Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb, “I, the LORD, am the maker of all things, stretching out the heavens by Myself and spreading out the earth all alone. Isaiah 44:24.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
I call Myself your Redeemer. Redemption is regaining or restoring something lost through a costly act. Redemption involves the restoration to a position of honor for one who has fallen from a higher place to a lower place through sin or some serious violation of integrity and truth. It often involves rescue from bondage (sin, evil, debt) by paying a price (ransom, sacrifice), leading to liberation, reconciliation, and a new purpose or relationship. It’s about being bought back from a state of captivity or guilt into freedom, wholeness, and a new, better existence, encompassing forgiveness, making amends, reconciliation, and finding new life.
I am your Redeemer because I have restored you to Myself, freeing you from slavery to sin and its consequences through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. I love you and I honor you. In Christ you have become holy, blameless and beyond reproach.
But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption. 1 Corinthians 1:30.
I redeemed Israel from slavery in Egypt, using the Hebrew word ga’al, meaning to repossess back into the family. Jesus is the ultimate Redeemer, who paid the price for your sins by His eternal blood through His death, freeing you from the penalty and power of sin.
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace. Ephesians 1:7.
You are redeemed. I have redeemed you with outstretched arm—no longer by the blood of lambs and goats, no longer by silver, but by the precious Blood of My Son. 1 Peter 1:18-19. Through faith you have access to the grace in which you now stand. Romans 5:1-2. You are on redemption ground wherever you go, for you have been redeemed.
All your sins are forgiven in Jesus. You are holy and blameless in My sight in Him. He has redeemed you from the curse of the law and opened to you the Blessing of Abraham and the promise of the Spirit by faith. Galatians 3:13-14.
You have not come to Mt. Sinai but to Mt. Zion. Hebrews 12:22. I gave the Law to Moses on Mt. Sinai but grace and truth come through Jesus Christ on Mt. Zion.
Those who trust in Me shall be like Mt. Zion which cannot be shaken forever. Psalm 125:1. You want to be unshakeable? Build your life on Mt. Zion. It is not the place of commandments but of sacrifice. Christ your Passover has been sacrificed and your sins atoned for and your redemption price paid—an eternal life (eternal life is in My Son) for the eternal life that you lost in Adam, and the life is in the blood. And My Son redeemed you with outstretched arm and you are free from your sins, sickness, and poverty—the curse of the Law—by His Blood.
And He is My arm by which I reach down to save you, heal you, bless you, deliver you, and protect you. Isaiah 53:1, Isaiah 59:16. And He came to Zion, a redeemer, to those of Jacob who turn from sin. Isaiah 59:20. And I made a New Covenant with Him as your mediator, Hebrews 12:24. And this is My Covenant, My Spirit in you and My Words that I have put in your mouth. Isaiah 59:21. So rise up in splendor! Your light has come and My glory shines upon you in the face of Christ.
Mt. Zion is where the Temple was built by Solomon. It was the place chosen by David that had been the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. It was a mountain of the range known as Moriah, the mountain I directed Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac upon. It is across from Mt. Calvary, the highest mountain of that range, where My Son was crucified. And Mt. Zion is the place of the upper room where the believers (120 of them) were gathered on Pentecost when My Spirit returned to dwell in the spirits of men again. Yes, that day Pentecost had truly come. The shadow of the reality had been on Mt. Sinai when I gave the Ten Commandments to the Israelites on the first feast of Pentecost, but it was a shadow of the good things to come. I no longer dwell on Mt. Sinai. With the death and resurrection of My Son, I have moved to Mt. Zion. This is the age of grace, the age of the Messiah, not the age of the Law anymore.
I dwell on Mt. Zion. I have changed from the mountain of the Law to the mountain of grace. On the mountain of the Law righteousness depended on your performance. On the mountain of grace, righteousness depends on Jesus’ performance—and His work is finished. John 17:4. I supply your righteousness under grace. I give you My own righteousness in Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:21.
Everything depends on redemption. The Israelites went from exile to redemption by a sacrifice, not their own work, but the Blood of a spotless lamb, the Passover lamb.
In My language of Hebrew, when you add the letter aleph to the word for “exile” it becomes “redemption.” The letter aleph (the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet) is formed of two yods (the tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet) and a vav (the sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet). The pictogram for the yod is a hand open in blessing and the vav is a connecting letter represented by a nail. And the Aleph being the first letter and having the number one represents Me, My Name, to the Hebrew people, for I am One, and there is none above or before Me. And the pictogram for Aleph is the sacrificial Ox.
Do you see? You add the letter “aleph” to the Hebrew word for exile and it becomes the Hebrew word that means redemption! In man’s exile from access to My Kingdom caused by Adam’s fall you add the sacrifice of the two hands nailed, the sacrifice of My Son, and you have redemption! In Christ I reconciled you to Myself, not counting your sins against you, for I put them all on Him.
Under the Law that I gave to Moses, every first born belonged to Me, and I gave them to My priests, the Levites, and therefore each parent had to pay the redemption price of a five shekels of silver as the price of redemption to the Levites as redemption money. Numbers 18:16. The first born of the ox, the sheep, or the goat, however, were holy and could not be redeemed but had to be sacrificed and their blood sprinkled on the altar. Numbers 18:17.
And when I ordered Moses to take a census of the people, I required every person registered to pay a half shekel as a ransom for himself so that there would be no plague among them. Exodus 30:11-14. And rich or poor paid the same price to make atonement for themselves. Exodus 30:15.
Redemption cost them a price but true redemption cannot be paid for with silver or even the blood of lambs and goats splashed on the altar. No one can redeem the life of another or give to Me a ransom for them—the ransom for a life is costly, no payment is ever enough—so that they should live on forever and not see decay. Psalm 49:7-9. But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are now already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation. He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. Hebrews 9:11-12.
I love you. I am your Father and I paid the price of your redemption with the precious eternal blood of My Son. You are eternally redeemed. Not just from one sin to another but forever. He died once for all. Establish yourself in righteousness, the solid rock of My Word, and you will not be shaken. Know that you are right with Me and that nothing can change that for it does not depend upon your performance but on the performance of My Son. And He never sinned and never will. You are secure in Him. 2 Corinthians 1:21.