The Old Paths
Choose Life
The Choice Was Always Yours
Predestination
The Torah sets two roads in front of every man and tells him to choose: “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19). A choice that was settled before birth is no choice at all.
The same Torah says a name can be removed: “Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book” (Exodus 32:33). Ezekiel says the righteous man who turns away dies in his sin (Ezekiel 18:24). Yahushua said, “he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved” (Matthew 24:13).
The pattern was set in Egypt. The blood of the lamb on the doorposts saved Israel from death (Exodus 12:13) — and that same night they ate unleavened bread, which they kept for seven days (Exodus 12:15–17), and walked out toward Sinai, where the Torah was given. The blood began the journey; it did not end it. Paul applies the same order to the Messiah: “Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast… with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth” (1 Corinthians 5:7–8). Blood, then bread, then the walk.
Yahuah knows the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:10). Knowing is not forcing. He calls, man answers, and the one who keeps walking is the one who arrives.