Since Cain and Abel, it has been evident that God blesses the obedient and curses the rebellious. This divine principle of reward and punishment has remained throughout the entire history of God’s people. When giving us His laws, God was clear: blessings for those who obey, curses for those who ignore them. The choice is in our hands. The idea that Jesus annulled this principle of His Father is an illusion without any support in the four gospels. The gentile who wishes to be saved by Christ must follow the same laws that the Father gave to the chosen nation for His honor and glory. The Father sees the faith and courage of this gentile and pours out His love upon him. The Father joins him to Israel and leads him to the Son for forgiveness and salvation. | Today I am setting before you blessing and curse. You will have blessing if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I am giving you today. Deut 11:26-27
Many Christians continually ignore the powerful and eternal Law of God revealed to the prophets of the Old Testament. In these same books, they read the wonderful promises of protection and blessings that the Lord makes to His people and imagine that they will receive all the good that the Lord promised and, in the end, inherit eternal life. This will not happen. It is obedience that leads to blessings and to the Lamb. Jesus taught obedience to His Father’s commandments to the apostles and disciples and, like them, whether Jews or gentiles, we must keep the Sabbath, circumcision, forbidden meats, tzitzits, the beard, and all the other statutes of the Lord to inherit eternal life. Salvation is individual; obey while you are alive. | “If only they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, so that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!” (Deuteronomy 5:29)
If the doctrine of “unmerited favor” came from God, Jesus would have taught us all about it, for He taught everything the Father commanded Him. He would have said that it is enough to believe to be saved, without the need to obey His Father’s laws, as this doctrine teaches. The warnings in the Sermon on the Mount would make no sense, such as the warning that simply looking with desire is adultery, or that hating someone is like killing; that we must forgive to be forgiven, and many others. The truth, however, is that Jesus did not teach this doctrine, nor did He delegate anyone to teach it after Him. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority just because they are many. The end has already come! Obey while you are alive. | “The word that I have preached, that will judge him on the last day. For I did not speak on my own; but the Father who sent me, He gave me command as to what to say and how to speak.” (John 12:48-49)
All the promises of Jesus in the gospels were directed to the chosen people , those who already obeyed the laws that God gave to the prophets in the Old Testament. Jesus never promised anything to the disobedient. No gentile will be accepted as part of God’s people if he rejects any of the Lord’s commandments, no matter how much leaders try to convince him otherwise. The Father does not change, His laws do not change, and the path to eternal life remains the same: to faithfully obey everything He has commanded. The Father sees obedience, joins the faithful to Israel, and sends him to the Son for forgiveness and salvation. Do not follow the majority , obey while you are alive. | “Blessed are those who hear the word of God [Old Testament] and obey it.” (Luke 11:28)
The voice of the serpent always seems “reasonable,” because it presents itself as an angel of light, with ”balance” and ”common sense.” But the focus has always been the same since Eden: to draw man away from obedience to the living God. That is why so many people inside churches blindly follow their leaders and accept what Christ never preached in the four gospels. What the churches have taught came from men inspired by the devil, years after the Savior returned to the Father. Jew or gentile, the true follower of Christ lives as His disciples lived and obeys the Sabbath, circumcision, forbidden meats, the use of tzitzits, the beard, and all the other statutes of the Lord. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority , obey while you are alive. | “He who says: I know Him, and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” (1 John 2:4)
Many Christians place their hope in the approval of men: they follow friends, follow the environment, follow what “everyone teaches” and call it faith. However, the Word reveals that, from the beginning, God set apart an obedient people and never accepted rebellion disguised as faith. The majority have always rejected the laws that the Lord gave through the prophets and which the Messiah never annulled, but taught and honored with perfect obedience. All the apostles obeyed the Law. Do not be deceived by crowds; fear God and obey all the commandments. 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 reason why so many prayers do not receive a positive answer from God is that most people in the church are not part of God’s people and, therefore, ask as outsiders. Listening to sermons and singing about God and Jesus does not make someone part of His people. God’s people are Israel, whom He set apart with an eternal covenant after approving Abraham. Any gentile can join Israel and be blessed by God, as long as they follow the same laws that the Lord gave to Israel. The Father sees the faith and courage of this gentile, despite the difficulties. He pours out His love upon him, joins him to Israel, and leads him to the Son for forgiveness and salvation. This is the plan of salvation that makes sense because it is true. | The gentile who joins himself to the Lord, to serve Him, thus becoming His servant… and who remains firm in My covenant, I will also bring to My holy mountain. (Isaiah 56:6-7)
Since Eden, God has established a clear and continuous process to rescue souls from eternal death. The sacrifice was never offered to the rebellious, but to those who truly desire to please the Creator. It is the Father who decides who will be saved, and He sends these souls to the Lamb, Jesus, so that they may be purified by His blood. From the beginning, the criterion remains the same: to seek, with faithfulness and perseverance, to fulfill, without exception, the commandments that He revealed to the prophets of the Old Testament. Only these are recognized by the Father and sent to the Son for forgiveness and salvation. The plan never changed. 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)
All of us, gentiles, wish to be guided by God in every decision of life. We want wisdom to choose the right path, we want peace, we want to be happy, and, in the end, we want to ascend with Jesus. These desires are legitimate and possible, but only become reality when we live in obedience to the laws that God gave to His prophets in the Old Testament. That is how the apostles and disciples lived when they walked with Christ: obeying the Father in everything. God does not guide the disobedient, nor bless those who ignore His orders. Only those who faithfully follow His commandments are guided, protected, and, in the end, sent to the Son for forgiveness and salvation. | “What does the Lord require 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)
The great weapon of Satan is false peace. It is when man sins, disobeying the powerful Law of God, and apparently nothing bad happens, that he is encouraged to continue in rebellion. This is the enemy’s most dangerous deception. It is in this spirit that so many Christians live in open disobedience to the laws that God gave us in the Old Testament, assuming that everything is fine simply because they are still alive and things seem to go on as normal. But this sense of security is illusory, it is the peace of the serpent, not the peace of God. Wake up while there is still time. 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)
