Could you imagine if the bible had a start button?
If you pressed it, where would it take you?
Genesis 1:1?
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?

I have an idea about this.
What if we push the start button and reveal some basic principles of truth? What if we set a beginning premise before reading the immense wealth of knowledge to be found in scripture?

Ready, set go…
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The Word is not something that developed over time.  The Word was not shaped by the circumstances and events in the lives of men throughout history.
It was in the beginning.
It was with God.
It is God.

God and the Word are one and the same. They cannot be separated.
The Word gives us details about who God is.
We learn His character from the Word.
We learn His plan from the Word.

John 1:2
² He was with God in the beginning.
This verse is referring to Yeshua Messiah (Jesus).
Messiah was with God since the beginning.  He did not come into existence 2000 years ago. He always has been, since the beginning.

John 1:14
¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us. We looked upon His glory, the glory of the one and only from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Again, speaking of Messiah.
The Word (which is God, as stated above) became flesh as Messiah, who lived among us.
Yeshua Messiah (Jesus) and Yehova (God) and the Word are all one and the same.

John 10:30
³⁰ I and the Father are one.

John 14:9-11
He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. ¹¹ Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.

We have seen in these few scriptures that Yehova (God), Messiah (Jesus), and the Word are all one and the same. Not only that, but they have all ‘been’ since the beginning.
Ok, what else?

Numbers 23:19
God is not a man who lies,
or a son of man who changes his mind!

Malachi 3:6
“For I am Yehova. I change not…”

Hebrews 13:8
⁸ Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

These scriptures tell us several things.
This information is not cryptic. It is not complicated.
We do not need to sort it out and figure it out.

Plain and simple…
God does not change.
God does not lie.
God does not change His mind.
Jesus does not change.
The Word does not change.

Why is this significant?
The entire Mainstream Christian doctrine requires God to change.
The entire Mainstream Christian doctrine requires God to be a liar.
The entire Mainstream Christian doctrine requires God to change His mind.
The entire Mainstream Christian doctrine requires Messiah to change.
The entire Mainstream Christian doctrine requires the Word to change.
This is not possible!!
Does scripture give us any hints about our entire religious system getting this wrong?
Surely, if this were true, we’d know about it right?
God reveals all through His prophets…
Amos 3:7
Surely the Lord God does nothing,
Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.

Has any prophet ever said our religious system would get everything wrong? This is Jeremiah speaking about the end times, when Yehova re-gathers His people:

Jeremiah 16:19-20
¹⁹ O Lord, my strength and my fortress,
My refuge in the day of affliction,
The Gentiles shall come to You
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Surely our fathers have inherited lies,
Worthlessness and unprofitable things.”
²⁰ Will a man make gods for himself,
Which are not gods?

So—- the answer is yes.
Not only is it possible for our religious system to have things wrong, it is guaranteed!!
This is bitter sweet.
It is bitter because that means the things people have believed for many generations are absolutely wrong.
It is sweet because we can read this warning and take it seriously.
We can be aware of this warning and spend time in study and prayer.
We can sort this out and heed this warning before it is too late for us.

God says this about His Sabbath:
Exodus 31:13
‘Surely you must keep My Shabbatot [Sabbath], for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, so you may know that I am Yehova who sanctifies you.¹⁴ Therefore you are to keep the Shabbat [Sabbath], because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it will die, for whoever does any work during Shabbat, that soul will be cut off from the midst of his people. ¹⁵ Work is to be done for six days, but on the seventh day is a Shabbat of complete rest, holy to Yehova. Whoever does any work on the Shabbat will surely be put to death. ¹⁶ So Bnei-Yisrael is to keep the Shabbat, to observe the Shabbat throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. ¹⁷ It is a sign between Me and Bnei-Yisrael forever, for in six days Yehova made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He ceased from work and rested.’”¹⁸ When He had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave the two tablets of the Testimony to Moses—tablets of stone, written by the finger of God.

This is the biblical Sabbath.
Work six days and rest on the seventh.
It is a sign between Yehova and His people.
Do you have this sign?
Are you labeled as one of His?
It is a perpetual covenant.
It is for all generations.
It is part of the Ten Commandments.
It is written in stone by Yehova Himself!!
He who violates the Sabbath will die.
The Sabbath is not created at Mt Sinai.
It was created in the beginning…
Genesis 2:1-3
2 So the heavens and the earth were completed along with their entire array. ² God completed—on the seventh day—His work that He made, and He ceased—on the seventh day—from all His work that He made. ³ Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, for on it He ceased from all His work that God created for the purpose of preparing.

The mainstream church says we don’t have to keep the biblical Sabbath. Is that what God said?
Nope.
God said he who does not keep the Sabbath will surely die.
Will you believe Yehova, or will you believe your church?
Can the church tell us that what God said is forever, is actually not forever?
Can the church tell us that we will not surely die if we do not honor the biblical Sabbath?  God said we would die.
It reminds me of this:
Genesis 3:4
⁴ The serpent said to the woman, “You most assuredly won’t die! ⁵ For God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Yehova says that profaning the Sabbath will result in our death.
The church says, nah, not really…
Sounds a bit like the serpent in the garden.
Is that why Messiah called the educated religious leader a pit of vipers in Matthew 23?
Who will you believe?
The very words of Yehova?
Or some guy who went to college and learned the traditions of men?

GOD DOES NOT LIE.
GOD DOES NOT CHANGE HIS MIND.
THE WORD DOES NOT PASS AWAY.

Then the church will  also teach that the Sabbath is a command for the Hebrew people, the nation of Israel, the Jews.
Is that true?
First of all, He created and sanctified the Sabbath long before the Hebrew people existed.
Secondly, we have this:
Exodus 12:49
The same Torah applies to the native as well as the outsider who dwells among you.”

Leviticus 16:29
“It is to be a statute to you forever, that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you are to afflict your souls, and do no kind of work—both the native-born and the outsider dwelling among you.

Leviticus 18:26
You, however, are to keep My statutes and My ordinances, and do none of these abominations, neither the native-born, nor the outsider dwelling among you.

Leviticus 19:24
The outsider dwelling among you shall be to you as the native-born among you. You should love him as yourself—for you dwelled as outsiders in the land of Egypt. I am Elohim your God.

Leviticus 24:16
Whoever blasphemes the Name of Elohim must surely be put to death. The whole congregation must stone him. The outsider as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, is to be put to death.

Leviticus 24:22
You are to have one standard of justice for the outsider as well as the native-born, for I am Elohim your God.”

Numbers 15:29
Whether a native-born of Bnei-Yisrael or an outsider living among them, one Torah applies to you for the one sinning unintentionally.

Numbers 15:30
“But the person who sins defiantly, whether native or outsider, reviles Elohim and that person is to be cut off from his people.

Ezekiel 47:22
So you are to divide it by lot for an inheritance for you and for the outsiders who dwell among you, whoever bears children among you. They will be to you like the native-born of Bnei-Yisrael; they will be allotted an inheritance along with you among the tribes of Israel.

What do these verses teach us?
The law, the Torah instructions, are given to both the Hebrew people and to the stranger/sojourner/non-native among them.
The instructions are for everyone who wishes to be one of Yehova’s people.
Are you His?
Or are you not His?

Need more help with this idea?
Galatians 3:27-29
²⁷ For all of you who were immersed in Messiah have clothed yourselves with Messiah. ²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female—for you are all one in Messiah Yeshua. ²⁹ And if you belong to Messiah, then you are Abraham’s seed—heirs according to the promise.

If you wish to belong to Messiah, then you are Abraham’s seed.
You are heirs according to the promise made to Abraham.
You can’t belong to Messiah and not be Abraham’s seed.
Are you His?
Or are you not His?

I could do this for hours and hours, days and days.
I could provide example after example in scripture.
But here is the gist of this starting premise:
The Word does not change.
God does not change.
God does not lie.
God does not change His mind.
The Word never passes away.

Mainstream doctrine teaches the opposite of these statements.
Who will you believe?
The One who created you?
The One who Saves you?
Or will you believe some guy who went to college and learned what other men think?

Jesus did not do away with the law.
Do you know Him?
Do you know Messiah?
How can you tell?

1John 2:3-6
The Test of Knowing Him
³ Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. ⁴ He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. ⁵ But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. ⁶ He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.