If Salvation comes through the Grace of God.. Not through works...How are the Jews before Christ saved?

Answer 1

Ryan got it right.
The Jews under the Old Covenant and even before looked forward to Messiah - their Redeemer kinsman. The Oldest book of the Bible, Job, expresses the hope of a future resurrection and salvation through God's appointed Savior:

"Oh, that my words were written!
Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!

That they were engraved on a rock
With an iron pen and lead, forever!

For I know that my Redeemer lives,
And He shall stand at last on the earth;

And after my skin is destroyed, this I know,
That in my flesh I shall see God,

Whom I shall see for myself,
And my eyes shall behold, and not another.
How my heart yearns within me!"

Job 19:23-27

Salvation has always been and will always be by Faith, for the simple reason none have earned it by works.

In the great faith chapter, Hebrews chapter 11, this is how the author sums up matters relating to the great men of faith listed in the chapter:

" And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us."
Hebrews 11:39-40

That is to say, they did not come into their promised hope until Messiah came, and saved them together with us, through His resurrection from the dead.

Answer 2

There was never a time before The Messiah, He existed at the beginning.

Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

John 8:58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
John 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

He was just as gracious then as He is today, He doesn't change, we do.

Heb 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yes and forever.

Exo 22:25 "If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest.
Exo 22:26 "If you ever take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge, you are to return it to him before the sun sets,
Exo 22:27 for that is his only covering; it is his cloak for his body. What else shall he sleep in? And it shall come about that when he cries out to Me, I will hear him, for I am gracious.

Psa 86:15 But Thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.

Salvation was upon the children of Israel "Jews" through the terms of the covenant with YHVH, His instructions or Torah.

Exo 19:5 'Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine

The "New Covenant" is still with the children of Israel and the stranger who takes hold of the covenant.

Jer 31:31 "Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

Salvation is with His people.

John 4:22 "You worship that which you do not know; we worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

"Jews" and "Gentiles" are saved the same way since the beginning, through observing the commandments of YHVH. Not the "works" of man.

Mat 15:3 And He answered and said to them, "And why do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

Mat 15:9 'BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.'"

The Commandments of YHVH are not "works", it is love for Him.

Exo 20:6 but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.

John 14:15 "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
John 14:16 "And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever;

Answer 3

Same as the rest of us thru God. Salvation is of the Jewish. We are all sinners and all of us must repent

"I am not sent but to the lost sheep of Israel." (Matthew 15:24) In the end, God will save others through Israel. Again, he said, "…salvation is of the Jews." (John 4:22)

Answer 4

If you read Paul's letter to the Romans, you will find in chapters 9 through 11 some intertesting details to answer your question. In fact, Israel will be saved, according to the Christian Scriptures. How? With God nothing is impossible. But the time has not yet arrived. Until you read those chapters, just remember :

Romans 9:

15 For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”

16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

Answer 5

The same way we are today. "By Grace are ye save through Faith, not of yourselves. lest any man should boast". Ephesians 2:8 The Jews before Christ look to the Cross in Faith believing Jesus was coming, We look back at the Cross in Faith believing the Jesus came.

Answer 6

Judaism shows us (Jews) how to atone for our sins. It is called the process of teshuvah.
This process includes:

Ceasing to commit the forbidden act
Regretting what he or she has done
Confessing before God
Firmly resolving never to repeat those actions
Aside from this standard process of Teshuva, someone who has committed a crime against another human being is required to ask the person for forgiveness, and make it up to them. If one stole from his fellow, he must return the stolen item; if one has pained his fellow in any way, he must placate his fellow to achieve forgiveness.

The High Holidays are times that are especially conducive to Teshuva. Yom Kippur (the day of atonement) is a day of fasting at the culmination of which Judgement for that year is sealed. Therefore, Jews strive their hardest to make certain that they have performed Teshuva before the end of the day.

For more on atonement in Judaism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atonement_in_judaism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teshuvah

Answer 7

Well what did King David say? "David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him."

Salvation was always by faith.

Likewise Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness

Answer 8

They believed God! and their faith grew to become into shown via their works. What they did or did not do confirmed they trusted God. God had to offer them the present of religion in simple terms as he nevertheless does right this moment and the article of their faith grew to become into God in simple terms because it is going to be right this moment. without God given faith, the religion is in simple terms straightforward faith that each and everybody human beings have and the article of straightforward faith isn't the Lord, yet in in spite of human beings have faith in.

Answer 9

Well, according to Dante they are in the first level of hell which is not so bad. According to some, they were waiting for Jesus to open the gates of heaven so they could go through because that is what happened when Adam and Eve sinned, the gates of heaven closed.

Answer 10

They believed in the promise of a future Messiah. When the Jews died, those who were faithful to God and kept His Law went to Sheol to wait for the coming Messiah. After Jesus died on the cross, He descended "into hell" to preach to those who were held captive, ie, the faithful Jews.

Those who accepted the terms of the New Covenant in Christ's blood were taken by Christ into Paradise.