Do Christian denominations and their clergy have the authority to promise you will go to Heaven when you die? What if they don't? What if they have never had the authority to make that promise? How can we know? IT'S ALL ABOUT GOD'S COVENANT A covenant is a legal contract. God created an unbreakable covenant with Christ and called it the New Covenant. It had conditions plus rewards. One of those rewards was eternal life in Heaven. The difference between this Covenant, or contract, and the previous Covenant was the priesthood. A new contract was drawn up because the priesthood had changed. The establishment of a new priesthood was the basis of the New Covenant. For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law. Hebrews 7:12 God took the priesthood out of the hands of the Levites and gave it to Christ. Christ became God's new and permanent High Priest, with the title King of Kings, over a new kingdom of priests, and his role was to personally lead this new priesthood of all believers. You have made them to be a kingdom of priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth. Revelation 5:10 All the new laws, rewards and promises attached to God's New Covenant with Christ, including eternal life, were specific to this priesthood arrangement. Under this arrangement, only members of Christ's kingdom of priests could be rewarded with Heaven. The terms of the contract were fixed But then came a shocking development. A Roman Emperor, Constantine, conscripted the promises attached to God's New Covenant and illegally attached them to his new political religious structure. His aim was to bring all religions under his control and create a single unified religion run by his newly made-up priesthood, a clergy class that would answer to him. When Constantine took the 'priesthood' out of the hands of all believers and put it into the hands of his paid clergy class, he stepped outside the terms of God's contract with Christ. He had no authority to create a new priesthood and claim it belonged to Christ. He was not God This contract was not his to change. Then he illegally promised rewards he had no authority to promise. Constantine established his religion on the false premise that he had the authority to promise eternal life to all who followed his paid clergy class. But eternal life was not his to grant. What he did was deceive people into believing they could have eternal life without being part of Christ's kingdom of priests. And that is just not true A contract is a contract GOD KEEPS HIS WORD HE WILL NOT BREAK HIS CONTRACT WITH HIS SON Being a follower of Christ is different from going to church. Being part of Christ's kingdom of priests - the priesthood of all believers - is different from submitting to credentialed clergy. The assumption that we can abandon the Covenant priesthood set up by Christ, follow paid clergy and denominational religion instead, and still gain eternal life is the greatest deception since the fall. Billions have been deceived If you want to go to heaven when you die, there is only one question you need to consider: Have you fulfilled the terms of the New Covenant? ABOUT THE AUTHOR Monica Bennett-Ryan is an Australian Defence Whistleblower and award-winning Christian author. You can see more about her work on her website. www.inhisname.com.au
