Hebrew | - Yeshua | = Salvation, safety, ease |
Greek | - soteria | = salvation, safety, ease |
It was with this picture in mind that the Master delivered his famous Olivet prophecy recorded in (Matthew 24): That is how the Saviour saw events on earth just prior to his return: and how true his words have turned out to be. Our need for salvation, from these and other problems, is very real and only the fool will ignore these facts.
Question: | Where can we find salvation from these problems? We are obviously in need of
salvation. But where is the One who can meet that need?
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Answer: | “Salvation belongeth unto the LORD.” (Psalm 3: 8)
“Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from Him cometh my salvation.” (Psalm 62: 1) |
Yes, even the Saviour's name Yeshua means salvation. He alone can meet your need, my need, our need.
Exodus 15: | 2: “The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.”
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Job 13: | 15: “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. 16: He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.” |
Psalm 27: | 1: “The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”
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Isaiah 12: | 2: “Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. 3: Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. 4: And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD...” |
Matthew 1: | 21: “...and thou shalt call his name JESUS for he shall save his people from their sins.” |
NOTE: Yeshua is the Messiah's Hebrew name. Jesus is the Greek form.
John 3: | 16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17: For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18: He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19: And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” |
Briefly explain each phrase of this passage to your audience.
Acts 4: | 12: “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” |
2 Corinthains 6: | 2: “(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)” |
Oh what a terrible cry is this when many realize that it is too late for them. There will then be no escape. Here is one forecast of their terrible cry.
Jeremiah 8: | 20: “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.” |
Hebrews 2: | 1: “Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. 2: For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; 3: How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.” |
Romans 13: | 11: “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.”
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Lamentations 3: | 26: “It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the Salvation of the Lord.” |
Revelation 12: | 10: “And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. 11: And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. 12: Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. 13: And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. 14: And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. 15: And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. 16: And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. 17: And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” |
All heaven is expectantly waiting for the Most High to act. His patience is most admirable in that He wants everyone to be saved and therefore He controls His anger to unimaginable limits in order that all who want salvation may attain it. But when He is convinced that there is no longer any desire for salvation in the sinner's breast, then Yahweh will give the order for His Son to return to earth to finish the task he began many years ago.