THE FALSE TEACHING (BEGINNING TO END) PART I.

 LOST SHEEP BECAUSE  THE "PASSOVER OF THE LORD OUR GOD" IT'S TRUE MEANING HAS BEEN LOST....IT IS SPIRITUAL..

YES, GOD ALMIGHTY [EL SHADDAI] DID A MIGHTY WORK AMONG THE PHYSICAL NATION OF ISRAEL BUT THIS WAS TO SHOW WHAT HE WOULD SOON BE DOING THROUGH HIS SON TO DELIVER "SPIRITUAL" ISRAEL--"THE PEOPLE OF GOD/HIS PEOPLE--FROM BONDAGE/SIN--FROM SLAVERY/SIN--FROM PHARAOH/SATAN--FROM EGYPT/SIN--FROM THE RED SEA FLOOD OF "FALSEHOOD" [FOR HE IS THE ETERNAL ONE, AS REVEALED TO MOSES--YAH--YAHWEH ELOHIM]

THE MESSIAH, JESUS CHRIST, YAHSHUA, Y'SHUA, THE SON OF GOD [LITERALLY 'YAHWEH'S SALVATION] IS THE PASSOVER LAMB OF GOD, SACRIFICED FOR THE REMISSION OF OUR SINS SO THAT WE MAY BE RECONCILED [REDEEMED] [FORGIVEN OF TRANSGRESSION] [CLEANSED]-- BACK TO OUR FATHER; THE LORD, OUR GOD.

For Judaism, the real basis of the problem and great false
teaching is this: Judaism claims to truly follow the God of
Abraham, but doesn’t observe Passover as God instructed in
Leviticus 23:

“In the fourteenth day of the first month at even
(Heb. “between the evenings”–ben ha arbayim) is the Lord’s
Passover” (Lev. 23:4).

Instead, Judaism observes Passover after the fourteenth day, on the beginning of the fifteenth, which is the first day of Unleavened Bread—a High Day—an annual Sabbath. But God clearly says it is to be observed in the fourteenth day.

If you keep Passover, when do you begin its observance?
Does it begin before or after sunset of the 14th day of the first
month? If you are one of those who starts this observance before
sundown on the 14th, how much of your service is actually in the
14th and how much is in the 15th?

Of all people, those of Judaism, who keep the weekly seventhday
Sabbath, know when the Sabbath begins and when it ends.

They don’t need a Rabbi to tell them what this command means
because they have grown up with the knowledge of sunset to
sunset in the counting of this Holy Day. There is one exception to
this; some Rabbis teach a six p.m. to six p.m. observance for the
Sabbath, regardless of when the sun sets, but even a child would
understand that such reasoning is not obedience to God’s
instruction.

Any correctly kept Sabbath observance among those in Judaism is between the two evenings. The beginning of “even” is when the sun sets on the sixth day. The Sabbath begins at the very time of sunset and lasts until the following “even,” which ends the seventh day. This is their own definition of “ben ha erbayim.” However, they will not acknowledge it for the observance of Passover, but they do acknowledge it for the weekly Sabbath and annual Holy Days.

Passover is recognized as one of the holiest days in Judaism,
but it is observed on the wrong day and not even in the way they
are instructed. Those who follow Judaism have followed the false
doctrines of their teachers. 

Most of them don’t even know their history of how this change came about, moving the observance of Passover from the beginning of the evening on the fourteenth to the immediate period following the fourteenth, in the beginning of the evening on the fifteenth.

None of this is said as an attack on Jewish people, but it 
is said out of love that they might acknowledge their wrong ways, repent and truly turn to the one true God of all the earth—the true God of Abraham. 

Judaism has lost sight of God’s true will and His spiritual promises because of their disobedience to God’s instruction concerning the Passover observance.


Does Christianity Hold the Key?

Christianity comprises 2.2 billion people on earth, yet they do not
agree among themselves about God or Jesus Christ because their
beliefs (faith) vary with thousands of opposing doctrines [38,000 denominations]. 

Is one of them true? If they disagree with one another in doctrine about what is the true word of God, then by the very definition of “truth” they cannot all be true. If the world is not already in
enough chaos and confusion when it comes to religion, then
certainly Christianity has made it many, many times worse!


Christian “faith” is about what one “believes” concerning Christianity. If people believe they are to worship God in a church on Sunday, then that is their faith—they will live by that
belief and attend worship services on Sunday.


If a Christian believes that the Bible, and primarily the New
Testament, is the inspired word of God and that they are to live
by every word of God (as the scripture says), then they would
want to obey what God instructs. If there is one true religion and it is one of the Christian faiths, which one is it? Surely, it would be the one that follows God’s word “faithfully” as it is given in
scripture.


The examples one can use to address this question are endless;
most certainly they cannot all be covered in a book this size.
Instead, it would take volumes! But let’s look at some examples
and see if we can find a “true” Church that is the “true” religion
on earth. Let’s look at several examples so that we can begin to
grasp the scope of the real problem.


The Catholic faith comprises a little over one-half (1.2 billion)
of all that is called Christianity. Therefore, it is of primary
importance that we consider this faith when we speak of
Christianity. This will prove to be of great importance as we
proceed through this area of comparison.


The Catholic doctrine of purgatory is a belief (faith) that some
die with smaller faults, for which there has been no repentance,
and upon death go to a place of purgatory rather than directly to
heaven or hell. The Catholic Encyclopedia states that the church
“has from the Sacred Scriptures…that there is a purgatory.”
However, the Methodist plainly state in their articles of belief
that there is no scriptural evidence of purgatory:

The Romish [speaking of the Catholic Church] doctrine
concerning purgatory, pardon, worshiping, and adoration,
as well of images as of relics, and also invocation of
saints, is a fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon
no warrant of Scripture, but repugnant to the Word of
God. (Article XIV.—Of Purgatory)


The Methodist clearly teach that the doctrine of purgatory is
“vainly invented” and “repugnant to the Word of God.” Most
Protestant churches agree with this same stance of the Methodist
faith.


Obviously, these two faiths (beliefs) are diametrically opposite
to each other. To be the true followers of God and “faithful” to
His word, only one of these can possibly be true. Either one is
true, or both are false; but both cannot be true.


It is important that everyone consider some of the most
basic doctrinal differences in a faith that calls itself
“Christian.” Each faith (group) believes it is right, yet these faiths (groups) differ greatly from each other. Therefore, only one can possibly be considered true. Stated another way, either one is true and the others are false, or all must be false.


The Catholic faith is one of the oldest known “Christian” faiths. None of the Protestant churches have the long history of the Catholic Church. 

The Lutheran Church, which is the oldest Protestant church, 

broke away from the Catholic Church. Many others eventually broke from the Catholic faith because they embraced a different
faith—one never known before.

The faith of the Lutheran Church didn’t exist until Martin Luther
came on the sceneand stated his “faith” about God. Today, we
find that most“Christian” faiths came directly from the Catholic
Church or from splinter groups of other “Christian” faiths during the
last two centuries.


There are great conflicts that exist among the various
religious groups which believe they are the true representatives of
Christianity.

Today, without exception, every theologian and scholar of the
Bible is fully blind to the truths of God. This is part of the mess
that God is getting ready to correct through His two end-time
witnesses. God is going to make a clear distinction between what
is true and what is false—who is true and who is a liar!


The truth is: God has not called or worked with very many
people over the past 6,000 years. Even in the time of Jesus Christ,
only a few believed the truths of God, and most certainly the
scholars and religious teachers were not among them. There were
thousands of Pharisees and Sadducees, but they did not believe
God.

They preached about God and those things contained in the
writings of the law and prophets, but they did not believe what
God said. The same problem exists today. Many preach about
God, Jesus Christ and love, but they do not believe God.


There are some scriptures that mention two occasions when a
few thousand did come out to hear Jesus Christ, but even He
explained that they did not do so for the right reasons. On many
occasions people stopped following Him because of what He
said. John tells of such an account when Jesus spoke of the
importance of the symbolism that His sacrifice would have on the fulfillment of the yearly Passover:

Then Jesus said unto them, “Truly, truly, I say to you,
except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his
blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and
drinks my blood has eternal life; and I will raise him up
at the last day. For, my flesh is meat indeed and my blood
is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my
blood dwells in me, and I in him.” (John 6:53-56)


Jesus explained a spiritual matter that they could not yet understand. He told them about the symbolism that the Church would later picture in the observance of the annual Passover service.

This annual service, which God commands His people to partake of year by year, includes a ceremony that consists of eating a piece of unleavened bread and taking a drink of wine.

 
This symbolism concerns the beaten body and spilled blood of
Jesus Christ, whereby man can be saved. But many of those Jews
who were following Him could not receive His words because, to
them, it was unthinkable and against God’s health laws that one
should eat human flesh or drink blood. So it says, “From that
time, many of his disciples went away and walked no more with
him” (John 6:66).


Sadly, even today the world does not grasp the meaning of
this account. Much of traditional Christianity has twisted this into
an observance they call Communion. But Jesus Christ spoke of
the great meaning His death would fulfill in God’s purpose and
revelation contained in the annual observance of Passover.
Judaism and traditional Christianity refuse God’s Passover.
Therefore, they remain blind to God’s true plan and purpose that
is being worked out on this earth.


Judaism refuses to observe Passover on the day God
commands, choosing rather to observe their traditional Seder,
which they claim is on Passover. Traditional Christianity
observes Easter and Communion, but they do not obey the
keeping of the annual Passover that even the apostle Paul makes clear should be observed by the Church.


Throughout the three and one-half years of His ministry and
up until the time Jesus Christ was killed by the “religious people”
of His day (through the Romans), many stopped following Him.
It is recorded in the first chapter of Acts, after Christ’s death, that
Peter addressed only 120 disciples who had remained faithful.


When the Church began on the day of Pentecost, God
performed a great miracle to magnify the occasion; yet it was still
His purpose to keep this on a small scale. About three thousand
people were moved to repent that day and become part of the
Church. Three thousand is still small compared to all those who
lived at that time. God’s purpose wasn’t to have millions become
part of His Church at that time. Only a few thousand were called
and worked with by God for the great purpose He would
manifest at the return of Jesus Christ.


The Church did grow, but it did not grow in the way that most
believe. It always remained very small. The Bible speaks of
many occasions when people met together in homes. Homes
were small and the Church was small.


Traditional Christianity has pictured the Church as growing
larger through time until today, when it believes the Church has
grown into the millions. This is not true! This has not been
God’s purpose. The Church of God has always been small—even
today. And what is the reason? For 6,000 years God has been
“handpicking” those who are to become part of a world ruling
government at the return of Jesus Christ. God has a plan of
salvation, but it is not one that the world teaches! You have
exciting things yet to learn about life and death and how all
people are going to be given opportunity for salvation, an
opportunity that has not been given during the past 6,000 years.


So, who are those 144,000 being sealed by God? They are those
who, throughout the past six millennia, God has specifically chosen
to mold and fashion so that they could one day be given life again,
in order to rule in His Kingdom at the return of Jesus Christ.
During the first four thousand years of human history, God
worked with a very few to become part of that new government
in His Kingdom. This should be easy for people to see when they
read the Old Testament. Not many are mentioned as following
God and being worked with by Him.



Even in the beginning, after several hundred years, Noah is mentioned as only the eighth preacher of righteousness. Over 4,000 years, not many were called by God.


When Abram and Sarai (whose names were later changed to
Abraham and Sarah) were first called, no one else was being
worked with by God. There were other several hundred-year
periods when only a handful of people were worked with by
God.


Six million people were delivered from the oppression of
Pharaoh in Egypt. God worked with only a few of them in a
spiritual manner, during forty years in the wilderness, for the
purpose of becoming part of His future government.


It wasn’t until Pentecost in 31 A.D., when the Church began, that God started to work with larger numbers of people, but the numbers were still very small in comparison to religions that called themselves “of God.” Over the past 2,000
years, God has used the organized environment of His Church
and His trained ministry to work with larger numbers of
people.

But when all is said and done, only 144,000 people, in
six millennia of human history, will have received the seal of
God, enabling them to become part of His government that
will reign on the earth.


It will be at the return of Jesus Christ that God’s Kingdom will
come to rule the earth—immediately after man’s self-rule has
been brought to a complete and final end. The coming of His
government is the focus of the beginning of the outline of prayer
that Jesus Christ gave His disciples when they asked Him how to
pray:

This is the manner after which you should pray: Our
Father who is in heaven, let your name be sanctified.
Your Kingdom come . . . (Matthew 6:9-10)