How were people saved in the Old Testament?

So we were considering the question of how

people

were

saved

in the Old Testament and Christians have wondered about this because we were

saved

by putting our faith and trust in Jesus Christ in his finished work on the cross, obviously in the Old Testament Jesus did not. have done. They came and many of them would not have even known Him by name, so how were they saved? What did they believe in? The answer is very simple: from Genesis to Revelation everyone is saved by faith through the grace of God and in the Old Testament they were saved by faith in a coming deliverer, a coming Savior, we could say that they were saved by faith in Jesus Christ, vaguely perceived, we could go back to the beginning where we have the first man and the first woman who rebel against God and God comes and brings. judgment upon them, but in the midst of that judgment there is grace and God speaks that the seed of the Serpent and the seed of the woman are hostile to each other, but that eventually the seed of the woman will fatally conquer what will happen to them.

The fatal blow to the seed of the serpent says there that the man called his wife Eve because she was the mother of all living, well I don't think that means that she was the first woman so that all the offspring came from her. I think that It means more than that, that she was actually exercising faith in the promise that there would be a descendant of the woman who would eventually deal the death blow to evil in the world. That promise plays out in various ways as the narrative unfolds. things get really bad and God brings judgment to Hannah on the whole world and then he rescues Noah and his family and then God makes a new beginning and then that seems to go down the drain pretty quickly and God makes a new beginning with Abraham and then , in the story of Abraham we read that Abraham believed in Yahweh and his faith was credited to him by righteousness, so because Abraham believed what God said was true, they were able to have a covenant relationship, so Abraham was except by faith in the Lord and then as Abraham's family, Abraham's family grows into the nation of Israel, God makes a covenant with them and creates a priesthood and a system of worship and tells them how how their Torah relates to him and how they should treat each other.

Basically, a great audiovisual communication that when you don't believe in the Word of God, when you disobey the will of God, there has to be punishment, there has to be death, but it should be obvious from the sacrificial system itself that this failed to eliminate the blame. because they had to keep doing it again and again and this is the point made by the author of Hebrews that the priests never sat down because they never finished their work they had to offer sacrifices again and again and that is why the continuity of the offering The sacrifices were a message in and of themselves to the ancient Israelites that this is not the answer in and of itself, but rather points toward a sacrifice that will come that will ultimately satisfy the wrath of God and satisfy the indignation that God has because the Covenant relationship has been broken and Ultimately this is based on whether or not you are a believer in Yahweh or a believer in the Lord or you are not a believer in the Lord and so this has played out throughout the Old Testament when you get to e.g. , to wisdom literature such as the book of Proverbs he says that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom well, the fear of the Lord is a way of talking about the covenant Loyalty, fidelity and loyalty within the relationship of the Covenant with Yahweh. you look, you look at the proverbs he says in proverbs chapter 3 don't trust in yourself trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge it he will make your paths straight and then he says fear the Lord and then he It says love the Lord do not despise his discipline all of this has to do with faith in who God is and what he says and his promises and his instructions and along with that we have the promise of a coming deliverer that unfolds in such a way that In Genesis 49 it speaks of a scepter that comes from the tribe of Judah there was a king who came from Judah and in the messages of the false prophet Balaam says that there is a king who comes the cry of the King is among them a star will come from the tribe of Judah and that is why there are promises of a coming king, these are developing throughout the Old Testament when we come to the New Testament and we see Paul explaining the good news that has come in Jesus Christ, for example in Romans chapter 3 it says that God passed overlooked the rebellion, the sin, the transgression in the past because it was waiting for the coming of Jesus Christ, whose death on the cross would pay the penalty for our rebellion and sin, so in the Old Testament basically there are

people

who look forward to Jesus Christ perceived vaguely that you have a person like Jobe, his friends think that he is in it, he is experiencing all these problems because he sinned, he knows that he has a good relationship with God, that he is a believer in the Lord, so he doesn't understand why he goes.

Through this difficulty he wants an audience with God where God will vindicate him and prove him right in court and he argues that somewhere there is a kinsman redeemer for me, the closest relative who will take his part, plead his case in the court. court and defend him and I would say it is Jesus Christ, who perceives very vaguely that he is waiting for the arrival of a coming Savior who will take care of the problem and then now that we have the coming of Jesus Christ, we have the Gospels, we have the life of Christ we have his death we have his resurrection and we have the good news preached by his qualified agents the Apostles, instead of looking forward we are looking back at the event that brings salvation to the world thanks for watching honest answers don't forget to subscribe