Salvation: church theology vs biblical doctrine

I have been compiling the fundamental differences between the church's teaching on salvation and the bible's version. My presentation of the different teachings is based on 1 Pet 1:9, “we are receiving the outcome (goal) of our faith, the salvation of our souls.” If we take the core truth out of this verse, it's that salvation is the goal of the christian faith. We must remember that Peter's letter was addressed to the Elect or saints of the diaspora who THEMSELVES were receiving the GOAL of their faith and suffering persecution which was related to spiritual affliction.

The church tells us that we receive the goal of our faith at the inception of our faith or when we accept Christ. This begs the question, how can it be possible for the goal of the faith to be received or achieved when we begin in the faith? If you run a race, how is it possible to reach the finish line as you begin the race? It's logically and fundamentally impossible. So here is are the two versions:

Biblical Salvation - a 3 step process, I=>W=>S
INCEPTION, WALK then SALVATION

I - Accept Jesus into your heart by faith and you WILL BE saved. (this indicates a time in the disciple's future)

W - Walk in the footsteps of the faith, RESISTING the devil (1 Pet 5:9), STANDING firm and CONTENDING for the faith (according to Jude 1:3), PATIENTLY ENDURING a time or season of TESTING by trial, TRIBULATION and AFFLICTION with long suffering.

S - SALVATION and the simultaneous REVELATION of Jesus from heaven in blazing fire (1 Pet 1:13-15) resulting in completed sanctification, holiness, and the full measure of righteousness.

The church's version - a 3 step process, I+S=>W

INCEPTION and SIMULTANEOUS salvation then a WALK in faith.

I + S - Accept Jesus into your heart by faith and you are instantly saved.
Here, the twisting of YOU WILL be saved is interpreted to mean YOU ARE saved. As you enter the faith and in baby faith, you receive IMMEDIATELY your salvation without undergoing any sort of TESTING or TRIBULATION. Also there is nothing to contend with for your salvation.
Contending means to STRIVE, FIGHT or STRUGGLE and what do we know about a STRUGGLE? Paul tells us our struggle is not against FLESH and BLOOD, but against SPIRITUAL FORCES of WICKEDNESS. In short we must contend with the devil in the spirit.

W - From the point of believing they have received salvation, the new christian begins to walk in faith, because the church tells them they are saved. Eventually doubts creep into the minds of some, but these very healthy doubts which should prompt further study and investigation are ignored, and often regarded as the work of Satan trying to diminish their faith. When doubt arises we ought to examine ourselves with sober judgement not chase fantasies; we should take heed lest we fall.

Regarding the battle of the saints against the enemy:

1 Tim 6:12 says that we must “EXERT all our STRENGTH in the HONOURABLE STRUGGLE for the faith.

Tyndale's Heb 10:32 tells us to “CALL TO REMEMBRANCE the days that are passed, in the which, after ye received light (the truth), YE ABODE a GREAT FIGHT in ADVERSITIES.

Psalm 35:1 says “Contend O Lord with those that contend with me, fight against those who fight against me.”

A person who walks according to the church walks IN VAIN. Why? Because the future blessed hope which walking and standing daily in faith brings closer, is already thought to have been received. The definition of faith is a hope which you perceive or expect, which as yet remains unseen or unreceived. There would be NO POINT walking in faith if you knew that you had already received what you hoped for. You would in reality be walking with no hope at all. You would be walking in a state of hopelessness.

James 1:3 “The TESTING of your faith produces ENDURANCE”
Luke 21:10 “By your ENDURANCE your will protect your lives" (gain life)
Rom 5:3 “TRIBULATION brings about PERSEVERANCE”
Matt 10:32 “He who PERSEVERES to the END WILL BE SAVED"

From these we can make a reasonable deduction and with the help of KEY words linking together:

Tribulation produces perseverance, which brings about endurance, which is brought about by faith undergoing testing or trial. By persevering and enduring (standing steadfast) to the end of this tribulation, we will be saved and gain life or enter life. Those who enter life, enter the kingdom and they are the ones who are worthy of glory and honour. Look up the hymn, "pilgrims progress" to get an idea of the kind of faith which necessary for salvation. The word is CONSTANCY by rooted faith.

This fits well with what we know about the saints who must first undergo tribulation BEFORE they are RAPTURED, RAISED-UP or GLORIFIED. The saints are NOT going to leave the ground and soar into heaven, they will instead remain on terra firma, but have souls which have shed the FALLEN NATURE caused by SIN and have put on or assumed the RISEN NATURE brought about by SINLESSNESS, the wages of righteousness.

The bible calls this process translation, resurrection, or metamorphosis. The saints who do the will of God will enter the Kingdom of heaven by spiritual conversion and so will begin their superior ministry on earth with souls that are heaven bound and no longer earthbound. The souls of the fallen and deceived will be SUBJECT to those men and women who will have AUTHORITY to bring those souls to judgement. This is why the saints are also referred to as the KINGS of the earth - they have divine authority and POWER to RULE over the fallen.

The soul's fallen state is revealed in dreams

The fallen nature is revealed to the believer in a way which warrants reflection, but will in most cases be dismissed as folly or trivia. Not many Christians seem to understand that the dream life is really the epicenter of the spiritual life. When a person begins to pray and read the word of God each day, there is a quickening which begins in the spiritual life and this manifests in an intensified dream life. If you are not dreaming then it means something has caused the spiritual life to dry up and that requires light and truth from the holy spirit to reveal possible causes.

Three types of dream have dominated my struggle in the last three years and I prayed into the significance of each type because I wanted to understand why my spirit was doing those particular things.

The first type is what I call the “walking or running” dream and sometimes there is a glancing down at the feet. When I began my deliverance walk three years ago, there was the distinct sense that my spirit was “heavy”. I could feel a distinct pressure of my spirit's feet walking on the ground, so that running was done in short bursts and that heavy feeling accompanied me into the waking hours. Three years later that weighty sense has disappeared so that now I get the impression that my spirit is barely making contact with the ground. In many dreams I am skipping or sliding around on my feet as though they were skis. In some cases I have experienced extensive mid-air vertical flights before once again touching ground.

The second dream I call the “rising and falling” dream because in those dream sequences there is a straining of my spirit to get airborne, followed by a floating, then a returning to ground. When I began my journey there were very often strange utterances from my spirit which I never expected and couldn't understand. Penn-Lewis talks about the spirit being in either a pure state (driven by the holy spirit) or in a mixed or filthy state (driven by the unholy spirits).

After much prayer, I am now with the impression in my heart and confident that these dreams are all part and parcel of the souls journey from the fallen to the risen nature. This ultimately means that the soul is becoming lighter (going from bad to good) and that this sense of lightness has carried over into the waking hours so that I am now enjoying the day with a profound sense of inner peace and calmness whereas before there was an enormous amount of anxiety coupled with feelings of moodiness and inner burden. The depressed person will also have that feeling in the day of carrying a burden, which is simply the weight of sin being borne by the soul and reflected in the dream life as an invisible weight which keeps the soul pinned to the ground, whereas the natural tendency for the soul is to be unweighted or unbound, so that decent is no longer a feature of dreaming.

Recently, I am conscious of dreams where my spirit is the horizontal position. In these dreams I am usually in a bed, and very often with females around me. Sometimes I get out of bed while at other times I am conscious of being awake in the bed but looking into the room. Many of these encounters are initially experienced in a dream but then when I wake up, I am able to sense remnants of the same scene awake, but through closed eyelids. This affirms to me that in the semi-conscious state there is a blurring of the boundaries which govern the physical and spiritual realms, so that a person is able to see into the spirit as they cross over from wakefulness into sleep. Many of you might have experienced this and it is certainly nothing to worry about.

In the scriptures there are many verses which mention the “upright man” and recently after praying into this I have begun to understand that this expression is to do with the spirit man, not the outer man. The upright man is the person with an upright spirit. A spirit which is no longer asleep or horizontal in spirit, but is awake, and when liberated from sin, assumes the vertical position in the spirit. With all things in the fallen realm beneath its feet. The message in these discoveries, is that the dream life is relating to you, the condition of your spirit and you should pay attention to it, as it is a valuable diagnostic tool in determining the state of your inner condition. Your spirit (the inner man) is revealing to your waking cognitive mind, (the outer man) that it is fallen by giving you dreams that show your spirit to be Earthbound or asleep in the horizontal position.

No revival until Christians admit they have not achieved the divine potential

What we are currently dealing with on the physical earth plane is simply a manifestation of the collective spiritual condition. Fallen humanity is spirituality in darkness. Men are fallen, Satan is fallen, therefore men are in hell, even while they go about their business on the face of the earth. The ignorance of men indwelt by sin, blots out the light of truth and constantly works to steer them away from what they must do to free themselves from eternal slavery. In 1 Cor 15:14, Paul warns about having a faith which is in vain because it denies the resurrection. This is a spiritual doctrine outlining the raising of the soul and is represented through the crucifixion mystery. All Christians must be raised to life, but few of us will be nailed to a cross, so how is this going to come about if deeper message of the cross is not admitted or accepted?

Why are our lives plagued with social evils like famine, poverty, crime and warfare? The reason is simply because the spiritual realm humanity currently occupies, is a fallen one. In that fallen realm demons work insidiously in the minds of fallen men to bring about the will of their master on earth. The will of the fallen one is to keep men enslaved and cut off from the realm they must ultimately conquer and move into. In Gen 4:7, God says to Cain, the earthly man: “sin is crouching at your door but you must have mastery over it”. The collective potential of mankind is to break out from the grip of the evil one, by ascending to the place of the one who is good. The kingdom of heaven cannot come down, until men bring it down into themselves. The kingdom cannot advance until men forcefully advance it one man at a time. For heaven to be revealed in us, then the darkness within us has to be admitted, recognised and displaced. How will men do that when they are running around trying to please each other but still ignoring and refusing the will of God?

So, there is a physical planet occupied by physical bodies, while behind the facade of flesh lurks an unseen realm at work co-ordinating the placing of souls into bodies as well as influencing the lives of those souls through their respective incarnations. Unfortunately the heavens are not the same as each other and the bible is clear that man's only enemies are spiritual. Our war is NOT against flesh and blood, but against the rulers and powers of this DARK world. The reason why we have enemies, is because we engage in sin, and the “weight” of this darkness causes our souls to fall to where our enemies live in the heavenly hierarchy. They have surrounded us, darkened our understanding and blinded us to truth. “World” in the biblical sense, goes beyond unspiritual man's understanding, so that he interprets it to mean planet earth and not the fallen spiritual realms which include hell. The world we live in, is NOT planet Earth, but the fallen realms which our souls inhabit while we are alive in the incarnation. During our lives, when we begin to engage in sin, that is when we begin falling. One man's soul remains lightly soiled, while another man's soul is pitch black and utterly corrupted. Both are fallen, both fall short of the mark which is compared to the unsoiled garments or fine linen heavenly garments of the saints.

It's up to each man to recognise that the reason he is separated, shut out from the eternal life and light of God, is because he chooses out of ignorance to remain devoid of the knowledge of God. Instead, men prefer to preoccupy themselves completely with worldly knowledge which can never bring the soul into the blessing of immortality promised by God. “They worship me in vain, their hearts (spirits) are far from me.” In the wisdom of Sirach 39:1,"But he that giveth his mind to the law of the most High, and is occupied in the meditation thereof, will seek out the wisdom of all the ancient, and be occupied in prophecies." Further, in Sir 39:5, "He will give his heart to resort early to the Lord that made him, and will pray before the most High, and will open his mouth in prayer, and make supplication for his sins."


Through the word, God is saying to men, “There is a divine potential which you have not looked into or are refusing to accept. You don't accept it because you are not lovers of the full truth, but are only prepared to accept (out of fear) what you feel comfortable with.” There is “more” and when God has sent heavenly men to reveal that “more”, those men from above are murdered by the ones from below who cannot accept the humbling truth, therefore they must destroy those ones who come to reveal that truth and demonstrate it by their personal achievement of the divine potential (signs and wonders).

Men are now at this time on Earth, without any excuse because the truth has been fully revealed by the words of God (the saints) and also by the written testimonies of those words. Any soul who continues to deny the utility and important contribution of non-canon books is not a whole-hearted lover of wisdom and will be in the strong delusion during these end times. Why? Because they refuse to love the full truth about salvation and so strong delusion is judiciously permitted by God to come upon them. They hear the message but never obey it. They follow rules taught by men not truth taught by the holy spirit. God is basically warning men that the reason for the state of the earth, is that men are spiritually with Satan, not with God. A corruption of spirit and a complete denial of ourselves is what the dire situation amounts to.

The stark truth staring Christians in the face every day, reminds of a time in the faith when amazing things were happening and certain ministers were publicly revered as gods by those they set out to heal and save. Miracles, signs and wonders were the order of the day and whole cities in the Mediterranean were transformed by public demonstrations of the spirit's POWER. All those who were redeemed and healed had spiritual contact and fellowship with the Lord Jesus himself but were actively shunned, opposed, ridiculed and persecuted by scoffing sinners when they testified to the Risen Lord. These men being the very ones which they were trying to win over to the faith. What will happen in the end times when the saints come into their power? Surely things will be no different today than they were then? When the shaming of hypocrites begins with the exposing of “secrets of hearts” and when signs and wonders begin in the midst of blind believers, what do you think the reaction will be from those men who have the outward appearance of Godliness, yet deny it's power? (2 Tim 3:5)

Deliverance by Yaweh through a "judge"

Recently, while doing some research in the Old Testament,(NIV) I discovered the introduction to the book of Judges which gives the following explanation:

"The function of the judge in Hebrew thought, is not to precisely determine judgement according to law, but rather to restore righteousness. The judge is a leader in battle and a ruler in peace. He is conceived as a "charismatic leader" who is empowered by God for the deliverance and preservation of Israel."

In judges 2:16 it says, "Then the Lord raised up judges". The chapter goes on to relate how the Lord would save his people from their enemies, but only while the judge was alive. After the judge died, then the people would regress to ways even more corrupt than their forefathers. In all the bible there is a constant theme of God saving man from his enemies. On a superficial level it seems that man is constantly waging war against his neighbours, but for those with eyes to see the truth according to scripture is that man has no human enemies. Man's only enemy is supernatural and for that reason God and God alone has the power to "save" and "redeem" fallen men who are encircled and imprisoned by the enemy.

Interestingly, when looking at the New Testament scriptures, there are many passages which reveal that to face God's judgement is a pre-condition for serving God. We knoen that in order to be approved as judges, the saints themselves must first face judgement.(1Pet 4:17) Those who "heap up their sins to the limit" face the prospect of judgement sooner than those who avoid sin. Paul was not afraid to admit that he was the worst of sinners.(1 Tim 1:12-17) The definition of judgement in the spiritual sense indicates the soul having to face a period of trial once it's sins reached a critical threshold in the body. This may result in a downward health spiral where the afflicted one must either DO RIGHT and RISE to LIFE, or PERSIST in wickedness and FALL, coming to rest in the company of the DEAD.

To learn this explanation has been a major discovery for me, as it lends support to why we all need God's healings and inner regeneration.

Understanding the covenant change outlined in Hebrews

I am motivated to explain these changes because I feel that there seems to be some confusion, some even asserting that God had some kind of unreasonable mind-change which is not true.

The book of Hebrews provides many allusions given to Old Testament scriptures as well as insight into the structure of the covenants. For those of you who read the word, you will recognize whole sentences which I have used but not given quotations for. Apologies for my laziness!

Worship in the Earthly Tabernacle (lesser/imperfect) Old Testament

1^st Covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly physical sanctuary (tent/building)A two-roomed tabernacle was setup:

1st Curtain, followed by 1^st Room – The holy place: lampstand, table & consecrated bread

2nd Curtain, followed by 2^nd Room – The most holy place: golden alter of incense & gold-colored ark of covenant, containing gold jar of manna, Aaron's budded staff & stone covenant tablets. Above the ark were the cherubim of the glory (heaven) overshadowing the atonement cover

Under the 1^st covenant, priests would regularly enter the outer room to minister, but only the High Priest could enter the inner room, and that only once a year with an animal blood offering for himself (his own sins) and the sins which the people had committed in ignorance. This resulted in ceremonial/outward cleanliness, but did nothing for the priests spiritually.

The holy spirit was disclosing that by still being in existence, the first room's ceremonial and external regulations made through physical gifts and sacrifices were not enough to clear the conscience of the believer. In other words not enough to forgive sins. We are stuck with the old testament worship style today, the only difference being that animal blood is not used – imagine the smell!

Worship in the Heavenly Tabernacle (greater/perfect) New Testament

Jesus' arrival as high priest culminated in his entrance into the non man-made tabernacle. It's is important to understand that this took place as a precursor to his ministry, long before his crucifixion. Instead of the sprinkling of goats and calves blood, he himself obtained eternal redemption by his own blood (sacrifice). In this way he offered his own spirit unblemished to God. Resulting in inner cleanliness. Christ is therefore a mediator of this new covenant because he, by his own sacrifice “brokered” the way into the heavenly tabernacle (heaven). By following the way pioneered and disclosed by Christ, we too are able to enter the greater tabernacle, receive cleansing from sins which defile the soul (conscience) and so are able to serve the living God - in the place where he exists.

This revelation was presented by Christ to the Pharisees and teachers of the law, who sought to obstruct man's entrance into the new way of worshiping God. You can immediately see that the church we have today has through error reverted back to the old testament (worldly) style of worship instead of the new way which was ushered in by the head of the church (Jesus). How did this error creep in? Well, the middle-ages butchering of pious, truth-loving men, often branded “heretics”, proves Satan's desperate attempts at keeping a lid on the truth during those dark times. Since we are living in more enlightened times, we have little excuse not to understand what we have been told.

Jesus unveiled this new covenant so that those who are called by God today may also inherit the promises and blessed eternal inheritance which he inherited as the author of our salvation. Hebrews is very clear that Christ himself received redemption and in this way lives to intercede for those who are undergoing the time of sacrifice we must suffer on the way to receive our inheritance. The path walked by Christ is therefore the one we must also walk for our prize which is waiting for us in heaven - we cannot be anointed as fallen men. You can see now that just as Jesus prepared himself to enter heaven, so we too must undergo the same preparation. The bride of Christ (spirits of believers) must prepare herself if she is to enter the bridal chamber (heaven). While the copies of the heavenly things were to be sprinkled with animal blood, better sacrifices had to be made for the heavenly things themselves. When I say better, I mean a more powerful sacrifice...a human sacrifice as it were. To suffer affliction at the hands of the wicked one, is what amounts to being “put to death” for testing. Without testing, there is no approval, and without approval by God, there is no power to minister.

The high priest ministering in the earthly way would be making entrance into the earthly tabernacle once a year with animal blood. Christ entered heaven itself once and once only with his own blood sacrifice (suffering). While the high priest ministering in the earthly way would repeat the process once a year, Christ provided a way of redemption for all men by a one-time sacrifice. He will never again have to make this sacrifice because he himself received what was promised.

The old testament prophets were talking about the arrival of the redeemer, teacher, healer, savior because his appearance meant the dawn of the apostolic age where a new priesthood set to enter heaven directly would do away with earthly worship and also be able to lay on hands and provide remission for sins directly. The age of prophecy foretold this new priesthood who could offer forgiveness of sins (healing) whereas they (the prophets) did not have the power to offer healing themselves.

By understanding Jesus personal sacrifice, the truth in Heb 9:27 becomes clear. The path of the cross is to die once (face death) and then face judgment which happens when the soul emerges from sin and rises. It's got nothing to do with the soul having one life here on Earth and everything to do with making one sacrifice of yourself, then ascending into glory - which again, is the inheritance of those who undertake this sacrificial work. Heb 9:28 then paints a completely different picture of Christ's Parousia. What the church has failed to grasp are the spiritual sanctification rites of a priest, and this is what Jesus came to explain to the earthly ones who would listen. The message is clear: Clean the inside of the cup and the outside will be washed too. Be ye doers, not just hearers of the word.

Now we have a message being preached by the church which tells us that Christ's redemptive work on the cross has saved us from our sins and that by believing in Christ we are instantly washed and cleansed of all unrighteousness. Oh they make it sound so easy!! There seems to be a deliberate omission and reluctance to reveal the new covenant in it's full truth because that would mean having to face a period of suffering. How many believers would continue to go to church and tithe if they were told they must suffer? It's far easier to keep tithing and hope it absolves us of guilt. This is why the church is reluctant to explain things to believers - because a bunch of empowered priests could be a severe threat to the establishment which survives on donating churchgoers.

The law therefore is only a shadow of the good things that are coming – not the realities themselves. Old testament worship can therefore never make perfect those who draw near to God, as current church-goers prove. We need to understand that we have to now begin the upward journey into the heavenly tabernacle which is where we must worship (in spirit and in truth). The worshipers God seeks, are those that listen to Christ and by making clean the inside of the cup through their own atonement sacrifice, prove themselves to be his followers in deed. By setting aside the first covenant to establish the second, we begin to build the holy (risen) church brick by brick, or soul by soul.

Can you see now why God says, “this is the covenant I will make with them”. I will put my laws in their hearts (spirits). Once sin has been forgiven by this one-time sacrifice, no more sacrifice can be given. That means if we continue to sin after knowledge of the truth has been received, no sacrifice of sins is left, but only fearful expectation of judgement and raging fire. The reason why no-one is overcoming sin, is because knowledge of the truth is obstructed, not understood, or plainly ignored and the sacrifice leading to holiness is never actually made.

This warning is given to those who know the truth, become sanctified (sainted/holy) and then return to sin. For these people the punishment is very severe, because it amounts to the crucifixion of Christ all over again, subjecting him to public humiliation.

The purpose of the new covenant minister therefore, is to achieve sanctity by practical application of knowledge, thereby following Christ into heaven (entering the kingdom) receiving of POWER and also the reward of eternal life by the maintenance of that sanctity. Jesus ministry is superior because it promises the believer better and eternal things.

Why was the covenant changed? Because God found fault with the people who did not keep his precepts and didn't remain faithful. They forgot God and returned to their paganism. In the old covenant, God was known indirectly and physically to the priests who were given the task of giving instruction in the law. This was the reason for Moses bringing the 10 commandment tablets down from Sinai.

The new testament is called “new” because it makes the first one redundant. What is aging and obsolete we are told, will soon disappear. The new testament tablets are written in our hearts and minds and by the adoption of this new covenant with it's heavenly worship, all men will KNOW the Lord, in the way he wants them to. Right now, no-one KNOWS the Lord. They know his word, but they know nothing about the risen Lord as a spirit in heaven. They have not laid eyes on him spiritually, neither do they know anything about what the heavenly realms look like. When all men know God in this way, no-one will have to teach the other one, because ALL will know him (in spirit). By following Jesus, we will receive forgiveness of sins and also the blessing, power and immortality which are the rewards of the saved (holy) soul.

Our Earth is doomed to destruction because men are living their lives with fallen souls and therefore unknowingly cursing the ground on which they walk. When men rise up and collectively overcome their fallen natures, the earth will also inherit a blessing. Forget electric cars, global warming and carbon credits, this is the only way the planet can be healed.

What can be expected when we are saved

With so many Christians out there believing themselves to be saved, let's take a look at what the bible tells us about this eventful day:

1 Pet 1:7, says that the result of our faith, upon completion of our testing, ought to result in the revelation of Jesus Christ. On this day we are supposed to have what the apostles referred to as the "holy vision".

Matt 24:50, the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know. We must persevere to the very end because we know neither the day nor the hour. While many believers seem to think that the mention of slaves obeying their masters relates to God's tolerance of slavery, it actually has a deeper meaning in that it relates to those who are slaves to sin and their relationship to those who have mastery over sin.

2 Pet 3:10, But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. Interestingly, this moment of salvation is expected to come in the night. Again, this is because we are in spirit at night. In Psalms 134:2 we are told that the servants of the Lord minister (worship) BY NIGHT in the house of the Lord. Again in Psalm 16:7-8, "I will praise the Lord, who councils me; even AT NIGHT my heart (spirit) instructs me." Finally, in Psalm 17:3, "though you probe my heart (spirit) and examine me AT NIGHT, though you test me, you will find nothing".

1 Thes 4:16, The Lord descends from heaven (Zion) with a shout (voice of loud command) and the dead in Christ will return to life first. This explains the resurrection as an occurrence initiated with a divine visitation, where the Lord and his forces of light liberate the soul from the lower heavens into the upper heavens. In this way souls of the brethren are brought from death (hell) to life (heaven). Heb 2:10 is relevant, revealing how many sons have been brought into heaven (glory), (by raising them up).

2 Thes 1:7, He will bring relief to those afflicted when he is revealed from heaven, with his mighty angels in flaming fire.

Psalm 72:4, May he vindicate the afflicted of the people, Save the children of the needy and crush/bruise the oppressor.

1 Cor 5:5, I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Heb 9:28, He will come, not to deal with or bear sins, but to bring salvation for those patiently waiting for him. Here Christ's role in flesh as sin-bearer is differentiated from his eternal role as ascended (risen) spirit rewarding the faithful with salvation/redemption.

Interestingly, Tyndale's translation substitutes salvation for health. Let's remember that Paul was healed by God through "forgiveness of sins". From this we can reason that spiritual healing and salvation are milestones on the same path. We walk in faith, receiving a little each healing each day; until this results in a final liberation/salvation/deliverance of the soul out of the world and into the heavens. Salvation is a spiritual concept not to be confused with a physical event.

Rev 1:10, I was in the spirit on the Lords day when I heard a loud voice. Here John talks about the day he was finally delivered from prison (Satanic bondage).

1 Sam 11:13, Saul said, "Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the LORD has accomplished deliverance IN Israel." Israel are those (Jews) who are from Jerusalem (Zion, the heavenly city), not to be confused with the physical Jerusalem.

Saul's words back up what we already know, that sin is swallowed up by our VICTORY and resultant MASTERY over it. By having fought the good fight and having defeated the enemy we will have OVERCOME death and will have dominion over death's forces. They will be UNDER OUR FEET. Our God given dominion over all fallen spirits and souls, including demons and the souls of men who remain fallen, will be returned to us. We will be risen and they will remain fallen. Saul's words confirm what we know about the Lord's completion of his work IN us. Remember, "For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus", Phil 1:6. The situation which exists currently in our churches is that the work of the gospel is misunderstood to be what happens post-sanctification, when it is actually to do with the build-up which results IN sanctification.

1 Cor 1:8, Confirmed (spiritually prepared to serve) and blameless on the day.

In Rev14:5, the blameless have no lie found in their mouths.

Specifically, this is to do with them being in the place of all truth (heaven) and also because sin no longer inhabits (lives in) their souls. In short they have zero dark influence and nothing therefore corrupts the truth which they speak. Zeph 3:13 says "...nor will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouths; they will lie down with no-one who will make them tremble".

Can you see how being "put to death" symbolized how we are to being handed over or subjected to Satan? Since we must all be raised or resurrected, but virtually none of us are going to be nailed to a cross, the way of the righteous is through suffering for the purpose of testing, with righteousness being declared on the Lord's day. You will remember how God's wrath (Satan) came upon Job for the testing of his faith through affliction resulting in his justification.

While many Christians can't seem to pinpoint when their salvation took place, a clearer understanding of what is supposed to happen, reveals that the experience would be something momentous and awesome. Indeed the day and the hour would likely never be forgotten because of the joy it would bring to the suffering believer.