Thy Kingdom Come by Alan Mansager
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ou may have experienced euphoria when first finding the Truth. It was new and exciting and entirely provable from the Scriptures. You had found the Rosetta Stone and for the first time the Bible made sense from beginning to end. You were itching to cry out from the mountaintops. “Look, our Father has a Name. He doesn’t want to be called by a title any more than you do. And the Sabbath is the seventh day, which is easily seen as Saturday even on your wall calendar.” Instead of the silly world of bunny rabbits, jack-o-lanterns and Santa Claus, there are genuine, provable, biblical holidays that the Bible commands us to honor, with associated benefits and blessings – a fact your smiling minister has kept hidden from you. Even seminaries teach that His Name is Yahweh and in the next breath, and from that point on, still call Him god. Does it make any sense to use a classification for a name—when you clearly know what His Name is? “I know your name is Robert but I’ll just keep calling you friend.”
Some Real Shockers By accepting all the Truth you were given, for the first time the pieces started coming together. Your many questions were being answered. The once perplexing mysteries were no longer mystifying. The blatantly obvious, which was hidden in plain sight all your life, suddenly struck like lightning: the Jewish Messiah Yahshua wasn’t a Christian nor was Christianity
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You can have all the Bible knowledge in the world but unless you do something with it you’re stuck in neutral.
His faith; neither were any of the apostles Christian, not even their champion the Apostle Paul; Mary wasn’t a Catholic, and neither was the Apostle Peter, the alleged first pope; all were Jewish Hebrews. But in all of your newfound understanding, both superficial and salvational, you also learned that knowledge itself is not the final goal, as important as it is. You can have all the Bible knowledge in the world but unless you do something with it, you’re stuck in neutral and going nowhere. James wrote in 4:17 that for him that knows to do good and does it not, to him it is sin. That means procrastination can be sin when we don’t act on what we know we must do. Becoming a True Believer is not like being a Marine, you don’t need to be enlisted to live the life. If you are convinced in your heart of the Truth, then you must begin living it, baptism notwithstanding. If you know the Sabbath is the seventh day and must be honored, why are you still going to Sunday worship? If you read that the Feasts are commanded in both Old and Restoration Times Magazine July-August 2021
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