The prophet Jonah knew the voice of the Lord and knew exactly what God commanded him to do, but decided not to do it, fled, and suffered for it. Millions of Christians act the same way: they know there are commandments, they know God has not changed, but they ignore the powerful and eternal Law and choose the message of their heretical leaders. Just like Jonah, their punishment on Judgment Day is certain. Do not follow leaders; follow Jesus, who trained His apostles to obey the Law strictly. They all obeyed the Sabbath, circumcision, the forbidden meats, the use of tzitzits, the beard, and all the other statutes of the Lord. The Blood of the Lamb does not cover rebels; obey while you are alive. | “You have commanded your precepts, that we should keep them diligently.” (Psalm 119:4)
Many want the beautiful promises they read in the Old Testament, but despise the divine process. They ignore the Law of God given by the prophets and, even so, imagine that they will be protected, blessed, and received in heaven with hugs and kisses, as if the Most High rewarded disobedience. This will not happen. The Father sends to the Son those who please Him, and the way to please God is to seek to obey His powerful and eternal Law. Jesus trained apostles and disciples in obedience to the Father and, like them, Jews or gentiles, we must keep the Sabbath, circumcision, the forbidden meats, the 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)
On Judgment Day, many Christians will be rejected. They all had the Bible, and the powerful and eternal Law was before them, but they traded it for deceptive sermons from leaders who taught disobedience with an appearance of holiness. The weeping will be great because the choice was conscious: they ignored the “thus says the Lord” to follow what was popular. Jesus taught obedience to His Father’s commandments to the apostles and disciples and, like them, Jews or gentiles, we must keep the Sabbath, circumcision, the forbidden meats, the tzitzits, the beard, and all the other statutes of the Lord to inherit eternal life. 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)
It is simply incredible that millions of people in churches believe that what God wants from them is to live in declared disobedience to His laws given to His prophets in the Old Testament. By the way they live, they understand that it is the disobedient who benefit from the sacrifice of the cross. Nothing in the words of Jesus suggests that the holy and eternal laws of His Father were given to be ignored. However, as absurd as it may seem, this is the inevitable result of accepting the false doctrine of “unmerited favor.” Salvation is individual. No gentile will be taken to heaven without seeking to follow the same laws that Jesus and His apostles followed. Do not follow the majority because they are many. The end has already come! 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)
In several passages of Scripture, God praises His faithful children. He was so pleased with the faithfulness of some that He did not wait for the final judgment and already took them to heaven, as He did with Enoch, Moses, and Elijah. If the doctrine of “unmerited favor” were true, the faithfulness of these people would be irrelevant, for their actions would not influence anything. But the truth is that God observes souls, and when He finds one after His own heart, He decides that it deserves all good things. Besides blessings and protection, He sends it to His Son for forgiveness and salvation. What God never does is send disobedient souls to Jesus. | 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
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)
