The packaging is attractive, but the content is deceptive and deadly. The confused and contradictory theology that so many leaders preach today is one of the serpent’s tactics to keep souls away from what God really requires: to obey all His commandments revealed by the prophets who came before the Messiah and by the Messiah Himself. Only these does the Father send to the Son for forgiveness and salvation. While many are enchanted by beautiful words, the enemy keeps them far from the faithfulness that moves the Father’s heart. God did not ask for doctrinal creativity, He asked for obedience. Salvation is individual. Obey while you are still alive. | “Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” (Revelation 14:12)
The claim that God created a separate plan of salvation for the Gentiles because the Jews rejected Christ is false. The first churches were made up of Messianic Jews. Joseph, Mary, Peter, James, John, Matthew, and all the apostles and disciples were Jews who believed in Jesus as the Messiah. None of them abandoned faith in Christ after the crucifixion, and to this day there are Jews who follow Jesus. There have always been rebels in Israel, but God never broke the eternal covenant with Abraham. We Gentiles are united to Israel by being faithful to the same laws given to Abraham’s descendants, laws that Jesus and His apostles also followed. Do not follow the majority just because they are many! | The foreigner who joins himself to the Lord, to serve Him, thus becoming His servant… and who holds fast to my covenant, I will also bring to my holy mountain. (Isaiah 56:6-7)
Many do not know that between Abraham and Jesus there was an interval of about two thousand years, the same period between Jesus and the present. There were many social changes over the time from the day God established the covenant with Abraham until Christ, but despite this, Jesus, His family, friends, and apostles remained obedient to the laws the Father gave to His people. In none of the Gospels did Jesus teach that Gentiles who believed in Him would be saved without following the same laws that He and His apostles followed, nor did He prophesy that someone would come after Him to teach a plan of salvation without His Father’s laws. Do not follow the majority because they are many. The end has already come! Obey God’s laws while you are alive. | “Blessed are those who hear the word of God [Old Testament] and obey it.” (Luke 11:28)
It is a very grave mistake to put words in Jesus’ mouth and preach what He never preached, but that is exactly what so many churches do when they invent a “plan of salvation for Gentiles” in which obedience to the powerful and eternal Law of the Father would be dispensable. During all the days the Messiah walked among the people, He never prophesied that, after Him, someone would arise, inside or outside the Bible, with authority to design a different plan of salvation from the one that always existed. What we see instead is Jesus and His apostles setting an example for all human beings, obeying the entire Law: Sabbath, circumcision, forbidden meats, tzitzits, beard, and all the other statutes of the Lord. Salvation is individual; obey while you are alive. | “The assembly is to have the same laws for you and for the foreigner residing among you; this is a lasting ordinance.” (Numbers 15:15)
There is no limit to what we can present to the Most High. Whether in the area of physical or emotional health, finances, or relationships, God gets involved with power in the lives of those who please Him. But the Father does not pour out His interventions on those who live rejecting His commandments. Protection, healing, and help belong to those who seek to faithfully obey the Law He gave us in the Old Testament and that Jesus and His apostles lived every day. When the soul proves its faithfulness, God moves heaven and earth on its behalf. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority, obey while you are alive. | “We receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.” (1 John 3:22)
To disobey God’s Law is to rebel against Him. The devil started this rebellion in heaven, passed through Eden, through the Jews, and now has reached us, the Gentiles. Many teach that if we believe in Christ, disobeying the Law does not affect salvation, but Jesus never taught such a thing. This lie is part of the devil’s plan against the Gentiles, begun right after Jesus returned to the Father. People forget that the serpent is determined to convince the entire human race of the same lie he used with Adam and Eve: that nothing bad happens to those who disobey God. Salvation is individual. No Gentile will ascend without seeking to follow the same laws given to Israel, laws that Jesus Himself and His apostles followed. Do not follow the majority just because they are many. | “Ah! My people! Those who guide you mislead you and destroy the way of your paths.” (Isaiah 3:12)
Feelings have never been a thermometer to measure whether God is pleased with us. Feeling happy or joyful does not mean divine approval, just as sadness does not mean rejection. What defines our position before God is obedience. Sad or joyful, we are right with the Lord when we honor Him through obedience. God made an eternal covenant with His people, and we Gentiles are not part of this covenant because of emotions, but because of obedience. When the Father sees this faithfulness, He pours out His love, unites us to Israel, and sends us to the Son for forgiveness and salvation. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority, obey while you are alive. | Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord! will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven (Matthew 7:21)
Many in the church like the idea of having an intimate relationship with God, hearing His voice clearly, being guided by Him, receiving His blessings, and, in the end, ascending with Jesus. These are great desires, but they believe they can achieve all this without obeying the laws that God gave for His people to follow. Unfortunately, things do not work that way. Unless someone seeks to faithfully follow all the Lord’s laws in the Old Testament, God does not send him to the Son, for He does not consider him part of His people. All the apostles and disciples of Jesus were faithful to God’s laws, and we Gentiles are neither superior nor inferior to them. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority just because they are many. Obey God’s Law! | “The Lord guides with unfailing love and faithfulness all who keep his covenant and obey his demands.” (Psalm 25:10)
On Judgment Day, millions of Christians will be horrified when they see that they were deceived by their leaders with the false doctrine of “unmerited favor.” They will accuse the leadership, but it will be too late, because each one chose to follow men instead of following what God had already revealed. In none of the four gospels did Jesus teach a plan of salvation for Gentiles separate from obedience to the Father’s Law. There is only one plan, and for more than three years the Savior trained apostles and disciples to obey God in everything. Jews or Gentiles, we must live as they did, keeping the Sabbath, circumcision, forbidden meats, tzitzits, the beard, and all the other statutes of the Lord. Salvation is individual: obey while you are alive. | “The assembly is to have the same laws for you and for the foreigner residing among you; this is a lasting ordinance.” (Numbers 15:15)
The prophets of the Old Testament, such as Abraham, Moses, Jeremiah, and Isaiah, were the human beings with whom God communicated most directly. Through these faithful servants, He gave us instructions on how to be blessed and forgiven of our sins by the sacrifice of the Lamb. However, churches teach that the laws God gave through these messengers are no longer valid, and claim that those who insist on obeying these laws have rejected Christ and will go to hell. Jesus never taught such a thing, but people prefer to live in the illusion that, even openly disobeying God, they will be received in heaven with smiles and hugs. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority just because they are many. Obey while you are alive. | “Surely the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.” (Amos 3:7)
