The American Wisdom Series

God's Plan for the Salvation of Mankind

A pure strain on humans did survive through Abraham's and Sarah's son Isaac, via Isaac's son, Jacob (Israel) and from that line God came to earth, through the womb of a virgin descendant, in the person of Jesus Christ.  Jesus, being God in the flesh, lived a perfect life without sin and therefore; was able to become the ultimate sacrifice.

After we all have been to earth through the womb, in our turn, (over a period of about 6000 years since the creation of the man, Adam) Christ will return and we will all be changed back into spirit bodies similar to the bodies we had in the first earth age.

Man can be saved by the grace of God if he believes in and loves what is holy (Jesus Christ) over what is profane (Satan) during his time spent here on earth in his flesh and blood body and follows His commands.

We were first created spirit beings, i.e. "sons of God", before the first earth age. Since the destruction of that earth age, as part of God's goal to salvage those of us, His children who are not predestined, He is placing us, in our turn, in flesh and blood bodies, i.e. "sons of man". Those of us who were predestined He is also placing in flesh and blood bodies to be used, by Him, to help accomplish His goal. God revealed to the apostle John, and he recorded in a book, instructions as to how we, those of us who are not predestined, can again become "sons of God" for all eternity. The apostle John writes, in the book by his name, to give us documentation that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Divine God. And he tells us in the third chapter that if we believe in "Him", then we shall have eternal life. Be sure to read his book, your eternal life is at stake!

#7110  Some Biblical Facts About Salvation

#7113   "What do I have to do be awarded Eternal Life?"

#7114   We all have sinned and fall short of what God requires of us.

 (Live link to-)-God's Plan to Save Mankind              

(Live link to-)"Walking in the Flesh and Spirit, its Works, and Fruit."  

(Live link to-)God's will, or wish will not be forced on anyone, but those that do not make the choice to follow Him will perish in the lake of fire after the day of judgment

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#4108Old Covenant (If you, man, will) - New Covenant (I, God, will)
#4192   God was manifest in the flesh
#4206    Jesus said, "Abide in me"
#4244   If Christ isn't addressing this message to many of us professing Christians in many of our "Christian churches", during these end times, who in the world is He addressing the message to?
#4193   We were redeemed with uncorruptible blood
#4002We will all be tested
#4197   There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
#4018   Always remember, Judgment begins at the house of God
#4103   Do you think your faith won't be tested?
#4120If this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
#4129Pretty straight forward instruction, I would say! Have you sought out the book of the Lord and read it?
#4134Jesus is talking about spiritual death and spiritual life here but the example given is physical so we can comprehend!
#4138Even after our physical death we are in heaven laboring to be accepted by Christ.
#4144What does the Lord require of me?
#4251  God decides how and what He will save.
#4228 Teach the Lord's words/commandments to your children and receive a blessing.  A curse if you don't!
#4222 God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. Did you catch the ALL MEN part?
#4245    I desired mercy. and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
#4156 I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
#4160If you can understand this next verse then you will have learned the whole point of the lessons in the Book of Hosea (salvation).
#4177   For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.
#4183Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
#4234   Do's and don'ts of a spirit filled believer
#4237 Tell me, How will you hear Moses and the prophets if you never even open the Old Testament?
#4212 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons;
#4242   Jesus preached unto the nations. When? Where? Was it in Europe prior to his 30th birthday and not recorded in scripture?
Romans chapter 8

(Live Link)to-Understand the 3 world ages and the God's plan for the salvation of mankind.

Exodus 20:3
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

[4] Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

[5] Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

[6] And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Hosea 9:17
My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

"When we come to ask ourselves, and say, 'Where did I learn this?' 'How did I get this?' 'Who taught this to me?' it is astonishing to find out how much we have imbibed from man, and from tradition; and not directly and for ourselves, from the Word of God.

All that we have learned from our youth up must be tested and proved by the Word of God.  Where we find it is true we must learn it over again, from God. And where it will not stand the test of His Word we must be not only content, but thankful to give it up; and receive Divine revelation in the place of man's imagination."

Deut. 30:19
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

In Malachi the final book of the Minor Prophets which is written to true Israel* (Mal. 1:1), our Father, Yahveh (Mal. 1:1), has given His final message, His final "warning" (burden) to His people with particularly strong emphasis directed specifically to the priests and preachers who are "set up" (Mal. 3:15) in the "high places", the houses of worship in our land (the good old USA)! Christ warned us concerning those who would come in the last days and sit in authority in the churches claiming to be His representatives yet keeping His house in disarray, in a state of famine and confusion (babel), because they do not speak His Words as His messengers are commanded according to the covenant of Levi. Our Father has severely warned them about their fraud in defrauding Him of acceptable sacrifices (which are not to be blind and lame), in that they take the tithes of our people into His storehouse yet they provide no "meat" (Mal. 3:10) for His children to nourish them that they may grow and mature and learn the ability to discern between good and evil. (Hebrews 5:14 "But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. You see, "babies" cannot discern between good and evil!) Therefore it is only fitting and proper that they receive His final message because as it is written, "judgment" begins at the house of God ( 1 Pet. 4:17).

Alas, our Father's final warning message by His Messenger (Malachi) is simple and direct and can even be summed up in the "timely" words "echoed" this very day by the President of the United States, the prince of the leading nation of the so-called "lost tribes" of the House of Israel*. His message to all tribes and nations concerning the "global war on terrorism" is to "Get your house in order!" Why? Because justice is at hand and it SHALL be served upon all those who do not! It is NOW TIME for ALL HOUSES to shape up or get ready to feel the HEAT of justice!

"Are you sleeping? Are you sleeping? Brother John, brother John!" Wake up children! And stay awake you watchmen of our people! It is time to "Take Heed" because the fact is that the final hour glass has been tipped and the final grains of sand are about to run out on this generation of the fig tree which began on May 15, 1948. Yes, we know that the "abomination of desolation", the desolator (the false-christ) spoken of by Daniel the prophet, must yet come and stand in Jerusalem claiming to be God and deceive the whole world into believing his false claim, his big lie! However, Jesus Christ shortened (Mat. 24:22, Mk. 13:20) the time of Satan's defacto reign to at most a 5 month period as is documented in Revelation 9.

Therefore know this, the coming of the God of Judgment is nigh at hand, even at the doors (Mark 13:29). In other words, make no mistake about it and do not listen to the false teachers and those who scoff at His Word because the "Day of the LORD" IS COMING! Is that a frightful thing? Not at all if you are one who loves and serves the LORD, but for those who work "iniquity", which is "lawlessness", which means they work (speak and do) those traditions of men which are contrary to His Word (and therefore outside His law) it shall not be a happy day at all! Why not? Because His "Fire" shall burn them as stubble (Mal. 4:1) while at the same time those that love Him (vs. 2) shall feel the warmth of that same "Fire" like as the rays of the Sun, even the Sun of righteousness, beaming down upon them surrounding them with warmth!

Malachi 4:1
For, behold,the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, s hall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

"What is a book titled "Salvation" doing in the Old Testament?" The answer is quite simple. Our Father placed it here for our understanding, to learn not only why salvation is necessary, but especially how He feels about His children who have gone astray (even from the first earth age), and to understand the tremendous love He has in that He would not only give His life but He would take back a wife who was once an unfaithful adulterous.

To that end, this book of Hosea is written which contains very graphic and descriptive language presented in such a way that we might be able to form a PICTURE in our minds of the spiritual things our Father wants us to SEE! The Word of God is full of such imagery. In fact, all that is necessary for our spiritual understanding, including not only such things as salvation, but even all the prophecies written for this final generation, have been acted out in history and recorded for us in His Word. Paul documents this in 1 Cor. 10:11, "Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come."

That is because the 12 Tribe Nation of Israel became TWO separate nations following the reign of king Solomon and HAVE BEEN SO EVER SINCE. The southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin became known as the House of Judah and the northern ten tribes became known as the House of Israel. (Most Bibles have maps in their appendixes which will clearly show these two nations as separate.)

Hosea 1:2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.

 You see, it is kenites of the house of Hemath, the direct descendents of Cain, who through their control and influence of the Four Hidden Dynasties shall afflict the House of Israel right up to the end of this flesh age.

Did you know that these events which happened of old were actually "ensamples" for us today, which God brought to pass so that we could SEE and KNOW what would befall us in these last days "upon whom the end of the world are come"? 1 Cor. 10:11 "Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come."

Therefore, if we would like to know what is in store for America, we need to know what happened in the Valley of Achor and the exodus from Egypt, right?

The Book of Hosea is divided into two sections.
The first of which is the first three chapters gives us an overview as to the severity of the adultery/idolatry of God's people along with His plan of salvation (Hosea) to take back His estranged wife, Israel.
The second section, from chapter 4 to the end, contains the details of Israel's transgressions and transgressors as our Father presents His legal case against her and lays the foundation for the judgment to come at the return of Christ.

Tim. 4:1
I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

The "dead" are the "spiritually dead" and they will be required by the Judge to go through the probationary period of the Millennium to await final judgment at the Great White Throne before they can receive eternal life. You see, the problem is that God's children have forgotten His Word and have once again gone astray. There is perversion and much corruption in our land. So perhaps it is timely that we as a nation currently find ourselves steeped in the midst of legal controversy and judgment, even involving the Supreme Court.

Did you know that preachers are taught in seminaries not to teach those things which are controversial, lest they offend members of their congregations.

It is written that they both were deceived, i.e. ate of the bad fruit, Eve directly from the voice of Satan and Adam through the voice of the woman.

It is not written that they both "touched" the tree, though they will both discover their nakedness. Obviously Eve did "naga" because she conceived Cain and the result was that her punishment was to be sorrow (labor pangs) in child bearing which follows conception.Genesis 3:16 "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."

Here is another question: Have you ever read about the "grove worship" upon the tops of the mountains, i.e. the religious sexual orgies of Ashtoreth, also known as Ishtar, from whom we get the word "Easter"?

Speaking of whoredoms, did you know that Ishtar (Easter) was a "sex goddess" and that Ishtar "eggs" and "quick-like-a-bunny rabbits" are symbols of sexual fertility? Better get yourself a good Bible Dictionary and do a little research. You might be eating some really bad fruit, or shall we say rotten eggs!

You can go to church faithfully every week for decades, and you can call Easter (Ishtar), and you can do many wonderful works and contribute to many wonderful charities, and you can say "Lord, Lord, Praise the Lord" a million times, but though you call yourself a Christian, if you allow yourself to be deceived by the MANY who claim to be his Ministers instead of DOING your Father's Will, His Word, you will stand naked in that day, without a wedding garment on (Mat. 22:11-14), and you shall not enter in!

Thus saith the Lord God:

Matthew 7:21
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

The following words of Jesus Christ are a spiritual analogy, which is easily understood by those who are familiar with the Book of Hosea.

Luke 21:23
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

What about the other 5 virgins?

Luke 23:29
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.

In the last days, our days, the servants of God will "see", as in understand, the visions of the prophets, i.e. the prophecies, the visions of the future they wrote concerning the return of Christ and the days just prior to His return. And they shall "prophesy", which means they shall teach the prophets. (Teach us what the prophets meant) Hosea was one of those prophets, so you should studyHosea.
Log unto Hosea

Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

[22] Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

[23] And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

[24] Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

Haggai 2:15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:

[16] Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

[17] I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.

Amos 4:9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

Haggai 2:18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider it.

Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

Haggai 2:19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.

(Live link)-Must read message for true Christisns from the prophet Zechariah  Read all of Haggai and Zechariah

#2505a In order to "live" (as in eternally) man must partake of the heavenly manna, that spiritual bread from above which is the rich nutrition of the Word of God, which alone gives and sustains life.

#2506aTo give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

#2514   In other words, if what you have plucked are nothing but the traditions of men, like stories about snakes and apples, and rapture theories, and Easter bunnies, etc., then you are barking up the wrong tree!

#2519   True disciples of Jesus Christ, students of the Word of God, know who the lost sheep of the house of Israel are.

#2521   You must go to Jesus Christ, to the Word of God, privately (Mark 13:3) when you do not know something and seek revelation (understanding) by listening to His Voice, hearing His words in your ear  ! Yes, His Word, it's written in your Bible!

#2545Yes, Christ also heals our physical infirmities but as in all cases of His healing, it is the spiritual healing that is the most important and lasting for though your flesh is healed, it shall still die, but if your soul is healed it shall live forever.

2563    Don't misunderstand what we teach; We are not teaching salvation by works! But, by golly, your works will reflect the sincerity of your belief in the Lord!

#2566You "see", you either believe in Jesus all the way or quite frankly you don't believe at all.

#2573   Teach them to hear the Word of God, to hear His Voice, and if they will so do, then His Spirit (Breath) will enter into them and they will come alive spiritually and enter into eternal life.

Eternal Life is by freely given by the "Grace of God" If you truly believe during this flesh age (The First Resurrection) John 3:16; Rom.1:16-17;Rom: 4:2-5; Rom.4:13-16; Rom. 5:1-11; Rom. 6:14-23; etc. etc.
or Based on "Your Works" at the end of the Millennium.(The Second Resurrection)  Rev. 20:11-12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. Do dead people stand? This is not talking about resurrection, this is the coming before the Judge! Stand up and approach the bench please! Remember where we are? We are at the end of the Millennium. There are no people in flesh bodies nor are there any souls in the ground. The "dead" referred to here are the spiritually dead (the walking dead who lived throughout the Millennium) who are about to be judged from the books and receive their rewards according to their actions!  And their last actions recorded in the books just before the Millennium were to worship or not worship the beast and his image!

#4156     I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

#5008      About the "Sermon on the Mount"?

#1540    It is a shame our teachers and ministers don't teach the full story of the miracle on the cross to our people
#1542John 20:19  just has to increase your faith in the Word of God because, Mary Magdalene, the first person to see the resurrected Christ, has just been instructed by Him to go and tell His brethren that He is ascending to the Father, and she does exactly as the Word of God tells her to do.
#1543A person who does not "walk in that light", yet claims to be a Christian, is nothing more that a liar!
#1545Will going to church and doing many good and wonderful works get you to heaven?
#1546   Not everyone who claims to be a Christian is going to make it in the first resurrection.
#1552   Do you have the desire to know and understand the Word of God?
#1557    Anyone who believes that Christians do not sin after they are converted lives in a fantasy world built by the traditions of men.
#1561All most of us get are crumbs, i.e. religion, ceremonies, man's traditions, churchianity, sweet-baby-Jesus-why-can't-we-just-get-along liberal theology.
#1563For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
#1564   Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God
#1565The false messiah will put on quite a show and perform "supernatural" signs and wonders
#1566"Search the scriptures daily" to see if what is being taught is documented in God's Word.
#1568   Our Father in His love for us gave us the Living Word and the Written Word and the two are inseparable.
#1569If you know the love of God and abide in His love, in His Word, then there is nothing to fear.
#1571Even the devils believe that there is a God, but they do not the works that demonstrate they believe Him.
#1572If you truly believe that Jesus is the Son of God, then this letter is written to you.
#1573It is those who ask "according to His will" who are actually "in His will"!
#1574There is one sin unto death!
#1575   "You are what you eat." Well, that applies to spiritual food as well.
#1576Most Christians do not know the Parable of the Fig Tree, which Christ specifically told them to learn in Mark 13 and Mat. 24, they do not know who is of Judah and who isn't!
#1577 If you "abide in your church" instead of "Abiding in Christ", you are in big trouble!
#1580Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
#1581There are MANY churches today where John, or Matthew, or Luke, or Paul would not be able to even take communion! Imagine that!

It is interesting that since the salvation of Yahveh is the central theme in the Word of God that the Book of Isaiah falls squarely in the middle. There are also 66 books in the Word of God and there are 66 chapters in Isaiah. Likewise it is by no coincidence that the prophet Isaiah is quoted 85 times in the New Testament, which is more times than any other prophet! That means that we are going to get quite a bit of New Testament teaching as we go through this book chapter by chapter and verse by verse. A few other interesting facts about Isaiah are (1.) that out of those 85 quotations there are 61 separate verses quoted, (2) it would be from chapter 61 that Jesus would stand up in the temple and read from the scroll of Isaiah, and (3) Isaiah prophesied 61 years from 641-588 BC as contemporaries of Hosea, whose name means "salvation", Micah, whose name means "who is like Yahveh", and Nahum, whose name means "comfort" as in comforter.

We should also make note in our introductory that the higher critics, who are those vain intellectual types who make their living writing books and teaching at institutions of higher learning in an effort to discredit the Word of God and sow seeds of doubt among our people concerning the truth of our Father's Word, claim that all of Isaiah was not actually written by him. They claim there must be a dual authorship because chapters 40 through 66, often called the latter part or the second book of Isaiah which introduces Messiah, appear to them as having been written at a later date. Nice try fellas... but no cigar! Dr. Bullinger points out in his introductory comments to Isaiah on page 930 of the Companion Bible, that "according to tradition, Isaiah perished in the Manassean persecution: when, it is said, he took refuge inside a hollow mulberry tree, which Manasseh ordered to be sawn through." Many scholars feel that Heb. 11:37 is in reference to this. The point is that it would seem that the higher critics would saw Isaiah asunder again by claiming that he only wrote half the book, the former part, i.e. chapters 1-39. But again, not only do none of their claims stand the test of honest scholarship but there are actually 21 times in the New Testament that Isaiah is named as the author of this prophecy*. Then too as we noted earlier, Jesus Christ stood up in the temple as it is written in Luke 4:17 and opened the book of the prophet Esaias (Greek for Isaiah) that was handed to Him and read from chapter 61. And so we will let the New Testament credentials stand in answer to the higher critics claim and move to the conclusion of our introductory by going to the account in Luke chapter 4 and read the passage from which Messiah read, for in it we learn that the great Book of Isaiah, the salvation of Yahveh, contains the proclamations of both the first and the second advents.