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YHWH’s Salvation:
Let’s see how YHWH’s Salvation works.
First let’s see what salvation means.
From the Brown Driver Briggs; BDB
H3444 BDB
Definition: 1) salvation, deliverance 1a) welfare, prosperity 1b)
deliverance 1c) salvation (by God) 1d) victory Part
of Speech: noun feminine; A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number:
passive participle of H3467 Same Word by TWOT Number: 929b 39
The salvation of the righteous comes from YHWH; he is their
stronghold in time of trouble. PSA.
51:12 12
Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing
spirit, to sustain me. 9
In that day they will say, "Surely this is our God; we
trusted in him, and he saved us. This is YHWH, we trusted in him; let us
rejoice and be glad in his salvation." ISA
30:15 15
This is what the Sovereign YHWH, the Holy One of Israel, says:
"In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust
is your strength, but you would have none of it.
(These people went their own way, and not the way of YHWH.
They could have had everything that YHWH can provide, and they
decided not to.) ISA.
30:18 18
Yet YHWH longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you
compassion. For YHWH is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for
him!
(YHWH wants to be our salvation.
HE has done so much to bring this about.
HE has helped us from the beginning of time, with those who are
evil, and wicked. It seems
that so many people turn away from what HE has done for us). ISA.
33:6 6
He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of
salvation and wisdom and knowledge; the fear of YHWH is the key to this
treasure. ISA.
45:17‑25 17
But Israel will be saved by YHWH with an everlasting salvation;
you will never be put to shame or disgraced, to ages everlasting.
(We know from the TNK that YHWH has many times over has given HIS
people salvation (deliverance) from those who have held them captive,
and have given HIS people deliverance from their enemies.
One of the biggest examples is:) The
Children of Israel are enslaved, YHWH is their salvation: First: Exo
1:7 And the sons of Israel
were fruitful, and increased very much, and multiplied, and became
exceedingly mighty. And the land was filled with them. Exo
1:8 And there arose a new
king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. Exo
1:9 And he said to his
people, Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are many and
mightier than we. Exo
1:10 Come, let us deal slyly
with them, lest they multiply, and it will be when there comes a war,
they join also to our enemies, and fight against us, and get out of the
land. Exo
1:11 And they set
taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built
treasure cities for Pharaoh, Pithon and Raamses. Second: Exo
3:9 And now behold, the cry
of the sons of Israel has come to Me. And I have also seen the
oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. Exo
3:10 And now go, and I will
send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth My people, the sons of
Israel, out of Egypt. YHWH’s
Salvation: Exo
13:16 And it shall be for a
token upon your hand, and for frontlets between your eyes. For YHWH
brought us out from Egypt by strength of His hand. Deu
4:23 Take heed to
yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of YHWH your Elohiym, which He
made with you, and make you a graven image, a likeness of anything which
YHWH your Elohiym has forbidden you. Deu
4:24 For YHWH your Elohiym is
a consuming fire, a jealous God. Deu
4:25 When you father sons
and sons of sons, and when you shall have remained long in the land and
have dealt corruptly by making a graven image, the likeness of anything,
and shall do evil in the sight of YHWH your Elohiym, to provoke Him to
anger, Deu
4:26 I call Heaven and earth
to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from
off the land which you are crossing over Jordan to possess. You shall
not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. Deu
4:27 And YHWH shall scatter
you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the
nations where YHWH shall drive you. Deu
4:28 And there you shall
serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see
nor hear nor eat nor smell. Deu
4:29 But if you shall seek
YHWH your Elohiym from there, you shall find Him, if you seek Him
with all your heart and with all your soul. Deu
4:30 When you are in trouble
and when all these things have found you in the latter days, then you
shall return to YHWH your Elohiym and shall be obedient to His voice. Deu
4:31 For YHWH your Elohiym is
a merciful God; He will not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget the
covenant of your fathers which He swore to them. Deu
4:32 For ask now of the days
past which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the
earth, and from the one end of the heavens to the other end of the
heavens, where there has been a thing as great as this, or has been
heard any like it. Deu
4:33 Did people ever hear
the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire as you have heard
and live? Deu
4:34 Or has God gone forth
to take a nation for Himself from the midst of a nation, by trials, by
signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a
stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that YHWH your
Elohiym did for you in Egypt before your eyes? Deu
4:35 It was shown to you so
that you might know that YHWH is God, and no one else
beside Him. Deu
4:36 He made you hear His
voice out of Heaven so that He might teach you. And He showed you His
great fire upon earth. And you heard His words out of the midst of the
fire. Deu
4:37 And because He loved
your fathers, therefore He chose their seed after them, and brought you
out in His sight with His mighty power out of Egypt, Deu
4:38 in order to drive out
from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in,
to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day. Deu
4:39 Therefore, know this
day and consider within your heart, that YHWH is God in Heaven
above and on the earth beneath. There is no other. Deu
4:40 Therefore, you shall
keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you this day, so
that it may go well with you and with your sons after you, and so that
you may make your days longer upon the earth which YHWH your Elohiym
gives you forever.
(We see here that YHWH through HIS mighty hand, and outstretched
arm, and the many miracles that HE performed, that HE is the one who
saved HIS people. HE alone.
No one, and nothing else. Only
YHWH. Eze
11:17 Therefore say, So says
YHWH: I will even gather you from the people and assemble you out of the
lands, in those where you were scattered, and I will give you the land
of Israel. Eze
20:34 And I will bring you
out from the people, and I will gather you out of the lands in which you
are scattered among them, with a mighty hand and with a stretched out
arm and with fury poured out. Eze
20:41 I will receive you
with your sweet aroma when I bring you out from the people and gather
you out of the lands into which you have been scattered among them. And
I will be sanctified in you in the eyes of the nations. Eze
36:24 For I will take you
from among the nations and gather you out of all lands, and will gather
you into your own land.
(We see also that YHWH has made a promise, and that HE intends on
keeping it. But the promise
is not one sided. We can not
expect YHWH to keep HIS end of the promise if we do not keep ours.
In order for YHWH to remain our salvation, for HIM to continue to
protect us, and to help us out of slavery we must do our part, and keep
our end of the promise.)
Deu 10:12
And now, Israel, what does YHWH your Elohiym ask of you, but to
fear YHWH your Elohiym, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to
serve YHWH your Elohiym with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deu 10:13
to keep the commandments of YHWH, and His statutes, which I
command you today for your good?
Deu 10:14
Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens belong to
YHWH your Elohiym, the earth also, with all in it.
Deu 10:15
Only YHWH had a delight in your fathers to love them, and He
chose their seed after them, you above all people, as it is
today.
Deu 10:16
Therefore, circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be no
longer stiff-necked.
Deu 10:17
For YHWH your Elohiym is Elohiym of elohiym, and Master of
masters, a great El, the mighty, and a terrible El, who does not respect
persons nor take a bribe.
Deu 10:18
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the
stranger in giving him food and clothing. Deu
10:19
Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land
of Egypt. Deu
10:20
You shall fear YHWH your Elohiym. You shall serve Him, and you
shall hold fast to Him, and swear by His name. Deu
10:21
He is your praise, and He is your Elohiym, who has
done for you these great and terrible things which your eyes have seen. Deu
10:22
Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons. And now
YHWH your Elohiym has made you as the stars of the heavens for
multitude.
(Look to YHWH, and let HIM alone be your salvation.
Look to YHWH and thank HIM everyday for all that HE alone has
done for you. Look to YHWH
and thank HIM for bringing you in as a part of HIS chosen people.
Keep your end of the promise, and YHWH will keep HIS.) PSA.
40:16 But may all who seek
you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation always
say, "YHWH be exalted!" Martha
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