Proxy Salvation

In this chapter, we’ll wrap up this section on Reaching the Stature of the Messiah and review Proxy Salvation.  Integral to the Higher Law of the Father is the concept of Proxy Salvation. Succinctly stated, Proxy Salvation is when “perfected men who through their righteousness obtain God’s favor thereby securing God’s blessings and  protection  for  others”.  This  may  mean  that these
perfected men may also suffer in order to obtain favor from God. Moreover, we’ll see how these saviors function during the Endtimes to save others.​

The Process of Perfection
Our Process of Perfection looks like this:

Individual Salvation
Born of the Blood
Redemption
Born Again
Sanctified
Born of the Water > Born of the Spirit > Born of God >

Married Exaltation
Going Onto Perfection
Exaltation
Becoming Perfect > Reaches the Stature of Messiah > Sees God the Son

Proxy Salvation Introduction
The concept of Proxy Salvation is central to God’s plan to save men and women from suffering or dying as a result of sin.  Essentially, a proxy is defined as “the authority to represent someone else” and in a biblical context salvation refers to the concept of being “saved or spared from death or suffering because our actions merit death or suffering”.  Hence, proxy salvation is the action to suffer or die for someone else's sins and thus sparing them from suffering or dying as a consequence of their sins.  In the bible, we see that the concept of perfection or being without blemish qualify as a suitable proxy for the sins of others that merit death or suffering.


Physical Salvation in Eternity
We have previously made the point that Yeshua saved humanity from eternal physical death through His atonement, death and resurrection that came because of the transgression of Adam and Eve.

"For as in Adam all die, even so in Messiah all shall be made alive"
1 Corinthians 15:22

Physical Salvation in Mortality
We have also made the point that God uses righteous men as saviors in mortality. Moreover, we see that two situations exist in mortality that God employs righteous men as saviors/deliverers.
 
1.  When non-cataclysmic events occur that threatens God’s people.
2.  When God Himself executes judgement with cataclysmic destruction.
 
 
Saviors and Non-cataclysmic Events
The Old Testament is replete with examples of righteous men who functioned as saviors to God’s people.
 
Joseph saves his father and brethren from starvation during a severe famine.
Moses delivers Israel from Egyptian bondage.
King David’s defeat of the Philistines who threaten to destroy Israel.
Israel’s tribal judges – Othniel, Gideon, Jephthah, and Samson.
 
 
Proxy-Saviors and Cataclysmic Destruction
Our second situation that occurs is when highly righteous men function as proxy-saviors during cataclysmic destruction.
 
Noah and the Flood
Abraham and Sodom/Gomorrah
King Hezekiah and the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem falls under this category
 

Four critical aspects are present with these three men that qualify them.
1.  They have reached a level of personal perfection.
2.  They have the Melchizedek Priesthood or demonstrate aspects of it.
3.  Proxy Salvation
4.  Righteous suffering for God’s protection.
 

Proxy-Saviors and Personal Perfection
All three of these men in the scriptures mention as being perfect.
 
Noah – Genesis 6:9
Abraham – Genesis 17:1
Hezekiah – 2 Kings 20:3 and Isaiah 38:3
 
 
Proxy-Saviors and the Melchizedek Priesthood
All three of these men had the Melchizedek Priesthood or demonstrated aspects of it.
 
Noah offered sacrifice and passed his priesthood onto his son Shem who is also known as Melchizedek.
Abraham offered sacrifice and received his priesthood from Melchizedek.
Hezekiah ordered a reconsecration of the temple and directed the sacrifice.
 

Proxy-Saviors
All these men through their righteousness had obtained favor from God and saved others from death.
 
Noah saved his family from the Flood.
Abraham saved Lot from the destruction of Sodom.
Hezekiah saved Israel from the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem.
 

Righteous Suffering
The prophet Isaiah sets out Hezekiah as an example of proxy protection from his suffering.
 
Dr. Gileadi,
"At Assyria’s siege of Jerusalem, Hezekiah and Isaiah appeal to Jehovah to deliver the people who have taken refuge there (2 Kings 19:1–4, 15–19; 2 Chronicles 32:20). Isaiah’s version of these events in Part II of his Seven-Part Structure (Isaiah 6–8; 36–40) focuses on Hezekiah’s loyal response to Jehovah under the terms of the Davidic Covenant, causing Jehovah to deliver him and his people from the Assyrians (Isaiah 37:30–36). By linking Hezekiah’s suffering of a mortal illness to Jehovah’s promise of his people’s deliverance (Isaiah 38:2–6), Isaiah emphasizes Hezekiah’s spiritual role as a proxy savior of his people rather than his political role."  ​

​Endtime Cataclysmic Destruction
Isaiah sees that the Endtime judgements are associated with cataclysmic destruction.
 
Dr. Gileadi,
“Isaiah’s method of predicting end-time events based on ancient events includes the idea of cosmic cataclysm. Just as God anciently destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by a hail of fire and brimstone (Genesis 19:24), so he destroys end-time Babylon—an idolatrous, materialistic world (Isaiah 13:1, 9, 11, 19): “The stars and constellations of the heavens will not shine. When the sun rises, it shall be obscured; nor will the moon give its light. . . . I will cause disturbance in the heavens when the earth is jolted out of place by the anger of Jehovah of Hosts in the day of his blazing wrath” (Isaiah 13:10, 13). Not many escape destruction (Isaiah 13:12).”
 
 
The Need for Endtime Proxy Deliverers
What we see in this chapter is that unless a person has reached the righteousness of God’s Son/Servants or Seraphim/Angels, they will need a proxy-savior/deliverer to survive God’s Endtime judgements.
 
Dr. Gileadi,
"In the pattern of King Hezekiah, end-time persons who ascend to the son/servant level similarly function as proxy saviors of those to whom they minister under the terms of the Davidic Covenant."
​“In Isaiah’s Endtime scenario, God’s sons/servants assume this “deliverer” role in seeking God’s protection of those in mortal danger. They do this whenever they minister, at home or abroad. While they follow the example of God’s [Endtime] servant, the servant follows the example of God himself. Isaiah defines the deliverer’s role when describing God’s servant: “Because of his knowledge, and by bearing their iniquities, my servant, the righteous one, will justify many.” (Isaiah 53:11) - (Isaiah Decoded, Gileadi, pg. 186)​​