The faithfulness
Hashem is true G-d. David said:
(Psalms 98:3) He hath remembered His mercy and
His truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the
salvation of our God.
(Psalms 146:6) Which made heaven, and earth,
the sea, and all that therein [is]: which keepeth truth for ever:
(Lam
3:22) [It is of] the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because His
compassions fail not.
(Lam 3:23) [They are] new every morning: great
[is] Thy faithfulness.
(Mic 7:20) Thou wilt perform the truth to
Jacob, [and] the mercy to Abraham, which Thou hast sworn unto our fathers from
the days of old.
(Rom 3:1) What advantage then hath the Jew? or
what profit [is there] of circumcision?
(Rom 3:2) Much every way:
chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
(Rom
3:3) For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith
of God without effect?
(Rom 3:4) God forbid: yea, let God be true,
but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy
sayings, and mightest
overcome when thou art judged.
Faith in Hebrew
is emunah. Emunah is faithfulness, confidence. Do you remember these lines about
Abraham:
(Gen 15:6) And he believed in the LORD; and he
counted it to him for righteousness.
Forefathers of the Jewish people - Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob - were true to Hashem. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Daniel, Mordecai
etc. were true to G-d too.
The faithfulness was overestimated in Israel.
(Prov 14:22) Do they not err that devise evil? but
mercy and truth [shall be] to them that devise good.
Shaul said about Timotheus:
(Phil 2:19) But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send
Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your
state.
(Phil 2:20) For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally
care for your state.
(Phil 2:21) For all seek their own, not the
things which are Jesus Christ's.
(Phil 2:22) But ye know the proof of
him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
There was a severe sentence for adultery in
Israel.
(Numb 5:12) Speak unto the children of Israel, and
say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against
him,
(Numb 5:13) And a man lie with her carnally, and it
be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and
[there be] no witness against her, neither she be taken [with the
manner];
(Numb 5:14) And the spirit of jealousy come upon him,
and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy
come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not
defiled:
(Numb 5:15) Then shall the man bring his wife unto
the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth [part] of an
ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense
thereon; for it [is] an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing
iniquity to remembrance.
(Numb 5:16) And the priest shall bring her near, and
set her before the LORD:
(Numb 5:17) And the priest shall take holy water in
an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the
priest shall take, and put [it] into the water:
(Numb 5:18) And the priest shall set the woman before
the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her
hands, which [is] the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand
the bitter water that causeth the curse:
(Numb 5:19) And the priest shall charge her by an
oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast
not gone aside to uncleanness [with another] instead of thy husband, be thou
free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
(Numb 5:20) But if thou hast gone aside [to another]
instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee
beside thine husband:
(Numb 5:21) Then the priest shall charge the woman
with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make
thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to
rot, and thy belly to swell;
(Numb 5:22) And this water that causeth the curse
shall go into thy bowels, to make [thy] belly to swell, and [thy] thigh to rot:
And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
Messiah Yeshua was true to Hashem:
(Matt 26:39) And He went a little further, and fell
on His face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup
pass from Me: nevertheless not as I will, but as Thou [wilt].
(Phil 2:6) Who, being in the form of God, thought it
not robbery to be equal with God:
(Phil 2:7) But made Himself of no reputation, and
took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of
men:
(Phil 2:8) And being found in fashion as a man, He
humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross.
(Phil 2:9) Wherefore God also hath highly exalted
Him, and given Him a name which is above every name:
(Phil 2:10) That at the name of Jesus every knee
should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things] in earth, and [things] under the
earth;
(Acts 4:12) Neither is there salvation in any other:
for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be
saved.