Must We Keep The Commandments And Laws Today?
These are the commandments, laws, and
statutes found in the Hebrew Scriptures [OT].
Must We Keep The ETERNAL's Commandments And Laws Today?
Christians claim that the 10 Commandments [the old covenant] was abolished, and that he
['Jesus'], instituted [the new covenant] of forgiveness, but only if you believe in him. (John 6:47).
The people of ancient Israel, in their journey from Egypt to the promised land, came at length to mount Sinai. There the people encamped round about the sacred mountain, as Moses went up unto the ETERNAL, where the ETERNAL spoke to Moses and said:
(Exodus 19:3-6)[1] (KJV) 3And Moses went up unto the ETERNAL, and the ETERNAL called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; 4Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. 5Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: 6And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
The law or covenant was written on tables of stone by the finger of the ETERNAL Himself (Exodus 31:18). When Moses came down from the mount, and witnessed the intervening idolatry of the people in designing the golden calf, he threw down the tablets and broke them (Exodus 32:19). The ETERNAL called him again into the mount and rewrote them (Exodus 34:1). It appears from (Exodus 34:27), that Moses made copies of the tables for the people. The copy which the ETERNAL made was placed in the ark of the covenant (Deuteronomy 10:5), and was not available to the people.
The Ten Commandments Are The Very Essence Of
The Covenant, Between The Eternal And Israel:
(Exodus 34:27-28) (KJV) 27And the ETERNAL said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. 28And he was there with the ETERNAL forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
(Deuteronomy 4:13) (KJV) And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
(Deuteronomy 9:9) (KJV) When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the ETERNAL made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
(Deuteronomy 5:2-3) (KJV) 2The ETERNAL our CREATOR made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3The ETERNAL made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
(1 Kings 8:9) (KJV) There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the ETERNAL made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
(1 Kings 8:21) (KJV) And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the ETERNAL, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
(2 Chronicles 6:11) (KJV) And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the ETERNAL, that he made with the children of Israel.
Yet the 'Christians' Claim The Eternal's Covenant &
Laws Don't Apply To Them, And Have Been Abolished!
Let it be remembered that the law of Moses was the constitution of ancient Israel and ended at the cross (Colossians 2:14). It was a covenant solely between the ETERNAL and Israel (Deuteronomy 5:2). It was to last until 'Christ' came (Galatians 3:16-24). The ten commandments were a vital part of the entire law of Moses (Romans 7:7). Paul clearly teaches that the old covenant [the 10 commandments], are all but abolished (Hebrews 8:13). However, for those under the 'new covenant' we are to hear 'Jesus' and not Moses:
(Romans 7:4) (KJV) Wherefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law by the body of 'Christ'; that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto 'God'.
We are, therefore, not under the law issuing from Sinai. Instead, we are answerable to 'god' under the "new and living way" (Hebrews 10:20) which became operative on the first Pentecost after the resurrection of 'Christ'. Nine of the ten commandments of the decalogue are now a part of the 'new covenant'. Not that these commands were "carried over" or "retained"; but rather they have been restated in the 'new covenant' and even modified somewhat by our 'Lord'. Nine of these ten precepts have always been right, by their very nature, and they always will be right. They were right before Moses ever presented them to the people on tables of stone. They are moral laws that are inherently correct. Since these nine laws did not originate with the Law of Moses, they also did not end with it. Let us notice the 4th commandment separately and its application to the 'new covenant':
The ETERNAL enjoined upon the Israelites the observance of seventh-day worship. They were required to keep it as a memorial of their deliverance from Egypt* (Exodus 31:12-17). Inasmuch as we are not Israelites (descendants of Jacob), and we were never in Egyptian bondage, it is not now, nor was it ever applicable to us as Gentiles. Moreover, it was not included in the 'new covenant' and was, in fact, terminated at the cross of Calvary (Colossians 2:14). The last time the Sabbath is mentioned in the New Testament is in (Colossians 2:16). There Paul issues a warning against those who would seek to bind it. The only commandment peculiar to the Israelite order was the law of the Sabbath. 'Christians' meet for worship today, not on the Jewish Sabbath, but the "Lord's day", the first day of the week (Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:1-2; Revelation 1:10).
*Not only was the Sabbath ordained to commemorate their deliverance from Egypt as they say (Deuteronomy 5:12-15), but it was initially ordained to commemorate the completion of creation itself! (Exodus 20:8-11). But they always overlook this fact, because it doesn't fit in with their false narrative about the perpetual nature of the Sabbath. See the article: Recovering The Lost Sabbath.
However, in order to make such a bogus claim about the Sabbath, they have to completely ignore the fact that the Sabbath is a perpetual covenant, which is A SIGN between the ETERNAL and the children of Israel FOREVER:
(Exodus 31:12-13) (KJV) 12And the ETERNAL spake unto Moses, saying, 13Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the ETERNAL that doth sanctify you.
(Exodus 31:16-17) (KJV) 16Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. 17It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever: for in six days the ETERNAL made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
(Deuteronomy 4:40) (KJV) Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong [thy] days upon the earth, which the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN giveth thee, forever.
(Deuteronomy 5:29) (KJV) O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!
(2 Kings 17:37) (KJV) And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law(s), and the commandment(s), which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other 'gods*'.
So for someone who claims to speak for 'the Father*' who sent him (John 12:49), 'Jesus' either clearly missed those scriptures, or took it upon himself to alter and abolish the terms of the perpetually binding covenant between the children of Israel and Yahweh, of his own volition with absolutely no authority or power to do so. This of course makes one wonder, "who is the Father*, 'Jesus' claims to be 'the Son*' of"?
*NOTE: See the article, Religious Saviors And Their Claims for more on this topic.
Nevertheless, the ETERNAL has something to say about those who break His 'everlasting covenant', namely, His Commandments, Laws, Ordinances, and Statutes:
(Isaiah 24:1-5) (KJV) 1Behold, the ETERNAL maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. 3The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the ETERNAL hath spoken this word. 4The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. 5The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
Do not be deceived, by false priests, rabbis, and so-called 'experts', into thinking it's okay NOT to observe the ETERNAL's Commandments, Laws, Ordinances, and Statutes because the penalties for breaking them have been 'nailed to the cross', as the false apostle Paul claims in (Colossians 2:14). They haven't been 'nailed to the cross'. Far from it.
The ETERNAL's Commandments, Laws, Ordinances, and Statutes were, are, and always will be, binding on the children of Israel and those who wish to be 'a kingdom of priests, a holy nation, and a treasure unto the ETERNAL above all people', but only if you will indeed obey His voice:
(Exodus 4:22-23) (KJV) 22And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the ETERNAL, Israel is my son, even my firstborn: 23And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.
(Exodus 19:3-6) (KJV) 3And Moses went up unto the ETERNAL, and the ETERNAL called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; 4Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. 5Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: 6And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
(Deuteronomy 28:9) (KJV) the ETERNAL shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, and walk in his ways.
The Requirements Of Keeping The Covenant And The
Rewards Or Penalties Of Keeping Or Not Keeping It:
That's right. If you want to be a part of the ETERNAL's future 'Kingdom of priests', in His 'Holy Nation' of sons and daughters, there are requirments. You must revere, love, and obey all the Commandments, Laws, Ordinances, and Statutes written in the Tanakh [old testament].
Here is a small fraction of some examples of how, where, when, and why the requirements of the covenant [Commandments, Laws, Ordinances, and Statutes] were to be observed, as well as some penalties for not observing them, which can be found throughout Scripture:
(Genesis 26:5) (KJV) Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
(Exodus 15:26) (KJV) And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I [am] the ETERNAL that healeth thee.
(Exodus 16:28) (KJV) And the ETERNAL said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
(Exodus 20:4-6) (KJV) 4Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the ETERNAL thy CREATOR am a jealous SOVEREIGN, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
(Exodus 24:12) (KJV) And the ETERNAL said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
(Exodus 34:28) (KJV) And he was there with the ETERNAL forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
(Leviticus 5:17) (KJV) And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the ETERNAL; though he wist [it] not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
(Leviticus 22:31) (KJV) Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I [am] the ETERNAL.
(Leviticus 26:2-4) (KJV) 2Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the ETERNAL. 3If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 4Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
(Leviticus 26:14-16) (KJV) 14But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15But And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 16But I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
(Leviticus 27:34) (KJV) These are the commandments, which the ETERNAL commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
(Numbers 37-41) (KJV) 37And the ETERNAL spake unto Moses, saying, 38Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: 39And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the ETERNAL, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: 40That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your CREATOR. 41I am the ETERNAL your CREATOR, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your SOVEREIGN: I am the ETERNAL your CREATOR.
(Numbers 36:13) (KJV) These [are] the commandments and the judgments, which the ETERNAL commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho.
(Deuteronomy 4:2) (KJV) Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish [ought] from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the ETERNAL your CREATOR which I command you.
(Deuteronomy 4:13) (KJV) And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, [even] ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
(Deuteronomy 4:40) (KJV) Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong [thy] days upon the earth, which the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN giveth thee, forever.
(Deuteronomy 5:29) (KJV) O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!
(Deuteronomy 5:31) (KJV) But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do [them] in the land which I give them to possess it.
(Deuteronomy 6:1-2) (KJV) Now these [are] the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the ETERNAL your CREATOR commanded to teach you, that ye might do [them] in the land whither ye go to possess it: That thou mightest fear the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
(Deuteronomy 6:17) (KJV) Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the ETERNAL your CREATOR, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
(Deuteronomy 6:25) (KJV) And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the ETERNAL our CREATOR, as he hath commanded us.
(Deuteronomy 7:9-11) (KJV) 9Know therefore that the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, he [is] ETERNAL, the faithful SOVEREIGN, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; 10And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. 11Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
(Deuteronomy 8:1-2) (KJV) 1All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the ETERNAL sware unto your fathers. 2And thou shalt remember all the way which the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and] to prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
(Deuteronomy 8:11) (KJV) Beware that thou forget not the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day...
(Deuteronomy 8:19-20) (KJV) 19And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the ETERNAL thy CREATOR, and walk after other 'gods', and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. 20As the nations which the ETERNAL destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the ETERNAL your CREATOR.
(Deuteronomy 10:4) (KJV) And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the ETERNAL spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the ETERNAL gave them unto me.
(Deuteronomy 10:12-13) (KJV) 12And now, Israel, what doth the ETERNAL thy CREATOR require of thee, but to fear the ETERNAL thy CREATOR, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the ETERNAL thy CREATOR with all thy heart and with all thy soul, 13To keep the commandments of the ETERNAL, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
(Deuteronomy 11:1) (KJV) Therefore thou shalt love the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always.
(Deuteronomy 11:13-15) (KJV) 13And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the ETERNAL your CREATOR, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
(Deuteronomy 11:26-28) (KJV) 26Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; 27A Blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the ETERNAL your CREATOR, which I command you this day: 28And A Curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the ETERNAL your CREATOR, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other 'gods', which ye have not known.
(Deuteronomy 15:5) (KJV) Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.
(Deuteronomy 19:9-13) (KJV) 9If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three: 10That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the ETERNAL thy CREATOR giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee. 11But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities: 12Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. 13Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
(Deuteronomy 26:13) (KJV) Then thou shalt say before the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, I have brought away the hallowed things out of [mine] house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten [them].
(Deuteronomy 26:16-19) (KJV) 16This day the ETERNAL thy CREATOR hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. 17Thou hast avouched the ETERNAL this day to be thy SOVEREIGN, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: 18And the ETERNAL hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; 19And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the ETERNAL thy CREATOR, as he hath spoken.
(Deuteronomy 27:1) (KJV) And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.
(Deuteronomy 27:10) (KJV) Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
(Deuteronomy 28:1-2) (KJV) 1And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, to observe [and] to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the ETERNAL thy CREATOR.
(Deuteronomy 28:9) (KJV) the ETERNAL shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, and walk in his ways.
(Deuteronomy 28:12-19) (KJV) 12The ETERNAL shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. 13And the ETERNAL shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do [them]: 14And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other 'gods' to serve them. 15But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the ETERNAL thy CREATOR, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 18Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 19Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
(Deuteronomy 28:45-46) (KJV) 45Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee: 46And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
(Deuteronomy 30:8-10) (KJV) 8And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the ETERNAL, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. 9And the ETERNAL thy CREATOR will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the ETERNAL will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: 10If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the ETERNAL thy CREATOR, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the ETERNAL thy CREATOR with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
(Deuteronomy 30:16) (KJV) In that I command thee this day to love the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
(Joshua 22:5) (KJV) But take diligent heed to do the commandments and the law, which Moses the servant of the ETERNAL charged you, to love the ETERNAL your CREATOR, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
(1 Kings 3:14) (KJV) And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
(1 Kings 6:11-13) (KJV) 11And the word of the ETERNAL came to Solomon, saying, 12[Concerning] this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father: 13And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
(1 Kings 8:56-58) (KJV) 56Blessed be the ETERNAL, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant. 57The ETERNAL our CREATOR be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us: 58That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
(1 Kings 8:61) (KJV) Let your heart therefore be perfect with the ETERNAL our CREATOR, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
(1 Kings 9:6-8) (KJV) 6[But] if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments [and] my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other 'gods', and worship them: 7Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people: 8And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the ETERNAL done thus unto this land, and to this house?
(1 Kings 11:32-25) (KJV) 33Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father. 34Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes: 35But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.
(1 Kings 11:38) (KJV) And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do [that is] right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
(1 Kings 14:7-10) (KJV) 7Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the ETERNAL SOVEREIGN of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel 8And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and [yet] thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do [that] only [which was] right in mine eyes; 9But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other 'gods', and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back: 10Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
(1 Kings 18:18) (KJV) And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the ETERNAL, and thou hast followed Baalim [false 'gods'].
(2 Kings 17:7-19) (KJV) 7For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the ETERNAL their CREATOR, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 8And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the ETERNAL cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the ETERNAL their CREATOR, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. 10And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: 11And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the ETERNAL carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the ETERNAL to anger: 12For they served idols, whereof the ETERNAL had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. 13Yet the ETERNAL testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, [and by] all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments [and] my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. 14Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the ETERNAL their CREATOR. 15And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the ETERNAL had charged them, that they should not do like them. 16And they left all the commandments of the ETERNAL their CREATOR, and made them molten images, [even] two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. 17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the ETERNAL, to provoke him to anger. 18Therefore the ETERNAL was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. 19Also Judah kept not the commandments of the ETERNAL their CREATOR, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
(2 Kings 18:6) (KJV) For he clave to the ETERNAL, [and] departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the ETERNAL commanded Moses.
(2 Kings 23:3) (KJV) And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the ETERNAL, to walk after the ETERNAL, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all [their] heart and all [their] soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
(1 Chronicles 28:7) (KJV) Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at this day.
(1 Chronicles 28:8) (KJV) Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the ETERNAL, and in the audience of our CREATOR, keep and seek for all the commandments of the ETERNAL your CREATOR: that ye may possess this good land, and leave [it] for an inheritance for your children after you forever.
(1 Chronicles 29:19) (KJV) And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all [these things], and to build the palace, [for] the which I have made provision.
(2 Chronicles 7:19-20) (KJV) But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other 'gods', and worship them; Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
(2 Chronicles 24:20) (KJV) And the Spirit of the ETERNAL came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith the ETERNAL, Why transgress ye the commandments of the ETERNAL, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the ETERNAL, he hath also forsaken you.
(2 Chronicles 31:21) (KJV) And in every work that he began in the service of the house of the ETERNAL, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his CREATOR, he did [it] with all his heart, and prospered.
(2 Chronicles 34:31) (KJV) And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the ETERNAL, to walk after the ETERNAL, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
(Nehemiah 1:9) (KJV) But [if] ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, [yet] will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.
(Nehemiah 9:13-15) (KJV) 13Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: 14And madest known unto them thy Holy Sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant: 15And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
(Nehemiah 9:28-29) (KJV) 28But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the land of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies; 29And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them); and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
(Psalm 111:10) (KJV) The fear of the ETERNAL [is] the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do [his commandments]: his praise endureth for ever.
(Psalm 112:1) (KJV) ...Blessed [is] the man [that] feareth the ETERNAL, [that] delighteth greatly in his commandments.
(Psalm 119:115) (KJV) Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my CREATOR.
(Psalm 119:127) (KJV) Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
(Psalm 119:143) (KJV) Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: [yet] thy commandments [are] my delights.
(Psalm 119:151) (KJV) Thou [art] near, O ETERNAL; and all thy commandments [are] truth.
(Psalm 119:172) (KJV) My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments [are] righteousness.
(Proverbs 3:1) (KJV) My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
(Proverbs 4:4) (KJV) He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
(Proverbs 7:2) (KJV) Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
(Proverbs 19:16) (KJV) He who keeps the commandment(s) keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.
(Ecclesiastes 12:13) (KJV) Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear the ETERNAL, and keep his commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty] of man.
(Amos 2:4) (KJV) Thus saith the ETERNAL; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have despised the law of the ETERNAL, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked.
Yet, with all that evidence pertaining to the importance of keeping the commandments, and the penalties earned for not keeping them, the so-called Christian churches for the last 1,692 years have maintained that the penalties have been removed if you will only 'believe' on 'Jesus' the self-proclaimed 'son of god', even though the very first commandment forbids it:
(Exodus 20:1-3) (KJV) 1And the ETERNAL spake all these words, saying, 2I am the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3Thou shalt have no other 'gods' before me.
So the paradox then, is, how can people believe a self-proclaimed 'son of god' [a false deity] when he says:
(John 14:6) (KJV) 'Jesus' said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. "No one comes to the Father except through Me".
Clearly this is the greatest lie ever spoken, whose only purpose is to deceive as many people as possible into NOT following the commandments of the true CREATOR and SOVEREIGN of the Universe! This false statement is nothing less than the church trying to usurp the authority that belongs solely to the Almighty CREATOR:
(Isaiah 42:8) (MULTI) I am Yahweh; that is my name. I will not give my glory to anyone else or the praise I deserve to idols.
So how does the church explain this contradiction? Well, they lie yet again with these whoppers:
(John 1:1-3) (KJV) 1In the beginning was the Word ['Jesus'], and the Word ['Jesus'] was with 'God', and the Word ['Jesus'] was 'God'. 2The same ['Jesus'] was in the beginning with 'God'. 3All things were made by him ['Jesus']; and without him ['Jesus'] was not any thing made that was made.
(Colossians 1:15-16) (KJV) 15He ['Jesus'] is the image of the invisible 'God', the firstborn over all creation. 16For by Him ['Jesus'] all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him ['Jesus'] and for Him ['Jesus'].
What a bunch of Mumbo-Jumbo! I ask you, where in the Hebrew Scriptures [OT] does it state any of that? I'll tell you where; Absolutely Nowhere! Someone is putting words in the ETERNAL's mouth, that he didn't speak. You can hear, feel, and even taste, the total guile, insolence, and mocking arrogance aimed at the CREATOR, just from reading those two statements. I absolutely would not want to be in the shoes of whoever made these statements come judgment day, because yet again, the Almighty CREATOR easily refutes those false claims as well:
(Isaiah 44:24-25) (MULTI) 24The CREATOR, your Redeemer who made you, says: All things were made by Me; I alone (meaning no second or third member of a "multi-godhead") stretched out the heavens. By myself (again meaning no second or third member of a "multi-godhead") I made the earth and everything in it. 25I am the one who shows what liars all false prophets are, by causing something else to happen than the things they say. I make wise men give opposite advice to what they should and make them into fools.
In fact, here is what the Almighty CREATOR has to say about false prophets [can you say 'Jesus'] who try to draw the people away from worshiping the true CREATOR and SOVEREIGN of the universe:
(Deuteronomy 13:1-10) (KJV) 1If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder [miracle], 2And the sign or the wonder [miracle] come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other 'gods', which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; 3Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the ETERNAL your CREATOR proveth [tests] you, to know whether ye love the ETERNAL your CREATOR with all your heart and with all your soul. 4Ye shall walk after the ETERNAL your CREATOR, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. 5And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be [PUT TO DEATH]; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the ETERNAL your CREATOR, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the ETERNAL thy CREATOR commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
6If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other 'gods', which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 7Namely, of the 'gods' of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; 8Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: 9But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. 10And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the ETERNAL thy CREATOR, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
Notice too, that it goes beyond just false prophets who will be condemned; it also talks about anybody who entices others into worshiping false 'gods'. It is vitally important to your spiritual well-being, that you understand how the ETERNAL CREATOR and SOVEREIGN of the universe views false idols, false 'gods', false saviors, AND those who promote them, either intentionally or unintentionally:
(Hosea 4:6) (TLB) My people are destroyed because they don't know Me, and it is all your fault, you priests, for you yourselves refuse to know Me; therefore, I refuse to recognize you as My priests. Since you have forgotten My laws, I will 'forget' to bless your children.
See: (ALL Bible Versions).
Yes, that criticism from the ETERNAL Himself, was aimed squarely at all the false priests [ministers, rabbis, etc.] who ever uttered a false or deceptive word to an unsuspecting truth seeker, who was looking to find and serve the True CREATOR.
Make no mistake about it. The self-proclaimed 'son of god', met the fate of a false prophet [PUT TO DEATH], even though much of what he said, and did, came to pass. It is also a test and a warning to see if you can be tricked into believing such a one. Just as the CREATOR allowed the adversary of man to deceive Adam and Eve in the garden, He continues to allow the adversary of man to deceive you today with the so-called [New Testament's]™ false covenant! Also see: (Deuteronomy 28:20, Deuteronomy 29:25-26, Deuteronomy 31:16-18, Judges 10:10, Judges 10:13, 1 Samuel 8:8, 1 Kings 11:33, 1 Kings 19:10, 2 Kings 22:17, 2 Chronicles 7:19-20, Isaiah 1:4, Jeremiah 1:16, Jeremiah 2:13).
Why Has 'Christianity' Rejected The True CREATOR
And Replaced Him With The So-called 'Son Of God'?
Where Does It Come From:
(Isaiah 44:6) (KJV) "Thus says Yahweh, the king of Israel, and its redeemer, Yahweh of hosts: "I am the first, and I am the last, and THERE IS NO CREATOR BESIDES ME".
Can we want it any clearer? It is impossible! We CANNOT ARGUE that the self-proclaimed wannabe 'man-god Jesus', is quote-unquote "the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last". (Revelation 22:13). No matter how many times, or how many ways he says it, it's still a big fat lie!
(Isaiah 44:24) (TLB) The CREATOR, your Redeemer who made you, says: All things were made by Me; I alone (meaning no second or third member of a "multi-godhead") stretched out the heavens. By myself (again meaning no second or third member of a "multi-godhead") I made the earth and everything in it.
These words are crystal clear. It is the CREATOR only that can Redeem, that can Create, Who unaided, stretched out the heavens; Who unaided, spread out the earth. It was not the false 'man-god Jesus', of the equally false [New Testament]™ book of deception:
(Isaiah 41:4) (GW) Who has accomplished this? Who has determined the course of history from the beginning? I, the CREATOR, was there first, and I will be there to the end. I am the one!
(Isaiah 43:3) (TLB) "For I am the ETERNAL YOUR CREATOR, YOUR SAVIOR, the Holy One of Israel.
How concise and to the point! The only Savior of mankind, is the ETERNAL CREATOR Himself. Again, it's not the false 'man-god Jesus', of the equally false [New Testament]™ book of deception.
All of us have been taught that we need an intercessor to obtain salvation. But, is this the truth? Let us read what the Hebrew Scriptures say:
(Deuteronomy 4:39) (MULTI) Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that Yahweh he is SOVEREIGN in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
(Psalm 95:1) (MULTI) Oh come, let's sing to Yahweh. Let's shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!
(Isaiah 42:8) (MULTI) I am Yahweh: that is My name. I will not give My glory to another. I will not let statues take the praise that should be Mine.
(Isaiah 43:3) (MULTI) "For I am The ETERNAL YOUR CREATOR, YOUR SAVIOR, the Holy One of Israel.
(Isaiah 43:11) (MULTI) I, even I, am Yahweh; and beside me there is no saviour.
(Isaiah 44:6) (MULTI) "Thus says Yahweh, the king of Israel, and its redeemer, Yahweh of hosts: "I am the first, and I am the last, and there is no CREATOR besides Me".
(Isaiah 44:8) (MULTI) Don't be afraid! Don't worry! I have always told you what will happen. You are my witnesses. There is no other CREATOR but me. I know of no other Rock; I am the only One.
(Isaiah 44:24) (MULTI) This is what the ETERNAL, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb, says: I am Yahweh, who made everything; who stretched out the heavens by Myself; who alone spread out the earth;
(Isaiah 45:21-22) (MULTI) 21Consult together, argue your case and state your proofs that idol worship pays! Who but the ETERNAL has said that these things concerning Cyrus would come true? What idol ever told you they would happen? For there is no other CREATOR but me, a just SOVEREIGN and a Savior, no, not one! 22Let all the world look to me for salvation! For I am the ETERNAL; there is no other.
(Isaiah 47:4) (MULTI) The Holy One of Israel is our Redeemer; Yahweh of Hosts is His name.
(Hosea 13:4) (KJV) Yet I am the ETERNAL your SOVEREIGN ever since the land of Egypt, and you shall know no CREATOR but Me; for there is no Savior besides Me".
But the wrightings of (John 1:1-3, and John 14:6), in the so-called [New Testament]™, say just the opposite! Regardless of the twisted and perverted words written by the church at the 'Council of Nicaea', it was the ETERNAL CREATOR, Who created all things, not the false deity 'Jesus' the impostor.
How then, have we come to believe the falsehood, that 'Jesus', whom the creator calls a false prophet, already saved mankind; when the ETERNAL CREATOR claims that right for himself? This is what we learn when we play attend church. However, do not be fooled. This has been a well-hidden fact ever since the 'Council of Nicaea' [deceptivly, intentionally, purposefully, and willfully] hid the facts, and substituted their deceptions and lies in their place!
Sadly, the 'Christian' world is taught that the false 'man-god Jesus', not the ETERNAL CREATOR, is the redeemer. Quoting from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible, Oct. 1994: "The death of 'Jesus' [the ETERNAL CREATOR cannot die], was an expiatory sacrifice by which those (of us) who avail themselves of it are literally redeemed from the wrath of 'God' that rested on them, and from all other effects of sin. It is Paul who works out this idea most systematically with his statement that the penalty for sin was Nailed To The Cross, though all the [New Testament]™ writers share it. They claim, the immediate effect of "christ's" redeeming death is to free us from sin and guilt, and to annul condemnation (Romans 8:1, Romans 8:33, Romans 8:34); ultimately from death itself', (Romans 8:23). To fully explore this issue, please read: "Are We Saved By Grace?", "Is Blood Required To Atone For Sin?", and "Why Christianity?".
So why is the so-called [New Testament]™ filled from cover to cover with all manner of falsehoods, inaccuracies and outright lies? One reason is that anciently, the rebellious people of the fallen house of Israel, did not like to hear about the ETERNAL's holy commandments and his hatred of sin; they desired that they might no more be reminded of these things:
(Isaiah 30:8-11) (MULTI) 8"Now go and write down this word of mine concerning Egypt, so that it will stand until the end of time, forever and forever, as an indictment of Israel's unbelief. 9For if you don't write it, they will claim I never warned them. 'Oh no', they'll say, 'you never told us that!' For they are stubborn rebels. 10They tell my prophets, 'Shut up, we don't want any more of your reports!' Or they say, Don't tell us the truth; tell us nice things; tell us lies. 11Forget all this gloom; we've heard more than enough about your 'Holy One of Israel' and all he says."
More recently, in 325 AD, Roman Emperor Constantine I, issued a decree to the church in Rome, to convene a council of Christian bishops representing all of Christendom, the primary goal of which, was to attain consensus in the church, the main goal being, the settlement fabrication of the Christological issue of the nature of the 'Son of God' and his relationship to 'God the Father'. Secondary accomplishments falsifications included the construction of the first part of the Creed of Nicaea, establishing uniform observance of the date of Easter [instead of passover], and promulgation of early canon law fallacies. And that reasoning continues right up to the present day.
Thats right. Just like the ancient fallen house of Israel, who fell for worshiping false 'gods' back in their day, modern-day 'Christendom' continues to worship a false non-existent 'son of god', and prefers to hear the smooth, sweet-sounding words of forgivness, even though following those words leads to eternal condemnation. Sadly, this is because people insist on continuing to play church passivly listen to the soothsayers [priests, rabbis, ministers, etc.] tell them what truth is, rather than seek out and follow the CREATOR's TRUTH for themselves, via His word, as instructed by the Almighty Himself:
(Deuteronomy 11:18-23) (NKJV) 18Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 19You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 20And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the ETERNAL swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth. 22For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do, to love the ETERNAL your CREATOR, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him, 23then the CREATOR will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves.
Even though we've not done all these things as we should, our loving, merciful CREATOR still holds His hand out for us to take a hold of, and re-claim His covenant promises.
The ETERNAL Extends An Offer To Return To Him
And Become A Treasured Part Of His Holy Nation:
(Deuteronomy 4:29-31)(KJV) 29But if from thence thou shalt seek the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. 30When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; 31(For the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN is a merciful SOVEREIGN;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
(Deuteronomy 30:1-5)(KJV) 1And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN hath driven thee, 2And [if thee] shalt return unto the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; 3That then the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN hath scattered thee. 4If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: 5And the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
(Nehemiah 1:9)(KJV) But [if] ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, [yet] will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.
(Jeremiah 29:13-14)(KJV) 13And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. 14And I will be found of you, saith the ETERNAL: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the ETERNAL; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
(1 Kings 8:33-34)(KJV) 33When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house: 34Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.
(2 Chronicles 6:24-25)(KJV) 24And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house; 25Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.
(Hosea 3:4-5)(KJV) 4For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: 5Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the ETERNAL their CREATOR, and David their king; and shall fear the ETERNAL and his goodness in the latter days.
(Malachi 3:7)(KJV) Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the ETERNAL of hosts.
He gives us His Commandments because He loves us, and because the Commandments are for our well being. The ETERNAL is the most loving Father there could ever be. These Commandments constitute a high and righteous standard for us humans to live by, which if we do, we're assured to become the true sons and daughters of the Holy One Of Israel:
(Exodus 19:5-6)(KJV) 5Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: 6And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
Israel as a whole couldn't do it, however, you as an individual CAN, but only if you do it with all of your heart and with all of your soul and with all of your might (Deuteronomy 6:4-7). The proof is in all the people [Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, King David etc.] of the Hebrew Scriptures [old testament], who have done it, and are already assured of their place in His future kingdom. See the articles: 'The Eternal's Test', and 'The Book Of Life'.
How To Get Back On Track With The Almighty CREATOR:
(Deuteronomy 4:29-31)(KJV) 29But if from thence thou shalt seek the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. 30When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; 31(For the ETERNAL thy SOVEREIGN is a merciful SOVEREIGN;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
(1 Chronicles 16:10)(KJV) Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the ETERNAL.
(1 Chronicles 16:11)(KJV) seek the ETERNAL and his strength, seek his face continually.
(2 Chronicles 12:14)(KJV) And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the ETERNAL.
(2 Chronicles 14:4)(KJV) And commanded Judah to seek the ETERNAL SOVEREIGN of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment(s).
(2 Chronicles 20:3)(KJV) And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the ETERNAL, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
(2 Chronicles 20:4)(KJV) And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the ETERNAL: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the ETERNAL.
(Ezra 6:21-22)(KJV) 21And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the ETERNAL SOVEREIGN of Israel, did eat, 22And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the ETERNAL had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of the ETERNAL, the SOVEREIGN of Israel.
(Psalms 34:10)(KJV) The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the ETERNAL shall not want any good thing.
(Psalms 105:3)(KJV) Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the ETERNAL.
(Psalms 105:4)(KJV) seek the ETERNAL, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
(Proverbs 28:5)(KJV) Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the ETERNAL understand all things.
(Isaiah 51:1)(KJV) Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the ETERNAL: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
(Jeremiah 50:4)(KJV) In those days, and in that time, saith the ETERNAL, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the ETERNAL their SOVEREIGN.
(Hosea 3:5)(KJV) Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the ETERNAL their SOVEREIGN, and David their King; and shall fear the ETERNAL and his goodness in the latter days.
(Hosea 10:12)(KJV) Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the ETERNAL, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
(Amos 5:6)(KJV) seek the ETERNAL, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
(Zechariah 8:21)(KJV) And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the ETERNAL, and to seek the ETERNAL of hosts: I will go also.
(Zechariah 8:22)(KJV) Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the ETERNAL of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the ETERNAL.
Conclusion.
There is only ONE true Almighty CREATOR and SOVEREIGN over all Creation, the ONLY Redeemer and Savior of mankind. Anciently, He started building His priestly Kingdom with Israel, and in the latter-days when He establishes the final version of His Kingdom of sons and daughters here on Earth, it will inexorably grow to include all of mankind. So, should you base even the simplest spiritual decision, upon assumptions which are so obviously false, inconsistent and contradictory, without checking it out for yourself? Do you still feel everything you know about your CREATOR is true? Are you sure that the people who's responsibility it is to teach you spititual truth, have? Have you decided based upon anything you've been told in church, or read in the so-called [New Testament]™, that there is nothing more to be learned, and that you are 100% 'saved'? Does it make sense to do so, when your very own eternal life is at stake? See the articles: 'Are We Saved By Grace?', 'Is Blood Required To Atone For Sin?', and 'Why Christianity?'.
Footnotes:
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