Promessas
As promessas de Deus são firmes e verdadeiras. Nenhuma delas jamais falhou. A Bíblia é um livro de promessas — de amor, proteção, provisão e vida eterna para os que creem.
A fidelidade de Deus
De todas as boas promessas que o Senhor fez, nenhuma falhou. Ele é fiel para cumprir tudo o que prometeu desde a eternidade.
And, hinei, now I am going the derech kol ha’aretz; and ye know in all your hearts and in all your nefashot, that not one thing hath failed of all the devarim hatovim which Hashem Eloheichem promised concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.
Know therefore that Hashem Eloheicha, He is HaElohim, the El HaNe’eman, which is shomer HaBrit and hath chesed with them that love Him and are shomer mitzvot to a thousand generations;
Ne’eman (Faithful) is the One who summons you to your kri’ah (calling). He will do it.
Let us, without wavering, hold firmly to the hoda’ah of Tikveteinu, for Ne’eman is the One having given the havtachah (promise).
So Hashem has given us precious havtachot gedolot cf. 2:19 (great promises) that through these promises you might become [regenerate] deveykus participants with the life of the teva haelohi (divine nature), having escaped the [degenerate] Olam Hazehʼs lust engendered corruption.
Promessas de cuidado e proteção
Deus prometeu estar conosco nas águas e no fogo, fortalecer-nos e nos segurar com a destra da sua justiça. Nada nos separará do seu amor.
Fear thou not; for I am with thee;
be not dismayed; for I am Eloheicha;
I will strengthen thee; indeed, I will help thee;
indeed, I will uphold thee with My yamin tzedek.
When thou passest through the mayim, I will be with thee;
and through the neharot, they shall not overflow thee:
when thou walkest through the eish, thou shalt not be burned;
neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
But they that wait upon Hashem shall renew their ko’ach;
they shall mount up with wings as eagles;
they shall run, and not grow weary;
and they shall walk, and not faint.
For I know the machshavot (thoughts, plans) that I think toward you, saith Hashem, machshavot shalom, and not of ra’ah, to give you an acharit (future) and a tikvah (hope).
Promessas de salvação e vida eterna
A promessa suprema de Deus é a vida eterna em Cristo. Quem crê no Filho tem a vida eterna e a certeza da ressurreição.
For Hashem so had ahavah (agape) for the Olam Hazeh that Hashem gave the matanah (gift) of Hashemʼs Ben Yechid, so that whosoever has emunah in him may not be ne’evad (lost, perish, be ruined with destruction), but find Chayyei Olam.
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to her, Ani Hu the Tekhiyyah and the Chayyim (Life): the one having emunah in me, even if he should die, will live, and everyone living and having emunah in me, never dies. Do you have emunah in this?
Hinei, I have stood at the delet (door) DOFEK (knocking); if anyone hears my kol and opens the delet, indeed I will come in to him and we, the two of us, will dine together at the BEIT HAYAYIN.
The one who wins the nitzachon (victory), in similar manner, will be clothed in lavan (white), and never will I erase him, the [ba’al] shem [tov], from the Sefer Chayyim. And I will make hoda’ah (acknowledgement) of the shem of him before Elohim Avi and before the malachim (angels) of Him.
And for this reason Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is the Metavekh of a Brit Chadasha in order that those who are HaKeru’im (the Called ones) may receive the nachalat olam (eternal inheritance) of the Havtachah (Promise), because a mavet, a kapparat hapeysha’im has taken place that gives them pedut (ransom for redemption, Geulah) from peysha’im (transgressions) that were committed under HaBrit HaRishonah.
Chaverim, now yeladim of Elohim we are, and not yet it is niglah (is revealed) what we will be. We have da’as that when He is niglah, like Him we will be, because we will see Him as He is. And everyone having this tikvah (hope) in Him keeps himself in tohorah (purification, keeps himself pure), even as that One is tahor.
Aliança inabalável
Desde a aliança com Noé até a nova aliança em Cristo, Deus sempre cumpre sua Palavra. Ele nos restaura e nos aperfeiçoa pela graça.
And I will establish My brit (covenant) with you, neither shall kol basar yikaret (be cut off, violently killed) any more by the waters of the mabbul; neither shall there be any more mabbul l’shacheit (to destroy) ha’aretz.
I do set My keshet (bow) in the anan (cloud), and it shall be for an ot brit between Me and ha’aretz.
But now our Kohen Gadol has attained a more fest (excellent) avodas kodesh sherut in as much as he is also the Metavekh of a more fest (excellent) Brit upon which more auspicious havtachot (promises) have been enacted.
Now the Elohei Kol Chen v’Chesed (the G-d of all Grace), the one having bestowed upon you the kri’ah (calling) into His eternal kavod in Moshiach Yehoshua, after you have suffered tzoros for a little while, will Himself restore, confirm, strengthen and establish you.
But Hashem is not slow concerning his havtachah (promise), as some consider slowness, but is demonstrating savlanut (patience) toward you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to teshuva (repentance).
Therefore, having these havtachot (promises), Chaverim, let us submit to his tahorah, cleansing ourselves from every defilement of basar and ruach, perfecting kedushah (holiness) in yirat Shomayim.
But the Kitvei HaKodesh consigned all things under HaChet (Sin), that the havtachah (promise) might be given by emunah in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua to the ma’aminim.
Keep asking and it shall be given to you; keep searching and you shall find; keep knocking and the delet shall be opened to you.
For hitammelut (bodily exercise or training) is kedai (profitable) a bissle, but chasidus is profitable in every way, holding havtachah (promise) of Chayyim now in the Olam Hazeh, and, later, of Olam Habah.