Who Forgives Us?
Psalm
85:3-14: You have forgiven the iniquity of
Your people; You have covered up their entire sin, Selah. You have
withheld Your entire fury; You have retreated from the fierceness of Your
anger. Return us, O God of our salvation, and annul Your anger with
us. Will you forever be angry with us, allowing Your wrath to endure
for generation to generation? Will you not revive us again, that
Your people may rejoice in You? Show us Your kindness, Yahweh, and
grant us Your salvation. I can hear what the Almighty, Yahweh, will
speak; for He speaks peace to His people and to His devout ones, and they
will not revert to folly. Surely His salvation is close to those who
fear Him, that [His] glory may again dwell in our land. Kindness and truth
have met, Righteousness and Peace have kissed; Truth will sprout
from earth, and Righteousness will peer from heaven. Yahweh, too,
will provide what is good, and our land will yield its produce. [The
man of] righteousness will walk before Him, and set his footsteps on the
way.
God is the One who will forgive
sin and He is the One who judges sin. David is talking about God
withholding His wrath or His anger from His people and this is exactly
what God does until the Book of Revelation.
Exodus-Shemot 32:32-34: "And now
if You would but forgive their sin! - but if not, erase me now from Your
book that You have written.” Yahweh said to Moses, “Whoever has
sinned against Me, I shall erase him from My book. Now, go and lead
the people to where I have told you. Behold! My angel shall go before you,
and on the day that I make my account, I shall bring their sin to account
against them.”
1
Kings-Melachim 8:34, 36:
34
"May You hear from Heaven and forgive the sin of
Your people Israel, and return them to the land that You gave their
forefathers."
36
"May You hear from Heaven and forgive the sin of
Your servants and Your people Israel, when You teach them the proper path
in which they should walk…"
Jeremiah
36:3: "Perhaps the House of Judah
will hear of all the evil that I intend to do to them, so that they will
repent, each man from his evil way, and then I can forgive their sin and
transgression.”
Jeremiah
31:34-36: "Thus said Yahweh, Who gives
the sun as a light by day and the laws of the moon and the stars by night;
Who agitates the sea so that its waves roar; Yahweh, Master of Legions, is
His Name; If these laws could be removed from before Me—the word of
Yahweh—so could the seed of Israel cease from being a people before Me
forever. Thus said Yahweh: If the heavens above could be measured or
the foundations of the earth plumbed below, so too would I reject the
entire seed of Israel because of everything they did—the word of Yahweh."
God cannot change. That is what
He is saying here. He is confirming His covenant with Israel by declaring
that He is the Creator. He further declares that the laws that
govern His creation would have to be set aside in order for Him to remove
His promises from Israel despite their sin.
He confirms this twice in this
passage by saying it is the word of Yahweh.
Who is the word of
Yahweh? Yochanan-John (St. John) tells us in the beginning of his gospel. John 1:1:
"In the
beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God."
The Greek for word is logos and
the Hebrew word that is its equivalent is davar. The logos and the davar
are the same thing...they both mean word.
The Word of God is Yeshua
and Yeshua is God!
All of creation stands as a
witness to the word of God and God swears by His creation that all He says
is true.
So if we say that Yeshua is only
an “essence” of God or is only a man empowered by God then how in the Name
of Yahweh could He forgive sin if He were not God?
An “essence” of God could not
forgive sin and have that sin removed.
A man, no matter how perfect,
could not forgive sin as he is only a man.
So, since God is the only One
who can forgive sin and blot it out of His book then Yeshua has to be God
simply by the fact that he forgave sin.
If He is not God, then He can
not be the Messiah and we would be worshipping a false god. If you
believe that you are worshipping a false God, friend, that makes you an
idolaters.
Enough Scripture has been
presented to you in this article to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that
Yeshua is the Redeemer and Savior and that because He is the
Redeemer and Savior He is God.
The God of Israel
IS Yeshua (Jesus) who is
Yahweh in the flesh!
