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WHAT GOSPEL?
By
Bertrand L. Comparet
An unfortunate characteristic of all major churches is,
with great energy and the best intentions; they always oppose Yahweh's plans for
the time in which they live. These churches fall into this error because they
take a few verses of scriptures out of context and elevate this into doctrine.
Then they cannot retreat from this position without losing face, by having to
admit they made a mistake. This was true at the first coming of our Redeemer
Yahshua, and it is equally true now that His second coming is near.
The Bible contains Yahweh's entire message to His people Israel. Both the gospel of the kingdom
and the hopeful promise of redemption. You cannot truthfully claim to know your
religion, nor to be an obedient child of Yahweh if you know and follow only one
of these two halves of His message. You cannot have either one in its reality
without the other, each is just one part of Yahweh's perfect plan and neither
will work effectively without the other. Before Yahshua's first coming, the
people tried to take only the national part and it brought them ruin. Since
then, we have accepted only the personal part and it has now brought us face to
face with the most total catastrophe, which has threatened the world since the
first chapter of Genesis. Only Yahweh's own plan, the balanced combination of
both national and personal messages, can give us life.
Today the churches teach nothing but the half dealing
with personal salvation, by faith in Yahshua as our Redeemer. I do not belittle
it, for without this you have nothing. But with it, what do you have? That is
what the rest of Yahweh's message deals with. Only 1/6th of the Bible is
addressed to the individual, the other 5/6ths is addressed to the nation and
race. If Yahweh found it important enough to devote 5/6ths of His message to us
in this gospel of the kingdom, we should find it important enough to learn what
it is.
Our Christian religion begins with Yahweh's promises to
Abraham, Isaac and Israel; all the rest is the detailed development and
fulfillment of these promises. The promises were racial and national.
Here they are as recorded in Genesis 12:2-3, 13:15-16. "I will make
of thee a great nation and I will bless thee and make thy name great; and
thou shalt be a blessing; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be
blessed. All the land which thou seeth, to thee will I give, and to thy seed
forever. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can
number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed be numbered." Genesis
15:5, 18 continues, "Look now toward heaven and tell the stars, if thou
be able to number them: and He said unto him, so shall thy seed be. Unto thy
seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the
river Euphrates." Genesis 17:4-7 says, "My covenant is with
thee and thou shalt be a father of many nations. l establish My covenant
between Me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an
everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee." Genesis
18:18 adds, "Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation,
and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him." Genesis 35:11
continues, "Unto thy seed I will give all these countries. A nation and a
company of nations shall be of thee." Note that all of these were racial
and national promises.
Certainly Yahweh's further promises made at Mount Sinai
were to the nation. Yahweh's laws were stated, with the promise that the
individual who obeyed them would be blessed, while he who held them in contempt
would be cursed in punishment. It was also made the responsibility of the nation
to see that the individuals obeyed Yahweh's will. For failure to do this, the nation would be punished. For
general obedience to Yahweh, the nation would receive the blessings of
peace, great prosperity, etc.
The national and racial characters of these
promises are often emphasized. Deuteronomy 7:6 promises, "Thou art a
holy people unto Yahweh: Yahweh thy God hath chosen thee to be a special
people unto Himself, above all the people that are on the face of the
earth." Exodus 19:6 states, "Ye shall be unto Me a kingdom
of priests and an holy nation." Numbers 6:27 reads,
"They shall put My name upon the children of Israel and I shall bless
them."
Many people mistakenly think that the New Testament deals
only with the individual, that its message is only that of personal salvation.
Nothing could be further from the truth, Yahweh's word is still good. For
example Yahshua said in Matthew 15:24, "I am not sent but unto
the lost sheep of the house of Israel." Yahshua taught only in parables
and almost all of these concerned the kingdom of Yahweh. Most of them
began, "The kingdom of Yahweh is like unto". Not one of them says, the
salvation is like unto, something. Yahshua knew He came to found the Christian
religion. He was careful not to teach that it abolished Yahweh's promises to His
people. To the chief priest and elders, the religious leaders of the church of
that day He said, "The kingdom of Yahweh shall be taken from you and given
to a nation", not to a church or a denomination.
When Yahshua promised His 12 apostles their rewards, what
did He say in Matthew 19:28? "Ye which have followed Me, in the
regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of His glory, ye also
shall sit upon twelve thrones judging", what? Will they be judging the
Methodists, Baptists and the Presbyterians? Of course not, the twelve disciples
will be judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Who is it He will judge and who will He reward? Not just
individuals only, but also nations. In Matthew 25:31-41 Yahshua
says, "When the Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels
with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory: And before Him shall
be gathered all nations; and He shall separate them one from
another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats. And He shall set the
sheep on his right hand but the goats on the left. Then shall the
King say unto them on his right hand, Come ye blessed of My Father, inherit
the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world! Then shall He
say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from Me ye cursed, into everlasting
fire prepared for the devil and his angels." Even today the Christ hating
Jewish liberals are always on the left.
What gospel did Yahshua preach? Matthew 9:35 tells
us, "And Yahshua went about all the cities and villages, teaching in the
synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom". Every time He
sent out His disciples to preach, He commanded them to preach the gospel of
the kingdom of Yahweh. In Matthew 24:14 He says, "This gospel of
the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all the
nations; and then shall the end come".
I know there are many who have been taught that Paul set
aside all of Yahshua's teachings and brought a new and different gospel, this is
not true. If you want to know what Paul preached, read the last verse of the
Book of Acts. It says, "Preaching the kingdom of Yahweh and teaching
those things which concern Yahshua." In Romans 15:8 Paul tells us,
"Now I say that Yahshua was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of
Yahweh, to confirm the promises made to the fathers." These,
as we have seen, were national and racial promises. By the obedience of the
individuals, the nation was blessed. By the blessing of the nation the
individual not only prospered materially, but his children grew up in an
environment which taught them also to be obedient to Yahweh, so Yahweh's
blessings would go on from generation to generation.
When will we learn we cannot repudiate, as worthless, any
part of Yahweh's great plan for us and yet get the blessings out of the rest of
it? The churches of today are directly, and almost exclusively, to blame for the
peril of utter destruction, which faces Christian civilization today. Within the
memory of most of those that hear me, the white Christian nations of the world
were in power, fully capable of ruling the world with Yahweh's rules for the
nations.
Yet the clergy are teaching that these rules had to be
abolished. They teach that church members must not be contaminated taking part
in politics, but leave that exclusively in the hands of evil men. They taught we
must set free the pagan, Christ hating nations, before we had been able to lift
them out of their savagery. Their befuddled dupes have believed and done these
things and you see the results throughout the world today.
Let's get back to the whole Bible, Yahweh's entire plan,
while it is still possible! |