THE GOSPEL IN YESHUA THE MESSIAH

G. Messiah's Resurrection 

If all other factors are confessed but the resurrection is denied, we may compare this with a fully outfitted car that lacks gasoline. We are a perfect, unblemished seed with the power of eternal life resident in us, but --- we are useless. We have the new nature, we have the keys and therefore the authority over Death and Hades --- but we are powerless. We can't move. The devils have a laugh. 

1. His Resurrection was necessary: 

a) Because as long as the Son of Man remains below, so do we, due to our having been baptized into His death⁸⁷.

b) Because the very instant that G-d quickened the divine Son of G-d, Who could not be held by any chains, we also broke lose with Him, and were raised up together with Him. For through the same baptism we also share in His resurrection⁸⁸.

c) Because from that instant on we are totally new creations. The old is gone and discarded in the “circumcision” of Messiah’s death⁸⁹. In the twinkling of an eye we became genuine sons and daughters of G-d⁹⁰, raised in Him Who, of necessity, had FIRST to be raised from the dead unto imperishable life⁹¹. We are - in fact from that moment on - genuinely G-d's children.

The only reason the world cannot see us, nor we ourselves when we behold our image in a mirror is, that our new,  imperishable and heavenly nature in the likeness of G-d’s Son is still cloaked^k  “camouflaged” as it were, by our mortal body of sinful flesh⁹², as the beauty and glory of the Tabernacle was hid under the unattractive curtains of dyed animal skins. But the new reality since His ascension is that...

d) ...Because we believed and have been baptized into Messiah, we are already now on earth as He is⁹³.

H. Messiah's Ascension 

Finally, if all the above aspects of Messiah are confessed but the ascension is denied, we are still in DEEP trouble! 

1. His Ascension was necessary:  

a) Because our ability to overcome and our authority to conquer comes from the very Throne of G-d⁹⁴. We could never be "more than conquerors" in Yeshua HaMashiach, nor battle with principalities, powers, and dominions and keep standing, nor bring down strongholds that exalt themselves against the knowledge of G-d, had Messiah not ascended to the right hand of the Father. 

A person might ever so verily be the ambassador of one country to another. If his king, who clothes him with authority, has no authority himself, then neither has the ambassador. The devils would simply laugh at us had our Redeemer failed to ascend to the place of authority. 

b) For G-d has subjected all things unto our Redeemer, Who is putting all His enemies under His feet⁹⁵. And He is not alone, as a vast army of the redeemed - empowered by Him and clothed with His authority - are engaged in that very same task along with Him. 

c) That we may know what to do, and how to do it, and when, the Holy Spirit teaches us all things, leads us into all the truth, and is our guide and advocate⁹⁶. Yeshua’s ascension was requisite for the advent of the Holy Spirit. 

The ascension of Yeshua, Messiah and Son of G-d, is a necessity in order for us to be properly equipped and sanctified. Without it we could neither function as children of G-d while still on earth, nor enter into our inheritance. We are called to do G-d's will on the earth as it is done in heaven⁹⁷. This would prove impossible without the Holy Spirit and heavenly authority. 

 

Unhappily, most of the redeemed do not fully grasp their authority, who they already are on earth, and Whom they literally represent. But Satan and all the demons know! Their best strategy has been to furnish the saints with “religion”^l, doing away with essentials of Messiah's attributes and work, and keep them in the dark. It suffices to abrogate just one detail to render the believers ineffective. Consequently, Satan has infiltrated the Church with deceivers and false brethren in order to steal from and destroy the Lord's own. This strategy has proven exceedingly successful in minimizing, or even nullifying, the saints’effectiveness.