God made us physical beings, and that is why many of His laws involve actions in the physical. None of these laws should be neglected, and we should never be so proud as to treat them as trivial or be ashamed of them. Jesus and the apostles followed all of God’s laws as they were given: they kept the Sabbath, were circumcised, wore the tzitzit, did not eat unclean foods, and kept their beards. If we truly wish to live as Jesus and His apostles did, we must follow these same commandments. At no time in the Gospels did Jesus say that Gentiles could live differently from His apostles. Do not follow the majority just because they are many. The end has already come! Obey while you are alive. | “I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me; and they have obeyed your word [the Old Testament].” (John 17:6)
God does not accept substitutions. He is pleased with those who do exactly what He asks and rejects those who know His requirements but do something different. The first proof of this rule was with Abel and Cain. Cain did not offer something bad to God; in his mind, the fruits of the earth seemed like a good offering. However, God rejected it because it was not what He had asked for. God gave us His laws through the prophets of the Old Testament and Jesus in the Gospels so that they would be obeyed exactly as they were given. Only those who are willing to follow what God has commanded us, just as it was said, please the Father and are sent to the Son for forgiveness and salvation. | “You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.” (Psalm 119:4)
One reason why many leaders do not want their followers to obey the laws that God gave us through the prophets of the Old Testament is that they themselves do not obey and do not plan to do so. They prefer everyone to be like them, as this creates group security. Moreover, they need to please the public to keep their salary, knowing that if they instructed members to follow God’s Law, few would remain in their churches. The situation is sad for both leaders and members, but at the final judgment there will be despair, for whatever the reason, they preferred this world to eternal life. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority just because they are many. The end has already come! Obey while you are alive. | “You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.” (Psalm 119:4)
The salvation of the Gentiles did not begin with the coming of Jesus, as many repeat without examining the Scriptures. From the beginning, any Gentile could be purified by the blood of the Lamb by joining the people of the covenant and obeying the same commandments they obeyed. The Father does not change: He welcomes the Gentile who honors the laws given to the nation set apart for His glory and then sends him to the Son. That is, no one, Jew or Gentile, is sent to Jesus while rejecting clear commandments: keeping the Sabbath, refusing unclean meats, honoring circumcision, not shaving the beard, wearing tzitzits, and other precepts that the apostles and disciples faithfully obeyed. Obey while you are alive. | The foreigner who joins himself to the Lord, to serve Him, being thus His servant… and who holds fast to my covenant, I will also bring to my holy mountain. (Isaiah 56:6-7)
The devil is cunning and can deceive in many ways, through leaders, beautiful words, and even the mind itself, leading man to stray from the true path of the Lord, imagining he is on the right path. But whoever remains faithful to God’s holy Law, revealed in the Old Testament and by Jesus in the four Gospels, is protected. Obedience is the shield that the enemy cannot penetrate. Whoever keeps the commandments of the Most High, without changing anything at all, walks safely under the Father’s light. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority, obey while you are alive. | Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked… But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. Psalm 1:1-2
Dividing history into two dispensations to justify disobedience is an invention of men inspired by the serpent. These heretics teach that God required obedience to His powerful Law only from the Jews, but not from the Gentiles. Jesus never taught this and affirmed that He came only for the lost sheep of Israel. Christ did not create a new religion for Gentiles. The reality is that there is no prophecy promising men, inside or outside the Bible, with the mission to alter the plan of salvation that has always existed and offer eternal life without submission to the Law. The Blood of the Lamb is only applied to those who repent and prove it by seeking to obey the whole Law, whether Jew or Gentile. Obey while you are alive. | The foreigner who joins himself to the Lord, to serve Him, being thus His servant… and who holds fast to my covenant, I will also bring to my holy mountain. (Isaiah 56:6-7)
Jews and Gentiles are the same: both are sinners who need God’s mercy and forgiveness to be saved. The only difference is that God decided to choose a small and fragile nation to bring His Messiah, and He chose Israel. Deep down, we are all the same, and it could have been any other nation, but God chose Israel, and whether we like it or not, salvation comes from the Jews. We must accept this divine choice and abandon the illusory idea that there is salvation outside of Israel. Any Gentile can join Israel and be sent to Jesus by the Father for salvation, but will need to follow the same laws that He gave to Israel, laws that Jesus Himself and the apostles followed. | The foreigner who joins himself to the Lord, to serve Him, being thus His servant… and who holds fast to my covenant, I will also bring to my holy mountain. (Isaiah 56:6-7)
From the fall in Eden until today, there has never been a time when obeying God’s Law made the blood of the Lamb unnecessary. On the contrary, the Father sent the Lamb precisely because of the few who seek to obey His laws and need the forgiveness that only the blood can grant. Obedience and sacrifice have always walked together in the plan of salvation. The teaching that the Gentile must choose between obeying God’s Law or following Jesus is an old lie, coming from the same serpent that, from the beginning, tries to turn souls away from faithfulness to the Creator. Jesus and the Father are one in purpose: both require obedience. 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 he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven (Matthew 7:21)
Whenever an order is given, it is expected to be obeyed; otherwise, that order would reveal weakness, lack of morals, or absence of authority. But that is exactly how millions of Christians treat the powerful commandments of the Lord, as if they were optional suggestions given by a weak God, and not direct commands from the Creator of the universe. They say they love Him, but ignore what He commanded through the prophets before the Messiah and by the Messiah Himself. They deceive themselves, because there is no salvation for the rebellious; the Father only sends to the Son those who honor Him through obedience. Salvation is individual. Obey while you are still alive. | Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord! will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven (Matthew 7:21)
Nowhere in the Scriptures do we read about a covenant of faithfulness that God made with the Gentiles; there are no promises of future blessings, deliverance, or salvation for the Gentile nations. The only eternal covenant in the Scriptures was made with Abraham and his people, sealed with the sign of circumcision. The idea that Jesus founded a religion for the Gentiles, with new doctrines, traditions, and without the laws of Israel, has no support whatsoever in the words of Christ. Do not fall into this error. The Gentile who seeks salvation must follow the same laws that the Father gave to the chosen nation for His honor and glory. The Father sees his faith and courage, despite the obstacles, unites him to Israel, and leads him to Jesus. This is the plan of salvation that makes sense, because it is true. | The foreigner who joins himself to the Lord, to serve Him, being thus His servant… and who holds fast to my covenant, I will also bring to my holy mountain. (Isaiah 56:6-7)
