Sin can be described in many ways, but no human definition does justice to how offensive it is to the Most High. In heaven there will be no sin, nor sinner, and this alone reveals the seriousness of disobedience. Many do not realize that to sin is simply to violate God’s Law. Except for the laws related to the temple, which cannot be kept because the temple does not exist, all the other laws of the Lord are eternal and remain fully valid. Ignoring this is to walk toward eternal death, because whoever continues transgressing the Law remains in sin, and whoever remains in sin will never be sent to the Son for forgiveness. Salvation is individual. Obey while you are still alive. | “Whoever says, ’I know Him,’ but does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” (1 John 2:2-6)
A good part of the churches say that the powerful and eternal Law of God was abolished, but they cannot point to a single place in the four gospels where Jesus exhorts the people to stop obeying what the Father had already decreed, whether for Jews or for gentiles. If this change were real, there would have been a clear instruction from the Master, for it would be a gigantic break with everything God taught from the beginning. Instead, the apostles and disciples, who learned daily from Him, kept the entire Law: the Sabbath, circumcision, the forbidden meats, the tzitzits, the beard, and all the other statutes of the Lord. Salvation is individual; do not follow the majority; obey while you are alive. | “Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith in Jesus.” (Revelation 14:12)
The Father only allows gentiles to have their sins forgiven by the sacrifice of His Son when they join the people He set apart for Himself with an eternal covenant. God is not desperate for souls, and He will never break the covenant He made with Abraham to accommodate the rebellion of the nations; He does not change, His promises do not change, and His Law does not change. Salvation only comes to the gentile when he decides to follow the same laws that the Lord gave to Israel, the same ones that Jesus, the apostles, and disciples obeyed every day. The Father observes our dedication, recognizes our faithfulness, and then sends us to the Son for forgiveness and eternal life. This is the plan of salvation that makes sense, because it is the true one. Obey while you are still alive. | “Whoever says, ’I know Him,’ but does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” (1 John 2:2-6)
Many in the church think that the salvation of the gentiles began only after Christ returned to the Father, but this is not true. Two thousand years before Jesus was born, when God set apart a people for Himself and chose Abraham and his descendants, He also included the gentiles who lived with Abraham in the eternal covenant sealed with the sign of circumcision. Nothing has changed. Today, we gentiles are saved in the same way, by following the same laws that the Father gave to the chosen nation. The Father sees our faith and courage despite the challenges, unites us to Israel, blesses us, and sends us to Jesus for forgiveness and salvation. This plan of salvation makes sense because it is the true one. | “The assembly must have the same laws, which will apply both to you and to the foreigner living among you; this is a perpetual decree.” (Numbers 15:15)
The teachings of Jesus were always directed to His own people. The question was never whether or not to obey the Law, everyone knew it was sacred, but whether they would accept Jesus as the Messiah sent by the Father. We, the gentiles, already recognize that Jesus is the Messiah; what we lack now is to live in faithfulness to the same laws that the Father gave to the nation He set apart for Himself with an eternal covenant. The apostles, who were taught by Jesus Himself, obeyed all the laws revealed by God in the Old Testament and faithfully followed the Master. By doing the same, the Father unites us to Israel and, at the right time, will make us ascend with Christ. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority, obey while you are alive. | The foreigner who joins himself to the Lord, to serve Him, thus becoming His servant… and who remains firm in My covenant, I will also bring him to My holy mountain. (Isaiah 56:6-7)
The faithfulness of God’s creatures has always been tested by obedience. It was so in Eden, when the Lord tested Adam and Eve; it was so in the desert, when He tested the heart of Israel; and it is so now, when He tests us, the gentiles. The test has not changed, only the time. The challenge is the same: to remain faithful to all of God’s commandments, revealed in the Old Testament, even if the whole world rises against us. The Father observes those who obey Him with courage and sincerity. These are the ones He recognizes, blesses, unites to His people, and sends to the Lamb for forgiveness and salvation. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority, obey while you are alive. | The foreigner who joins himself to the Lord, to serve Him, thus becoming His servant… and who remains firm in My covenant, I will also bring him to My holy mountain. (Isaiah 56:6-7)
To claim that God’s Law is impossible to keep is to accuse the Lord of being unjust and deceitful, as if He demands something He knows no one can give. The reality is that all the Lord’s laws can be kept, and must be, if we want to be sent to Jesus for forgiveness and salvation. The only laws we do not need to obey are those that are beyond our reach, such as those related to the Temple, which was destroyed in the year 70 AD. No gentile will be taken to heaven without seeking to follow the same laws that Jesus and His apostles followed. There is no other way. Do not follow the majority just because they are numerous. The end has already come! Obey while there is life. | “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them; and I will raise them up at the last day.” (John 6:44)
If there is anything evident about God, it is that His instructions are not mystical or enigmatic, but always practical, involving physical actions. Even when there is symbolism, God inserts physical elements into the process. The sacrificial system, for example, was full of symbolism, but the slaughtering of the animal and the shedding of blood were real actions in the physical world. Many in the churches like to apply symbolism to God’s laws for convenience, because deep down they do not want to obey. The truth, however, is that unless we follow all of God’s laws exactly as He gave them to us in the Old Testament, we do not please the Father. And the Father only sends to the Son those who please Him. | “You have commanded your precepts, that we should keep them diligently.” (Psalm 119:4)
Until the day Jesus rose and returned to the Father, there was only one plan of salvation for all sinners. Both Jews and gentiles needed to seek to obey the powerful Law of God in order to then be purified by the blood of the Lamb. This has always been, and continues to be, the true plan of salvation, established by the Creator Himself and lived by all His faithful servants. Only years after the ascension did men, inspired by the serpent, invent an alternative path that promises salvation without obedience to God’s Law. That plan did not come from heaven. The Father does not change, His Law does not change, and He only sends to the Son those who honor Him through obedience. Salvation is individual. Obey while you are still alive. | The foreigner who joins himself to the Lord, to serve Him, thus becoming His servant… and who remains firm in My covenant, I will also bring him to My holy mountain. (Isaiah 56:6-7)
The only protection we have against the heresies of the enemy is to accept only what is supported by the words of Jesus. Whoever ventures outside this protection will be subject to all kinds of deception from the serpent, just as happened with Adam and Eve in Eden. The plan of salvation taught in most churches did not come from Christ, but from men who appeared years after Jesus returned to the Father. We are saved by living as the apostles and disciples lived, for they were taught directly by the Master. They believed that Jesus came from the Father and obeyed all the Father’s commandments. Do not follow the majority, follow only Jesus. | “Blessed are those who hear the word of God [Old Testament] and obey it.” (Luke 11:28)
