The law was given by Elohim beginning with the creation of the angels as the law is Elohim’s arbiter of free will. The law was infused within the human genome on Day-6 and the moral attributes of that spiritual law was to be arbitrated by the conscience as the law was to act as a bulwark against societal extinction by mitigating unrestrained narcissism that is foundational to the sin-nature inherited from Adam (Romans 5:12).
The “spiritual law,” written upon the heart of humanity, is also foundational to the codification of the Code of Hammurabi and Sinai’s Commandments, the Law of Moses, as Sinai, a fragmented-abbreviated codification of the spiritual law, was given Jacob’s children as a bulwark against compromise with paganism that inundated the Tribes and mandated servitude to Baal and Molech; servitude to false deities which would have stymied Elohim’s eschatological plans “to destroy the works of the Devil” via His Messiah (1 John 3:8b) via a battle strategy known today as “The Gospel of Grace” that was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10).
Ultimately, Elohim’s purpose through the Law of Moses was as a “tutor” to point wayward Jews and Israelite’s to their need for Messiah by faith (Galatians 3:24); unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of Jacob’s children reject their “tutor” just as they reject their Messiah, Yeshua (Galatians 3:24), and cling to self-righteousness through vain attempts to keep the Law in pursuit of righteousness in the flesh as opposed to faith (Romans 9:30-33).
Concerning the Jew, Israelite and Hebrew Roots fanatic that pesters me about the Tanakh and their loyalty to same…
Jesus entered Time through the Tribe of Judah and came to a people under the Law Covenant and made every attempt to redeem those people for the Father’s eschatological plan for Time and Eternity but those people were stubborn and arrogant and clung to the Law through self-righteousness while rejecting faith and belief in their Messiah…the Tanakh failed as did Jacob’s children as are you. The Tanakh is a roadmap, not the destination. You weary me. The Judgment of Messiah against you will be righteous and dreadful.
Serious theological error touted in a religious forum: “Jesus took away sin at His baptism.”
Jesus’ Baptism had NOTHING to do with sin but was a Jewish purification ritual that Jesus employed to make Himself “theologically acceptable” to the Jewish community as Jesus came specifically to Jacob’s children as He was seeking to proselytize them in the Gospel of Grace as Jesus was to prepare Jacob’s children as ministers of the Great Commission; An eschatological endeavor foreordained by the Father that Jacob’s children rejected.
For the record, John 3:5 has absolutely NOTHING to do with water baptism as an element of salvation but is simply a comparison/contrast to natural birth v. spiritual rebirth. It is ONLY the blood of Jesus our Messiah that atones for sin, NOT water.
Elohim promised to bless both Abraham and Ishmael but both Judaism and Islam have morphed into “religions” of death and hopelessness. What happened?
Elohim’s promises to Israel through Abraham, to Ishmael via Hagar, are predicated upon obedience (Deuteronomy 28). Neither Israel or Islam honored Elohim but each chose an alternate path; Judaism chose self-righteousness through law and ultimately murdered their Messiah upon a tree while simultaneously demanding that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children; Ishmael’s genealogy was defiled by a charismatic demon-possessed nomad named Muhammad who provided an oral and written tradition of thievery, deceit, murder, extortion, blasphemy, pedophillia, ultimately culminating in demonic possession and the worship of Satan as Islam’s god, Allah. Elohim is not the root of this evil, humanity is.
A Nation of people who defile Elohim’s will cannot survive. Only a remnant of Israel’s children will escape the “second death” in Hell due their rebellion in unbelief (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27). Islam has been given-over to the demonic and its followers will suffer the second death, a judgment similar to their god, Satan-Allah (Revelation 20:10). Elohim will not be mocked.
One-Nation under God?
This truism is also relevant for the United States of America, one-Nation under God founded upon the precepts of Christianity for the sole-eschatological purpose of proselytizing the Nations in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, a blessed Nation that was ordained to honor the Great Commission that Israel rejected.
Tragically, America has chosen to reject Elohim, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit’s leadership as America has chosen to serve the Devil through narcissism, aberrant sexual defilement, the murder of innocence via infanticide i.e. abortion. America will surely be relegated to a third-world status monetarily, militarily, morally, ethically, as the World rapidly progresses toward Armageddon, a nuclear war between the unholy alliance of Russia, China, Islam/Iran v. Israel; again, Elohim will NOT be mocked.
Policing a “free society” today? I don’t recommend it…
I was a Houston Police Officer for 31-years. Law enforcement is my niche…I bleed blue but law enforcement in America died to the demonic influence of WOKENESS, LGBTQ-gender insanity, Affirmative Action mandates, a selfish – self-obsessed society of narcissists, hedonists, childish cowards…Municipal-County-State-Federal administrators who are sold-out to Political Correctness advocating lowered hiring standards in morality, ethics, sustainable mores, norms, values, essential to a sustainable and wholesome society and a honorable law enforcement community.
As my years in law enforcement progressed the Progressive Insanity and its demonism progressed exponentially and I tearfully observed WOKENESS murder American Law Enforcement and destroy the society it is tasked to police.
I would NOT recommend anyone enter a career in law enforcement today as it will destroy your life and the life of your family if you truly desire to hold fast to what is good and wholesome and enforce laws you’re sworn to enforce.
American society is devolving into anarchy, chaos, a filthy defilement in the demonic; therefore, hold fast to Jesus Christ, obey the Holy Spirit, love what is good and honorable…let the World die in Hell…just don’t compromise with it!
The “religions” of Islam and Judaism are pathways to death in Hell, let’s briefly discuss Islam…
Islam’s Allah is Satan masquerading as an angel of light via the Arabic moon god (2 Corinthians 11:14). Islam is a demonically rooted “religious cult” whose founding “prophet,” Muhammad, emanated from the “wild donkey” Ishmael (Genesis 16:12) who is the illegitimate child born of adultery between adulterous Abraham and Hagar.
Muhammad is a 7th-Century nomadic pedophile thief who is a demon possessed, sexually addicted, murderer who plagiarized the Torah to construct the Quran in hopes of enticing the Jews in Media to follow his new religion…a demonically rooted religion of death that birthed the Islamic Caliphate who murdered, butchered via the sword, Jews and Christians by the millions until temporarily stopped in 1929.
Islam is a religion of the devil who will join an unholy alliance with China, Russia, Iran/Islam to come against Jerusalem Israel in the near future, this nuclear encounter will trigger Messiah Jesus’ 2nd-Advent and the initiation of His Millennial Kingdom.
There is nothing but Hell awaiting the Islamist and those deceived by Satan who is the demonic god of this World (2 Corinthians 4:4). The demonically deceived Islamist must repent and trust fully in Jesus our Messiah if they desire life in Eternity (John 14:6).
Mark 16:16 – Does Jesus teach that water baptism is an element of salvation?
If one studies…you will know that Messiah never teaches an alternative to repentance and “faith” as key to salvation…”belief” in Messiah by faith is what engenders covenant with the Father (John 3). For instance, many legalists, charasmatic deceived, quote Mark 16:16 as a proof text that Jesus espoused water baptism as an element of salvation.
16 “The one who has believed and has been baptized will be saved; but the one who has not believed will be condemned.” Mark 16:16 (NASB)
First of all, Mark 16:9-20 is questionable as “inspired” Scripture as it’s not found in early manuscripts but was probably added by a scribe as a conclusion to Mark’s rather abrupt ending and it is believed the scribe never intended it be included in the Scriptures but placed it as a subtext or addendum; this is why better translations bracket [ ] vs 9-20 with a margin note that states,
Mark 16:9 Later mss add vv 9-20
Mark 16:20 A few late mss and ancient versions contain this paragraph, usually after v 8; a few have it at the end of the ch
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Second, Mark 16:16 does not teach water baptism as an element of salvation as Jesus said that he who “believes” and is baptized will be saved; this is a true statement, he who “believes and is baptized” will be saved but Jesus clarifies what the element of salvation actually is in part “b” of the Scripture… “but whoever does not believe will be condemned.” Those who use Mark 16:16 in an effort to prove water baptism saves are guilty of the Negative Inference Fallacy.
Nothing supplements the sinless blood of Jesus as the initiator of covenant with the Father by faith. Water baptism is commanded for the believer, the redeemed in Jesus and is an act of obedience that follows salvation by faith in Jesus as Messiah.
Caution: when a teacher, preacher, tells you that salvation from death in Hell manifests through faith in Messiah Jesus “plus” keeping the Ten-Commandments or Jesus “plus” good works or philanthropy or water baptism, know that you are in the presence of evil/deception; therefore, runaway!
Don’t be deceived by adding anything to the sole-sufficiency of Jesus to save by faith, alone. Our works, our attempts to keep laws, days, diets, baptisms, has absolutely NOTHING to do with establishing New Covenant relationship with the Father (Ephesians 2:8-9; Galatians 2:16). Only by humble repentance of sin and sincerely trusting-believing in Jesus as Messiah who died for you to pay your sin-debt will you find life in the Kingdom of God (John 3; Luke 13:3).
If you trust in anything or anyone other than Jesus as Messiah for New Covenant relationship with the Father, you will not find life in the Kingdom (John 14:6; John 3). Christians don’t live their daily life pursuing Sinai or letters, the Christian honors the Father through faith in the Son (John 6:29) and obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit subsequent salvation (Galatians 5:16); this, not through letters or law but through the production of fruit which fulfills all law; fruit, against which there is no law (Galatians 5).
It is through the law of the Spirit of life (Romans 8:2; Romans 7:6) via a redeemed conscience subsequent salvation (2 Corinthians 5:17) that the Father is pleased and saving faith is validated as authentic; in this, there is peace with Elohim (Romans 5:1).
Deceived child of Jacob stated: “When Judaism changed the name YAHWEH & YAHUSHUA, most people follow, but when Shabbat is insisted, only few follow.”
Christian rebuttal,
Jesus is Messiah, Jesus is Elohim, and He knows His Name in 7100-languages throughout the Earth and Judaism is a religion of hopelessness as it touts self-righteousness through law-keeping while the adherents to Judaism perish daily in their sin and ultimately Hell due to unbelief (Galatians 2:16; John 8:24).
The Sabbath edict, provided Israel by Elohim in Exodus 16, enslaves those deceived by the Law Covenant as a path to righteousness; this too is a spiritual illness in spiritual ignorance and arrogance.
Yeshua as Messiah coupled with sincere repentance is the ONLY Way to life via New Covenant relationship with the Father (John 14:6). The Jew and Israelite and Hebrew Roots fanatics will believe this truism and live or they’ll continue in religious nihilism and perish in Hell in their sin (John 8:24).
30 What shall we say, then That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; 31 but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. 32 Why Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, 33 as it is.
If human kind is saved from death in Hell by “faith,” why Jesus?
Jacob’s children, many of whom frequent these forums to express their disdain and loathing for the New Testament and Jesus as Messiah in the New Covenant, will cite Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zechariah, Amos, Hosea and Ezekiel suggesting that Elohim, working through these prophets by divine inspiration, declares that He will save the Israelite who repents from wickedness and that Elohim’s chosen people, Israel, “all of Israel will be saved” (Isaiah 45:17; Romans 11:26).
First of all,
The promises of Elohim to Israel’s children relevant to the one who repents and turns from his wicked ways shall be saved are the very same parameters every human being has been subject to from Adam forward. When a man or woman in the Old Testament expressed sorrow for their sin, a contrite spirit toward behavior that condemned their conscience, and that man or woman expressed “faith” in Elohim as Creator, Provider, Sustainer, they entered into a covenant of righteousness (a right standing) with the Father (Hebrews 11).
When the individual Israelite or Jew under the Law Covenant expressed sorrow for sin and honored Yahweh by faith through believing in Him as Elohim, our Creator who is True, Holy, Faithful, that Israelite or Jew was saved from death in Hell by their “faith,” not Torah Law, not self-righteousness, not through a Rabbi or Priest or animal blood or diet or days.
Second,
There exists no special salvation dispensation in Scripture based upon one’s genetics or affiliations. Every Old Testament Israelite, every Jew, every Gentile, must come to the Father by “faith” in order to establish a covenant of righteousness (a right standing) with Elohim.
Why Jesus?
Where the Jew and Israelite err and ultimately find them self in Hades-Sheol/Torments subsequent death of the body is their spiritual lack of knowledge, their stubbornness and refusal to believe that Yeshua is Messiah and that His blood shed for them at Golgotha is the only atonement the Father will accept as payment for sin (John 3; John 14:6; 1 Peter 1:19).
Though Old Testament men and women initiated a righteous relationship with Elohim via faith, their sin had not received the mandated atonement first pictured in Genesis 3:21 and codified in Leviticus 17:11 and reiterated in Hebrews 9:22; that is, without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin.
Yes, these Old Testament saints honored Elohim through repentance and faith but the primary requisite for entrance into the Kingdom subsequent death of the body in Time is forgiveness of sin via blood atonement, NOT just any blood (Hebrews 10:4) but the blood of the Spotless Lamb of Elohim who entered Time specifically “to destroy the works of the Devil” (death, Hell, the grave) via blood atonement provided at Golgotha and confirmed by Messiah with the words “It is finished” (1 John 3:8b; 1 Peter 1:19; John 19:30).
The Soul and Sheol,
Every Old Testament saint that died in body having established a relationship of righteousness with Elohim, the soul of that saint was relegated to Sheol-Paradise awaiting Messiah’s blood atonement.
Messiah, while His body of flesh lie in the tomb for three-days, Messiah entered the region of Sheol (“Hades” in the Greek text) and preached liberty to the captive saints there and escorted them in disembodied spiritual form into the Kingdom “where nothing impure is permitted to exist” (Ephesians 4:7-10; 1 Peter 3:19; Luke 16:19-31; Revelation 21:27).
The Soul subsequent Messiah’s blood atonement,
Today, subsequent Messiah’s blood atonement and resurrection, every Christian that dies in body is immediately translated into the presence of our Lord awaiting the resurrection of the righteous (2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 3:21; Acts 24:15; Luke 14:14).
Every man or woman who has died in body from Adam forward having rejected relationship with Elohim by faith and those born in the Age of Grace who have rejected Messiah Jesus for the forgiveness of sin, these unrighteous dead are interned in Sheol-Hades/Torments to this very day awaiting the Judgment of the Condemned that will manifest immediately subsequent Messiah’s Millennial Reign (Revelation 20:11-15). Sheol-Paradise is currently vacated.
In conclusion,
There has never existed a Path to the Kingdom of Elohim subsequent death of the body in Time other than through Jesus Christ our Messiah by faith (John 14:6).
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