The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life - Jesus Christ, the One Through Whom God Blesses Mankind

 How loving the provision that Jehovah has made through his Son for blessing persons of all races and nations! He has promised deliverance from oppression, sin and death. What a glorious prospect! It is vital for us to appreciate, however, that these blessing will come to mankind only through Jesus Christ. For this reason God inspired the apostle Peter to say of Jesus: "There is no salvation in anyone else, for there is not another name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must get saved." (Acts 4:12) By gaining knowledge of this provision and by exercising faith in God's purpose in connection with Christ, you may put yourself in line for the grand blessings of eternal life. 

For thousands of years men of faith have awaited the fulfillment of this hope, and the promises that God gave them good reason doing so. To the Hebrew family head Abraham, Jehovah made the promise that "all nations of the earth" would be blessed through his "seed." That "seed" proved to be primarily Jesus Christ. (Genesis 22:18; Galatians 3:14-16, 28, 29) God also provided for a priesthood and sacrifices under the law given to Israel. These two pointed forward to Jesus. They directed attention to him as the great High Priest and to the sacrifice of his own human life as the means to take away sins forever and bring deliverance from death. (Galatians 3:24; Hebrews 9:11, 12; John 1:29) Furthermore, Jehovah foretold that the one whom eternal peace would come to humankind would be of King David's family line and would become the king God's Kingdom, ruler over the entire earth. The angel Gabriel, in announcing Jesus' human birth, said: "This one will be great and will be called Son of the Most High; and Jehovah Go will give him the throne of David his father." (Luke 1:32; see also Isaiah 9:6, 7; Daniel 7:13,14) Yes, the entire word of God focuses attention on Jesus Christ as the one through whom Jehovah will administer the blessings through to mankind. - LUKE 2:25-32; PHILIPPIANS 2:9-11. 

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