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NASB | Judges 5:12 ¶ "Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, sing a song! Arise, Barak, and take away your captives, O son of Abinoam. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Judges 5:12 ¶ "Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, sing a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam. |
Bible Question:
This is a little off the topic but your reply made me wonder about the salvation of the people in the Old Testament. If I need to create another link I will. But my questions is, how are the people saved in the old Testament. I am fairly new in being a Christain and started my studies in the New Testament, now I am seeing what great lessons to be learned in the Old Testament. So many lessons dealing with very detailed aspects of life. And you actually can appreciate what is happening in the New Testament after understanding what Isreal went through in the Old Testament. But when people were spoken too in the Old Testament, like Deborah was it through the Holy spirit like we are? I know there are times in the Old Testament where GOD physically spoke to Moses, etc. Thanks you have been a great help already. God Bless Noveta |
Bible Answer: Hi Noveta, This is one of those topics that seems to be a hotbutton for dissent, but here is what I believe. In the NT, salvation comes by faith in Jesus Christ, that God raised Jesus from the dead, and confessing Jesus' lordship. (Romans 10:9) That God raised Jesus from the dead declares Jesus' sacrificial offering was accepted, and suitable for its purpose. (See Acts 13, and 17:30-31) Romans 6:8-11 But if we died with Christ, we believe that also we shall live with Him, knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death no longer lords it over Him. For in that He died, He died to sin once for all; but in that He lives, He lives to God. So also you count yourselves to be truly dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. This is true confession, literally "saying the same thing." It is agreeing with God, that Jesus is our Lord. So coming into right relationship of obedience with Him, believing He has the power, right, and will to forgive our sins and give life, we come to Him. John 1:12-13 But as many as received Him, to them He gave authority to become children of God, to the ones believing into His name, who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but were born of God. We receive Him, we are made children of God, born again. 1 Peter 1 gives a great discussion of how this occurs, as God puts His living Word inside us as a Seed, reproducing Jesus' life in us. 2 Corinthians 5:17-18a So that if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new! And all things are from God, Gal 2:20a I have been crucified with Christ, and I live; yet no longer I, but Christ lives in me. We know that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit now live in us. (See John 14) We are declared "already seated in the heavenlies", being "accepted in the beloved". Ephesians 2:4-6 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even we being dead in deviations, He made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are being saved), and raised us up together and seated us together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus, Colossians 3:3-4 For you died, and your life has been hidden with Christ in God. Whenever Christ our life is revealed, then also you will be revealed with Him in glory. Rebirth, God’s indwelling, acceptance into heaven, are possible because sin was paid for. But while Jesus' sacrifice put away sins, the animal sacrifices did not do that. Hebrews 10:1-4 For the Law had a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of those things. Appearing year by year with the same sacrifices, which they offer continually, they never are able to perfect the ones drawing near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? Because those serving did not still have conscience of sins, having once been cleansed. But in these there is a remembrance of sins year by year, for it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. You never read in the Old Testament of the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit indwelling believers. Re-birth is only prophetic, something yet future. And their sins were not “put away”, only “covered”. Read Jeremiah 31:33-34 “After those days, declares YHWH, I will put My Law in their inward parts, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. And they shall no longer each man teach his neighbor, and each man his brother, saying, Know YHWH. For they shall all know Me, from the least of them even to the greatest of them, declares YHWH. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sins no more.” Ezekiel 36:24-27 “Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you” This is what God does in re-creating us, but these were prophetic, and not yet accomplished in the time they were written. The OT faithful are never said to live in heaven with God, but were with Abraham, in the depths of the earth (Luke 16). Until the perfect sacrifice was made, their sins were covered, not put away, and they were not yet elgible for rebirth, for the indwelling of God. And as Jesus said, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of heaven. I believe that the OT faithful, as they believed God’s promise of deliverance, according to the revelation God had given them, were credited with righteousness, but not born again. When they died, they went to the place of comfort, not torment, but only after Jesus died were they able to enter heaven, and receive the new spiritual life. Love in Christ, Mark |
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