So Great a Salvation

By William Oldham

“…We must pay the most careful attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation?” Hebrews 2:1-3

          God’s great salvation is all about you, your past, your present and your future. It’s all about this present world and the world to come; it’s all about the coming judgment day; a day in which all of mankind will appear before the Lord to be judged. The Lord God Almighty has appointed His Son, to be the Proclaimer, Purchaser, Administrator, and Judge of His great salvation. 

          Jesus spent the last years of His life announcing, and teaching those who were willing to hear, about God’s great salvation. Jesus proclaimed what salvation is about, it is for you.

“My Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.” John 6:40 

          There was a purchase price necessary for your salvation; it was the priceless blood of the spotless Lamb of God. The purchase price was paid when Jesus gave His body and His blood on the cross. In His death and burial, Jesus took our place against the judgment of God. When God raised up His Son Jesus from the dead, He set His seal of approval on all Jesus said and did.

          Forty days after His resurrection, Jesus ascended into Heaven and was seated as Lord over all in Heaven and on earth. He is the Administrator of God’s great salvation. Jesus is presently working, caring for, shepherding, and interceding for all who look to Him and believe in Him. And, “…He is able to save completely those who come to God through Him, because He ever lives to intercede for them.” Hebrews 7:25

          What God’s great salvation means to you: when you look to Jesus and believe in Him, you are born again; this comes from God. Born again means you become a new creature in Christ. It means that in God’s eyes you have no past; you are now reconciled to God and adopted as His child. God’s great salvation means you possess a present righteousness, and a glorious future.

          There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ. They are sealed by the Holy Spirit until the Day Jesus comes for them. God supplies all their need and makes all things work together for their good, forming them into the image of His Son. The workings of God’s great salvation for man will find completion on the Day Jesus returns for them. On that Day, all in Christ, both dead and alive will be given an incorruptible, immortal, glorious body. Following that comes the fate of the present heavens and earth, and all who have refused Christ Jesus.

“The Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.” 2 Peter 3:10 Following this, comes the great white throned judgment when, the dead, great and small, shall stand before Christ and be judged according to what they have done as recorded in the books. Revelation 20:11-15 

Those in Christ will not be there! “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.” John 5:24 And then….

“…In keeping with His promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.” 2 Peter 3:13

          We must pay most careful attention to what we have heard. The present state of the professing church is ample evidence of what happens when it drifts away from God’s word. Be vigilant, because God has given us so great a salvation!

Brother Bill is a Bible teacher and can be contacted at bboldham@sbcglobal.net

Candace Owens says no ‘honest person’ thought Kanye’s tweet was antisemitic

Well, I am an honest Jew and have lived many decades with Jew Hatred thrown in my face. Trust me on this, Candace – this was pure unadulterated ANTISEMITISM.

So now I am addressing what I believe to be the cause of :

  • Kanye’s ignorant and blatant Jew hating remarks
  • Candace Owens defending the rap singer’s vitriolic remarks about my people.

Starting with Kanye West, does the reader remember a few years ago when Kanye told the world that he was born-again and started preaching on Sundays? He bamboozled a lot of people but I was not one of them.

Kanye has admitted that he has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. People with this mental illness have extreme mood swings and are very unstable.

When Kanye began his rant on Twitter, it was apparent to me that he was involved with a very dangerous cult called the Black Hebrew Israelites. We all have seen these people in the news. They believe that the Jews in Israel are not real Jews, and that the Jews in the U.S. are also not real Jews.

The Black Hebrew Israelites believe that the Black Race are the true Jews. If you disagree with them in person, they will verbally, and at times physically confront you. They truly are a cult and they truly can be very violent.

Now, I will say why I believe that Candace Owens defended Kanye and even said that his words were not antisemitic. I believe that there are two primary reasons why Candace is behaving this way.

Have you seen the number of followers Kanye has on Twitter? That would be 31.8 Million as compared to Candace’s 3.2 million. Perhaps she saw this as a opportunity to grow her Twitter audience? But I think that her motivation to defend Kanye may be rooted in fear – NOT fear of Kanye West, but fear of the Black Hebrew Israelite cult. I am surmising both of these possible reasons.

I must say that I am disappointed in Candace. I have followed her for years and have had the utmost respect for her. I can relate to her because my Jewish family has a difficult time accepting that I am a Conservative – just as Candace’s family must feel about her as a black woman.

From forward.com

On her show, Owens seemed to suggest that anything short of calls for genocide may not qualify as antisemitism

While Owens’ new metric for what qualifies as antisemitism was the most noteworthy aspect of her deeply confused defense of West, it wasn’t the only one to raise eyebrows. Owens also said that those reading the tweet in bad faith fundamentally misunderstood West’s position, noting that “death con 3” was likely a misspelling of “defcon 3,” which is actually a “military defense position.”

Effectively: In her mind, West was perhaps poised to come to the rescue of Jews — not making antisemitic threats. (Odd that she thinks West would know the meaning of the term “defcon 3,” but not its correct spelling.)

Owens tried to persuade listeners that she was not going “defcon” (read: defensive) on West’s tweet, but instead asking an “open question” about his motives. Yet she only offered this caveat after saying that if “you’re a liar” you’ll say “I actually thought that Kanye West was going to launch a military strike in Israel.” I guess any attack on Jews is inevitably an attack on Israel.

Of course Owens had more to add about the Kanye kerfuffle, breaking the news Wednesday that JP Morgan Chase ended its banking relationship with West’s company for unspecified reasons.

Calling out a bank after an antisemitism debacle seems bad for the Jewish people. But I’ll defer to Owens on that one — she’s clearly the honest expert.

Conservative commentator Candace Owens, inspired by Kanye West’s recent social media activity, appears to have a new working definition of antisemitism: So long as it’s not about wanting to kill Jews or start another Holocaust, it’s probably totally fine!

On her Monday show on the Daily Wire, the conservative media platform run by right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro, Owens declared that Kanye’s weekend post on Twitter, in which he announced his intention to go “death con 3” on “JEWISH PEOPLE,” which resulted in Twitter locking his account, did not have the hallmarks of the oldest hatred. An “honest person” reading the message, she said, wouldn’t think West “wrote this tweet because he hates or wants to genocide Jewish people. This does not represent the beginning of the Holocaust.”

So, Owens, who previously said that Hitler would have been “fine” if he’d kept his ambitions confined to Germany, is now the arbiter of what is and isn’t antisemitic? Cool, great: Apparently anything short of calls for genocide is kosher.

In a rare show of disunity, Shapiro, while not responding to Owens’ segment, publicly disagreed with her, returning from a Sukkot-timed Twitter break Wednesday to write that West’s posts were “clearly antisemitic and disturbing.”

While Owens’ new metric for what qualifies as antisemitism was the most noteworthy aspect of her deeply confused defense of West, it wasn’t the only one to raise eyebrows. Owens also said that those reading the tweet in bad faith fundamentally misunderstood West’s position, noting that “death con 3” was likely a misspelling of “defcon 3,” which is actually a “military defense position.”

Effectively: In her mind, West was perhaps poised to come to the rescue of Jews — not making antisemitic threats. (Odd that she thinks West would know the meaning of the term “defcon 3,” but not its correct spelling.)

Owens tried to persuade listeners that she was not going “defcon” (read: defensive) on West’s tweet, but instead asking an “open question” about his motives. Yet she only offered this caveat after saying that if “you’re a liar” you’ll say “I actually thought that Kanye West was going to launch a military strike in Israel.” I guess any attack on Jews is inevitably an attack on Israel.

Of course Owens had more to add about the Kanye kerfuffle, breaking the news Wednesday that JP Morgan Chase ended its banking relationship with West’s company for unspecified reasons.

Calling out a bank after an antisemitism debacle seems bad for the Jewish people. But I’ll defer to Owens on that one — she’s clearly the honest expert. Source

Perhaps I’m reading too much into this. Perhaps Candace dislikes Jews too.

HOW CAN I BE SAVED?

MARANATHA!