1. Israel brought back a second time (Isaiah 11:11)

“It shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time
To recover the remnant of His people who are left,
From Assyria and Egypt,
From Pathros and Cush,
From Elam and Shinar,
From Hamath and the islands of the sea” (Isaiah 11:11).

Isaiah foretold a second regathering of Israel distinct from the return from Babylon.

• The first scattering occurred from 605 to 586BC by the Babylonians.
• The first regathering happened after the Babylonian captivity, beginning in 538-37BC.
• The second scattering occurred in 70AD by the Roman Empire.
• The second regathering is global in scope, from “the four corners of the earth,” which aligns with the modern rebirth of Israel in 1948 and ongoing Aliyah.
• This regathering occurs in unbelief, setting the stage for future national repentance (Ezekiel 37:11, Zechariah 12:10).

2. Third Temple coming (Matthew 24:1-3, 15)

“Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. ² And Jesus said to them, ‘Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.’ ³ Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”

…¹⁵ “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand)”

Matthew 24:1-3, 15 (my emphasis)

• The temple and the city’s destruction foretold by Jesus in one other place: (Luke 19:44) (Palm Sunday). It was falsely attributed to Him— John 2:19 (see Matt 26:61).
• Jesus acknowledged the destruction of the Second Temple while simultaneously pointing to a future desecration of it.
• Matthew 24:15 presupposes a standing sanctuary where the abomination of desolation occurs.
• Paul reinforces this in 2 Thessalonians 2:4, describing a man of sin entering the temple of God.
• Temple preparations today indicate readiness without requiring prophetic speculation.

3. Jerusalem trampled by Gentiles until the fullness (Luke 21:24)

^“And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled” (Luke 21:24).

• Jesus declared Jerusalem would remain under Gentile domination until the defined prophetic limit is reached.
• Many empires over the past two thousand years have sought to rename Jerusalem and erase it from history. All have failed.
  • Aelia Capitolina: The Roman emperor Hadrian renamed Jerusalem after the Bar Kokhba Revolt in 135 A.D., and it was called that until 324 A.D., when Emperor Constantine I changed its name back to Jerusalem.
  • Al-Quds (Arabic): Meaning “The Holy One,” widely used by Muslims instead of Jerusalem.
  • Bayt al-Maqdis (Arabic): “The Holy House,” referring to the Jewish Temple.
• Major Far and Near East cities of antiquity whose names did not survive time.
  • Alexandropolis → Kandahar
  • Byzantium → Constantinople → Istanbul
  • Ninevah → Mosul (Iraq)
  • Babylon → Hillah (Iraq)
• Although Israel regained control of Jerusalem in 1967 in the Six-Day War, the Temple Mount remains under the Gentile authority of the Jordanian Waqf.
• This partial control aligns with Romans 11:25, where the fullness of the Gentiles precedes Israel’s restoration.
• Jerusalem will remain the most contested city on earth until the Second Coming.

4. Global antisemitism rising (Zechariah 12)

“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it” (Zech 12:1-3).

“For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem;
The city shall be taken,
The houses rifled,
And the women ravished.
Half of the city shall go into captivity,
But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city” (Zech 14:2).

Zechariah foretold Jerusalem becoming a burdensome stone to all nations.

• Modern antisemitism has been rampant from the first century until the present, at times waxing and waning. However, since the early 20th century, it has intensified globally across political, academic, religious, and cultural spheres, culminating in the first half with the Third Reich, the Holocaust, and World War 2.
• Anti-Zionism was politically acceptable in the post-World War II era…until October 7, 2023. Now, Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism have become mainstream, both on the political left and the right.
• Hostility toward Israel increasingly transcends ideological and religious boundaries.
• The trend mirrors the prophetic convergence of global opposition against Jerusalem, Israel, and the Jewish people.

5. Old Testament and New Testament “birth pang” increase in frequency and intensity

“All these are the beginning of sorrows” (Matthew 24:8).

• Jesus described end-time events as labor pains that increase both in frequency and severity (Matthew 24:8).
• The Apostle Paul uses similar language (1 Thess. 5:3).
• Deception, wars, rumors of wars, famines, earthquakes, pestilence, and societal unrest now occur with accelerating cadence.
• These events do not signal immediacy but convergence.
• The acceleration of technology, communication, and population increase has contributed to this intensification.
• The prophetic reality is that these signs are escalating just as Jesus said they would, not de-escalating.

6. Gog–Magog coalition hostile toward Israel (Ezekiel 38)

“Thus says the Lord God: ‘On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan: You will say, “I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates”  to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land” (Ezekiel 38:10-12).

• Ezekiel describes a multi-nation alliance united by hostility toward Israel (seems on par with the global antisemitism and Zionism).
• The nations listed have no recorded history of alliance before modern times (as the Russians, or Scythians, Ottomans, and Persians were all competing empires for most of their long histories).
• Their shared motivation is material gain, territorial ambition, and the final destruction of Israel.
• Israel’s dwelling “securely” suggests military confidence rather than spiritual readiness.

7. Advanced Technology implied in Revelation 11 and 13

“When they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their dead bodies three-and-a-half days, and not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves. And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, make merry, and send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth” (Revelation 11:7-10).

“He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666” (Revelation 13:15-18).

• Revelation 11 assumes global visibility of events occurring in Jerusalem.
• Revelation 13 describes a system capable of enforcing worship, economic participation, and surveillance worldwide.
• Modern communications, AI, digital currencies, biometric identity, and global networks remove previous logistical barriers.
• The text no longer requires symbolic interpretation to remain feasible.

8. Increase in frequency and intensity of disorder and deception

Matthew 24:4–5

“And Jesus answered and said to them: ‘Take heed that no one deceives you.
For many will come in My name, saying, “I am the Christ,” and will deceive many” (my emphasis).

1 Timothy 4:1

“Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons” (my emphasis).

2 Thessalonians 2:9–11

“The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie” (my emphasis).

• The last generation has rested uncomfortably in the “age of information.”
• Global communications, national programmed media, social media, and the “viral” nature of the flow of information
• Moral inversion and systemic instability are no longer episodic, but the new normal.
• Crises compound rather than resolve.
• Truth becomes fragmented, emotionalized, or algorithmically shaped.
• Deception becomes ambient rather than exceptional.

9. Perilous times and abandonment of truth (2 Timothy 3, Romans 1)

“But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!” (2nd Tim 3:1-5).

“For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them” (Romans 1:26-32) (my emphasis).

• Paul described a culture marked by narcissism, disobedience, ingratitude, perversity, and hostility toward God because of His divine restraint.
• Romans 1 outlines a judicial abandonment where truth is suppressed, not merely rejected, and God gives them over to a debased mind fit only for destruction.
• The result is confusion presented as enlightenment and rebellion framed as virtue.
• This condition is societal, not merely individual.

10. The Rise of the Christian Scoffers (2 Peter 3)

“Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder), that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior, knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, ‘Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.’

For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up” (2 Peter 3:1-10) (my emphasis).

The Days of Noah and Lot (Normalcy Bias on Steroids)

From the days of the Prophet Malachi, who foretold, “Behold, I send My messenger,
And he will prepare the way before Me” (Mal 3:1), until John the Baptist, Israel underwent the 400 years of prophetic silence we know simply as the Intertestamental Period. By the time Jesus came, people quit watching for His arrival, even going so far as to shrug off His birth announcement by the Wisemen from the East who came following a star, to worship the “One born King of the Jews” (Matt 2:1-2). Jesus indicated that, aside from His intended purpose of coming, 1) to be rejected by Israel, 2) to die for the sins of many, and 3) to rise again, that His departure would be marked by a long absence.

1. Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14–30) “After a long time the lord of those servants came and settled accounts with them.”
2. Parable of the Minas (Luke 19:11–27) “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.”
3. Faithful and Evil Servant (Matthew 24:45–51) “But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming…’”
4. The Ten Virgins (Matthew 25:1–13) “But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.”
5. Parable of the Watchful Servants (Luke 12:35–40) “Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching.”
6. Parable of the Wicked Vinedressers (Luke 20:9–19) “He leased his vineyard to vinedressers and went into a far country.”

Now, while there are a lot of possibilities that could be implied with a charged phrase like “the days of Noah,” given what we know about those times, I believe what is explicit here is not that Nephilim will one day roam the earth again (although that could happen), but that men will forget that God is still in charge. They will live their lives as if tomorrow will look exactly like today, because of yesterday. It’s the tyranny of normalcy bias that will guide mankind after nearly 2,000 years since Christ last walked the earth. What I mean is, if they had normalcy bias and scoffing after only 400 years, we are nearly at the point of quintupling that feat.

“Then He said to the disciples, ‘The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. And they will say to you, “Look here!” or “Look there!” Do not go after them or follow them. For as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day. But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed” (Luke 17:22-30).

• Scoffers deny judgment by appealing to perceived normalcy.
• Jesus likened the end to ordinary life proceeding uninterrupted until sudden judgment comes upon the earth.
• Normalcy bias reaches its peak precisely when warning signs are the most abundant.
• Nearly two millennia of delay fuel false confidence (1 Thess 5:3).

11. Laodicean Church Age

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked” (Revelation 3:15-17).

• Definition:
  “Rule of the people” or “judgment by the people.”

Word breakdown:

• • Laos (λαός) – the people, the masses
  • Dikē (δίκη) – justice, judgment, legal decision, rule

Literal sense:

• • People’s rule
  • Popular justice
  • The people decide

Historical note (concise):
The city was named after Laodice, wife of Seleucid king Antiochus II (3rd century BC), but the etymological meaning of the name remained intact and was well understood in the Greek-speaking world.

• Between ~33,000 and ~45,000 distinct Christian groups worldwide

That figure comes primarily from:

• • World Christian Encyclopedia
  • Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC)
• The final church described in Revelation is materially rich but spiritually impoverished.
• Christ stands outside the institutional church, knocking.

Bonus: Irreparable damage to the planet and environment

“The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come,
And the time of the dead, that they should be judged,
And that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints,
And those who fear Your name, small and great,
And should destroy those who destroy the earth” (Revelation 11:18).

The truth is, I’m not some green thumb environmentalist. This is not what this point is about. It’s about the passage above, and that we are the only generation that could actually fulfill it.

• Cosmic debris:
  • Orbital debris threatens global satellite infrastructure through cascading failure (Kessler Syndrome).
  • Kessler Syndrome is a cascading scenario where:
    1. Two objects collide in orbit
    2. The collision creates thousands of fragments
    3. Those fragments trigger more collisions
    4. Certain orbital bands become effectively impassable

Once a critical density is reached, the cascade becomes self-sustaining, even without new launches. This is not science fiction. It’s basic orbital mechanics.

• • The total tracked objects in Earth orbit has grown from a few tens of thousands to roughly ~35,000–40,000 today. European Space Agency+1

• • • This includes active satellites, defunct satellites, rocket bodies, and tracked debris pieces.
    • Starlink has 5 5-year life span, with nearly 10K in space already.

• Chemical Pollution: Ozone depletion, microplastics, and chemical saturation represent long-term degradation of the usable earth.
  • Oceans (surface, water column, seafloor)
    Estimates suggest hundreds of trillions of particles afloat in the world’s oceans, possibly ~82 trillion to 358 trillion particles, weighing millions of tonnes in total. PLOS+1
  • Deep ocean sediments
    Research indicates there could be millions of tonnes of microplastics buried in deep-sea sediments. ScienceDirect
  • Freshwater and rivers worldwide
    All major rivers tested show microplastics (often multiple particles per cubic meter). Le Monde.fr
  • Air and atmosphere
    Microplastics have been detected in the air we breathe, including in remote and urban areas. Max Planck Society+1
  • Snow and remote environments
    Microplastics are found even in Antarctic snow, showing global reach. ScienceDirect
  • Tap water and drinking sources
    Studies have found microplastics in up to 83 % of tap water samples globally. ScienceDirect
• Nuclear contamination:
  • Events such as Chernobyl in 1986 and the 2011 Japanese earthquake/tsunami, which caused the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear reactor, demonstrate generational consequences beyond human remediation.
  • Total nuclear (atomic & thermonuclear) detonations on Earth: 2,056 nuclear detonations (as of the end of full-scale nuclear testing)

• • • This total includes:
      • Atomic (fission) bombs
      • Hydrogen (thermonuclear) bombs
      • Atmospheric tests
      • Underground tests
      • Underwater tests

Biblical Support

• Creation itself groans under accumulated misuse, aligning with Romans 8:22.
• “The earth also was corrupt before God… all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth” Genesis 6:11–12).
• “The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants… therefore the curse has devoured the earth” (Isaiah 24:4–6).
• “And should destroy those who destroy the earth” (Revelation 11:18).
• “The whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now” (Romans 8:20–22).
• “Blood defiles the land… do not defile the land which you inhabit” (Numbers 35:33–34).
• “You defiled My land and made My heritage an abomination” (Jeremiah 2:7).
• “Therefore the land will mourn… even the fish of the sea will be taken away” (Hosea 4:1–3).
• “A third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up” (Revelation 8:7).
• “Every living creature in the sea died” (Revelation 16:3).
• * 71% of the Earth is water.

We are the only generation that could actually “destroy” the earth.

 

This is an article I wrote over two years ago; I have since revised and added a few things. I have brought it out of mothballs, as I think it is a good one for this time of the year, for Jesus is the reason for the Christmas season. In John 12:47, Jesus said, “For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.” Truer words could not have been spoken, as Jesus’ name literally means ‘salvation,‘ as we will see in this updated article.

The word or name ‘Jesus’ in the New Testament comes from the Greek word ‘Iēsous’ (Strong’s G2424). It is pronounced ‘ee-ay-SOOS.’ Iesous is not a translation of Jesus’ name in Hebrew, but rather it is a transliteration. A transliteration takes the meaning of a word in one language and assigns it to the equivalent word with the same meaning in another language.

In the late 4th century, Jerome translated the Bible into Latin, a manuscript known as the Vulgate. In it, the Greek Iesous became the Latin Iesus. The English Bible eventually changed the Latin Y sound to the letter J, as in Jesus. ‘Jesus’ is mentioned some 983 times in the New Testament (KJV).

The name Jesus is derived from the ancient Greek form of the Hebrew and Aramaic name Yehoshua or Yeshua, which is etymologically related to Joshua (Strong’s H3091). The name Joshua or Jehoshua means “Jehovah (LORD or Yahweh) is Salvation.” Joshua is mentioned 216 times in the Old Testament (KJV), mainly in the Book of Joshua. Nearly all of them are about Joshua, the son of Nun of the tribe of Ephraim, and successor to Moses as the leader of the children of Israel. Joshua led the children of Israel into the Promised Land of Canaan.

Both the Hebrew word Yeshua and the Greek word Iesous (Jesus) mean ‘salvation.’ Before Jesus was born, the angel of the Lord told Joseph in a dream, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins” (Matthew 1:20-21).

After Jesus was born, Mary and Joseph went to the Temple to present Him to the Lord, as required by the Law of Moses. They met Simeon (a man who was just and devout), who was waiting to see the Messiah, as the Holy Spirit had revealed to him that he would not see death until he had seen the Lord’s Christ. Upon meeting baby Jesus, Simeon, who was filled with the Holy Spirit, proclaimed: “For my eyes have seen Your salvation, which You have prepared in the presence of all peoples, A light of revelation to the Gentiles and the glory of Your people Israel” (Luke 2:30-32).

In effect, Simeon said, “For my eyes have seen Yeshua,” while he was actually holding baby Yeshua in his arms! No wonder the next verse says, “His father and mother were amazed at the things which were being said about Him” (Luke 2:33). God fulfilled his promise to Simeon as he saw and touched Jesus (Savior), the Christ (the Anointed one), before his death.

Anna, a prophetess of the tribe of Asher, was there in the temple as well. “And coming in that instant she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of Him to all those who looked for redemption in Jerusalem” (Luke 2:38). So, here we have two godly witnesses testifying to the legitimacy of Jesus as the Jews’ long-awaited Messiah. Both witnesses were under the influence of the Holy Spirit.

Luke 1 tells the story of the birth of John the Baptist. John’s father, Zacharias, was a priest in the temple of the Lord at this time. Upon John’s birth, Zacharias, filled with the Hojy Spirit, prophesied the following about his newborn son: “And you, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for you shall go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins, Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the day-spring from on high has visited us, To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace” (Luke 1:76-79).

Here again, the word ‘salvation’ in verse 77 could be changed to ‘Yeshua ‘ or ‘Jesus.’ It would then read: “To give knowledge of Jesus unto his people by the remission of their sins.”

This prophecy came true approximately 30 years later, as recorded in Luke 3, when John began to preach unto all the country about Jordan. “As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; And all flesh shall see the salvation of God” (Luke 3:4-6).

 Of course, the salvation of God is Jesus Christ. John was quoting Isaiah 40:3-5. Isaiah was prophesying about John the Baptist, who would become “the voice of one crying in the wilderness, preparing the way of the Lord.”

In Luke 19:9, Jesus goes to the house of Zacchaeus, a rich publican, and tells him, “This day is salvation come to this house, for so much as he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” Once again, you could substitute ‘salvation’ with ‘Jesus.’ The verse would then read, “This day is Jesus come to this house, for so much as he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Regarding Jesus and salvation in the New Testament, I believe Peter might have said it best when he was asked by the rulers and religious elites in Jerusalem by what power or name the disciples of Jesus had cured a man. Peter said, “Let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’ Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:10-12).

Many non-Christian scholars like to point out that the name ‘Jesus’ is never mentioned in the Old Testament. Of course, this is technically correct, as Jesus is not a Hebrew word. However, we do have the Hebrew word, ‘Yeshuah’ or ‘Yeshua’ (Strong’s H3444). The KJV translates Strong’s H3444 in the following manner: salvation (65x), help (4x), deliverance (3x), health (3x), save (1x), saving (1x), for a total of 77 times in the Old Testament. Psalms has 45 mentions of this word, the most in the Old Testament, followed by Isaiah with 19.

Let’s look at twelve (the number for Israel) of these Old Testament verses that have the Hebrew word יְשׁוּעָה, or its transliteration, ‘Yeshuah,‘ in them. As I mentioned above, the most common English translation for this word is ‘salvation.‘ We will substitute the word ‘Jesus’ for ‘salvation’ to get a clear picture of Jesus as Savior in the Old Testament. Most of these verses also include the word/s ‘LORD‘ (Yahweh) or God (Elohim).

>“And Moses said unto the people, Fear not, stand still, and see the Jesus of the LORD, which he will show to you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall see them again no more forever” (Exodus 14:13).

>“The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my Jesus: he is my God, and I will prepare him a habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him. The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name” (Exodus 15:2-3). This is a description of the Angel of the LORD, the pre-incarnate Jesus, saving the children of Israel from Pharaoh’s army. Moses called him a Man of War. See A Man of War: The Lord is His Name :: By Randy Nettles – Rapture Ready.

>“Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; show forth from day to day Jesus”(1 Chronicles 16:23).

>“Oh that Jesus of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad” (Psalm 14:7).

>“His glory is great in your Jesus: honor and majesty have you laid upon him” (Psalm 21:5).

>“And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in Jesus”(Psalm 35:9).

>“Truly my soul waits upon God: from him comes my Jesus”(Psalm 62:1).

>“Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his Jesus” (Psalm 78:22).

>“The LORD has made known his Jesus: his righteousness has he openly shown in the sight of the heathen” (Psalm 98:2).

>“I will take the cup of Jesus, and call upon the name of the LORD” (Psalm 116:13).

>“And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in Jesus” (Isaiah 25:9).

>“You shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior. And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. Violence shall no longer be heard in your land, neither wasting nor destruction within your borders; But you shall call your walls Jesus, and your gates Praise” (Isaiah 60:16,18).

“In the Millennial Kingdom, the Holy City will be the source of pride and joy for all generations of Earth’s people. Wealth and favor will be accompanied by peace and righteousness, with violence, ruin, and destruction consigned forever to the past. Once again, the Hebrew word translated as ‘Salvation‘ is ‘Yeshua,‘ but in this case, the word for ‘praise’ actually means a hymn or song of praise. It’s absolutely fascinating to me that the walls and gates of the Holy City are modeled in the contemporary evangelical church. The emphasis is on Jesus, expressed in song after song of praise and worship.” ^{1}

Yes, Jesus is in the Old Testament as well as the New Testament. He just goes by another name, Yeshua (Salvation). Salvation is not just what He does; it is who He is. “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him” (John 3:16-17). “For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive” (1 Corinthians 15:21-22).

Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach (the Anointed/Messiah), came not to judge the world but to save the world, according to Jesus’ own words as recorded in John 12:47. He came so that all human beings could be saved from sin and eternal death. Two things are required to be saved. One is God-given, a free gift from the Father. It is called grace and is available to everyone. The second requirement is faith. It is a choice or decision that every individual must make for themselves. “For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8).

What does it take to be saved by faith? “If you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shalt be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture says, Whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Romans 10:9-13). You cannot punt on this one. Not making a decision is the same as not believing. The result will be eternal death and separation from God.

“Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:5-11).

Randy Nettles

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Endnotes:

{1} The End Times According To Isaiah, Part 12 – Grace thru faith (Jack Kelley)