From the Apostle Peter:
“To the strangers [from Judaism] scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia…
- ye are a chosen / Messiahed generation
- a royal priesthood / Melchizedekian
- an holy nation / an Isra-El
- a peculiar people [within Godless society]
Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God…among the Gentiles [unlike Judaism which isolated from Gentiles]: that…they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.” (I Peter 1:2, 2:9-12)
The Finished Works of Christ: What They Mean For Us – our healing, deliverance, prosperity, victory, joy, peace, and everything else we need in life is already finished and ready for us to claim.
Christianity’s hyper focus on Jesus as the only Christ / Messiah is a cheap sales gimmick to toss out the clear scriptural demands for his followers to identify with him by becoming hamashiach – a holy, righteous, chosen servant of God.
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- he hath chosen /Messiahed us in him before the foundation of the world,
- that we should be holy
- predestinated us unto the adoption of children
- Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, (Ephesians 3)
The name of “who we are” is equivalent to “what we do” and is what transforms our soul for eternity based on the body’s
- the neurological identification with, i.e. connection to, this supernatural Being’s attributes and actions of Life-giving,
- achieved with physical actions demonstrating faith in the Being’s promises of life empowerment.
During the Exodus, when God finally revealed his secret name to Isra-el’s children / family named after him, the circumstances proved that
- invoking the name does establish a relationship,
- and believing in the name does grant access to power over humanly insolvable problems and even death,
- which must be acted upon in faith to achieve salvation from sin and death.
“I am the LORD / YHVH / Self-Existent Eternal Life-Gier…say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD / YHVH, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:” (Exodus 6:1-6)
“And Moses said unto the LORD…
Now therefore, I pray thee…shew me now thy way, that I may know [be united with] thee…
And the LORD descended in the cloud [heads-up, this is major foreshadowing], and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD…
- The LORD / YHVH / Eternal Self-Existent Lifegiving One
- The Lord / Boss
- God / Hyperdimensional Spirit Being
- merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin,
- and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, [but unlike human epigenetics, cutting it short] unto the third and to the fourth generation. “ (Exodus 33:12-13 – 34:5-8)
“ye are come unto… God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant…See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven…let us…serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire.” (Hebrews 12:22-29)
“John to the seven [Gentile] churches which are in Asia [founded by Paul]: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come…And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father.“(Revelation 1:4-6)
The height of irony is that a chasm has been created between those who call themselves Christ / Messiah -ones – of all things! – and Judaism’s faithfulness to the Word recording many messiahs.
“Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles…he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law…I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles.” (Isaiah 42:1-10)
“that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Behold my servant, whom I have chosen…I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.” (Matthew 12:18)
But this had also already come to pass with Cyrus the Great, the Persian King of kings.
“Thus saith the LORD to his anointed / Messiah, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him…that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel…That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else!” (Isaiah 45)
It also applies to the first “Chosen Ones” ministers in Jesus’ kingdom – his apostles.
“Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit.” John 15:16)
Faith in action speaks so much louder than reciting a creed, and reverberates throughout eternity.
This didn’t just start 4,000 years after Adam and Eve with Christianity. We can logically conclude that the Adams received, and passed on, the belief in God’s word that he would overcome the Serpent and Sin through the Seed of the Woman, otherwise Abel, Seth, Noah couldn’t have any knowledge of Creator God, receive his Word and act on it in faith.
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
- For by it / faith the elders obtained a good report.
- Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God
- By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous
- By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because…he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
- he that cometh to God must believe that he is [i.e. I AM / YHVH], and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him…
- “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.
- By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure…
This is key! Saving faith is believing that God will see us through death!
time would fail me to tell of…Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented…
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses…let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. (Hebrews 11-12)
“walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called…unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ…for the work of the ministry, for the edifying [building, the verb form of the noun edifice] of the body of Christ…” (Ephesians 4:1-16)
What is that vocation? It is critical to understand exactly what the writer of Hebrews was drawing our attention to when he goes on and on about Jesus Christ being the High Priest in the order of Melchisedec.
It is because Christians / Anointed-ones are called to function under him as priests in that order.
“Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens…Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And having an high priest over the house of God…let us consider one another to provoke unto…good works.” (Hebrews 8:1, 10:19-24)
“Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father” (Revelation 1:5-6)
“The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.” (Revelation 4:10-11)
“the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David…hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.” (Revelation 5)
