The Scriptures are filled with wonderful promises that God made to the nation He set apart for Himself and sealed with the eternal covenant of circumcision. These promises are faithful and unfailing, for God, unlike man, always keeps His word. If you belong to the Israel of God, all these blessings are for you and your family. Any gentile can join Israel and be blessed by God, as long as he follows the same laws that the Lord gave to Israel. The Father sees the faith and courage of that gentile, despite the difficulties. He pours out His love on him, joins him to Israel, and leads him to the Son for forgiveness and salvation. | And God said to Abraham: You will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you; and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed. (Genesis 12:2-3)
The plan of salvation being taught to gentiles has no basis in the words of Jesus. It is a terrible deception that turns rebellion into virtue and disobedience into faith. In practice, it is as if man says to God: “I know all Your laws, I could obey them, but I choose not to. I am intentionally disobedient and, even so, I believe I will be saved, because salvation is an unmerited favor.” A soul that thinks this way will never rise. The Father does not send the disobedient to the Son. He only sends those who follow the same laws He gave to the nation He chose for Himself with an eternal covenant. The apostles and disciples of Jesus were faithful to the Father’s laws and so must we be. 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 holds fast to My covenant, I will also bring to My holy mountain. (Isaiah 56:6-7)
Living by faith involves facing fear, silencing natural instinct, and rejecting the false solutions suggested by the enemy. Many seek peace, deliverance, and salvation, but do not find them because they look in the wrong place. Most churches teach a relationship with God in which it is not necessary to obey what the Creator Himself requires of His creatures, a deadly lie that leads souls away from the truth. The real path has remained the same since Eden: to obey every commandment revealed by the prophets before the Messiah and by the Messiah Himself. Only then does the Father delight in us, receive us as His own, bless us, and send us to the Son for forgiveness and salvation. Do not follow the majority. Obey while you are still 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)
God never leaves us alone when we wholeheartedly strive to obey Him in our daily lives. Obedience to the powerful commandments that the Most High gave us through the prophets who came before the Messiah and through the Messiah Himself is the foundation of all intimacy with God the Father and with Jesus. It is when the soul decides to honor each commandment exactly as it was revealed that the Father pours out protection, guidance, peace, and strength to overcome temptations. Many hope to feel God’s presence while remaining in disobedience, but that will never happen, the Father only draws near to those who choose Him above all and prove it by daily faithfulness to His eternal Law. Do not follow the majority, obey while you are alive. | “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord, to walk in all His ways, and to obey His commandments for your own good?” (Deuteronomy 10:12-13)
In various churches, they try to convince gentiles that they do not need to keep commandments such as the Sabbath, circumcision, the beard, and unclean meats because, according to them, “the first Christians also abandoned them.” But that is not an argument, it is condemnation! Since when do we follow the disobedient as an example? The Most High gave us the Messiah as a reference, not men who abandoned the Law. Jesus obeyed everything. And His apostles and disciples, who learned directly from Him, also obeyed everything. Those who came later and rejected the Law did not inaugurate a new path; they merely repeated the error of Eden. Salvation is individual. Obey while you are still alive. | “Whoever says: I know Him, and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” (1 John 2:2-6)
Jesus said that the Holy Spirit would remind us of everything He taught while He was here on earth. Something Jesus never taught in the four gospels is the doctrine of “unmerited favor” and, therefore, we can be sure that this is a false doctrine, from beginning to end, even if it is popular and old. What exists in the gospels is the example of Jesus and the apostles on how Jews and gentiles should live. They all kept every commandment of God: the Sabbath, circumcision, forbidden meats, wearing tzitzits, the beard, and all the other statutes of the Lord. Salvation is individual; do not follow the majority; obey while you are alive. | “The assembly must have the same laws for you and for the foreigner living among you; this is a lasting ordinance.” (Numbers 15:15)
As soon as Jesus returned to the Father, the serpent executed a plan to lead the gentiles to disobey the Creator, the same goal since Eden. The devil inspired talented men to create a religion that exalts God with their lips but rejects His Law in daily life. These false messengers created doctrines teaching that the Son was sent to abolish the Father’s Law. We know they are false, for in none of the four gospels did Jesus warn us about anyone, inside or outside the Bible, who would come to create this special plan for gentiles. What we see in the gospels are the examples of the apostles, who learned from Jesus to obey all the commandments: Sabbath, circumcision, forbidden meats, tzitzits, beard, and all the other laws. Salvation is individual; obey while you are alive. | 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)
The gentile who prays without obeying the Law of God prays as an outsider, and that is why his prayers are almost never answered. This discouraging scenario can easily be changed if he takes courage, stops following the majority, and begins to live as Jesus’ apostles and disciples lived: in total obedience to the laws God gave us in the Old Testament. Jesus was clear in saying that His true family are those who obey the Father, and therefore it is natural that they receive special treatment from the Lord. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority just because they are many. The end has already come! Obey while you are alive. | “We receive from Him whatever we ask because we obey His commandments and do what pleases Him.” (1 John 3:22)
We cannot ignore what the Lord revealed about the plan of salvation. First, that Jesus is the Lamb of God; second, that only those whom the Father sends go to Jesus. And the Father does not send rebels to the Son, but only those who seek to obey each of His commandments exactly as they were given to us by the prophets before the Messiah and by the Messiah Himself. Many wrongly imagine that God gave them the freedom to choose only the commandments that suit them, as if the Most High accepted selective and superficial obedience. But God never asked for adaptations, He asked for total faithfulness. 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 the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven (Matthew 7:21)
Jesus was always clear in teaching that happiness in this present world is a great illusion and that our focus should be on eternal life, where no one can steal our happiness and peace. Many brothers and sisters in churches want to inherit the eternal life that the cross of Christ offers, but do not understand that the only way to come to Jesus is through the Father. Jesus was also clear: no one comes to Him unless the Father sends them. And whom does the Father send to the Son? Anyone? The obedient and the disobedient? By no means. The Father only sends souls who honor Him, seeking to obey all the commandments given in the Old Testament, just as the apostles and disciples obeyed. Do not follow the majority, obey while you are alive. | “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted by the Father.” (John 6:65)
