Was Jesus The Savior They Waited For?

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder: His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.  Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.  (Isaiah 9:6-7). When Isaiah spoke of the Savior to come, hope grew within the remnant of true believers.  Israel had for the most part turned away from God chasing after idols.  Proclaiming themselves righteous, they had abandoned all righteousness. So, the few true worshipers longed for the Savior to come and establish His Kingdom. Hence their confusion, was Jesus the Savior they waited for?

Amid such evil times, where it appears that evil wins; they clung tight to the promise that one day there would be the final victory. God would establish His Kingdom. Justice and righteousness will prevail.  Evil will be cast into eternal hell.  They clung tight to the truth that one day, there would be no need for another sacrifice; because, God’s laws would be written on their hearts as foretold in Jeremiah 31:33.  Longing for that day, they wanted it to be now! Although they were told by Isaiah that Emmanuel would come to first be the suffering servant who would take upon Himself our sins.  This is clearly outlined in Isaiah 53.  Then in Isaiah 54, the church was foretold. We the Gentile Believers would be grafted into God’s Family.  He will return to establish His Kingdom in Israel; but that is yet to come.

Jesus the Savior they Waited For

            Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Surely, he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.  He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. (Isaiah 53:1-8).

Unless Jesus came as the Savior of their heart first, paying the penalty of their sin; there could be no salvation.  Had not the centuries before proven this?  And continues to prove this today?  Do we not also live in such evil times?  Babies are slaughtered at the altar of “women’s rights to sexual promiscuity and pleasure without thought!

Jesus the Savior We Need

We live in a society filled with such evil, where right is called wrong and wrong, right.  We like the Israelites of Isaiah’s day worship the earth, the sun, the moon and the stars; but not God the creator of it all.  Furthermore, we are told to be silent that speaking of Jesus as the only way of Salvation is evil and “phobic”.  Yet, the truth is:  He is the only way of Salvation.  And if we do not proclaim that truth to a world that is dying in their sin, then we are not the lights of love we were meant to be.  Jesus is the Savior foretold of  by the Prophets.

 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. (I Peter 1:10-16).

The Lamb without Blemish, Our Savior

 

ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last times for you. Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.  But the word of the Lord endureth forever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.    (I Peter 1:18-25)

DO YOU KNOW CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOR AND LORD?

If you don’t know Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord: I urge you to go to my page titled How to Be Saved by clicking on this link.  There is nothing more important than this; because,  He is the way, the truth and the life. Therefore, I urge you to seek Him today.

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