--- type: BookChapter work_id: '1006' book_url: https://nasa.misia.sk/books/1007 book_markdown_url: https://nasa.misia.sk/books/1007.md language: en position: 23 canonical_url: https://nasa.misia.sk/book_chapters/1850 markdown_url: https://nasa.misia.sk/book_chapters/1850.md markdown_source: converted updated_at: '2018-10-11T13:20:06Z' translations: en: https://nasa.misia.sk/book_chapters/1850.md lg: https://nasa.misia.sk/book_chapters/5040.md --- # The Bible – the Most Read Book on Earth ## The Realization of God’s Plan of Salvation in the New Testament For the realization of His eternal Plan of Salvation with humanity, God has revealed Himself from the beginning of the New Testament as Father in the Son and through the Holy Spirit in Jesus Christ (Hebrew: “Yahshua HaMashiach”), the Anointed One of God. The New Testament Covenant Name “*Yahshua*” is derived from the Old Testament Name “*Y**AHWEH**”* and is embedded therein. The Hebrew word “*yasha*” means “to save” (Ex 14:30). We need only compare Joel 2:32: ***“… whosoever shall call on*** ***the name of the L******ORD******(Y******AHWEH******) shall be delivered …”***with Acts 2:21: ***“… whosoever shall call on the name of the L******ORD******(Yahshua) shall be saved.” “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the L******ORD******shall be saved.”***(Rom 10:13). *Y**AHWEH* of the Old Testament is *Yahshua* of the New Testament. In the Hebrew text it states: *“… thou shalt call his name* *Y**AHSHUA**: for he shall save (yasha) his people from their sins.”*(Mt 1:21). ***Y******AHSHUA*****means “Y****AHWEH****-Savior.”**Unfortunately, this New Testament Covenant Name, in which God revealed Himself unto us as Father in the Son, was also not always recognized in its significance in view of the Plan of Salvation. It requires the revelation through the Spirit of God to recognize this incomprehensible, unexplainable mystery in which we were included. At first this applies to everybody: *“The natural man receiveth not the things* *of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,****because they are spiritually discerned****.”*The apostle, however, could testify: ***“But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for*** ***the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.”***(1 Cor 2:10-15). Before the Redeemer could fulfill His mission and give us the Redemption, He had to be born into this world as Son in a body of flesh: ***“But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, made under the law …”***(Gal 4:4). ***“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise …, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.”***(Mt 1:18). ***“… for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.”***(Mt 1:20). ***“Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the L******ORD******by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.”***(Mt 1:22-25; Isa 7:14). ***“And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.”***(Lk 1:26-38). This was the testimony of Elisabeth, who was filled with the Holy Ghost: *“And whence is this to me, that the* ***mother of my L******ORD*** *should* *come to me?”*(Lk 1:43) – not “the mother of God.” We are informed clearly and precisely about the birth of the Son of God. This was how the angel proclaimed it to the shepherds on the field: ***“For*** ***unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the L******ORD******.”***(Lk 2:11). In the Word of God, we find our LORD and Redeemer described by the four meaningful “Son titles”: as *Son of Abraham*, *Son of David*, *Son of God*, and *Son of Man*. As **Son of Abraham** (Mt 1:1), He is “the heir of the world” (Rom 4:13) – and the Redeemed are ordained to be heirs of God and co-heirs of Jesus Christ (Rom 8:17). As **Son of David** (Mt 1:1b), He is “the King” (Lk 1:32; Jn 18:37) – and the Redeemed are ordained to share His Kingship with Him (Rev 5:10). As **Son of Man**, He is “the Prophet,” Whom Moses had already foretold (Deut 18:15-19), as Peter emphasized in Acts 3:22-24: *“… every soul, which* *will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.”* As **Son of God**, He is “the Redeemer,” through Whom the Redeemed received the adoption as sons and daughters of God: ***“… that we might ******receive the adoption of sons.”***(Gal 4:4-9). On this matter, the apostle wrote the following: *“Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)****Concerning*** ***his Son Jesus Christ****our L**ORD**, which was made of the seed of David ac-cording to the flesh; And declared to be the****Son of God****with power, accord-ing to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:****By whom*** ***we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name****…”* (Rom 1:1-5). According to the flesh, the Son of God, Jesus Christ, came from the lineage of David (Mt 1:1-17; Lk 3:23-38), and He has reconciled us ***“In the*** ***body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight …”***(Col 1:22).***“In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace …”***(Eph 1:7). Through His atoning death, He has given us the reconciliation with God: ***“To wit, that God was in Christ,*** ***reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespass-es unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.”***(2 Cor 5:14-21). HE died so***“… that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil …”***(Heb 2:14). Through His resurrection, we were given victory over death and immortality. ***“For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. … For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. … And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.”***(1 Cor 15:21, 25, 28). All of the redeemed will experience it at the Return of the LORD: ***“… For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, …”***then the redeemed shall call out: ***“O death, where is thy sting? O grave,*** ***where is thy victory? ... But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our L******ORD******Jesus Christ.”***(1 Cor 15:51-57). Amen. Never did the One God divide Himself into “three eternal persons.” Never does the Holy Scripture speak of a “triune” God, of a “trinity,” or of a “duality”; it only states that the Father manifested Himself in the Son for our salvation. The New Testament also testifies exclusively about the **One and Only God**: *“… honour that cometh from****God only****…”* (Jn 5:44); *“… know thee the****only true God****…*” (Jn 17:3);*“Seeing it is****one God****…”*(Rom 3:30); *“…* ***but God is*** ***ONE******.****”* (Gal 3:20); *“Now unto the King eternal,* *immortal, invisible, the****only wise God****…”*(1 Tim 1:17);*“****For there is one ******God****…”* (1 Tim 2:5).***“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the L******ORD******, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”***(Rev 1:8). **The true, all-encompassing profession of faith of the apostles is only written in the Bible and has been established for the Church of the L****ORD****once and for all:** ***“O******NE******L******ORD******,******ONE******faith,******ONE******baptism, O******NE******God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.”***(Eph 4:5-6). ***“And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”***(1 Tim 3:16). When He became man according to the Plan of Redemption, the LORD is shown as Redeemer in His duties next to God. HE is **Mediator**: ***“For there*** ***is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus …”***(1 Tim 2:5);  as well as **Advocate**: *“My little children, these things write I unto you,* *that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have****an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous …****”* (1 Jn 2:1); and **High Priest**: *“But Christ being come* ***an high priest*** *of good* *things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place,****having*** ***obtained eternal redemption for us****.”* (Heb 9:11-12). ## Chapter navigation - [Previous chapter](https://nasa.misia.sk/book_chapters/1849.md) - [Book contents](https://nasa.misia.sk/books/1007.md) - [Next chapter](https://nasa.misia.sk/book_chapters/2540.md) ## Available translations - [English](https://nasa.misia.sk/book_chapters/1850.md) - [Luganda](https://nasa.misia.sk/book_chapters/5040.md) ## Source - [Canonical HTML page](https://nasa.misia.sk/book_chapters/1850) - [Markdown representation](https://nasa.misia.sk/book_chapters/1850.md)