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The Book of Revelation Introduction II

The Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ II
As we explore the Book of Revelation, I believe it is very important to look at the time period the Apostle John was in.  John and the Church were under persecution from the Jewish nation and the Roman Empire.  The Roman Empire had command over the earth that the Christians new.  In the Book of Luke 2, the Bible declares the whole world was taxed by Caesar Augustus. 
Luke 2:1-3 “ And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. 2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) 3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.”
One translation says the entire world was enrolled.  This gives me a picture of our current social security system.  Joseph and Mary went to their home- town of Bethlehem to enroll for taxation.  Remember Jesus said in one place give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars, and unto God the things that are God’s.  Caesar had rule in the natural world of the Jews. 
Now a question, I want to ask was Rome in control of the entire Globe?  The Bible says all the world was taxed.  From the research I have done, it does not appear that Rome had rule over the entire Globe.  However, they had rule over the entire Jewish world, and the world the Jewish people had known.
 Also, worth considering in this time period was the nation of Israel together?  When we study our Bibles we will see that the nation of Israel split into two Kingdoms after Solomon’s reign.  Israel was divided into the Kingdom of Israel, and the Kingdom of Judah.  The Kingdom of Israel which formed worship in Samaria had been carried away by the Assyrians under King Hosea.  I do not believe it was ever known as the Kingdom of Israel again. 
 When Jesus met the woman at the well in Samaria as recorded in John 4, she would have been of the tribes of Israel.  She claimed she was a child of Jacob.  She declared Jacob was her father.  Jesus made a profound statement to her.  One that we all need to hear.  “Neither in this mountain (Samaria), nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.”
 A time had come to worship not in the mountain of Samaria or in Jerusalem.  The Lion of the Tribe of Judah had come and declared the place of worship.  “Those that worship the Father shall worship in Spirit and truth.”  God is a Spirit and seeketh such to worship him.”  We that are in Christ are now in this place of worship – Spirit and truth! 
 This is a mighty shaking and transition that will take place through the Revelation of Jesus Christ.  You will no longer look for a temple made with hands but see the divine House built by the Lord Himself, to be inhabited by God in the Spirit, as the place of worship. This is the mountain we have come to. A great High Mountain, higher than all in the earth, in the Spirit of Truth.  Glory be to God in the Highest!!!

The Book of the Revelation - Introduction

The Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ
What is the Book of Revelation really about?  Many suggest it is a book of end time events that we are now living in, with impending catastrophes coming upon the earth.  Many who approach this book do so with that mind set already established.  So, they are looking in these scriptures for the impending doom that we must surely face.  The question, I want the Lord Jesus to answer is that the truth of the Book? 
 
Notice where, I want us to go for the answer, to the truth Himself!  “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of faith.”  I am afraid if we look anywhere else for understanding in the scripture we will be void.  He alone is understanding and the voice of reasoning.  Everything that I look at must be embodied in Him. 
 
The first verse of Revelation should kind of gives it away. “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;”  It is the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ.  Now if we start from this understanding that the Book is Revealing Him, Jesus Christ, and the things that were to shortly come to pass in John’s day we can began to see what is at hand.
 
The Apostle Paul declared in Galatians 1 that he was separated from his mother’s womb and called by God’s grace to reveal Jesus Christ in him.  Within Paul’s writing he is declaring the mystery that was hid, but now made manifest to the saints, Christ in you the hope of glory.  He was declaring that the Jews and Gentiles were to be of one body, and to have access unto God through one Spirit.  This was through the Revelation of Jesus Christ in Paul.  Through Paul seeing Jesus Christ, and the work He had completed at Calvary this declaration was being made. 
 
The Apostle John turned to see the VOICE that spoke with Him and saw seven golden candlesticks.  In the midst of the candlesticks was one like the Son of Man with seven stars in His hand.  Here in Revelation 1 imagery and symbolism take off.  The candlesticks are seven churches, the stars are seven angels to the churches.  Jesus is in the midst of the church and the stars are in His hand.  The stars or ministers are declaring out of Jesus’ power.  There is an impending crisis at hand.
 
The crisis was both external and internal.  The crisis that had come was Jesus.  He had fulfilled the law of Moses and had set forth the New Covenant in the earth.  All the Old Covenant types, and shadows were coming to their end, and the reality of truth or the substance they had declared were at hand.  Jesus was anointed as Isiah said to declare the favor of God and to declare God’s vengeance. 
Isaiah 61:1  “The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2 to proclaim the year of Jehovah's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;” 
 
This book of Revelation is just that.  Revelations 1:3 “Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein: for the time is at hand.”  God’s favor is at hand to those who read and understand.  Christ in you is at hand.  The Kingdom of God has come.  But also at hand is a day of clouds and gloom.   God’s vengeance as declared by Isaiah is coming upon the land, the land of Israel.  The Old Covenant that had been fulfilled in Christ and done away was going to be taken off the land.  As Jesus declared, not one stone was going to be left on that Old Temple.  The new had come through Jesus Christ. 
 
When we encounter Jesus in the way of Revelation a crisis is at hand to us today.  It is both internal and external. It will affect the entire man.  Our old things will be taken away, and the new life of Him set forth.  He brings a shaking with Him, shaking away understanding, and bringing about truth and reality.  He is the crisis we all need to face.  Let us turn and see Him, Jesus the Christ in the midst of the church, and let us live out of an encounter with the Lord of Lords!  Glory to God!

Revelation - His Feet - The Brazen Altar

                                   The Revelation of Jesus Christ                                                                                 His Feet – The Brazen Altar
In Chapter 1 of the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, the Apostle John sees one in the midst of the seven candlesticks like the Son of Man.  Here we can begin to see the symbolic language that is used throughout the Book.  First, look at the description of the Son of Man, hair white as wool, eyes as flame of fire, a two-edged sword coming out of His mouth, and feet as burnished brass as if they burned in a fire.  The emphasis of the Book must be Him.  For it is the Revelation of Him!
Revelations 1:12 - 20 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; 13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. 14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. 16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. 17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: 18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. 19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter; 20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. 
Now how do we understand this?  Jesus tells us that the seven candlesticks are the seven churches of Asia, and the stars are the angels or ministers of the churches.  What would be His feet that looked like brass as it burned in a furnace.  Would the description of Jesus be symbolic as well, or would this be how he physically looked when John saw Him?  Does He look like this now? 
If His description is symbolic then what does the brass feet stand for?  What is being declared by feet of brass.  I believe the answer would be judgement, and not just any judgement but the judgement of the cross.  Where do we find brass in the scripture?  Is there a picture of brass, burning with fire?  The answer would be yes.  When we come into the Tabernacle of Moses, what is the first piece of furniture we are met with as we enter in through the door?  A brazen altar, and not just a brass altar, but one filled with a continuous fire, where continual offerings and sacrifices were made.
We know that Jesus was the fulfillment of the offerings made unto God at this altar.  What He did on the cross fulfilled all offerings of the Old Covenant, from the offerings for sin to the offering for atonement, all was fulfilled by Him.  The next brass furniture we find in the Tabernacle is the washing laver.  If we consider this laver, where the priests washed in it would be a brass basin filled with water, mingled with blood.  The blood of the offering would be in this water, as the Priests washed in this water.  I firmly believe it speaks of water baptism, but I also believe it speaks of being washed by the water of the word.  As we look into this basin, we are looking into the death of the lamb, and being washed with all that speaks of His death. 
This sacrifice is our judgement.  We are being judged through His sacrifice.  We are seeing this judgement or decision as we are washed with His word.  This is active within us, as the Holy Spirit makes known the work of the Living Christ within.  His cross is our salvation.  Here our sins are washed away.  Here is a sweet aroma unto God.  Here the Old Man is dead and put away.  Here the Living God is satisfied with the sacrifices.  Here we find peace with God.  This cross and judgement is multifaceted and has so much to say the believer.  May this judgement fill our hearts!  Glory to God!

Jehovah My Shepherd

Jehovah-Raah, The Lord is My Shepherd
John 10:11 “I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep”
 In John 10, Jesus declares Himself to be the Shepherd of the sheep. One of the most quoted scriptures in our Bibles is Psalms 23, “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. Verse 1 of this Psalm actually declares a Jehovah name, Jehovah-Raah or Jehovah my Shepherd. As a Shepherd of the sheep of Israel, God shepherded the children of Israel from the bondages of Egypt into the land of Canaan. They were led by God through Moses, with the presence of God in their midst as a cloud by day and a fire by night, from Egyptian slavery into a land of milk and honey, God’s provision. Israel was given the land that God provided for them.
In John 10 Jesus makes many profound statements in regards to being the Shepherd of the sheep. In verse 10 He declares that He is the door, and if an many enter the door they shall go in and out and find pasture. The question I want pose, is if I go into the door who is Christ, why would I ever come out? In the past I had ideas that we would go in and gain understanding, revelation, or knowledge and come out into the earth and share or minister what we gained.
However, I believe I have seen by the Spirit of the Lord a much deeper and clearer understanding to what Jesus is saying. In Egypt when the Israelites celebrated the first Passover, they killed the lamb and put the blood around the door frame, and entered the door. They did not come out of the door until the breaking of the new day. This is a picture of what Jesus is saying. He is the door that we enter into. We enter into the door of Jesus Christ through His Blood, and eat the lamb until the breaking of the new day. When we come out of the door we come out in a new origin. We come out as a new creation created of God in Christ Jesus.
In other words, I believe Jesus to be saying we would go into his death and burial, and originate out of His life. We go into Him, and our old man is put away as we eat His flesh and drink His Blood. We now come out of Him as a new creation man. Our life is no longer found in the earth, but in Christ. The pasture we find as His sheep is His abundant life. He leads us into rest as the Shepherd of our souls. He restores our souls from the man of earth and into the man of Spirit through the renewing of our minds.
Jesus is the fulfillment of the Jehovah my Shepherd. He is the good shepherd that takes us out of the Egyptian slavery of our flesh, and leads us into the life of the Spirit of God. Blessings to All!

Jehovah-Jireh - Hearing God's Provision

Jehovah-Jireh – Hearing God’s Provision
Hearing God’s voice has been part of the focus within our local fellowship the last few weeks.  In the story of Abraham and Isaac, God’s purpose for mankind is set forth.  Isaac is a promised Son. Israel becomes God’s holy nation coming out of the promised Son.  In type and shadow this nation was brought forth through Isaac’s resurrection from the dead, which is declared in Hebrews 11.
Hebrews 11:17-19  “By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac: yea, he that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten son; 18 even he to whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called: 19 accounting that God is able to raise up, even from the dead; from whence he did also in a figure receive him back.”
We who are in Christ are not in figure, but in reality.  Our new birth is in and through His resurrection.  Through Christ Jesus we are raised out from the dead (dead in Adam) and brought forth to be a people unto God.  Peter calls us a chosen generation, a royal priesthood.  The priesthood that we are is of the Lord Jesus Christ.  We minister Him, His death, burial and resurrection.  Our living in the earth is to be unto God in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have life.   Our new life is Christ Himself.  This is the glorious relationship we have come to. 
Now when I look back at Genesis and the story of Abraham and Isaac, I want us to consider that Abraham heard God.  Now he did not just hear God within the confines of Abrahams wants and wishes, but Abraham heard God according to His purpose, “In Isaac shall thy seed be called.”  I believe many believers struggle to hear God because they are simply trying to hear Him only as it relates to themselves. For example, generally when we pray “thy will be done,” we are still praying about something concerning us.  We are not necessarily asking God what His will is, His will period.  What we are usually asking is God’s will for our situations, circumstances, etc.   Once we turn our hearts to hear God’s will and purpose, I believe it opens the door to a continuous hearing and seeing of the Spirit of God. 
What is God’s will and purpose is where we must turn our hearts, minds, and focus to.  Notice I did not say what is His will and purpose for our lives.  I mean what is His will and purpose period!  This is exciting folks, because it is here that I believe God wants to speak within the core of or being.  Ephesians 1 declares that God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world. Here, I believe is where we find His will and purpose, in His Only Son Jesus Christ.  Here is where we must be found, just as Paul wrote to the Philippians, “that I may be found in Him.”   I believe when God made the earth, and ultimately mankind He was looking into Christ and what He was going to do in and through Him.
All of God’s movement and declarations upon the earth were according to Christ, from the time He said, “Let there be light,” to the birth of Jesus Christ in the manger.  God was moving and speaking toward His purpose.  Jesus profoundly declared that the scripture speaks of Him.   Now God is revealing the very light he was speaking of, in our hearts as He reveals Christ in us.  Christ who is the light.  Even the natural light that gave light to mankind upon the earth was speaking and declaring the coming light of the Lord Jesus Christ.  We who are in Him, can now walk in God’s glorious light.  We can walk and see by Him, and no longer be in the shadows, but declare the Eternal Light to the earth.  We can make known God’s purposes as we see Jesus in the Light of understanding given of God!  Blessing to all!

Jehovah-jireh - Thine Only Son

Jehovhah-jireh – Thine Only Son
John 10:27 “My sheep hear my voice.”  Many of us may spend a lot of time seeking to hear the voice of God.  Jesus said clearly that His sheep would hear His voice.  Many may deduce His statement to only the written word of God, but that would not be the case.  We who are in union with Him should hear His voice.  I believe the challenge we may have is what is His voice is saying?  Much of our time may be spent in asking God to tell us what to do regarding things, or situations.   As a young Minister I did just that.  I spent many hours in prayer seeking God’s voice, primarily about where to Minister and seeking the Ministry of the Lord.  I do not want to tell you there was no benefit to this because it was of much benefit.  I also, do not want to tell you that God does not speak in regard to natural things or our requests because He absolutely does.   He will direct you and speak to you in specific things in your life.
 
However, what we do not consider much of the time is what God wants to speak about.  We are often too busy trying to get Him to speak with us about our situations.  The story of Mary and Martha in the Bible is great illustration to this.  Martha is busy about in preparation that Jesus has come to their house.  Mary sits at His feet to HEAR HIM, and what He has to say.  This I believe is the key to hearing God.  Turn to hear what He has to say.  When we turn to Him, He is going to speak within us and reveal His Word.  He is going to reveal the living Christ in us.  This speaking will transform our being, our mind, our heart, and our soul.  God wants to tell us His desires, His thoughts, and His vision towards creation.  He is interested in His plan, and wants to move us from our own to His.
 
In the study we have been in of Genesis 22, The LORD says to Abraham to take his son, “Thine Only Son and offer Him.  This is a powerful statement, rich and full of the mind and plan of the Lord.  This statement was clearly speaking of our Lord Jesus Christ.  The entirety of the story of Isaac is speaking of Christ.  The chosen SEED of Abraham being Isaac, is speaking of Jesus our Lord, who is the chosen Seed of God.  Just as Isaac was promised, Jesus was promised, Isaiah 9:6 “Unto us a child is born and a Son is given.”  Jesus is the fulfillment of all things promised and spoken.
 
Isaac was the son of promise.  God promised Abraham a son.  Abraham and Sara could not have children.  Sara was barren.  So they could not produce the seed promised.   The LORD had to move upon Sara to bring Isaac forth.  Can we hear this?  This is speaking of Mary and the babe Jesus.  Isaac was brought forth of God.  Sure, he was Abrahams son, fathered by Abraham, but he was a clear type or representation of Jesus Christ.  However, unlike the type, Jesus’ had no earthly Father.  He was not only brought forth of God, but was the very SEED of God, the Word made flesh.  Just as all of Israel would be of Isaac, the promise seed of Abraham.  All of God’s children, the Church would be of Christ God’s very own Seed.  He is our salvation.  All who are in Christ, are born of ONE SEED.
 
This is what is hidden in the story of Isaac, the picture of the Lord Jesus himself.  However, not only Him, but we who belong to Him.  All of Israel came through the promised Seed of Abraham.  In fact, if we study the scriptures, we will see Jacob’s name was changed to Israel, and all of Israel was from Him. Now, we, the true Israel of God come through the TRUE promised Seed.  Jesus fulfills all God spoke of when He said, “In Isaac shall thy seed be called.”  Paul writes in the Book of Galatians Chapter 3 that the Seed of Abraham was Christ.    Jesus was the fulfillment of everything said through Abraham and Isaac.  In fact, all of Israel was speaking of Him.  Finally consider, that Paul wrote later in the book of Galatians 3 that they who are of faith are Abraham’s seed.  All of Christ belong to this ONE SEED, which is CHRIST.
 
We are born of none other but Him.  The Apostle Peter writes in 1 Peter 1:3 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”  Read this carefully.  We are born again through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.  The surge of life that comes in us at the new birth is His resurrection out from the dead (dead in Adam, dead in Sin).  We are made dead to the old creation of sin and death through His death, and whisked up into new life through His Resurrection.  We that are His are all born of this one glorious SEED of God, who lives and abides forever!  We are now the SEED of God through our Lord Jesus Christ and are destined to grow up into Him in all things.  These ALL THINGS are all that is of Him.  This is a totally new life full of purpose of God!  Blessings to all!

Jehovah-Jireh - God's Provision in Jesus

Jehovah-Jireh
In the last lesson, we looked at Jehovah and this name of God in relationship to Israel’s salvation, and how it spoke of God’s fulfillment of salvation in Christ Jesus our Lord.  As God appeared to Moses, He declared His name Jehovah to him and God declared that He had appeared to Abraham as God Almighty but by the name of Jehovah was not made known unto him.  This I believe, the Lord to have shown me, was speaking that God would come and appear to Abraham and leave.  When He came as Jehovah to Moses and the children of Israel He did not leave, but became a God in their midst, leading them out of Egypt as a Cloud by day and Fire by night.  After that filling the tabernacle of Moses with Himself, and later the Temple.  He became a God to them, and they became a people unto Him.
However, by studying the scripture we can clearly see that Abraham called him Jehovah.  Here in this less we begin to dig a little deeper in the name of Jehovah as declared by Abraham, which was specifically tied to God’s provision, Jehovah-Jireh.
Genesis 22:9 -14 “And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. 10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. 11 And the angel of Jehovah called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. 12 And he said, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me. 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son. 14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of Jehovah it shall be provided.” 
 Here we come to Mount Moriah, which means seen of Jah, Jah is the short form of Jehovah.  This was God’s seeing.   God spoke to Abraham to bring Isaac to Mount Moriah and offer Him.  Later this became the Temple Mount, and was speaking of the Mount where God would lay the sacrifice, and the chief cornerstone.  “Behold I lay in Zion a stone a tried stone.”  It is no coincidence that the House of God is founded upon a sacrifice.  All this was speaking of Christ Jesus our Lord.  He is God’s true provision. 
 In Mount Moriah a sacrifice provided of God was revealed, a Ram caught in a thicket.  Here the great provision for all mankind begins to be unfolded, “Jehovah shall provide Himself a sacrifice.”  “God so loved the world that He gave His Son.”  This is the provision seen of Jah.  This is God’s provision.  This provision not only saves me from my sin but delivers me completely out of the man of sin and takes me into my promised land, the land of rest in Christ Jesus.  We are a new creation created of God in Christ Jesus. 
 Here with Abraham the thought of the Only Son comes into view.  “Take thine son, thine only son.”  Abraham also had Ishmael who had been cast out.  Ishmael was speaking of the man of the flesh, or the Adamic man.  Jesus himself is also called the Only Begotten.  In Jesus we begin to see the fulfillment of what God is saying through Abraham and Isaac.  The Only Begotten is God’s seed, kind, and man.   The Old Man is Gone.  Our salvation is not in Adam, but in the Only Begotten of God. This is a New Man coming out of God. 
We in, through, and by Him, come out of God.  Our origin is no more in Adam.  The Old Man is dead, buried and gone.  The New Man has NOW become my life.  This is my promised land – “that they may have life, and have it more abundantly.”  In us is a land flowing with milk and honey.  Out of our inner being flows the River of Life Himself.    Glory to God!!!

The Spirit of the Lord - Salvation

The Spirit of the Lord is Upon Me II
Isaiah 61:1-3  “The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2 to proclaim the year of Jehovah's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; 3 to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.”
In the American Standard Version Isaiah 61 is translated Lord Jehovah.  The King James translates this Lord God.  The American Standard is the proper translation as it is dealing with God’s name Jehovah.  The word Lord here is Adonay, used only for God, and meaning Lord or my Lord.   As we consider the names of the God, each name serves a purpose, showing and declaring our Lord’s nature, attributes, and character, and ultimately speaking of Christ Jesus.
As noted last time the Spirit of Jehovah in the book of Judges came upon the Judges to deliver Israel out from under bondage.  This is seen through Othniel, Gideon, and Samson to name a few.  The Spirit of the Jehovah was the empowerment for deliverance.  God’s name Jehovah is used emphatically for that very purpose.  I believe through the Jehovah name is where the Almighty God reveals himself to a people.  I actually believe the Jehovah names are in direct relationship to God declaring himself as I am that I am.  Jehovah is the revelation or the knowing of the I AM, or the I AM made known to a people
Exodus 6:1-8 “And Jehovah said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for by a strong hand shall he let them go, and by a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land. 2 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am Jehovah: 3 and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Jehovah I was not known to them. 4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein they sojourned. 5 And moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. :6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments: 7 and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God, who bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8 And I will bring you in unto the land which I sware to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage: I am Jehovah.” 
Here the Lord says that by his name Jehovah he was not made known to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  Theologians have tried to explain this, as Abraham clearly called him Jehovah, Jehovah-Jireh (in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen).  So, what is God saying here?  I believe if we search our Bibles we will see that it is in the name of Jehovah where God comes to dwell among Israel.  When He had come to Abraham, God would come and leave.  So, Abraham did not know him as the abiding God, or Jehovah.  Here in this name Jehovah, God would be made known among a people, His people.  He would be their God.  Here God Himself would come down to Moses to deliver His People Israel out of bondage and INTO the Land of Canaan, flowing with milk and honey.  As I have said in other teachings this land represents God Himself.  He was the reason for the milk and honey.
Jesus clearly fulfills Jehovah as the savior, deliver, and redeemer who is seen throughout Exodus.  Matthew 1 starts off with a picture of Jesus as the ONE who would SAVE (deliver, rescue, heal, restore) His people from their sins.  Notice that in Matthew 1:21, “He shall save His people.”  We that have been saved ARE His people.  As stated long ago of Jehovah, they shall be my people because Jehovah saved them and brought them to Himself.  This is speaking of JESUS.  Through the cross – death, burial, and resurrection, we are brought from sin, its sickness and decay to the very self of Jesus.John 14:20, “At that day you shall know I am in my Father, you are in me, and I am in you.” 
Through His glorious work, Jesus has brought us out, and it is not just that He has brought us out, but He has brought us into His very own self.  Glory to God!  This is salvation.  Not just coming out of sin or Adam, but coming out and coming into Christ Jesus.  As I prepared for this teaching the Lord profoundly showed me in several of Jesus miracles that Jesus not only healed and delivered, but He brought those who He healed and delivered into a whole different state of being.
When the disciples were in the ship with storm Jesus rebuked the wind and brought the disciples from the tempest of the storm to His calm., the rest of Jesus. When the woman came to Him with the issue of blood, He healed here issue and made Her whole.  It is said of the demon filled man of the Gerasenes after He encountered Jesus that He was in His right mind.  What I want us to see is the end state.  The Word used for save is used in all of these accounts.  It is translated, save, I shall be made whole, and had been made well. 
In fact, when John and Peter encounter the man at the gate of beautiful and the man is healed this word is used, dealing with the man being made whole.  What a change of being, a crippled man to leaping and praising God. 
Our salvation is coming from one man (a man of sin) to the new man in Christ.  Salvation is so much bigger than we consider.  It is God’s provision.  God’s provision at the cross is Jesus for my sins.  God’s provision in His resurrection is Jesus as my life.  We are saved by His life.  Christ is our resurrection out from Adam and into Christ Himself.  Glory to God!!!