Kingdom Come

• • They that feared the LORD / YHVH / Creator spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened / paid attention, and heard it [responded],
    • and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD / YHVH / Creator, and that thought upon his name.
      
      • I [John] saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened…and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works… 
    • And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
      • And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:12, 15)
    • Then shall ye [nation of Israel] return [to your God], and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.” (Malachi 3:16-18)

“the judgment of God is according to truth…Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

1. To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
2. But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil…

For there is no respect of persons with God. For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

1. (For not the hearers of the law are just before God,
   1. but the doers of the law shall be justified.

For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these…shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men. (Romans 2:2-16)

It is obvious that lack of knowledge that something is a sin / wrongdoing causes harm even when people act out of ignorance. Can we understand that the purpose for creating laws is to prevent harm, NOT to reward good behavior for those who do not steal, commit adultery, etc.?

“Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

This is the first and great commandment.

And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” (Matthew 22:36-40) 

“Charity / benevolent love suffereth long, and is kind…envieth not…vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth…And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity / love.” (I Corinthians 13)

OK, that’s pretty compelling, but what about the clear statement of “from faith to faith”? Doesn’t that prove there are different faiths revealed from the Old to the New Covenant?

No, as the apostle to the Gentiles called Christians explicitly states when he quotes the Old Testament.

 “I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth…For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just[ified] shall live by faith (Habakkuk 2:4).

There is One Faith –  in “his eternal power and Godhead; Because that which may be known of God…God hath shewed it…from the creation of the world…by the things that are made, so that they are without excuse [when they] changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator.” (Romans 1:16-20)

Our faith rests on the manifestation of YHVH / Immortal Creator however differently he chooses in whatever culture – not on a religious creed.

“God, who 1) at sundry times and 2) in divers manners

1. spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2. Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,..

Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

1. 1. They shall perish;
      1. but thou remainest;
   2. and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed:
      1. but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.” (Hebrews 1:1-12)

This nails down any misconception that this passage is referring to Jesus Christ as equal to God in a trinity, since specific to his role in salvation Jesus DID change, from mortal human to immortal ghost transitioning the spirit and material worlds.

Well, what about the clear statements in the New Testament, such as:

“by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:10-12)

Doesn’t that make Christianity an exclusive club?

Not if we understand and apply the etymology of the name “Jesus Christ” and what Jesus clearly stated as being “the way unto the Father”.

• The name Jesus is an Anglicized / English form of the
• Latin / Roman name Iesus, which is in turn a Latinized form of the
• Greek name Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoũs), which is, in turn, a Hellenized form of Jesus’s original name in
• Aramaic, which was יֵשׁוּעַ (yēšūă‘), a shortened form of the earlier
• Hebrew name יְהוֹשֻׁעַ (y’hoshuaʿ),

which means “Yahweh is Salvation.”

Y’hoshua, translated into English as Joshua, was the Chosen One to succeed Moses into leading the nation of Israel into the Promised Land. Consequently, yēšūă‘ was one of the most common male given names in Judaea and Galilee during the early part of the first century CE when Jesus was alive.

The name Isaiah consists of the same two elements (יהו- שע), just in reverse order,  יְשַׁעְ- יָה also meaning Yah is Salvation.

Jesus himself and his disciples relied on Isaiah’s prophecies to validate him as the ultimate YHVH’s Savior.

• The English title Christ is an Anglicized form of the
• Latin word Christus, which is, in turn, a Latinized form of the
• Greek word Χριστός (Christós), meaning “anointed one”, translated in the New Testament into the
• Hebrew title מָשִׁיחַ (māšîaḥ), which has roughly the same meaning.

The title of māšîaḥ is a generic title applied to anyone who was fulfilled the role of God’s anointed for any God-given task. For instance, in Isaiah 45:1, the title is applied to Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire who freed the Jews from captivity in Babylon.

Christianized Jesus is only one of many Messiahs sent to show the way to everlasting life in The Creator Singularity Source of Life.

The name “Jesus Christ” saves because it is “the name of  YHVH’s Chosen Savior”.