When Jesus came to restore true worship among his people back in the first century, what did he find? He found a religious system so corrupted by man-made traditions that he could barely recognize it. But he was not sent to the ones responsible for the corruption, nor to the ones who willingly upheld it....he was sent only to "the lost sheep of the house of Israel". (Matt 10:24) How many people recognize the significance of that assignment? Jesus already knew that as a nation, Israel had failed monumentally in upholding the teachings of Moses. (Matt 23:37-39) Yet none of those teachings were "from" Moses....they were from God "through" the hand of Moses.
A "prophet greater than Moses" was to come. (Deut 18:15, 18, 19; Acts 3:19-23) This prophet proved to be Jesus Christ.
Did Jesus come to prop up that corrupt religious system? Or did he come to those who had given up on it and were like poor beggars hungering for spiritual nourishment and a kind word or deed?
In whose eyes were these ones "lost"? Certainly not God's. Who were the ones who accepted Jesus as Messiah?...The religious leaders and those who upheld corrupt Judaism?.....or the ones who had given up on it because of its blatant hypocrisy and false interpretation of scripture?
In this time of the end, again God is not seeking those who are happy with the present religious chaos and disunity that is Christendom (Judaism's modern day counterpart.) The "lost sheep" today see right through that hypocritical institution who claims to worship the true God, but who instead promote their own place in this world....priding themselves on their "friendship with the world". (James 4:4) Even promoting the wars of their nations, rejecting Jesus' counsel to 'love their enemies'.
"The good news of the kingdom" is being preached to all, (Matt 24:14) but only the "lost" who have already rejected false worship in their heart, will respond. They have not given up on God, only on the corruption that is presented as truth by the churches. This applies to people of all religions. God is at present making the way for all honest-hearted ones to come to him in faith and be accepted as his spiritual children. (2 Pet 3:9)
God sees to it that those who hunger for the truth and who are humble and obedient at heart will be given all the tools necessary to become a citizen of his Kingdom. Those who want to worship God "their" way will not be granted citizenship because they don't want to do things God's way. (2 Thess 2:9-12) They fail to see that disobedience is what undid humans in the first place. All God has ever asked of his children is that they obey him. It is all he asks now. (Rev 18:4, 5)
Those who wish to practice true worship will reject all that is false and become part of a global brotherhood who all accept the same teachings and can verify the validity of all of them from God's word.
A "prophet greater than Moses" was to come. (Deut 18:15, 18, 19; Acts 3:19-23) This prophet proved to be Jesus Christ.
Did Jesus come to prop up that corrupt religious system? Or did he come to those who had given up on it and were like poor beggars hungering for spiritual nourishment and a kind word or deed?
In whose eyes were these ones "lost"? Certainly not God's. Who were the ones who accepted Jesus as Messiah?...The religious leaders and those who upheld corrupt Judaism?.....or the ones who had given up on it because of its blatant hypocrisy and false interpretation of scripture?
In this time of the end, again God is not seeking those who are happy with the present religious chaos and disunity that is Christendom (Judaism's modern day counterpart.) The "lost sheep" today see right through that hypocritical institution who claims to worship the true God, but who instead promote their own place in this world....priding themselves on their "friendship with the world". (James 4:4) Even promoting the wars of their nations, rejecting Jesus' counsel to 'love their enemies'.
"The good news of the kingdom" is being preached to all, (Matt 24:14) but only the "lost" who have already rejected false worship in their heart, will respond. They have not given up on God, only on the corruption that is presented as truth by the churches. This applies to people of all religions. God is at present making the way for all honest-hearted ones to come to him in faith and be accepted as his spiritual children. (2 Pet 3:9)
God sees to it that those who hunger for the truth and who are humble and obedient at heart will be given all the tools necessary to become a citizen of his Kingdom. Those who want to worship God "their" way will not be granted citizenship because they don't want to do things God's way. (2 Thess 2:9-12) They fail to see that disobedience is what undid humans in the first place. All God has ever asked of his children is that they obey him. It is all he asks now. (Rev 18:4, 5)
Those who wish to practice true worship will reject all that is false and become part of a global brotherhood who all accept the same teachings and can verify the validity of all of them from God's word.