And besides Habakkuk 2:4 says "Behold, as for the proud one, His soul is not right within Him, but the righteous will live by His faith." and I feel the entire O.T. also shows that a man has to have faith, the very same faith which is counted as righteousness -----and it is only the ability of one to surrender to God, thru Love, which makes them Love Him so, and it is either evident, or it is not, and as such God knows who has surrendered to, and accepts salvation, even before it was clearly preached to Us openly as such,
And Christ's future act, obvously accepts such repentance and surrender to the free gift of God's Love ---even before it was clearly known as to how God would accomplish His purposes openly, and yet I allways believe, that God revealed it one's heart, in such a way, that they knew they Loved God, and God loved them.
And there are passages in Isaiah, and elsewher, which I feel clearly hint more to Christ than You know, because if God opens the "Hebrew" up to one's heart, they can see in Isaiah that Christ would be The Covenant, and The Light, and not just "a" covenant, or "a" light, and Daniel sealed up "The Prophet," and not the "Prophecies,"
So I am sorry, but I allways see nothing but Christ in the O.T., and the struggle of faith ( as Jacob wrestled with God ), which determined /showed, if one truly did repent, and surrender to God -----even before we had such "Terms" defined,
And it was all put on Christ's account, even before He appeared, but again I am sorry, but I feel that God allways knew "What Faith" He required, even before we knew the "details" of such ourselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I refuse to have My faith swayed away from God, and can only see that David had a faith based relationship with God, and when He saw His sins determined He was to be chastised, and punished, He survived such "Hell," as can bee seen in some of His tortured statements in the psalms, but still held to His love of God, and God knew David would endure His Chastisements, and allways Be His,
And even Job, endured in His repentant state of faith, which I feel the true Love of God, once truly established can not be one done, unless it were only an infatuation, and not the true love and surrender, which can make You endure anything, and even when God had to Yell at Job, for not even being able to take more than He did, God shows Us, we can be broken, and think we are defeated, but are not.
I know it is controversial, because I beleive we can give ourselves over to the covenant of wrath/chastisement ( the covenants by day and night, both found mentioned in Jerimaiah ), and be ripped apart, as David was, but if we endure, it is not because it were possible otherwise ----because we were real,
And the argument of "How could one be saved and do..," is nuts, because a saved person, can screw up horribly, but a saved person, just does not want to go out and be a Hitler ----it just doesn't happen -----it's the whole stupid, if a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound -----and the answe is no, it only makes a soundwave, because no one was there to hear it ----and I say, Ahhh Haaa, You Homosapien biggot, because the squirl heard it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( I am not too fond of college brainiacs !!!!!!!!!! )