THE GOSPEL IN YESHUA THE MESSIAH
 
 

IV. THE VITAL POINTS REGARDING SALVATION:

A. Messiah's Divine Nature: 

A Messiah of mere human nature will die, no matter how anointed. His reign would be temporary, as would his priesthood. After his death once again selfish and ungoldy men would usurp leadership, and the enemies of Israel would resume plotting evil against her. Furthermore, the human race would continue in its bondage to sin, ending in death. Only an immortal Messiah of divine nature can destroy both sin and death, as well as the enemies of G-d and Israel, and establish a Reign of justice in righteousness which shall never pass away.

Hence, if Yeshua is confessed to be the Messiah, but His divine nature and heavenly origin is denied, His unity with the Father and the Holy Spirit in the heavenly realms negated, and the Fullness of Deity dwelling in Him bodily⁴⁶ rejected, then salvation has been undone. There is now neither restoration nor recreation. For if Messiah Yeshua was a created being like all men, then He shared in OUR fallen nature and corrupted blood, even though all seven spirits of the Lord were upon Him [Isaiah 11:2]. There would be no escape from sin and death ever.

G-d does not merely clean up, overhaul and polish a corrupt and fallen race of slaves to sin and victims of death. This would be like trying to change the nature of a mud loving pig. A pig is a pig. Its nature won’t be changed by merely washing it. It will roll again and again in the mud. Likewise, a human being is a mortal sinner and remains so, regardless of his religious acrobatics to demonstrate otherwise. For that  kind of "salvation" we need no Messiah. Aaron's priesthood would have sufficed then.

WHAT WE NEED IS A  N E W   A D A M !!!  

The first Adam, made from the dust of the earth, got corrupted. His BLOOD got corrupted! In the blood is the life⁴⁷. And the imperishable life of the earthen Adam got corrupted by sin. Henceforth the blood flowing in man's veins carries the “DNA” of sin and death, inescapably! 

B. Messiah's Body of Human Flesh

Eternal Salvation required a NEW Adam, whose blood carried the uncontaminated “DNA” of immortality^d. For this reason G-d sent His Son⁴⁸ Who manifested His divine Person, appearing in the form and body of a Son of Man. And in His body in the likeness of human flesh flowed the uncontaminated Blood of G-d! 

Paul the apostle refers to Him as the "Last" Adam for good reason. Because by Him, this last "Blood-of-G-d", do we escape the corruption of this present nature, and are freed⁴⁹ from captivity to the power of sin and death. By Him, the life-giving spirit, we receive a far superior nature as we become partakers of the Last Adam's divine and eternal nature^50/e. 

Messiah's sinless, uncorrupted blood is necessary for:  

a) the Expiation of our sins; 

b) for the Redemption of our lives;

c) for Restoration; and

d) for our Recreation! 

Were Messiah Yeshua merely a created being, then His blood and nature would have been contaminated as is ours. His blood would have been shed in vain, having no power to expiate sin, redeem, restore or recreate. Man would continue in his present state of corruption leading to death, rendering Paul's words in 2 Corinthians 5:17 meaningless.

C. Messiah's Heavenly Origin

However, G-d is creating a New Race of "A-dam" Men, in the Image and Likeness of His Son. G-d is neither overhauling us nor discarding us. No. Rather, through a lengthy process of redemption He transforms our old, fallen nature into a new one, by means of His Son, through recreation. While it can’t be seen yet what we shall eventually look like - our present bodies of mortal flesh hiding the glory of our new nature, as the skins covering the Tabernacle in the wilderness concealed the splendor within - we are already now on the earth as Yeshua is, since we carry inside of us that imperishable seed of divine, eternal life which we received by faith ⁵¹, through baptism. For whoever is baptized into Messiah has put on Messiah, that is His heavenly, imperishable and divine nature. 

It follows then, that anyone not baptized into Messiah is also not clothed with Him, and therefore does not share in His heavenly origin and imperishable nature. Instead he will be restored to the life and glory of the first Adam before the fall.