The Second

Angel

and the Third

Race
A closer look at one of the prophecies from the Bible and its interpretation
Pablo C. Agsalud Jr.
[Revision 1]

Foreword
I have wandered across several books, searching for
mysteries and looking for answers. I have wasted my time
reading and pondering. And yet, I have only found myself
sinking down into the world of the occult and worldly
knowledge. All are but senseless principles, ideals, and
beliefs. Nothing in it where your soul can benefit from.
This is my version of the Great Mystery as an opposing book
for the occult Mysterium Magnum.
Though we all see the world in a perspective different from
everyone else, I hope that we could all find a way to reveal
what God had hidden from us, what are too vague to
understand, and what really matters the most, because the
future path that our souls would take depends on it.
I will put these revelations into words that everyone could
understand, but with a fair warning: that my own words DOES
NOT count as the word of God, and that my insights are
based on my own understanding, what appears on my mind,
and what I think the abstract picture represents in reality.
Furthermore, it is not my intention to judge or criticize any
institution, or state, or race, but to show that some of the
most perplexing riddles of the Bible make sense in OUR time.
God bless!

(Jeremiah 26:3)
Perhaps they will listen and each will turn from their evil
ways

Parallelism
Parallelism is used all throughout this book to reveal the meaning of the hidden messages of
the Bible.
Though some have already uncovered some of the mysteries of the Old and the New
Testament, based on History, there are still a lot more left to be analyzed, interpreted, and
revealed.
It is true that the Bible alone can interpret itself. A verse might speak, describe, and conceal
things into figurative words, but somewhere within the Bible, another verse will come to
interpret it.

Why were the prophecies expressed in parables?

A prophecy came to Isaiah:
Isaiah 6
6
Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken
with tongs from the altar.
7
With it he touched my mouth and said, See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is
taken away and your sin atoned for.
8
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send? And who will go for
us? And I said, Here am I. Send me!
9
He said, Go and tell this people: Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be
ever seeing, but never perceiving.
10
Make the heart of this people calloused; make their ears dull and close their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their
hearts, and turn and be healed.
11
Then I said, For how long, Lord? And he answered: Until the cities lie ruined and
without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and
ravaged,
12
until the LORD has sent everyone far away and the land is utterly forsaken.
13
And though a tenth remains in the land, it will again be laid waste. But as the
terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the
stump in the land.
Jesus mentioned this to his disciples:
Matthew 13
10
The disciples came to him and asked, Why do you speak to the people in
parables?
11
He replied, The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been
given to you, but not to them.
12
Those who have will be given more, and they will have an abundance. As for those
who do not have, even what they have will be taken from them.
13
This is why I speak to them in parables: Though seeing, they do not see; though
hearing, they do not hear or understand.
14
In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: You will be ever hearing but never
understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15
For this peoples heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and
they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with
their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.

Paul discussed them and said:

2 Corinthians 3
13
We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites
from seeing the end of what was passing away.
14
But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old
covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away.
15
Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
16
But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
2 Corinthians 4
2 On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to
everyones conscience in the sight of God.
3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they
cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image
of God.
People came to love the world and had turned away from God to satisfy their worldly desires.
Because people had done this, it had aroused Gods anger and he hid himself from us.
The prophecies were told in parables so that the wicked may not understand, because they
are intended for the fire or destruction:
Psalm 49
12
Human beings, despite their wealth, do not endure; they are like the beasts that
perish.
13
This is the fate of those who trust in themselves, and of their followers, who
approve their sayings.
14
They are like sheep and are destined to die; death will be their shepherd (but the
upright will prevail over them in the morning). Their forms will decay in the grave, far
from their princely mansions.
For if the wicked hear the word, understand, but do not turn from their evil ways, they will be
worse than they were before:
2 Peter 2
20
If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse of
at the end than they were at the beginning.
21
It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness,
than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that
was passed on to them.
22
Of them the proverbs are true: A dog returns to its vomit, and, A sow that is
washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.

What is the purpose of all these revelations?

Luke 2
34
Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother: This child is destined to
cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken
against,
35
so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will
pierce your own soul too.
Colossians 2
13
When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, a
God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,
14
having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness,which stood against us and
condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.
Hebrews 3
7
So, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you hear his voice,
8
do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing
in the wilderness,
9
where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I
did.
10
That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, Their hearts are always going
astray, and they have not known my ways.
11
So I declared on oath in my anger, They shall never enter my rest.
Like the Bible, in general, these revelations were written

To
To
To
To
To

reveal the purpose of the Lord and his lasting promise

help us discern what is right from what is wrong
remind us the law and the covenant made by God with man
pierce our hearts and make us turn away from our sinful ways
give hope and deliverance

How are the meanings revealed?

When an object is placed to represent a word figuratively, the meaning or synonym usually
follows. For instance:
Jeremiah 12:12
Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and
grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword,
famine and plague.
The sword, a figurative object used to represent a word for comparison, was used here to
describe famine and plague.
Example
I will bless them with gold, wheat and barley.
Based on the example above, the author doesnt mean gold to be a literally real object, but
implies gold as wheat and barley as its literal meanings, because gold is the color of the field
during the time of harvest. Now that we know that gold refers to wheat and barley, the
thought of the entire statement can be expressed as a good harvest, food sufficiency, or
prosperity.
Heres another example how a sword is equated to famine. Take note of the word or used to
connect it to its meaning:
Jeremiah 14:13
But I said, Ah, Sovereign LORD, the prophets keep telling them, You will not see the
sword OR suffer famine. Indeed, I will give you lasting peace in this place.
Sometimes, two separate verses mean the same thing, like for instance:
Genesis 3
17
Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all
the days of your life.
18
It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the
ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.
through painful toil =
all the days of your life

sweat of your brow

=
until you return to the ground

When a simple thought is expressed in a verse, another verse somewhere within the
inclusive text, usually succeeding it, will come to mean the same thing. Otherwise, a verse
from a different book within the Bible would present itself as a parallel verse with one or
more figurative words or metaphors.

Which interpretation is trust-worthy?

Matthew 24
4
Jesus answered: Watch out that no one deceives you.
5
For many will come in my name, claiming, I am the Messiah, and will deceive
many.
2 Peter 2
18
For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of
sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live
in error.
19
They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravityfor
people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.
Many have claimed to be Christ or vicars of Christ, and some people follow them. They
deceive those who lack understanding of the Scriptures and publicly hauling money in
exchange for indulgences and spiritual reservations.
There are many teachers out there, as much as religions. And yet, not all religions agree on
the same teaching, nor do two pastors give the same opinion on a single subject. Almost all
would probably give you answers derived from learned experiences, collective knowledge,
teachings and traditions.
Colossians 2
18
Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels
disqualify you. Such people also go into great detail about what they have seen, and
their unspiritual minds puff them up with idle notions.
22
These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use,
are based on merely human commands and teachings.
23
Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed
worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack
any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
So, who will we trust? Id say no one. The only thing we can rely on is the Bible.
Hebrews 10
11
Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and
again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
Matthew 24
35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
The Bible is the only book that has been thoroughly read and studied by most people for the
last 2,000 years. It has been written, rewritten, compiled, translated, and criticized for many
generations, but has still lived up to its good name. It has survived countless wars and
scores of resistance. Yet, it continually proves itself to be, without a doubt, the best-selling
book of all time.

The Seven Angels with Trumpets

Signs and Wonders
Deuteronomy 28
45
All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you
are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and observe the
commands and decrees he gave you.
46
They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.
Luke 11
29
As the crowds increased, Jesus said, This is a wicked generation. It asks for a sign,
but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.
Matthew 16
2
He replied, a When evening comes, you say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is
red,
3
and in the morning, Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast. You
know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs
of the times.
Many will be asking for a sign but will not be given any. Some will see signs but will wonder
what it means. And some signs will appear but no one will notice them.
How can we tell the signs of the end of times?
All these things that shall come to pass will be fulfilled through a certain medium. This
medium is not a physical object, but an intangible obstacle that would become a stumbling
block to all:
Ephesians 6
12
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the
authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of
evil in the heavenly realms.
The key to understanding these signs is to look back in history, back in the Old Testament,
and look for clues there.

The Trumpets
Numbers 10
1
The LORD said to Moses:
2
Make two trumpets of hammered silver, and use them for calling the community
together and for having the camps set out.
3
When both are sounded, the whole community is to assemble before you at the
entrance to the tent of meeting.
4
If only one is sounded, the leadersthe heads of the clans of Israelare to
assemble before you.
5
When a trumpet blast is sounded, the tribes camping on the east are to set out.
The blowing of the trumpet (or horns, in some texts) symbolizes the issuance of a warning.
In war, trumpets are sounded to signal the commencement of an attack.
The Angels
What are these seven angels about to deliver on people? Keep in mind that these things
these revelations are referring to are NOT the physical objects that these things manifest
themselves from.
Ephesians 6
12
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the
authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of
evil in the heavenly realms.
In the book of Romans, Paul identified seven things:
Romans 8
35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or
persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
36
As it is written: For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as
sheep to be slaughtered.

The Second Angel

Revelation 8
8
The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all
ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood,
9
a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were
destroyed.

MALE

FEMALE

Figure 1. The Sea

The water represents people:
Revelation 17:15
Then the angel said to me, The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are
peoples, multitudes, nations and languages.
Revelation 19:6
Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters
and like loud peals of thunder, shouting
Men and women referred to as salt:
Matthew 5
13
You are the salt of the earth
Mark 9
49
Everyone will be salted with fire.
James 3
10
Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this
should not be.
11
Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?
Genesis 19
26
But Lots wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
As a whole, the sea represents a WORLD made up of men and women, or a SOCIETY
consisting of two sexes (or gender: male and female).
In figure 1, we drew the sea in a basin-like shape and separated the genders into small
triangles. And to exemplify the two sexes, the blue triangles will represent the males. This
will be helpful in explaining the interpretations of this prophecy, later on.

A Huge Mountain

Figure 2. The Red Mountain

Revelation 8:8
8
The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all
ablaze, was thrown into the sea.
Mountains are always associated with triangles because they are shaped like one. Red is
always associated with fire because it is the color of flames and things associated with it,
like matches, and lava, to name a few. Red is also the color used to represent hot objects.
Therefore, if we try to draw the mountain that was described in Revelation 8:8, it would look
like the one drawn in Figure 2.
What will this mountain represent?
In the book of Psalms, this mountain represents something that would bring us to shame:
Psalm 83
13
Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind.
14
As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15
so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.
16
Cover their faces with shame, LORD, so that they will seek your name.

The Mountain and the Sea

Revelation 8:8
"A huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea"
Revelation 8:8
"A third of the sea turned into blood"
In the book of Psalms, this mountain thrown into the sea represents trouble that would befall
on man:
Psalm 46
1
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
2
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into
the heart of the sea,
3
though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.
What kind of trouble is this thing referring to?
Lets pretend that the sea is a big basin. If we throw the red mountain into the sea, it would
look like the one shown in Figure 3:

Figure 3. The Mountain Thrown into the Sea

Then, we will assume that the sea (from Figure 1) was stained by the color of the mountain.
This would look like the one shown in Figure 4. In the end, it would also look like that a third
of the sea turned into the color of blood:

Figure 4. A Third of the Sea Turned into Blood

By comparing Figure 3 and 4 alone, it would look like that the mountain is made up of two
halves of a big triangle, or two small triangles put together.

The Blood
Now, what does this revelation mean?
If we will take the original triangles that the mountain had covered, and put it together --the blue triangle representing the male and the other triangle representing the female --- it
would look like the triangle shown in this Figure:

Figure 5. The Hybrids

Revelation 8:8
"A third of the sea turned into blood"
The blood represents a family line or race.
If blood represents a race, and the triangle represents a third of the sea turned into blood,
we will assume that this triangle is a new race that has emerged from our society.
However, this race will have the qualities of the other two races, as the effect of the
mountain thrown into the sea.
In our modern society, this triangle is like a representation of the third sex, a half-man or
half-woman, a male body with a female instinct, or a female body with male instincts:

Figure 4. The Sea

The human world is made up of only two sexual categories, male and female, but the
members of the third sex keep growing in number, without having the need to reproduce.
How is this possible? It would all seem like these homosexuals are tinting other people with
their color, like yeast working on dough:
1 Corinthians 5
6
Your boasting is not good. Dont you know that a little yeast leavens the whole
batch of dough?
7
Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batchas you really
are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and
wickedness,
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
The Sign Carried by the Second Angel
What does the mountain symbolize then?
The mountain thrown into the sea is the
symbol of sexual freedom, which became
the
lifeblood
of
sexual
immorality,
perversion,
cross-dressing,
and
transsexualism.
1 Corinthians 6
9
Or do you not know that
wrongdoers will not inherit the
kingdom of God? Do not be
deceived: Neither the sexually
immoral
nor
idolaters
nor
adulterers nor male prostitutes
nor practicing homosexuals
10
nor thieves nor the greedy nor
drunkards
nor
slanderers
nor
swindlers will inherit the kingdom of
God.
12
I have the right to do
anything, you say but not
everything is beneficial. I have the
right to do anythingbut I will not
be mastered by anything.
13
You say, Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy
them both. The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the
Lord, and the Lord for the body.
In the days of Lot and the city of Sodom and Gomorrah:
Genesis 19
4
Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom
both young and oldsurrounded the house.
5
They called to Lot, Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to
us so that we can have sex with them.
In the days Israel had no king:
Judges 19
22
While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city
surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who
owned the house, Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex
with him.

This mountain represents nakedness, one of the seven things that separate us from the love
of Christ:
Romans 8
35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or
persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

Most
of
this
new
generation live based
on the concept of
freedom
and
openmindedness.
People
believe what they want
themselves to believe
and
will
fight
for
something what they
think or feel is right.
People
nowadays
defend themselves with
principles
based
on
equally, not on morals
(as the bible dictates).

People who fall in this class are victims whose minds have been corrupted by the tainted
society, poor moral upbringing, irresponsible media, and modern culture and reasoning.
However, we must NOT judge people because of any of these reasons. For our battle is not
with a man or a woman, but with unseen things, like corruption and temptation.
Ephesians 6
12
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the
authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of
evil in the heavenly realms.
And people are but slaves to what has prevailed over them:
2 Peter 2
19
for people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.

The Living Creatures and Ships

Revelation 8:9
9
a third of the living creatures in the sea
died, and a third of the ships were
destroyed.
Ship represents the body:
James 3
4
Or take ships as an example. Although
they are so large and are driven by strong
winds, they are steered by a very small
rudder wherever the pilot wants to go.
5
Likewise, the tongue is a small part of
the body, but it makes great boasts.
Hebrew 6
19
We have this hope as an anchor for the
soul, firm and secure.
The tongue is a small part of the body. The rudder
is a small part of the ship. Tongue is to rudder as
body is to ship.

1 Corinthians 6
18
Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins people commit are outside their
bodies, but those who sin sexually sin against their own bodies.
19
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you,
whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
20
you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
1 Corinthians 3
16
Dont you know that you yourselves are Gods temple and that Gods Spirit dwells
in your midst?
17
If anyone destroys Gods temple, God will destroy that person; for Gods temple is
sacred, and you together are that temple.
If the body, the vessel (ship) of the soul, or the temple of the Holy Spirit, became tainted
with sexual immorality, then it is destroyed.

MALE

FEMALE

Figure 1. The Sea

Figure 4. A Third of the Sea Turned into Blood

If each blue triangle would represent a ship or a body, then one third of the male bodies
(ships) are destroyed.
If each orange triangle would represent a ship or a body, then one third of the female bodies
(ships) are destroyed.
The male and female may also represent the living creatures. So, if all the six triangles
represent ships or living creatures and the 2 red triangles represent the mountain, then one
third of the ships or living creatures are destroyed.

Salvation
Why do you worry about your life? God knows man more than he understands himself. He
knows that man is sinful by nature and so He had put everything under a test. For what
purpose is preparing the whole earth for if not for himself and the last of His creations? And
arent we all here on earth to learn something before we transcend into what God has
prepared for us?
Luke 12
6
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.
7
Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Dont be afraid; you are
worth more than many sparrows.
22
Then Jesus said to his disciples: Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life,
what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear.
23
Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.
24
Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet
God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!
25
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?
26
Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?
27
Consider how the wild flowers grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not
even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
28
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow
is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe youyou of little faith!
The Covenant
Deuteronomy 7
9
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his
covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his
commandments.
Hebrews 10
14
For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
15
The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:
16
This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will
put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.
17
Then he adds: Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.
Romans 5
9
Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved
from Gods wrath through him!
10
For if, while we were Gods enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death
of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his
life!
John 3
16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever
believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the
world through him.

18

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands
condemned already because they have not believed in the name of Gods one and
only Son.

Through Faith
Those who believe in the Lord are justified by their faith and are saved through their
righteousness:
Romans 1:17
For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealeda righteousness that is by
faith from first to last, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.
Acts 15
8
God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit
to them, just as he did to us.
9
He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith.
Romans 3
24
and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ
Jesus.
25
God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his
bloodto be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his
forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished
26
he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the
one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
28
For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from observing the law.
Romans 4
5
However, to anyone who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly,
their faith is credited as righteousness.
6
David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of those to whom
God credits righteousness apart from works:
7
Blessed are those whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
8
Blessed are those whose sin the Lord will never count against them.

Through Hope
We consider ourselves bound to the Old Law by tradition, thus, we believe that by observing
it, through works, we will be saved. However, because man is sinful by nature and falls short
of the Law, the Law has been fulfilled ultimately in Christ.
Hebrews 10
14
For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made
holy.
There is nothing in this world that does not belong to God. So, what good is offering him
what is already his in the first place?
Colossians 1
16
For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and
invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been
created through him and for him.
17
He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
So, what does God wants us to do? Consider what Jesus said about these works:
John 6
28
Then they asked him, What must we do to do the works God requires?
29
Jesus answered, The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.
Matthew 19
16
Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, Teacher, what good thing must I do
to get eternal
life?
17
Why do you ask me about what is good? Jesus replied. There is only One who is
good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.
18
Which ones? he inquired. Jesus replied, You shall not murder, you shall not
commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony,
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honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.
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All these I have kept, the young man said. What do I still lack?
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Jesus answered, If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to
the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.
Therefore, we are to put our hope in Christ and believe in him, as it was written:
Matthew 12
21
In his name the nations will put their hope.

Read your Bible and find out more about Christs teachings and commandments.
Jesus gave some decrees for people to follow, including:
Matthew 7
12
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums
up the Law and the Prophets.
In the book of Romans, Paul sums it up as:
Romans 13
9
The commandments, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You
shall not steal, You shall not covet, and whatever other command there may be,
are summed up in this one command:
Love your neighbor as yourself.
10
Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Furthermore, those who walk the path of righteousness must not boast, for Jesus had not
come to save the righteous but the sinners:
Matthew 9
13
But go and learn what this means: I desire mercy, not sacrifice. For I have not
come to call the righteous, but sinners.

Through Love
Isaiah 1
11
The multitude of your sacrificeswhat are they to me? says the LORD. I have
more than enough of burnt oferings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I
have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
Isaiah 66
3
But whoever sacrifices a bull is like one who kills a human being, and whoever
offers a lamb is like one who breaks a dogs neck; whoever makes a grain ofering
is like one who presents pigs blood, and whoever burns memorial incense is like
one who worships an idol.
Why has God stopped people from presenting burnt offerings and sacrifices? God saw that
people had began offering the same sacrifices to their own gods and man-made idols, and
this aroused his anger:
2 Kings 17
11
At every high place they burned incense, as the nations whom the LORD had
driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that aroused the LORDs
anger.
And knowing that all people have departed from the law and turned to sin, he gave his own
son as the ultimate sacrifice that will make up for the sins of the whole world:
Romans 8
3
For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the sinful
nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful humanity to be a sin
ofering. And so he condemned sin in human flesh,
4
in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do
not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.
Why? It is probably because he saw that no one on earth can live a perfectly righteous life,
or a life without sin. Everyone is in danger of sinning and falling for it:
James 2
10
For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of
breaking all of it.
So God saved us, not because we keep his laws or work out our own salvation but because
he loves us deeply:
Ephesians 2
4
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
5
made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressionsit is by
grace you have been saved.
6
And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in
Christ Jesus,
7
in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his
grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
8
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faithand this is not from
yourselves, it is the gift of God
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not by works, so that no one can boast.

To the Lord, every sinner is a lost sheep:

Luke 15:7
I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner
who repents
than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
Everyone is entitled for salvation. Take a lesson from the Parable of the Workers in the
Vineyard:
Matthew 20
1
For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning
to hire workers for his vineyard.
2
He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
3
About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace
doing nothing.
4
He told them, You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is
right.
5
So they went. He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and
did the same thing.
6
About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He
asked them, Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?
7
Because no one has hired us, they answered. He said to them, You also go and
work in my vineyard.
8
When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his supervisor, Call the
workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on
to the first.
9
The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a
denarius.
10
So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each
one of them also received a denarius.
11
When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner.
12
These men who were hired last worked only one hour, they said, and you have
made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the
day.
13
But he answered one of them, Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didnt you
agree to work for a denarius?
14
Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave
you.
15
Dont I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious
because I am generous?
16
So the last will be first, and the first will be last.
But, dont think that you could just repent at the last minute. We will be judged according to
what we have done and reap what we have sown:
Romans 6
20
When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.
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What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of?
Those things result in
death!
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But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the
benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
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For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord.