CHAPTER 11
The Faithful Realize Messianic Promises in Yeshua
Ever since the beginning of time, the faithful have anticipated the arrival of a messiah who would redeem them from death, bring an age of peace, and a forever with Him. Those promises of redemption, peace, and eternity with God would be realized in the life and testimony of Yeshua, God the Father’s Son.
The Faithful Wait for the Messiah
All of chapter eleven revolves around the hope of the faithful that their devotion to God would be realized in the future arrival of a messiah who would redeem them from death, bring a glorious age of peace and a future forever with Him. Beginning with the creation in v.3, chapter eleven runs through the great examples of those who demonstrated faith in God and concludes with those who gave their lives for God - Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses the Israelites, Rahab, etc. etc.
MESSIANIC PROMISES
A Promised Redeemer
Beginning in the Garden of Eden, Yehovah promised to send Adam and Eve a redeemer through Eve’s seed after Adam and Eve had brought sin and death into the world with their sin.
Genesis 3:15
“And God will put a Messiah between Satan and Eve and between Satan’s followers and the posterity of Eve, this Messiah will triumph over sin and death, but this Messiah will suffer and die for Adam and Eve’s sin and humanity’s transgressions.”
Exodus 12
The Threshold Covenant employed at Passover foreshadowed Israel’s god as humanity’s savior in the sacrificed male lamb. Indeed, Yehovah is Israel’s Savior-God.
Isaiah 53:4-10
Isaiah prophesies of a future redeemer.
“He bore our sufferings, endured our griefs, though we thought him stricken, smitten of God, and humbled. But he was pierced for our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; the price of our peace he incurred, and with his wounds we are healed. We all like sheep had gone astray, each of us headed his own way; Jehovah brought together upon him the iniquity of us all. He was harassed, yet submissive, and opened not his mouth—like a lamb led to slaughter, like a sheep, dumb before its shearers, he opened not his mouth. By arrest and trial he was taken away. Who can apprise his generation that he was cut off from the land of the living for the crime of my people, to whom the blow was due? He was appointed among the wicked in death, among the rich was his burial; yet he had done no violence, and deceit was not in his mouth. But Jehovah willed to crush him, causing him suffering, that, if he made his life an offering for guilt, he might see his offspring and prolong his days, and that the purposes of Jehovah might prosper in his hand” .
Beginning in the Garden of Eden, Yehovah promised to send Adam and Eve a redeemer through Eve’s seed after Adam and Eve had brought sin and death into the world with their sin.
Genesis 3:15
“And God will put a Messiah between Satan and Eve and between Satan’s followers and the posterity of Eve, this Messiah will triumph over sin and death, but this Messiah will suffer and die for Adam and Eve’s sin and humanity’s transgressions.”
Exodus 12
The Threshold Covenant employed at Passover foreshadowed Israel’s god as humanity’s savior in the sacrificed male lamb. Indeed, Yehovah is Israel’s Savior-God.
Isaiah 53:4-10
Isaiah prophesies of a future redeemer.
“He bore our sufferings, endured our griefs, though we thought him stricken, smitten of God, and humbled. But he was pierced for our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; the price of our peace he incurred, and with his wounds we are healed. We all like sheep had gone astray, each of us headed his own way; Jehovah brought together upon him the iniquity of us all. He was harassed, yet submissive, and opened not his mouth—like a lamb led to slaughter, like a sheep, dumb before its shearers, he opened not his mouth. By arrest and trial he was taken away. Who can apprise his generation that he was cut off from the land of the living for the crime of my people, to whom the blow was due? He was appointed among the wicked in death, among the rich was his burial; yet he had done no violence, and deceit was not in his mouth. But Jehovah willed to crush him, causing him suffering, that, if he made his life an offering for guilt, he might see his offspring and prolong his days, and that the purposes of Jehovah might prosper in his hand” .
A Promised Millennial King and an Age of Peace
Avraham Gileadi, PhD -
Jehovah’s coming to reign on the earth [as King of Zion] will see an entire transformation of the earth and its inhabitants. The millennial age will be joyous: “Jehovah is comforting Zion, bringing solace to all her ruins; he is making her wilderness like Eden, her desert as the garden of Jehovah. Joyful rejoicing takes place there, thanksgiving with the voice of song” (Isaiah 51:3). Harmony will prevail among men and beasts (Isaiah 11:6–9).
Millennia of strife on the earth come to a close when the forces of evil are finally put down and tyranny ends: “Now the whole earth is at rest and at peace; there is jubilant celebration!” (Isaiah 14:7). That day will nonetheless have seen evil and tyranny reach their zenith. Never was there a time before it nor would be after it when such wickedness prevailed. On a parallel with it, on the other hand, comes a corresponding good—when righteousness reaches such a degree as to overpower the evil, preparing the way for Jehovah to come. His people’s fulfilling the terms of his covenants in that day causes Jehovah to intervene wondrously to deliver them.
A main focus of evil before Jehovah comes is the king of Assyria/Babylon, the archtyrant who causes worldwide devastation in the course of conquering the world. Jehovah’s coming as King of Zion directly counters this Antichrist’s fall. The archtyrant’s departure brings to an end a war to end all wars: “They will beat their swords into plowshares, their spears into pruning hooks: nation will not lift the sword against nation, nor will they learn warfare any more” (Isaiah 2:4); “Tyranny will no more be heard of in your land, nor dispossession or disaster within your borders; you will regard salvation as your walls and homage as your gates” (Isaiah 60:18).
The earth will transform at his presence: “The splendor of Lebanon shall become yours—cypresses, pines, and firs together—to beautify the site of my sanctuary, to make glorious the place of my feet” (Isaiah 60:13). Peoples will come from afar to pay him homage: “My house shall be known as a house of prayer for all nations” (Isaiah 56:7).
Avraham Gileadi, PhD -
Jehovah’s coming to reign on the earth [as King of Zion] will see an entire transformation of the earth and its inhabitants. The millennial age will be joyous: “Jehovah is comforting Zion, bringing solace to all her ruins; he is making her wilderness like Eden, her desert as the garden of Jehovah. Joyful rejoicing takes place there, thanksgiving with the voice of song” (Isaiah 51:3). Harmony will prevail among men and beasts (Isaiah 11:6–9).
Millennia of strife on the earth come to a close when the forces of evil are finally put down and tyranny ends: “Now the whole earth is at rest and at peace; there is jubilant celebration!” (Isaiah 14:7). That day will nonetheless have seen evil and tyranny reach their zenith. Never was there a time before it nor would be after it when such wickedness prevailed. On a parallel with it, on the other hand, comes a corresponding good—when righteousness reaches such a degree as to overpower the evil, preparing the way for Jehovah to come. His people’s fulfilling the terms of his covenants in that day causes Jehovah to intervene wondrously to deliver them.
A main focus of evil before Jehovah comes is the king of Assyria/Babylon, the archtyrant who causes worldwide devastation in the course of conquering the world. Jehovah’s coming as King of Zion directly counters this Antichrist’s fall. The archtyrant’s departure brings to an end a war to end all wars: “They will beat their swords into plowshares, their spears into pruning hooks: nation will not lift the sword against nation, nor will they learn warfare any more” (Isaiah 2:4); “Tyranny will no more be heard of in your land, nor dispossession or disaster within your borders; you will regard salvation as your walls and homage as your gates” (Isaiah 60:18).
The earth will transform at his presence: “The splendor of Lebanon shall become yours—cypresses, pines, and firs together—to beautify the site of my sanctuary, to make glorious the place of my feet” (Isaiah 60:13). Peoples will come from afar to pay him homage: “My house shall be known as a house of prayer for all nations” (Isaiah 56:7).
Isaiah’s Spiritual Categories |
Our Fallen World |
Millennial Kingdom |
Yehovah Angels Servants Zion – God’s Covenanted People - Unconditional Israel – God’s Covenanted People - Conditional Jacob - Believers in God Babylon (Sodom) (Mahan) Perdition |
Yehovah Angels Servants Zion |
A Promised Forever with God
Avraham Gileadi, PhD -
The new heavens and new earth Israel’s God creates—…. (Isaiah 65:17–25; 66:22–23)—fulfill the hopes and prayers of numberless righteous souls who have inhabited it, who, through their blood, sweat, and tears, have helped to redeem it from its corrupt and fallen state. Their cumulative merits finally cause God to “reward” them with a more glorious existence than the one humanity has known thus far (Isaiah 35:3–10; 40:10; 61:7–11; 62:8–12). God never intended the earth he made to remain in its current degraded condition. From the beginning, God destined it, too, to ascend to higher states of blessedness.
He who “suspends the heavens, who gives form to the earth” (Isaiah 44:24)—who “suspends the heavens like a canopy, stretching them out as a tent to dwell in” (Isaiah 40:22), who “frames and suspends the heavens, who gives form to the earth and its creatures, the breath of life to the people upon it, spirit to those who walk on it” (Isaiah 42:5), who “formed the earth, who made it secure and organized it, not to remain a chaotic waste, but designed it to be inhabited” (Isaiah 45:18) What is of man passes away, but what is of God “endures forever” (Isaiah 40:8; 51:8; 55:13; 66:22).
Isaiah’s Spiritual Categories |
Our Fallen World |
Millennial Kingdom |
Eternity/Heaven New Heaven/New Earth |
Yehovah Angels Servants Zion – God’s Covenanted People - Unconditional Israel – God’s Covenanted People - Conditional Jacob - Believers in God Babylon (Sodom) (Mahan) Perdition |
Yehovah Angels Servants Zion |
Most High God (Father) Yehovah Angels Servants Zion Jacob(Babylon/Sodom/Mahan) Perdition |
MESSIANIC PROMISES FULFILLED
Yehovah-Yeshua as Humanity’s Redeemer/Savior
As we saw in chapter two of Hebrews, Yehovah descended into mortality as Yeshua to save humanity.
As we saw in chapter two of Hebrews, Yehovah descended into mortality as Yeshua to save humanity.
Yehovah-Yeshua Descent to Save Humanity >>> |
> Descent into Mortality > VV |
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Like the Most High God |
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Yehovah Israel’s God |
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Yeshua Humanity’s Savior-Redeemer |
1 Corinthians 15:20-22
But now is Messiah risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Messiah shall all be made alive.
1 John 4:14
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
Acts 5:30,31
The God of our fathers raised up Yeshua, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
Yehovah-Yeshua as Zion’s Millennial King
In chapter nine, we saw Yeshua return as Yehovah to rule as king of kings and lord of lords. Moreover, we see that John details this Millennial Kingdom in Revelations chapter 20.
Satan bound – v.2
The righteous and holy live and reign with Messiah a thousand years – v.3,4
The first resurrection or the resurrection of the just – v.5
Priests shall reign – leaders over communities (high priests) - fathers over families (priests) – v.6
Yehovah-Yeshua as Zion’s Millennial King
In chapter nine, we saw Yeshua return as Yehovah to rule as king of kings and lord of lords. Moreover, we see that John details this Millennial Kingdom in Revelations chapter 20.
Satan bound – v.2
The righteous and holy live and reign with Messiah a thousand years – v.3,4
The first resurrection or the resurrection of the just – v.5
Priests shall reign – leaders over communities (high priests) - fathers over families (priests) – v.6
Millennial Kingdom |
Leaders – High Priests Yehovah-Yeshua Joint-Heirs (Angels) Elect (Servants) Fathers - Priests Pure In Heart/and clean hands – (Zion – God's Covenanted People - Unconditional) |
Yehovah-Yeshua in the Forever with God
In chapters 3 and 9, we saw that Yeshua connected the Tabernacle with Heaven/Eternity, which included the Houses of the Father and Son and a realm of the Spirit for the saved. We also saw that those who in the New Covenant are Born Again and Go Onto Perfection are integrated in with the Law in chapters 4, 6, and 8. We can also see this pattern of three setout in John 3:14-17 for those who are Saved, receive Everlasting Life and Eternal Life.
John 3:14-17
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Eternity/Heaven New Heaven/New Earth |
Realm of the Spirit |
House of the Son |
House of the Father |
Accept Yeshua as Humanity’s Redeemer |
Born Again |
Born Again Go Onto Perfection |
Saved |
Everlasting Life |
Eternal Life |
Revelations 21,22
Eternity after the Millennium is explained in Revelations 21 and 22. We again can see this pattern of three in chapter 22 at v.11.
"He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still."
Realm of the Spirit |
House of the Son |
House of the Father |
Accept Yeshua as Humanity’s Redeemer |
Born Again |
Born Again Go Onto Perfection |
Saved |
Everlasting Life |
Eternal Life |
Unjust |
Righteous |
Holy |
* Those who are filthy we would associate with Perdition – the Unredeemable.
Servants, God’s Covenanted People and the Second Death.
The peoples that we see in chapters 21 and 22 comprise of those who are God’s Servant’s, God’s Covenanted People and those who are shut out of God’s presence – the Second Death.
Servants, God’s Covenanted People and the Second Death.
The peoples that we see in chapters 21 and 22 comprise of those who are God’s Servant’s, God’s Covenanted People and those who are shut out of God’s presence – the Second Death.
Realm of the Spirit |
House of the Son |
House of the Father |
Accept Yeshua as Humanity’s Redeemer |
Born Again |
Born Again Go Onto Perfection |
Saved |
Everlasting Life |
Eternal Life |
Unjust |
Righteous |
Holy |
Jacob(Babylon/Sodom/Mahan) Second Death 21:8 22:15 |
Zion - God’s Covenanted People 21:4,5 |
Joint-Heirs - Angels Elect - Servants 22:3,4,6,8,9,16 |
Realized Messianic Promises
When we consider the level of faith/service of the individuals we see here in chapter 11, we can link them with the following messianic promises in Yeshua.
Realized Messianic Promises |
Angels/Joint-Heirs Enoch, Moses |
Servants/Elect Noah, Abraham/Sarah, Isaac, Jacob-Israel, Joseph, Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel |
Zion - God's Covenanted People - Pure In Heart Unconditional Abel, Children of Israel at the Red Sea/Jericho, Rahab |