Off script
There are times I wish I chould post a book on here, this is one of them. As we should know there is more on salvation than just what we find when do a word study on it. As I don't wish to bring any hard ship on the host of this sight, I am going to do my best to keep this short. You know bandwidth must be keep with in their limits for any site.
As I have said before, the word salvation is used by a little twice in the O.T. as it is in the N.T. has it change in meaning, or intent? Let's look and see.
Gen 49:18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
Now there has been some that say salvation here holds a different meaning. Yet salvation is, was, and will remain ones deliverance from sin. As we know, or should Egypt in many cases should be seen as a symbol of sin. (We can get into that at a latter date if it seems we must.) So what we have in the above is 2 fold. First Dan as we know wasn't a stand up guy. Israel here compares sin son to a serpent. A symbol we all understand. Israel here is waiting for the day HaShem leads Dan to salvation. Some may say he was looking forward to going back to the promised land, yet there are just as many that see this as asking for Dan to find HaShem, and follow after Him.
1Sa 2:1And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
I think this speaks for it's self. Hannah is giving thanks for the salvation gifted from HaShem.
Psa 13:5But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
Salvation here is placed with the mercy of HaShem. Is that not also what we today understand salvation to be? is His grace not showing us mercy?
Now I get it, for more than 400 years it has been said that in O.T. times sin was not reamoved just covered by the blood of the sin offering. yet when we today make the claim that our sin has been removed from us, as far from us as the east is from the west, ( think on that), I do agree with that. yet I also know for a fact that idea isn't new. It comes not from the N.T. rather from,
Psa 103:12As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
So if we do understand that our sins are removed for us today in that manner, why do we insist that it was not possible for the nation of Israel in O.T. times? Does not salvation do this for us today? If so, then what we now see is that it also did for the people then. The best part, it was free for the asking. Faith is what was needed, not sacrifice.
Luk 2:30For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
As many teach salvation is only open to us because of the cross, (giveing the cross way more power that it holds) yet here we find that Simeon had found, or seen the salvation of HaShem, before Yeshua sacrificed Himself, it stands to reason that salvation was a part of what HaShem had been doing for much longer than some wish to think.
2Co 7:10For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
If you are wise, and wish to see salvation at work in the O.T. you will find that when most from that time looked for salvation, it was when they had hit rock bottom. Some sorrow had brought them to seek forgiveness of HaShem. So again we find HaShem hasn't changed how true salvation was found, or given.
In my next off script we will look at being filled with the spirit. As most today think that wasn't a thing in the O.T.
There are times I wish I chould post a book on here, this is one of them. As we should know there is more on salvation than just what we find when do a word study on it. As I don't wish to bring any hard ship on the host of this sight, I am going to do my best to keep this short. You know bandwidth must be keep with in their limits for any site.
As I have said before, the word salvation is used by a little twice in the O.T. as it is in the N.T. has it change in meaning, or intent? Let's look and see.
Gen 49:18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
Now there has been some that say salvation here holds a different meaning. Yet salvation is, was, and will remain ones deliverance from sin. As we know, or should Egypt in many cases should be seen as a symbol of sin. (We can get into that at a latter date if it seems we must.) So what we have in the above is 2 fold. First Dan as we know wasn't a stand up guy. Israel here compares sin son to a serpent. A symbol we all understand. Israel here is waiting for the day HaShem leads Dan to salvation. Some may say he was looking forward to going back to the promised land, yet there are just as many that see this as asking for Dan to find HaShem, and follow after Him.
1Sa 2:1And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
I think this speaks for it's self. Hannah is giving thanks for the salvation gifted from HaShem.
Psa 13:5But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
Salvation here is placed with the mercy of HaShem. Is that not also what we today understand salvation to be? is His grace not showing us mercy?
Now I get it, for more than 400 years it has been said that in O.T. times sin was not reamoved just covered by the blood of the sin offering. yet when we today make the claim that our sin has been removed from us, as far from us as the east is from the west, ( think on that), I do agree with that. yet I also know for a fact that idea isn't new. It comes not from the N.T. rather from,
Psa 103:12As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
So if we do understand that our sins are removed for us today in that manner, why do we insist that it was not possible for the nation of Israel in O.T. times? Does not salvation do this for us today? If so, then what we now see is that it also did for the people then. The best part, it was free for the asking. Faith is what was needed, not sacrifice.
Luk 2:30For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
As many teach salvation is only open to us because of the cross, (giveing the cross way more power that it holds) yet here we find that Simeon had found, or seen the salvation of HaShem, before Yeshua sacrificed Himself, it stands to reason that salvation was a part of what HaShem had been doing for much longer than some wish to think.
2Co 7:10For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
If you are wise, and wish to see salvation at work in the O.T. you will find that when most from that time looked for salvation, it was when they had hit rock bottom. Some sorrow had brought them to seek forgiveness of HaShem. So again we find HaShem hasn't changed how true salvation was found, or given.
In my next off script we will look at being filled with the spirit. As most today think that wasn't a thing in the O.T.