Mortal Messiah Victorious King, Part 1

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MORTAL MESSIAH,

VICTORIUS KING

Part I

May 3rd 2026

We begin today’s teaching with some trepidation because like many things that are traditionally based and fixed in the minds of believers to differ with them, even in the slightest ways, leads to misunderstanding, judgement and unfortunately division instead of rejoicing in the liberty such differences bring.

Over the past few weeks we have tried to summarize the whole of sound biblical fulfillment through an If/Then model – predicated on the scripture being fulfilled, Christ having had the victory and God now being all in all and for all through the Spirit of Christ.

We know that this presents zero derision against Christ because it is founded and established by Him who was certainly, “God with us” during His mortal ministry as a man, and became, in His flesh, God above from a glorified body when He ascended into His newly established realm above once and for all.

We readily admit with joy that because of Him all souls now have open access to God. I personally worship Him, as God, in spirit and truth and admonish anyone seeking the liberty that comes by knowing Him to read of Him and His mortal life as that learning leads to greater love and liberty than one might possibly imagine.

But this is not the only metric available to Man as He Himself said that He would not leave the world but would send His Spirit into the hearts and minds of all people.

In the face of fulfillment, and in the face of the facts about all that He has accomplished for the world in reconciling us to the Father, we must – in an effort to overcome some traditions that keep the world at odds with each other, we must admit that until we come to understand the finished victorious work of our King as a reality – we will NEVER, EVER be able to love as He commanded.

Why?

Think about this for a minute – as long as followers of the Mortal Christ anachronistically believe that

Satan still reigns on earth and hell is the afterlife destination for any and all who do not know Yeshua ontologically – meaning they know the facts of His person including His name, life, death and resurrection, and

as long as people sincerely believe that they are following the model of what they read about in the New Testament and that they are “right” and “good” and “saved” from sin and death and hell and that all other people groups, cultures and views are “evil, unsaved, enemies of God and part of a unregenerated fallen world – so long as this mindset exists – there will never, ever be peace, unity, love nor understanding among men – ever.

And as long as these view continue, the Prince of Peace, because of His followers, remain people of war and chaos.

Sequestered behind the man-made barricades of doctrinal certitude, denominational superiority and zealot tradition, Christians will treat EVERYONE that differs with them as . . . “wrong,” even “an enemy,” even “headed for a burning hell for eternity” and do so in the spirit of righteous indignation.

People suggest that eschatology is almost irrelevant in the faith today – that it does not matter if He is still coming or has come, because the facts remain the same – knowing Him in a Mortal Messiah manner is a must and there is no other way to God.

The last line is certainly an absolute – there is no other way to God but by Him – and while that was certainly true for the Bride in that Day in the most literal of ways, as they were to whom He came for materially, but today there is no other way to God because of Him – a poignant distinction that we are going to try and explain now.

Again, to the material bride, there was no other way to be saved but by Him but in fulfillment, there is no other way because of Him – a fact that may not even need to be overtly communicated – may the Spirit lead.

Let’s begin by acknowledging that before the incarnation of God, human beings could be and were justified as righteous by God without a knowledge of the Mortal Man, Yeshua of Nazareth.

Psalm 146:5 highlights the idea that,

"Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in YAHAVAH his God."

Did people before the incarnation have saving faith in God directly? Of course they did.

It was such a faith that determined their place in sheol and whether they would abide in a place separated from God in prison, which was for the faithless or in paradise, which was for the faithful.

Examples of faith in God without a knowledge of the Mortal Messiah appear throughout the Old Testament beginning with,

Enoch, as Hebrews 11:5-6 says,

5 By faith Enoch was translated--not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to--that he had pleased God well,

6 and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

How about Job, where we read,

Job 1:8 And YAHAVAH saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart against My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God, and turning aside from evil?'

Remember what the Book of Hebrews says in chapter 11:1-7 about faith,

1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.

3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

From the start of humankind, “faith in God” was the justifier – while the knowledge of God, His make-up, ontology, and even His Son remained somewhat obscured – a meaning perfect understanding of Him was utterly unnecessary – people believed in God and were seen as righteous or they did not and were seen as unjust.

Hebrews 11 goes on at verse 7 saying,

7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

Looking back over those mentioned in the Hall of Fame of Faith we can even say that sin, failure of flesh, and being human was overcome by faith as evidenced by David, Rahab, Samson, and others who looked to YAHAVAH in faith but were justified because of it and no other thing – including imperfect understanding.

Of course, Abraham is the central biblical figure of a man deemed righteous by faith as Genesis 15 recounts.

We all remember the situation – Abraham and Sarai were old and had no children and in that stage of life, and we read,

Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of YAHAVAH came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

2 And Abram said, YAHAVAH GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

4 And, behold, the word of YAHAVAH came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

6 And he believed in YAHAVAH; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

From the beginning – even with Adam and Eve – faith on God was His desire even when Yeshua, the incarnate Son, was not directly part of that belief – and yet the choice to believe was what justified a person before God causing Him to see them as righteous.

Did Abel, Enoch, Job, Noah, Abraham, David, Rahab the gentile prostitute or any other person described as righteous by faith have a perfect understanding of the Living God?

Did they know the name of Yeshua or the details of His mortal life illuminated by the Apostolic Record?

They had faith, not perfect knowledge – and perhaps because of paganism around them they may have also had some really messed up understanding of Him.

Going out to the Apostolic record there was a man named Cornelius, who was also a Gentile and we read this description of him in Acts 10 starting at verse 1

Act 10:1And there was a certain man in Caesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion from a band called Italian,

2 pious, and fearing God with all his house, doing also many kind acts to the people, and beseeching God always,

I want you to note what justified Cornelius, a non-Jew unawares of all the details about the Living God – we read that he was pious (devout) and fearing God with all his house and doing many kind acts.

The description of Cornelius echoes James explanation of faith and love, the two side of the same coin of real genuine faith in that

Abel, in faith, offered (or acted)

Noah, in faith, built (or acted)

Enoch, in faith, lived righteously

Job, in faith, was upright and good

Abraham, in faith, took Isaac

And Rabab, by faith, acted.

In every example of people of real faith they all acted.

Show me someone with so-called faith on Buddha, Christ, God or anything else without love and I will show you someone without saving faith or the Spirit of Christ within.

But show me anyone with faith and Christ’s love in the world for others irrespective of doctrine or denomination and I will show you a child of God.

Some fearful souls call this ecumenism or universalism – I call it the Victory of Christ over all things.

(going back to Cornelius at verse 3)

3 (and) he saw in a vision manifestly, as it were the ninth hour of the day, a messenger of God coming in unto him, and saying to him, `Cornelius;'

4 and he having looked earnestly on him, and becoming afraid, said, `What is it, Lord?' And he said to him, `Thy prayers and thy kind acts came up for a memorial before God,

5 and now send men to Joppa, and send for a certain one Simon, who is surnamed Peter,

6 this one doth lodge with a certain Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea; this one shall speak to thee what it behoveth thee to do.'

Cornelius was living in an area filled with Jews who claimed to know everything about the right God but never appears to have converted with them, and yet his faith on God, from his heart, caused the living God to reach out to him as the first gentile to join the Bride of Christ in that day.

But God did not just leave Cornelius in his place of ignorant faith and worship. Because of his faith and dedication to the living God, He gave him a vision and told him to seek out Peter.

In the meanwhile, Peter is up on a beach town rooftop preparing to eat lunch and a net drops down in vision from heaven full of unclean animals and a voice commands him to rise and eat - which he refuses to do, calling them unclean. And the voice from heaven says to him,

“What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.”

Think about that line and the finished work of Christ for the world, my friends.

Now this was a significant message to Peter as he was a devout Jew adhering to 1500 years of religious practice about clean and dirty – both with regard to animals AND toward people, or Gentiles.

Established religious traditions have the capacity to do this to us – and Peter would struggle with this prejudicial weakness to the point that Paul had to call him out on it being a form of hypocrisy.

Then what happened? (verse 19_

Acts 10:19 While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.

20 Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them.

In Peter’s life, just like in the lives of people today who have cut their teeth on prejudice and tradition, he failed to see that what God had made clean was not common.

Established antiquated, uncontextual religious traditions have caused believers today to have the same mindset, to sequester ourselves, to doubt possibilities from the hand of the living God and to appeal to our own reason and logic on what God wants, wills or even can do.

The voice told Peter not only that what God had made clean in animal consumption was acceptable but this was a picture for all non-Jews of that day and that Peter was in no position to reject them but was to go with these three men back to Cornelius’s home and to “DOUBT NOTHING.”

The question to ask yourselves, based on the last few weeks teachings called, If/Then, is,

If Christ shed blood and death was for the sins of the world – past, present and future - and if God has (past tense) reconciled every person in the world to Himself, has He not, through His Son, cleansed all – unconditionally and ubiquitously – and nobody has the right to label them unclean?

Or is God still calling some people, races, cultures and people of different ideas and beliefs “unclean?” “Hell bound,” “evil” and “enemies” from which followers of Yeshua should part? (verse 21)

21 Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?

22 And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.

23 Then called he them in, and lodged them. And on the morrow Peter went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him.

24 And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends.

I love the heart of Cornelius - talk about a man devoted to God – before he was even introduced to Christ he showed faith and love abundantly for others, inviting his kin and close friends to come meet the person God was sending to his home?

While in Sri Lanka decades back I was invited to the home of a Muslim family for food. I was full of pre-conceived ideas about them before hand but spent several hours and a couple of days sitting with the men and talking about God.

They were beautiful people, with devout hearts for the one they called Allah.

Growing up, I was associated with several Jewish families, not as devout but still devoted to God through their faith. They too, were beautiful people, seeking God and practicing their approaches to Him.

Little did I realize at the time that these souls were bearing about the very Spirit of the Risen Christ, and like Cornelius, had not yet come to see the source of their goodness and light.

25 And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.

(Proving he lacked understanding)

26 But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.

27 And as he talked with him, he went in, and found many that were come together.

28 And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

29 Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?

30 And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

31 And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God.

32 Send therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the seaside: who, when he cometh, shall speak unto thee.

33 Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.

34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:

35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

In every nation, he that feareth Him (meaning they put Him on the throne of their heart by faith) AND worketh righteousness, is accepted with Him.

And as PROVEN by Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham and all the rest who feared Him and acted in righteousness by that faith.

Peter hadn’t even yet mentioned Yeshua at this point, my friends!! He will, because Yeshua is central to the narrative for all – but the fact of the matter is, faith and love from any nation, culture or people is accepted by Him who is NOT a respecter of persons.

Now listen to what Peter adds in explaining his message to them,

36 The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)

37 That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;

Where it says, “the word which God sent unto the Children of Israel” is not logos, but rhema and means the message, so a better reading of this might be

“The Message which God sent to the descendants of Israel, when He announced the Good News of peace through Jesus Christ--He is Lord of all--that Message you cannot but have heard of too –“

And what was that message? Peter tells the group,

38 How God anointed (how who anointed Yeshua of Nazareth - God) with the Holy Spirit (at His conception, I believe as Luke says that He was conceived by that Spirit) and with power (at His water Baptism): who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. (Who was with him – the man? God)

This is a fantastic description of the nature of Yeshua of Nazareth in his mortal life prior to His being deified and made worthy to enter into the presence of His Father. And Peter adds,

39 And we (the Apostles of which Peter was part) are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:

40 Him God raised up the third day, (who raised Him up? God) and shewed him openly;

41 Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.

42 And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God (He was ordained of who – God) to be the Judge of quick and dead.

43 To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.

What about all this talk we have done about Christ paying for sin unconditionally for all and sin being over? If this is so, why does Peter link belief in Him to the condition of receiving a remission of sins?

Please note, the context, the setting, and the age that was still present – and age of the Old Covenant, and the Temple and all the former things still being present.

It had been somewhere minimally of five years before Peter went to Cornelius but it was probably more like 7 to 10 years since Pentecost.

And the original apostles were reaching out to all of Israel first as commanded. But during that time, Steven was put to death, and Paul was converted and was being trained and Christ had yet to return to take His chosen Bride as prophesied and promised.

The key to understanding these words of Peter even to a Gentile like Cornelius in that day was they were still operating under the former economy, under the old heaven, on the old earth and from the Old material Israel.

To receive a remission of sin people – Jew or Gentile, as proven here by the case of Cornelius, was they had to believe on the one sent to receive a remission of sin.

In other words, forgiveness of sin was predicated on faith on Him who was raised from the dead. Period. This is a biblical fact but timestamped to that time, and age.

So even for a Gentile to be part of the Bride and to receive a remission of sin belief on the risen Christ was mandated.

The writer of Hebrews plainly explains that the New Coventant way into the presence of God would not be open (as we understand it) while the former covenant remained standing, saying in chapter 9:8

By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the sanctuary is not yet opened as long as the outer tent (tabernacle/temple) is still standing.

In other words, the former age under the Law that promised a Messiah was still operative, and therefore the finished work was underway, but not complete.

Therefore, remission or payment of sin was based in belief on the risen Christ, which was news shared by His chosen twelve.

God’s new covenant, including a new heaven, earth, Jerusalem, and time when Apostles were not needed anymore to witness the material Christ because He would write His laws on the hearts and minds directly, would occur once the tent (temple) was destroyed, which historically occurred when Christ would return and take His holy and pure Bride, and only then would the New Heaven, over a New Earth, operated from a New Jerusalem, over a new creation exist.

Until that time, Satan was still an operative, death and hell remained factors and the coming day of wrath was facing all in that land with the only escape being through a remission of sin through FAITH on the Promised Messiah testified of by the Prophets and Apostles.

In other words, Gentiles (non-Jews like Cornelius) were taught by the disciples to believe and to receive a remission of sins because the economy that conditionally demanded it still existed as proven by the temple still existing.

Once the end of all things from the former age was manifest by and through their temple being leveled at His promised return, the remission of sin for all was an unconditional gift, as God was reconciled to the world of humankind, but faith remains the requisite to please Him and to gain entrance to the New Jerusalem above and therefore access to the Tree of Life within.

So, if faith on God (proven by good works) was sufficient before Christ and the Good News why was Christ even necessary?

Because faith on God was not enough to pay for sin which separated humankind from Him. And the temporary blood of bulls and goats were similarly insufficient.

This is why even the faithful, seen as righteous souls like Abel, Noah, Job, Abraham, David and all the rest, went to sheol – the covered place – although it was still a paradise to them.

So, we come to the need for a Messiah not one whit less than Yeshua of Nazareth to accomplish all sorts of things to bring the world to a place of reconciliation.

Consider this graphic on the works of the Mortal Messiah in that day, age and to those people -

GRAPHIC

THE MORTAL

MESSIAH

Was in “the very image” of God

Humbly submitted Himself below all things

Who learned obedience through suffering

Performed miracles for His own to see

Taught principles of Truth to them

Fulfilled the Law and the

Prophets given to them

Exemplified way to live

(specifically, to those under the law)

Was tempted in all things

But sinned not (according to the Law)

Overcame all the elements

Introduced to the world by the Fall

Qualified Himself through

obedience to die as a

substitute for human kind

Promised to return to wrap the former age

Up and taking His holy pure Bride

Above where they call for all to come.

And then, as promised, did not

Leave them alone, nor the rest of the

World forevermore, but sent His victorious Spirit into the world which reconciled all souls to God.

Wrapping this first of two parts up, ask yourselves,

“Do we have the Mortal Messiah with us today and if not why not?”

“And what was sent into the world to replace and represent Him?”

“ and if what was sent is invisible, spiritual and undiscernible to material men and women, are any of us able to detect it’s presence in people on earth?”

“and if we are, what are the evidences of the Spirit of Christ in Man?”

Knowledge? Certainty? Faith and love?

And finally, “does any one culture, climb, religion, person, have a right to direct and govern His Spirit which was freely given at Pentecost?”

Is it possible – is it possible – is it possible that God so loved the world that this Spirit is now in all of us and that the fruit of it is NOT regimented and restricted to only some but is freely given to all calling for them to believe and love?

We will continue this teaching next week?

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