we respect it … on many Jewish web sites YHVH is the English alphabet acronym that is used … most Christian web sites seem to use YHWH because it seems more phonetic …  we feel that for the Christian the use and pronunciation of God's name as Jesus Christ, Yahweh, etc. is also an act of reverence …  Hebrew is a written language of ideograms, that means each of the 22 Hebrew letters represent … an object … an action … as well as a number … the 22 letters can also be grouped to form nouns and verbs like every other language … Hebrew is written from right to left ///

 

YHVH        =      יִ ﬣ וּ ﬣ

 

 ﬣ           Hebrew Letter               HA        

means:               Behold

 

וּ              Hebrew Letter                VAV      

means:               Nail (like a construction nail)

 

יִ               Hebrew Letter               YOD     

means:               Hand (closed hand)

               

Literal Meaning of YHVH is 

        Behold the Hand, Behold the Nail

 

Name of God:                                YESHUA                           

in English  =   Jesus

YESHUA  means:                         YHVH  is my Salvation   or

                                                                YHVH has become my salvation

 YESHUA is a combination of two Hebrew words:

                                                                - YA  an abbreviation of YHVH

                                                                - SHUWAH means Salvation

  

Leviticus chapter 26, vs 11 – 12

26:11 ונתתי משכני בתוככם ולא-תגעל נפשי אתכם

26:12 והתהלכתי בתוככם והייתי לכם לאלהים ואתם תהיו-לי לעם

… I will put my dwelling place among you … I will walk among you … you will be My people …

 

Ezekiel chapter 37, vs 27

37:27 והיה משכני עליהם והייתי להם לאלהים והמה יהיו-לי לעם

… My dwelling place will be with them … I will be their God … and … they  will be My people …

 

Psalm 145, vs 18

145:18 קרוב יהוה לכל-קראיו לכל אשר יקראהו באמת

… the Lord is near to all who call upon Him in truth …

 

Isaiah chapter 65, vs 24

65:24 והיה טרם-יקראו ואני אענה עוד הם מדברים ואני אשמע

… before you call … I will answer … while you are still speaking … I will hear …

 

John chapter 14, vs 23                           Jesus Christ speaking

14:23  וַיַּעַן יֵשׁוּעַ וַיֹּאמֶר אֵלָיו אִישׁ כִּי יֶאֱהָבַנִי יִשְׁמֹר אֶת־דְּבָרַי וְאָבִי יֶאֱהַב אֹתוֹ וְאֵלָיו נָבֹא וְשָׁכַנּוּ אִתּוֹ

… if anyone loves Me … he will obey My teachings … the Father will love him … We will come to him … and … make Our dwelling with him …