The Body of Christ is a remnant including elect Jews and Gentiles. Many Jews are being called by Christ in our day. Blindness has come on the physical nation of Israel, but only in part; for there is an elect of Israel today as was true in the first century.

In the seventh chapter of the Book of Revelation we read of the sealing in their foreheads of 144,000 members of "all the tribes of Israel." Whether or not this is the same group mentioned in Revelation 14:1 we do not know. Whether or not these are people who were born Jews we do not know. The purpose of the sealing is to protect them from the plagues of the trumpets.

The 144,000 who are sealed are God's remnant. They are "servants of God." They are sealed in their forehead.

The concept of the servant of God is important. It appears that the majority of Christians are not servants of God. They are "saved" by believing and being baptized in water. However they are pursuing their own survival, pleasure, and ambitions in the present world. They may be saved from wrath but they are not active members of the Body of Christ. They are not servants of the Lord.

The active members of the Body of Christ are described as follows:

And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. (Revelation 12:17)

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. (Revelation 14:12)

The true saint is the one who keeps God's commandments and does so because he is married to Christ. It is his union with the Lord Jesus that enables him to keep God's commandments. The concept that these are Jewish saints because they keep God's commandments reveals the influence of antinomianism on today's theology. Some scholars believe that the Book of First John was written to combat antinomianism (we are saved apart from keeping God's commandments).

The greatest theological error of our day is the doctrine that believing in Christ releases us from the obligation to keep diligently the eternal moral law of God.

How many believers in Christ are being destroyed by Satan because they are under the impression that being saved "by grace" means they do not have to serve God? Listen to the eternal Word of God:

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. (I John 2:4)

It is time for repentance among Christians. Our doctrine is a shambles. Our moral stature is deplorable. We have been deceived.

The true servants of God are sealed "in their foreheads." This means that God in His goodness has established His sovereign will in their minds, according to the new covenant (Hebrews 8:10), just as the Orthodox Jew wears his phylactery on his forehead.

Only those who have had the sealing of God's will in their mind will be able to discern and resist the satanic delusions of the last days. It already is true. The believers are living in deception. Of a thousand believers there may be one who understands. There is a remnant who are hearing the Spirit of God. Blessed are those who have ears to hear in our time.

To be continued.