Jesus Christ in John 4. said that salvation was of the Jews. And it’s here that one could be confused into thinking that the Jews possessed salvation the whole time, but that is not the case. They were looking for it too. For if they would have had salvation the whole time then they would know what it is. But they did not. The question is do we?
You see if salvation was something easily to be grasped, then why is there so much confusion about it even today?
Salvation means saving, and many people think this happens at a second coming, that Jesus Christ comes then to rescue us because that’s what a savior does. A savior saves. To this the Jews were looking for.
But “God so loved the world that He sent his only begotton son into the world not to condemn the world but to save it”. (John 3.16+17) So according to scripture as seen here, that event has taken place. And that event was The Son at the cross. This is God’s saving and cure for all humanity. Even as 1 John 2.1 says that “He is the propitiation for the whole world”. Each one of us needs to go there for the saving of God. Each one in our own order at our own appointed time of visitation, so we hope you are listening so your time does not pass you by.
You see salvation is not a thing. It is not an object or an event. It is not the culmination of time but a person. Salvation is of the Jews, because they were the delivery mechanism by which it (He) came. And once again salvation is not an event but a person, so you know where to go.
The old Covenant says that there would be “one who would come forth from them who is from old of everlasting”, meaning an eternal one. They were also told that the Savior/Messiah would come whose name was Shiloh. That he would come riding on a foal of a colt. The Jews did not possess salvation because they rejected it because that “it” was a “Him”. They were looking for a king in Royal apparel and rejected the pauper “on a foal of a colt”.What are you expecting?
So why would we say that the Jews were only the delivery mechanism? That they did not possess Him? Because they collectively rejected Him out of their own words “Then all the people said, His blood be upon us and our children” “Matthew 27.25”
To set the record straight, Savior came from the Jewish system, but they in their totallity rejected Him. This is why Jesus said “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones all those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!35 See! Your house is left to you desolate;. They did not know their time of visitation, and for this they were denied, put out of business, condemned and destroyed. “Till not one stone was left upon
Even as John said “He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But to as many as received Him, to them He gave the power to become His children, even to those who believe in His Name”. That is those of all Nations that the scripture calls Gentiles.
Here is what Paul had to say about The Savior being a person and not an event “Fellow children of Abraham and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.
And “Therefore I want you to know that God’s salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!”
So when Paul says “salvation is of the Jews: this is what he meant. If the Jews actually possess salvation they would not have been replaced. Even as it says in Hebrews “if the word spoken through Angels prove steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received its just reward, what makes us think we shall escape if we neglect such a great salvation that was first spoken of by the Lord and confirmed to those who heard him by the power of the Holy Spirit”. Such are we. The Lord spoke it first, not the jews. The Jews couldn’t even hear it.
Salvation simply put is a person. And that person is the one the scriptures called Jesus Christ. He is the Christ, the Messiah, the Savior. Meaning He is the one who saves. He is the deliverer and the rescuer to the one who has faith in Him.
As a matter of fact that’s what the word Jesus traced back through its roots through the Greek and into the Hebrew means “the one who saves”. In Hebrew God’s name and savior comes from the same base word.
In the book of Hebrews when speaking of Joshua from the old Covenant, the Greek word that is used there is the exact same one we use for Jesus. (Hebrews 4.8) And it was said of this one that “He shall save my people” and He didn’t save the Jews.
Simply put, the savior saves people from the demise of all their fears, to the one who has faith in Christ. And Christ did a great job of that at the cross. He delivered all the goods that God in the beginning gave to Adam that he squandered. Christ’s last words at the cross were ” it is finished”. And we know that payment for the sins of the whole world was rendered and accepted because Christ was raised from the dead to die no more. What all the blood sacrifices dimly portrayed for all Israel then the Jews, was hanging their limp and dead for all of mankind, meaning Gentiles, to look upon and be saved in purpose, for all would be believers to receive salvation the person and not an event. It does not matter if you claim to be Jewish or Christian, if you think the saving from Earth is the saving at a coming event, maybe like at the proverbial second coming? Or for the Jews they expected that at the first coming, because you expect an event you are both equally lost and deserving of the same demise. The Jews were cut off because “they knew not their time if visitation” and if you believe the same thing your demise is the same.
Don’t you think that if Christ comes to earth again as a man to display a dynamic grand introduction arrayed in Royalty, that He would owe the Jews a huge apology? That it’s okay to expect that now? Is that the knife of saving from planet Earth you expect? Then you too, like the Jews, reject God’s Christ.
Hebrews 10.29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
