The Justification of Life
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Introduction
My purpose here is to study the full nature of the Gospel. I have titled this site, The Good News of Israel and Her Messiah, because it is this good news that fully reveals the justification of life, spoken of by Paul in Romans 5.
The justification for Israel's life is the justification for Adam's life. It is a justification through judgement and that judgment fell upon Israel's Messiah and the sacrifice of his adamic soul. In the first act of adamic justification no individual was or could be justified except Yehoshua (Jesus) himself, but he was justified for life not only according to who he was but also according to what he was, human, a Jew, the son of Adam.
In being justified for life in who he was he was alone, but in being justified for life in what he was the humanity from which he came and for which he gave himself up as a sacrifice was also justified for life. This was the humanity of Adam, not as represented by the individual, Adam, the first human being, but as represented by Yehoshua, the one chosen of God to be the anointed King of Israel. And this humanity, Yehoshua's humanity, was the humanity of Adam as represented by corporate Israel the family branch of Adam that was selected by God for no purpose but that ultimate glorious purpose of showing that God's salvation comes through grace, unmerited favor. Therefore, every time God saves an individual Gentile by grace he is giving testimony to his unmerited selection of Israel for the sake of the corporate redemption of Adam.
This family branch, selected by God, is Israel, not as represented in the first place by Abaraham, Isaac or Jacob, but as represented in the first place by Yehoshua and defined by God through Yehoshua as being bounded by Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God determined that these would be the fathers of Yehoshua's humanity, which would be justified for life. Life was not justified in or through them, but in and through him for them.
Thus it was necessary that in order to be justified for life in who they were as individuals, as well as in their roles of fathers for God's chosen humanity, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had to believe God personally, that he would justify life for them in the Seed of Abraham, whom he promised to them. This is the beginning of the understanding of the Good News of Israel and her Messiah.
