According to the official record of the Apostles, it was the Pharisees who had joined the Israelite Church who tried to being in dual covenant salvation.
"But there arose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses" (Acts 15:5).
The Israelite Church was now about fifteen years old. We are past the last half of Daniel's 70th week. We are past the scattering of the saints because of persecution in Acts 8; we are past the Samaritan revival in Acts 8; we are past the conversion of Saul to Paul in Acts 9; we are past the Gentiles grafted into the olive tree in Acts 10; we are past the Jerusalem convention where Peter was questioned about preaching to the Gentiles; and we are past the spread of the Gospel to all Judea and then to Antioch. After all these years of un-opposed preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom to Jews and Gentiles with no demands or teachings about law keeping: here came the Pharisees.
We have some specific teachings of Jesus that does not include law-keeping.
First, the Gospel is not the preaching of law-keeping. No one will ever prove that it is. I said so!
Third, the Apostle John said clearly:
"For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ" (John 1:17).
There is a reason for the distinction. Obviously a keen eye can detect that grace and truth did not come by Moses and was not contained in the law.
Fourth, Jesus did not preach law-keeping as a means of improving a person's salvation or of giving them a better chance to be saved. Jesus referred to his own words having in them eternal life:
"He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day" (John 12:28).
We have another verse that bears witness with this and by the mouth of two or three witnesses let all be established:
"If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you" (John 15:7).
There is nothing of law-keeping in any of this.
Peter had a revelation straight from God:
"Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life" (John 6:68).
There are no words of eternal life in the law. I said so!
Fifth: The Apostles were not Ministers of the law. The law requires priests and in the New Testament none of the Apostles or Ministers are priests. This shows us the law has no representation in the Israelite Church. The Apostles were not sent to preach or teach the law. Apostle James, the half-brother of Jesus, made a bold, strong, and clear point that the Church was not an oracle of the law:
"For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day" (Acts 15:21).
It is clear there was now a distinction between the Church and the synagogues. If the Church was an oracle of Moses, why point to the synagogues? The Apostle James could speak that Moses was preached every worship day in the Church. Yes, it does take a keen eye to rightly divide the Truth. Many do not have it. But I do. I said so!
Sixth, law-keeping was rejected by the Israelite Church in the Jerusalem convention:
"Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment" (Acts 15:24).
Seventh, the Apostles and the Israelite Church did not see observing New Testament Passover or New Testament Pentecost as being law-observing. These two events occurred on days set forth in the law, but when the types and shadows were fulfilled, there is no need to leave the light and go back to the darkness of the shadows.
If Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law (Gal 3:14), why go back to law keeping and take back upon us the curse?
My daughter remarked to me some weeks back how so many who are now coming awake about the Jewishness of the Church are shooting past Calvary back to law-keeping. How that when they discover the Jewish roots of the olive tree, they are deceived that the root is law-keeping. And they leave the Church and begin to join Jewish synagogues and other false Messianic groups in search of a better relationship with God. They do not know the relationship they seek is in Jesus and not law-keeping.
I could not agree more. Her observation comes from years of seeing me preach the true Israel of God and many others who grab that and then quickly go off into law-keeping because they do not have a strong foundation in the Israelite Church. Many of these are not under my leadership and so they are unable of themselves to avoid going back under the law for a better salvation or to be saved.
If there were more Pastors who preached the Truth about the Israelite Church olive tree, and that we are not grafted into law-keeping, many souls would not be carried away by this raging wind of law-keeping. But many Pastors are themselves confused. They do not know how to preach from the Old Testament through the lens of the New Testament. They have been taught by peers and scholastic writings that the Church is to keep the law. In fact one UPC pastor was very bold that he keeps the law. I am very bold to say he lied. He does not keep the law. In fact, I do not know a single UPC preacher who keeps the law. The most of them pick and choose which laws they will keep and which laws they will claim Calvary abolished. It is this partial-law-keeping that sets up fragile minds to think that if part of the law helps their salvation and to be saved, that keeping all the law will increase their chances. No one keeps the law without the idea doing so helps save them. They quickly depart from their faith of being saved by Christ alone, by grace alone, and by faith alone as found in Acts 2:38.
I have been on the cutting edge of Israelite New Covenant Church theology since about 1982. At first no man stood with me. Then a few saw the light and teamed up. But then some of these wanted to use the truth to become great and famous and went on their own way to destruction. A few came along and took part of the Truth away and perverted it with made-up revelations they thought went past my understanding and they would stand upon the mountain top of Truth and proclaim themselves as the temple to which all men should seek. But glory to God, praise Jesus, little by little there has come forth from different nations men of love for the Truth. Men who can abide in the vine, abide in the olive tree, men who seek not their own self-made revelations, but who see the Truth, embrace it, and then determine themselves to stand for it.
In fact, they claim openly they have no ministry of perfection. They call themselves apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers and are WORTHLESS to the perfection of the saints. And this is why liberalism and worldliness has showed up in their churches. Any church that has open worldliness permitted by the pastor, is public confession he has no ministry of perfection. Who would want to be under such men? These CANNOT be in the real five-fold ministry because it is a PERFECTION group of Ministers.
It is right here, many souls who seek a closer relationship with God begin to look into law-keeping for their perfection. They yearn in their hearts for something more than the Pentecostal shout, the Pentecostal running, the Pentecostal leaping, and Pentecostal holy laughter. They want more than stage shows and a church that is a theater. They feel in their heart to draw closer to God in holiness.
Yes, an outward standard of dress that is moral and beautiful. Women want long uncut hair because they know this is their glory and they know by this they have power on their head. They have nothing to condemn their prayers before angels. While there are many reprobate novices now trying to say a woman has no power on her head because of her long uncut hair, these will never lead astray the true and pure hearted women who love God with all their heart. The reprobates who pastor these backslid Pentecostal churches do not have a holiness beauty for a wife. They have a Jezebel for a wife who refuses to live by a holiness standard. So these pastors take up their attack on outward holiness to give a protective cover for their evil wives. They will have influence within churches who are liberal and worldly, but that is the extent of their change agent ministry. Laodicaea will accept these kinds of luke warm pastors and novices but not the true people of God. When holy women and men are unfulfilled in backslid Pentecostalism many will seek a law-keeping group because they see no alternative. Finding a real holiness Apostolic Church these days that is not tied to Rome via pagan holidays is very difficult. With worldliness taking over many Jesus Name churches those who love holiness will seek shelter even if it is in a law-keeping group. And there they will be just as damned as if they stayed in the Laodicaea church and backslid.
As I observe so many now trying to improve on the finished work of Calvary by going back under the law, I am sad. I am broken hearted because these have a zeal of God but not according to knowledge. And law-keeping preachers will take advantage of this zeal and cause many souls to be damned. We cannot go back past Calvary to law-keeping without treading underfoot the Son of God and bringing his sacrifice to an open shame. It was the shame of the law, the judgments of the law, the death penalties of the law, that nailed Jesus to the Cross. And to go back to law-keeping and take Jesus down from the Cross and say he did not need to die, because a person will keep the law anyway, is an insult to the love of the Lord Jesus Christ. I said so!
If any of you are thinking about going back under the law to observe the sabbath, to observe dietary laws, to observer feast days, new moons, and circumcision, the Apostle James had this to say about you:
"who hath bewitched you."
We can see that when any person is led back under the law there is a bewitching, perverting, and overturning spirit involved. And this is exactly what "subverting" means. It is a method of trickery and deception so that a person is "bewitched" which means also beswitched, and they do not know they have been hood-winked by a very crafty and slick law-keeper.
If law-keeping is subverting, perverting, and overturning the faith of men and women, those attempting to subvert them are already perverted from the Gospel of Christ.
The Gospel of the Israelite Church contains within it the blessings and covenant of Abraham. And I tell all of you, this was 400 years before there was any law given on Mt. Horeb. I can also tell all of you there is absolutely NO LAW KEEPING in the blessing and covenant of Abraham.
To all you who love Jesus and his words abide in you, you have one that will judge you in the last day. It is Jesus. You will NEVER be judged by Moses or the law. I said so!
For those of you who know the glory of this great salvation of Christ alone, by grace alone, and by faith alone as found in the Apostle's Doctrine: I say you are a friend of Truth and Jesus.
Now stop all this hate against Pastor Reckart and get into unity and help reach the nations with the true Light of the Gospel of the Kingdom.
The blessings and covenant of Abraham are now in the Israelite Church.
Bishop Reckart
A Man God Made And Anointed
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