The PURE TRUTH Restored                          Vol. 1, No. 6

"What Does 'You Have Moses
And The Prophets' Mean?"

    WHAT did the Savior teach, that so many professing religious would-be believers today still refuse to hear and heed, that is so vital to any hope you may have to achieve salvation?

HEN Moses prophesied about the Savior -- another prophet like him, who would come and be "raised up" (Deuteronomy 18:15) -- he said: "You must [will] listen to Him" (op. cit.)

    The "you" Moses meant was not referring to the Yasraelites of his time, nor even those of the first century -- most of whom rejected the Savior's message -- and neither did Moses mean most of their descendants who are alive today.

    Instead, he was speaking of a yet future time, when the entire earth will hear, heed and obey the returned Savior, when He will sit upon His throne upon earth, and rule over all nations justly and peacefully.

    However, there are some few who, prior to that blessed time, will listen and heed what He said.   Are you counted among that number?

    Let's see...

A Revealing Parable

    The Savior taught by way of many analogies through parables.   In the parable of the rich man and Lazarus He foretold of a time in which a judgment by fire upon the wicked will take place.

    It is a time when Abraham (and Lazarus, among many others) will live again, through a resurrection from the dead, as prophesied in the 20th chapter of the book of Revelation and elsewhere (cf. Luke 16:22-23).

    In the parable, the rich man asks Abraham to send Lazarus back to warn his five brothers to save them from the fiery judgment he is about to suffer, but Abraham replies: "They have Moses and the prophets, let them listen to them" (verse 29).

    Again, Abraham said: "If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead" (to warn them, verse 31).

Your Living Example

    Two amazing things are obvious from this discourse (if not readily apparent, unless your mind and heart are open to receive this knowledge of truth), and they are that the one who rose from the dead, whom nearly nobody believes even today, was and is the Savior Himself!

    And second, what they don't believe, in particular, is that -- as in this very parable -- Yahvsave, the Savior or Messiah, taught us to listen to (accept, believe) Moses and the prophets, otherwise known today as the Old Testament.

    Just as He did in this very parable.

    And because most modern "Christian" religions mistakenly equate the "Old Testament" scriptures with the Old Covenant, about which those scriptures briefly teach, and also misconstrue the "New Testament" scriptures as a sort of denial or repudiation of the Law contained in the books of Moses -- rather than simply the part of the national laws that were part of the covenant (such as sacrifices to an imperfect and impermanent physical priesthood at a temporary and impermanent physical Temple) -- they reject the Law of those scriptures as now being supposedly "done away with" by the Savior's death and resurrection.

    In so doing, they worship the book called the Bible, without carefully heeding what it says and teaches, just as the Pharisees, Sadducees and their followers of the first century all did with the Old Testament scriptures they had.

    In reality, the exact same spiritual Laws are taught in BOTH so-called "testaments" of scripture, and the Old Testament scriptures were then -- and still are today -- vital to any true belief in salvation, for without them we could never know the Law the Savior taught and obeyed as a living example for us to follow (Luke 10:25-28, 36-37; cf. Deuteronomy 6:5; Leviticus 19:18).

A Doctrine of Demons

    Instead of paying close attention to even the so-called "New Testament" scriptures, foolish professing "Christians" deliberately corrupt and misconstrue the meaning of those scriptures to "support" their false and heretical beliefs in a lawless "faith" without the works of obedience to the Law.

    For example, the scripture that says "the Law and the Prophets prophesied about Yahvhanan" ("John," the Baptist), is mistranslated into "until" so that the general fallacy is accepted that Moses' writings ("the Law") and the Prophets are now falsely considered as not essential to salvation.

    Yet, as the parable of the rich man and Lazarus reveals, nothing could be further from the truth, for this is a New Testament teaching that the Law and the Prophets are, in fact, essential to salvation!

    In reality the Law, as taught throughout the Old Testament (the Law and the Prophets) is still of primary importance to you today, just as it will still be at the time of the future resurrection from the dead.

    Foolish "Christians" who misbelieve they are somehow "saved without the law" are simply deceived, and are following a false "savior" -- one of many the TRUE Savior prophesied would come over (epi; Strong's Concordance, Greek Dictionary listing #1909) of against, not in, His name (Matthew 24:5; cf. verses 11, 23-24; Mark 13:6, 21-22; Luke 21:8) -- and such false "true believers" are, in fact, following doctrines (or teachings) of demons (I Timothy 4:1).

Who's Your Creator?

    Such falsehoods are not what the scriptures ever taught, and are only found in modern bibles thanks to the efforts of deceived and dishonest false religious teachers or leaders, translators and publishers.

    Ask yourself why there are no modern bible translations willing to accurately translate the above three vital scriptures of the Savior's prophecy, intended for every age from then, down to and including today?

    Perhaps it's because the pure truth they reveal hits a little too close to home for them to dare!

    But then, remember that these leaders, translators and publishers also have Moses and the Prophets, all of which faithfully recorded the words of, and wrote about Almighty Creators named Yahveh, which name -- due to these same religious purveyors of falsehood today, and older ones (such as the King James and Greek translators of the original Aramaic of Ibreyan [original "Hebrew"] New Testament, and the Masoretic Old Testament), upon which they are based -- is generally unknown, untaught, unrecognized and is therefore despised by such false "true believers" today.

    And those Creators are not only merely some "Old Testament" personages, but the Creator quoted in the Old Testament is, in fact, the very same "One and Only" who became the Savior, our Messiah, if you can accept this long suppressed fact of the pure truth (cf. "John" 1:1-3, 14, 18).

You Are Without Excuse!

    And so these modern false religious people, who blindly follow their blinded leaders, have unwittingly fulfilled the Savior's prophecies about this wicked end-time generation which, as a result, will suffer a judgment of wrath by our soon-returning Creator/Savior.

    Many have indeed come over and against His name, which is "the only name under heaven given to men, by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12), as have all the world's great deceivers and false religious leaders and "prophets," who predict nothing but "good" things for the future.

    So they, and you, truly are without excuse, if you fail to hear Moses and the Prophets, much less the actual words of the Savior Himself (and the other Apostles, Prophets and Teachers of both the "Old" and "New Testament"), rather than uninspired translations of false-religion corrupted modern bibles!

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