According to Jesus, God Will Save Biblical Jews, But Not Christians

By Donald Werner

This book if for Jews and Christians. There is a important message in it for both. Jesus was a Jew, and he very clearly and succinctly gave us instructions on how to gain eternal life. So one would think that Jesus' message would be held in high esteem and kept. But that is not the case. Jesus' words are for the most part rejected by the Christian Church, and God's commands are set aside as irreverent, and I will show you how and why 'Christians' who follow their church's teachings can not be saved.
Also learn about God's saving grace, the mark of the Beast the seal of God, Jesus' atoning sacrifice, Jesus' style of evangelism, why the 'church is Laodicea, and so much more.
This book could be the most important purchase you ever made, your salvation is at stake and time is short.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Sep 19, 2018
• ISBN: 9780359102600

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According to Jesus, God Will Save Biblical Jews, But Not Christians

According to Jesus, God Will Save Biblical Jews, But Not Christians

Donald Werner

12/26/2019

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Copyright © 2018 Donald Werner. All rights reserved.

ISBN #: 978-0-359-10260-0

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THE PREFACE

It is my understanding that the Bible is God’s word, and its authority supersedes all other authority, including religious instruction, doctrines, creeds, traditions, and teachings.  Therefore all ‘truth seekers’ must be willing to honestly compare what their church/synagogue teaches to what the Scriptures alone teaches.  If you are willing to do that, be prepared to be surprised and amazed. 

The New Testament testifies to the eternal nature of God’s word (Old Testament or TANAK).  Jesus said not one jot or tittle will pass from the law until heaven and earth pass away.  And we have that same Old Testament or Tanak, telling us that Yahoveh’s Prophet will come and speak His words with His authority. (Deuteronomy 18:17-18).  And we have Peter and Stephen both agreeing that Jesus was that Prophet (Acts 3:22, Acts 7:37 and Revelation 22:8-9).  So we have Jesus’ words and Yahoveh’s words both as God’s timeless eternal words, and we must highly exalt them and discard any words that may disagree with them.  God told us to keep His law and Prophets, Jesus told us to keep God’s law and Prophets, so anyone that says anything different must be ignored.

We all grow up believing what we were taught as children is the absolute truth, but if we keep studying the Holy Scriptures, sometimes we learn that it is not, and if that is the case, we must be willing to set aside what’s in our old understanding that is in conflict with the Holy Scriptures.

2Thesolonians 2:10, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.  The world is deceived and we can only be saved by being ‘truth seekers’.

Although some people will be offended by what they read in this book, please note that it is not my intentions of offend anyone.  I know that religion can be a personal thing for many people, and, I have no doubt that what I have to say will go against most people’s personal beliefs.  And I’m sorry if what I say offends you, my only intent is to share what I have learned in decades of Bible study so that others may be snatched from the jaws of eternal death.

A note to my Jewish friends; Jesus, Yahshua, was a Jew, as were all of his Apostles and disciples.  They all practiced Judaism as prescribed in Moses and the Prophets, and that’s what Jesus is asking of his followers, to ‘keep the Old Testament law and the prophets’ or the ‘TANAK’ – nothing more or nothing less.  Yes, Jesus had issues with the Pharisees, but his issue was not with Moses or the Torah, his issue was that the Pharisees were so focused on Jewish manmade traditions and oral laws, which are now in the Talmud, that they neglected the keeping of God’s Torah.  And that’s still true of many Jews today.

Jesus did not come to start a new religion; he came to restore Judaism back to its Biblical roots. Jesus was the Prophet we read about in Deuteronomy 18:18-19, "I (YHVH) will raise up for them a Prophet like you (Moses) from among their brethren (the Jews), and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. ¹⁹ And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him."

How do we know that Jesus was that Prophet?  Because of Jesus’ message, which was to keep the ‘law and the prophets’, and that includes worshiping YHVH alone.  Jesus’ message was in compliance with the Torah, and he told us to keep and observe the Torah – without adding to it or subtracting from it. And in addition, Jesus’ message was validated by God with many signs, wonders and miracles.  Jesus was the ‘anointed’ prophet to come.  In addition, two contemporary Jews testified that Jesus was that Prophet, (Acts 3:22 and Acts 7:37) Keep reading and you will see more evidence. 

A note to my Christians friends; I know that you may have been told that Jesus came to turn Jews into Christians – that’s not at all why he came.  He came to make all people ‘Biblical Jews’, practicing Biblical Judaism, or Messianic Judaism.  And since I said that we must become Biblical Jews, you therefore probably think that I hold Jesus in little esteem.  But the fact of the matter is, I hold Jesus in higher esteem than ‘Christians’ because I follow his teachings, while ‘Christians’ don’t, and to not keep Jesus’ instructions is to disrespect and dishonor him.  Keep reading and I will show you a number of examples of how most all ‘Christians’ are rejecting what Jesus taught, and instead they are following what their churches teach, which is often in contrary to what Jesus taught.

THE INTRODUCTION

Let me start out by asking, Why did Jesus say, "Salvation is of the Jews"?  (John 4:22).  So we have to ask, what was it about the Jewish religion that we need for salvation?  Jesus said he came to us to ‘seek to save the lost’ (Luke 19:10), and ‘to save his people from their sins’ (Matthew 1:21).  Jesus came to show us the way to eternal life and tell us how to be saved.  So what was it that Jesus said we had to do to be saved?  How was it that Jesus brought salvation to the lost, and that includes us Gentiles?

Jesus gave us instructions on how to receive eternal life, (i.e., salvation), it was by being his disciple, hearing his voice and to walk as he walked (John 10:27-28), keep all of his teachings (Matthew 7:24-27, John 8:51-52, John 12:47-48), keep the Commandments of God (Revelation 12:17, 14:12, 22:14) and have the ‘faith of Jesus’ (Revelation 14:12).  The Jewish Jesus taught us how to gain salvation and receive eternal life.   But I will show you that Christians, who practice according to their ‘Christian’ church doctrines, based on Paul’s letters, don’t walk as Jesus did, don’t have the ‘faith of Jesus’, they don’t keep Jesus’ teachings and they don’t keep the Commandments of God. So then, according to Jesus, that will exclude those ‘Christians’ from salvation and eternal life. (That’s according to Jesus, not me.) But in contrast to that, the Biblical Jews do all that Jesus required for salvation. (More about that later).

You must be asking yourself, how could I make such a bold statement as to say that Biblical Jews are saved but Christians are lost and will not receive eternal life? That goes against all we have learned from our Christian religious leaders?  Keep reading and I will explain it clearly from the Scriptures.

Jesus was a practicing Jew, and before left this earth he passed on his faith to his disciples. His disciples continued to practice Judaism, as Jesus did, but a special flavor of Judaism, we will call it ‘Biblical Judaism’.  ‘Biblical Judaism’ is the religion that is practiced when we follow the Scriptures alone, as Jesus did.

The Biblical Jews who believed that Jesus was the messiah, were later called ‘Christians’ and they continued to practice ‘Biblical Judaism’.  Acts 24:26 However, I admit that I worship the God of our ancestors as a follower of the Way, which they call a sect.  I believe everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets.  Then over the centuries the original ‘Christian’ faith (Biblical Judaism) changed, and the ‘new’ Christian faith we practice today is no longer the same faith that Jesus and his disciples taught and practiced.  It has mutated and morphed into something quite different.  Today’s Christian Church has strayed so far from Jesus’ teachings (Biblical Judaism) that the Christian Church actually teaches contrary to what Jesus taught. Keep reading…

Jesus referred to the Scriptures (Old Testament, law and prophets) as the ‘Word of God’ and would not tolerate a Jewish tradition or the oral law which leavened the pure Word. Yet today the Christian church uses traditions, decrees, doctrines, dogma, creeds and teachings which leaven the Scriptures, and that causes the ‘Church’ has strayed far from the faith that Jesus taught, practiced and preached.  In some cases the orthodox, or commonly accepted Christian faith, with their writings, creeds, writings and their Pauline doctrines have set aside many of Jesus’ teachings and teaches what is contrary to Jesus’ teachings.  But yet, surprisingly enough, many of the Jews are practicing what the Jewish Jesus taught.  I will share details below.

If Jesus disguised himself and came into a Christian Church and preached the things he said in the Gospels, or the Book of the Revelation, he’d be asked to leave.  Amazing, right?  We know that because we only have to look as far as Jesus’ only recorded sermon, Matthew 5-7, Sermon on the Mount.  In that sermon he said that we are to keep the Old Testament ‘law and the prophets’, every ‘jot or tittle’, even the least of the commandments, until ‘heaven and earth pass away’, and that is the source of ‘our righteousness’ which we will need to enter the ‘Kingdom of heaven’. (Matthew 5:17-20). Jesus said, those who did not keep the Old Testament ‘law and the prophets’, who practiced ‘lawlessness’, will be rejected by Jesus at the gates of Heaven (Matthew 7:23). And in Matthew 13:40-41 we learn that they will be cast into a furnace of fire.  That alone would get Jesus removed from any Christian pulpit and expelled from the ‘Church’. Yet, that same message from Jesus would be well received in a Jewish synagogue. And Jesus said many other things that would have him removed from a Christian church and labeled as a heretical.  We will look at the Biblical truths spoken by Jesus which have been set aside in favor of church creeds, doctrines, decrees, writings and traditions.  The Church has changed the Jewish Yahshua into a Christian Jesus.

When does the Christian Church cease to be ‘Christian’?  The Christian Church ceases to be ‘Christian’ when it rejects the teachings of ‘Christ’ and it no longer follows his teachings.  And that has happened.  Many of Jesus’ teachings have been set aside by the church – outright rejected, such as Matthew 5:17-20.

You will read, and you will see for yourself that Jesus' teachings are set aside by the same church that claims that he’s their God, Lord and Savior.  Oddly enough, they call him ‘God’ but don’t listen to him or obey him. Therefore the Christian Church is not really ‘Christian’.  But, then Jesus was not Christian either, he was a Biblical Jew and what Jesus taught, preached and practiced, is still being taught, preached and practiced in some Jewish Synagogues.  Doesn’t that make those Jewish Synagogues more ‘Christian’ than those in the Christian Church?

The Christian Jesus, who the Christian Church worships, is not the Jewish Yahshua of the Bible, that Jewish Yahshua was rejected by the Church when they rejected his teachings.  I will share where and how the church is failing to follow the Biblical Jesus and how the Jewish teachings and practices are in agreement with what Jesus taught.  

By the time you are done with this book you will clearly understand why I call into question salvation of ‘Christians’ in the Christian Church, and the ‘Christian’ status of the Christian Church.

THE BIBLICAL JESUS WOULD NOT WELCOME IN OUR CHURCHES

Again, if Jesus disguised himself and walked into a Christian Church, he would perhaps be embraced as a visitor, and there would probably be smiles and handshakes.  All would be happy until he spoke what he said in the Gospels, and the Book of the Revelation.  He would then be told that he was wrong, and if doesn’t stop saying those things, he’d have to leave the church, and if he continued such talk he would be asked to leave.  By just speaking what Jesus said in the Gospels, he would be speaking/teaching/preaching against orthodox Christian church doctrines based on Paul’s letters, and thus he would be considered a heretic. The Biblical Jesus would be a heretic in today’s Christian Church. The person of Jesus may be accepted, but not his teachings.  Unfortunately, Jesus so identified himself with his teachings, that to reject Jesus’ teachings is to reject Jesus himself, John 12:48 (NIV), There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day.  It’s not the rejecting of the person of Jesus that gets a person condemned, it’s rejecting of his words, or his teachings, because according to Jesus, it is by keeping his word that we receive eternal life. 

To reject Jesus’ teachings, his words, which were from his Father, is to deny Jesus and reject the Father. 1John 2:23 (NKJV), ‘Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also."  When the teachings of Jesus are rejected, the Father is also rejected, when a church rejects Jesus’ teachings it is then despising God’s word and Jesus’ word, and it is no longer a ‘Christian’ church, but a church which worships God in vain (Mark 7:7-8). 

I know what I have to say in this book will not sit well with most ‘Christians’ because it is contrary to what they have learned in Sunday Schools, Sabbath Schools and in sermons.  But what I’m sharing with you is straight from the Scriptures – and much of what I write here is straight from Jesus’ mouth.  John 3:34a, "For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God..." John 3:36, Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. John 8:51, "Most assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he shall never see death."  To reject Jesus’ words, which were God’s words, and not keep or obey them, means to ‘see’ eternal death.  John 6:68, "But Simon Peter