23 Alphabetical Attributes of Salvation: Part Twenty

 

 20. Under the Blood

What do we think when we see this term? What does it mean? Biblically, it means that the blood of Christ is the covering and atonement for the sins of the born again. Only the saved by faith can claim this promise, because all else are under sin, which no one is able to pay for completely. That is why if a person dies and goes to Hell without believing on Christ, they can never get out, because their sins are never paid for, and God can never allow a sinner into His Heaven.

When Christ died on the cross, He shed His blood for us all, so that God was satisfied with His perfect sacrifice. No other man or beast could have provided this holy, spotless sacrifice for sin but the Lord Jesus, being that He was the God-man, sinless and the perfect Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world. This is the reason why He left Heaven's glory, because God so loved the world...

John 3:16 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.

We who are God's children are safe and secure in Christ because when Jesus died, He secured our destiny to avoid Hell fire and have a place with Him in Heaven. We can NEVER lose our salvation, because if that were true, then God would be a liar and His Word powerless. This precious gift of salvation is what many take for granted or deny altogether, or as is commonplace today, many false cults add works to this free gift. This is abomination unto the Lord. 

I am a dispensationalist because God is. I believe there are portions of the Bible that were for the Jews (e.g. the Pentateuch) and portions that are for believers (e.g. the Pauline epistles). I believe that the things that are past, present and future, are to be seen in these dispensations. For example, I believe that Jesus told us that all we need to do is believe on Him, without anything added. I believe also that in the time of Jacob's Trouble (Tribulation) people will get saved by faith PLUS works. For example:

Revelation 14:9-12 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

These verses are talking about the Jews (Tribulation saints) who are enduring the reign of the Antichrist, because the Jews require a sign. After the Church is taken out, God will go back to dealing with the Jews, who must keep the commandments AND believe on Christ (the faith of Jesus) in order to remain saved, or else they go to Hell. This is what the verse means by "the patience of the saints." These saved Jews can lose their salvation (unlike today in the Church age), so God again demands the works of the law, just like in Old Testament times. This is a future dispensation, one which the Church, Jesus' Bride, will never partake of, because while the world is engulfed in the wrath of God, we will be up in Heaven, when Jesus tries our works by fire, and then around the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

I believe that if you rightly divide the Bible, you can only expect to conclude that God wrote everything in it in separate time periods for separate groups of people (Jews and Christians). God's Word is not to be read as one continuous storyline, as some mistakenly assume. They do not rightly divide, so they contribute to error. The Bible is written TO me, but not always FOR me. We can glean life lessons from all of the Bible, but we must be careful to rightly divide.

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

 In conclusion, I am thankful to be saved today. The blood of Jesus Christ washed all my sins away, and I am born again. Let us all who are the children of God strive to please Him, and watch and pray until He comes in the clouds to take us home. 

Believe ON Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved.