'World War 3 is at Hand'
While we wait for Israel and the West to attack the Iranian nuclear facilities to start World War 3, let's check our own Christian faith, doctrine and knowledge of Him and His words.
Below are some of Jesus' truth that cannot be contradicted.
Gospel of Grace or Christ according to Jesus
Luke 24:46-47 Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem."
Jesus taught us the Gospel of grace. New converts must believe Jesus and accept the Gospel of grace as follows:
1. Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God and the Word made flesh.
2. He suffered and was killed (crucified). At the cross He poured out His blood for the remission of our sins.
3. He died and having overcome death, He set us free from the fear of death.
4. On the third day, He rose from the dead.
After their sincere prayers, our Lord Jesus will give the new believers the Holy Spirit of redemption to dwell in them so that they become born again Christians.
Gal 1:9 As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.
Only Way to Salvation
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
Brethren, our Lord Jesus had made it clear that He is the only way to salvation and also into the kingdom of God.
How then can the Jews who were before Jesus, obtained salvation ?
Mat 5:17 "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill."
Jesus at His death and resurrection fulfilled the Law and the Prophets, so that He personally became the sacrifices and worships of the Jews.
At His death, He made Himself the sacrificial lambs offered by sinful Jews since the days of Moses so that just like Christians, devout Jews were also saved by Jesus.
Note No wonder, Jesus was their coming Saviour or Messiah as prophesied by Jeremiah.
Jer 31:31,34b "Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— ...For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."
Resurrection of the Saints of the OT
Mat 27:52-53 and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.
Jesus at His death, immediately, became the sacrificial lambs offered by the saints of old, who had kept the Mosaic Law (Moses, David, Daniel, etc.) and the Prophets (Abel, Enoch, Noah, etc.) so that their sins were also cleansed by Jesus' blood and just as godly Christians they too were made righteous and holy. Only then, they were worthy to follow our resurrected Lord back to heaven.
New Covenant of His Blood
Mat 26:28 For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
At the death of Jesus, He fulfilled the prophecy of the coming New Covenant where, by the grace of God their sins would be forgiven.
This New Covenant of His blood has replaced the Old Covenant of the Law with the Israelites.
Heb 8:13 In that He says, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Gal 5:4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.
Since Jesus had fulfilled the Law and the Prophets, any Christian who keeps any part of the Law (feast, food, law, etc) has not believed that Jesus had fulfilled them, thereby indirectly calling Jesus a Liar. No wonder, Scripture says that they have fallen from His grace and have lost their salvation.
