Elements of Salvation (4)

 The Christian Era

"I will raise to them a prophet out of the brothers of them just as thee and I will give the word of Me in the mouth of Him, and He shall speak to them as I shall command to Him." (Deuteronomy 18:18) "And Mouses indeed is faithful in the whole house of Him as servant into a witness of the things which we will be speaking, but Christ as a son on the house of Him where we ourselves are a house if ... " (Hebrews 3:5-6)

"... He is a Mediator of a better covenant which has been given by law on better promises. For if that first was blameless, a second would not have sought a place. For blaming them He says: Behold days are coming, says the Lord, and I will complete on the house of Israel and on the house of Ioudas a new covenant, not according to the covenant which I made with the fathers of them in the day of the hand of them having taken hold of Me to lead them out of the land of Egypt because they themselves remained not in the covenant of Me, and I neglected them ... " (Hebrews 8:6-9)

"In the time for Him to say new He has made the first old; and the thing being made old and growing old is near disappearance." (Hebrews 8:13)

"... Thou willed not sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and concerning sin nor Thou pleasured ... Behold I have come to do the will of Thee." He takes up the first in order that He could establish the second. (Hebrews 10:8-9)

In the Old Covenant, "... every priest indeed has stood every day ministering and often offering the same sacrifices which are never able to take away sins, but this who has offered one sacrifice on behalf of sins into eternity sat in the right of God." (Hebrews 10:11-12)

The New Covenant is the one binding on us in the Christian Era. The Old Covenant was given to the Israelites - the chosen people of God. Other nations had no access to God. God is the Potter and we are the clay. The clay does not have the authority to question the potter whatever he does. (Romans 9:20-21) God is faithful and He will do what He said - His Word is the Holy Bible. If we want to be saved from the wrath of God, we MUST obey God.

Next we will discuss the Elements of Salvation - Grace of God; Blood of Christ; Evangel; Preaching; Faith of God/Christ; Change of Mind; Confession of Iesous Christ; Baptism into Christ; Holy Spirit; Church of Christ; Good Works; Faith, Obedience, and Hope until Death.

Elements of Salvation (3)

 Mosaichal Age

The Mosaichal Age starts from Mouses up to the Lord Iesous Christ. Take note that Mouses is not in the lineage of the Lord Iesous Christ. Mouses came from Leui, the third son of Israel. The Christ came from Ioudas, the fourth son of Israel. Israel is the 23rd generation that Leui and Ioudas are next. Next to Leui is Kaath who begot Amran who is the father of Aaron, Mouses, and Mariam.

The Israelites went out of Egypt about 4,032 years from Adam. When they came into the wilderness of Sin, Mouses went up into the mountain of God and God said:

"Thou shall say these things to the house of Iakob and thou shall announce to the sons of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen whatsoever I have done to the Egyptians, and I took you up as on the wings of an eagle and I have led you forth to Myself. And now if hearing you shall hear My voice and guard the covenant of Me, you shall be a people to Me, a possession from all of the nations for the whole earth is Mine; and you yourselves shall be a kingdom of priesthood to Me and a holy nation.' ..." (Exodus 19:3-6)

"And the Lord spoke all these words saying:

'I Myself am the Lord the God of thee who led thee out of the land of Egypt out of the house of slavery. There shall not be other gods to thee except Me.

Thou shall not make an idol for thyself nor any likeness, whatsoever in the heaven above and whatsoever in the earth under and whatsoever in the waters underneath the earth. Thou shall not worship them nor thou shall at all religiously serve to them for I Myself am the Lord the God of thee, a jealous God giving back sin of the fathers on the children until the third and fourth generations to the ones who hate Me and doing mercy into thousands to the ones who love Me and to the ones who guard the ordinances of Me.

Thou shall not take the name of the Lord the God of thee on worthless things for the Lord shall not at all cleanse the man who takes the name of Him on worthless things.

Remember the day of the Sabbaths to make it holy. Work six days and thou shall do the work of thee; and on the seventh day Sabbath to the Lord the God of thee; thou shall not do in it any work, thou and the son of thee and the daughter of thee, the servant of thee and the maidservant of thee, the ox of thee and the donkey of thee and any cattle of thee and the proselyte the sojourner in thee. For in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them and he rested on the seventh day; on account of this the Lord eulogized the seventh day and made it holy.

Honor the father of thee and the mother in order that it becomes well to thee, and in order to that thou shall live long time in the good land which the Lord the God of thee shall give to thee.

Thou shall not commit adultery.

Thou shall not steal.

Thou shall not kill.

Thou shall not bear false witness against the neighbor of thee to be a false witness.

Thou shall not desire the woman of the neighbor of thee; thou shall not desire the house of the neighbor of thee nor the field of him nor the servant of him nor the maidservant of him nor the ox of him nor the donkey of him nor any cattle of him nor whatsoever is to the neighbor of thee.'" (Exodus 20:1-17)

There are more than 600 other ordinances, statutes, and justifications of God BUT these are for the Israelites only.

God commanded Mouses to build the Tent of the Witness with the altar where "Aaron shall make atonement on it on the horns of it once of the year; he shall cleanse it from the blood of the cleansing of the sins of the atonement once of the year into the generations of them; it is holy of the holies to the Lord." (Exodus 30:10) 

What the Israelites were doing is a shadow of the one coming - the Christian. Era.

Elements of Salvation (2)

 Patriarchal Age

Adam and Eua begot Abel and Kain; Kain however killed Abel. When Adam was 230 years old he begot Seth and other sons and daughters. (Genesis 5:4) Enoch the 7th generation disappeared and was believed to be taken by God when he was 365 years old. Mathousala, 8th generation, died when he was 969 years old - the oldest man on record. Noe, 10th generation, was born 1,642 years from Adam. He was 600 years old when the flood occurred. He had three sons - Sem, Iaphet, and Cham from where people were dispersed on the whole earth. (Genesis 9:19) The flood occurred 2,242 years from Adam.

Abraam, the 21st generation, was born 3,312 years from Adam. When he was 75 years old, God promised to him three things - a great nation fulfilled in Israel (Iakob), a land flowing with milk and honey fulfilled by the distribution of the land of Canaan (Palestine) by Mouses and Iesous (Joshua) to Israel, and the blessing of all nations of the earth fulfilled by sending His Son Iesous the Christ. (Genesis 22:17-18; etc.)

The Patriarchal Age starts from Adam up to the Ten Commandments. The Mosaichal Age starts from Mouses up to the Lord Iesous Christ.

The number of years from Adam up to Iakob/Israel is 3,472 years. The trip of Israel to Egypt is 3,602 years from Adam while the trip of Israel out of Egypt is 4,032 from Adam. Numbers are taken from the Septuagint or the Greek Old Testament (LXX). The following are the numbers of years of life of the Patriarchs and the numbers of years when they begot the next generation. The numbers do not coincide with the numbers in practically all of the versions of the Holy Bible circulating worldwide which also omit one generation - that of the 13th generation - Kainan (Loukas 3:36).

1st - Adam (930 - Gen. 5:5/230 - Gen. 5:3); 2nd - Seth (912 - Gen. 5:8/205 - Gen. 5:6); 3rd - Enos (905 - Gen. 5:11/190 - Gen. 5:9); 4th - Kainan (910 - Gen. 5:4/170 - Gen. 5:12); 5th - Maleleel (895 - Gen. 5:17/165 - Gen. 5:15); 6th - Iared (962 - Gen. 5:20/162 - Gen. 5:18);

7th - Enoch (365 - Gen. 5:23/165 - Gen. 5:21); 8th - Mathousala (969 - Gen. 5:27/167 - Gen. 5:25); 9th - Lamech (753 - Gen. 5:31/188 - Gen. 5:28);

10th - Noe (950 - Gen. 9:29/500 - Gen. 5:32); 11th - Sem (600 - Gen. 11:10-11/100 - Gen. 11:10); 12th -  Arphaxad (565 - Gen. 11:13/135 - Gen. 11:12);

13th - Kainan - in Septuagint but none in the OT versions, also found in Loukas 3:13 (460 - Gen. 10:24/130 - Gen. 11:13); 14th -  Sala (460 - Gen. 11:14-15/130 - Gen. 11:14);

15th - Eber (504 - Gen. 11:17/134 - Gen. 11:16); 16th - Phalek (339 - Gen. 11:18-19/130 - Gen. 11:18); 17th - Rhagau (339 - Gen. 11:20-21/132 - Gen. 11:20); 18th - Serouch (330 - Gen. 11:22-23/130 - Gen. 11:22); 19th -  Nachor (208 - Gen. 11:24-25/79 - Gen. 11:24); 20th - Thara (275 - Gen. 11:26, 32/70 - Gen. 11:26);

21st - Abram (175 - Gen. 25:7/100 - Gen. 21:5); 22nd - Isaak (180 - Gen. 35:28/60 - Gen. 25:26); 23rd - Iakob/Israel (147 - Gen. 47:28);

24th - Ioudas + Thamar (Gen. 38:36); 25th - Phares (Gen. 38:29, Maththaios 1:3);

NT Maththaios 1: 3-16; 26th - Hesrom; 27th - Aram; 28th - Aminadab; 29th - Naason; 30th - Salmon; 31st - Boes; 32nd - Iobed; 33rd - Iessai;

34th - Dauid; 35th - Solomon; 36th - Rhoboam; 37th - Abia; 38th - Asaph; 39th - Iosaphat; 40th - Ioram; 41st - Ozias; 42nd - Ioatham; 43rd - Achaz; 44th - Hezekias; 45th - Manasses; 46th - Amos; 47th - Iosias; 48th - Iechonias;

49th - Salathiel; 50th - Zorobabel; 51st - Abioud; 52nd - Eliakim; 53rd - Azor; 54th - Sadok; 55th - Achim; 56th -Elioud; 57th - Eleazar; 58th - Matthan; 59th - Iakob; 60th - Ioseph the man of Mariam;

61st - IESOUS called CHRIST (76th according to the lineage of Mariam.

We will discuss the Mosaichal Age next. Just ask questions on matters not clear to you. We have limited time and space here. Good enough if we can clarify what seems to be dubious to you. I don't have the necessary gadgets that I can't conduct online studies.

Greek New Testament

 "The Bible is God's written Word to man - it is the most important book ever written" (Billy Graham). "No task in the world is more important than reaching every person on earth with the Word of God" (Philippine Bible Society). The Word of God is the Holy Bible.

The Holy Bible is composed of the Old Testament and the New Testament. God used the Hebrew language in writing the Old Testament while He used the Greek language for the New Testament.

One of the books that helped the Translator to a very great extent in the work of translation is the Linguistic Key to the Greek New Testament by Fritz Rienecker and Cleon Rogers, a portion of the Foreword of which is hereunder quoted:

"In 1524 Luther wrote this concerning the value of the Greek language: 'In the measure that we love the Gospel, so let us place a strong emphasis on the languages. For it was not without reason that God wrote the Scriptures in two languages, the Old Testament in Hebrew and the New Testament in Greek. That language which God did not despise but rather chose above all others for His Word is the language which we also should honor above all others. It is a sin and shame that we do not learn this language of our Book, especially since God has provided us people and books, and gives us all kinds of things which both help us with this task and at the same time stimulates us to do this.' There is nothing more to add to these words of Luther."

The Hebrews came from Eber, 15th generation and he was born 2,637 years from Adam. Abraam is the 21st generation born 3,312 years after Adam. Our Lord Iesous Christ is 61st generation.

THE WILL BIBLE (New Testament) is a translation of THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT, Second Edition (1968) by the United Bible Societies, U.S.A., and the GREEK NEW TESTAMENT, Fourth Revised Edition by the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft (1998 - 3rd printing) which exerted much effort to conduct researches to present as much as possible the truth. Hereunder quoted is part of the Preface to the First Edition dated August 26, 1965 incorporated in the Second Edition (1968) as well as in the Fourth Revised Edition of October 1992:

"To meet the growing need for an edition of the Greek New Testament specially adapted to requirements of Bible translators throughout the world, the American Bible Society, the National Bible Society of Scotland, and the Wurttemberg Bible Society appointed in 1965 an international and inter-denominational committee of textual scholars to prepare such an edition. The three Societies were later joined by the Netherlands Bible Society and the British and Foreign Bible Society."

The group cited about one hundred eighty-five references in the bibliography.