How Were OT Saints Saved?

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ChumbaCasino .com Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. The question often comes up, how did

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Old Testament saints get saved? As if they got saved somehow differently than all people.

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What we end up seeing in the book of Hebrews is that the Old Testament saints looked forward to what the

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Messiah would do. So they would have sacrifices, burnt offerings, things like this that they would atone for sin, but they always knew that was just a picture of what was to come.

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The Old Testament saints looked forward to the Messiah's coming when the suffering servant, as described in Isaiah 53, would come and be that final sacrifice.

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Now, many people tried to argue that Old Testament saints were saved by works, as if there's some other way to be saved other than grace alone, by faith alone, in Christ alone.

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No, what we end up seeing is they were saved the same way everybody else is, though they looked forward to Christ, and we have the foreknowledge of looking back and seeing what

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Christ has done. So we look at what Christ has done in the past, they looked at Christ would do in the future, we're both saved by grace.

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