The bible is filled with numerous promises and blessings.
They give us peace and a hope for the future.
Not just our future on this earth, but a hope for all eternity.

This is wonderful.
We need to remember this, though:
We cannot base our entire doctrine on just the promises in scripture.
Everybody loves the promises, but what about the warnings?

I propose this:
If we don’t know and understand the warnings in scripture, we run the risk of losing out on the promises.

Just as there are MANY promises in scripture, we need to realize there are also MANY warnings.
Here are just a few of the eye-opening, earth-shattering warnings:

Hebrews 10:26-31
²⁶ For if we keep on sinning willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but only a terrifying expectation of judgment and a fury of fire about to devour the enemies of God.  ²⁸ Anyone who rejected the Torah of Moses dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ How much more severe do you think the punishment will be for the one who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, and has regarded as unholy the blood of the covenant by which he was made holy, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? ³⁰ For we know the One who said, “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,” and again, “Adonai will judge His people.”  ³¹ It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Do you understand the significance of this?
If we continue to sin willfully, Messiah’s sacrifice no longer covers us.
Don’t believe me?
Read it again.
That is what it says.
When’s the last time you were taught this in church?
Probably way back never.

What about this one:
John 3:36
He who trusts in the Son has eternal life. He who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

Do you get it?
If the wrath of God remains on you, then you are not saved from your sins.  This is the same warning as Hebrews 10 above.
If you do not obey Messiah (by continuing to sin) then you will not be saved.
Messiah said this in Luke 6:46
“Why do you call Me ‘Master, Master’ and do not do what I say?”

So what is it that He said?
John 14:15
“If you love Me, keep My commandments.”
John 14:21
He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me.
John 15:10
If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

Revelation 14:12, describing the saints, the elect, the saved:
Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

Who does the beast of Revelation try to destroy?
Revelation 12:17
And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Does it say he wants to destroy the mainstream church, the people who think the Law is done away with?
No, he seeks to destroy the remnant of the church, those who keep the commandments of God (Torah, the Law) and have the faith of Yeshua Messiah.

Do churches teach us to keep the commandments?
No, they teach us the law is done away with.
Obviously, Jesus means some other commandments, right?

Matthew 5
 “Do not think that I came to abolish the Torah or the Prophets!”

“Amen, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or serif^[b] shall ever pass away from the Torah until all things come to pass.”

“Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever keeps and teaches them, this one shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”

Still not sure?
Messiah really dials it in for us in Revelation 22:14, when He says who will be in His kingdom:
 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.

Eternity in Heaven is in the City of New Jerusalem.  Read Revelation 21 for the details.
The only way to have eternal life is to have access to the tree of life.
The only way to be in Heaven is by entering into the city.
Revelation 22:14 tells us who will be able to do these things: Those who keep the commandments.  What commandments?  The commands of God. The Law. The Torah.

Another warning:
2Peter 3:14-17
¹⁴ Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; ¹⁵ and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, ¹⁶ as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.
¹⁷ You, therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked;

Mainstream Church Doctrine is based upon the [misunderstood] writings of Paul.
Peter warns us not to make this mistake.
If we make this mistake, it will lead to our destruction.

Another warning:
1John 2:3-6
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.

If you say that you know Messiah, Yeshua, Jesus, Savior —- and do not keep the commandments, then you are a liar. You do not know Him.
Not my opinion…
It is simply what scripture says.
Do you believe it?

Another warning, a direct quote of Messiah:
Matthew 7:21-23
²¹ “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. ²² Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ ²³ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

Yeshua, Jesus, Messiah – tells people who thought they were serving Him that He never knew them. He sends them away and rejects them.  Why?
Because they were lawless.
They did not follow the Torah, the instructions of Jehovah.

Another warning:
Matthew 23:13
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.”

Again, a direct quote of Messiah.
He is scolding [rather harshly] the educated religious leaders of His day.  Why? They taught the traditions of men as though it were the word of God.  But they are wrong about that.
What is the result?
1.  They will not enter Heaven.
2.  Their followers will not enter Heaven.

We do not get a “pass” because of false teachers.
We are responsible for learning the word of Yehovah.
If we listen to and believe a teacher who gets it wrong, we suffer the same fate as the false teachers.
No excuses allowed.

Let’s stop for a second and think…
If I am right about these warnings, then that means the entire Mainstream Christian Industry has things wrong.
How could that be possible?
“Nope, it can’t be possible.  That is too much to accept.”

Final warning [not the last in scripture – there are many more – but the final warning in this mini-teaching]:

Jeremiah 16:19-20
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?

While it seems preposterous that the entire Mainstream Church could be teaching a false message, scripture predicts it.
You can not only believe it, but you can bet on it, if you were a betting man…
Not only are lies taught, the consequences are devastating.
It results in men making up their own gods.
But they are not gods.
And if they are not gods, they cannot grant salvation.

Do you follow Yehovah in the bible?
Do you follow Messiah in the bible?
Or do you follow man’s made of versions of them?

Answer carefully.
Your eternity is at stake.

OK, you talked me into it.
One last warning.
This is the test of a false prophet:
Deuteronomy 13:1-5
“If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, ² and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’—which you have not known—‘and let us serve them,’ ³ you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lordyour God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. ⁴ You shall walk after the Lordyour God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him. ⁵ But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall put away the evil from your midst.

If any teacher steers you away from the Law, the Torah, they are to be rejected as a false prophet.
Does this test in Deuteronomy remind you of any other tests in scripture?
Again, 1John 2:3-6
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.

Do you pass the test?