IT was while cross-referencing canonical Scripture for my ‘Jesus Taught Torah’ and ‘The Apostles Taught Torah’ series that I had a stunning discovery. The Apostle John was obsessed with describing the ‘liars’ in the Gospel of John, 1 John, and Revelation, often pitting them in the outer darkness, beyond New Jerusalem, and its meaning is not what we think it is. Come on, now, you know what the Revelation 21:8 song is, particularly if you’re a Generation X. It goes as follows.
Revelation, Revelation, 21:8, 21:8
Liars go to hell, liars go to hell,
Burn, burn, burn…
burn, burn, burn.
A child will likely sing that song if another child is so transparent than everyone around him can see that he’s lying. But what is the lie that John is referencing? There is a lie. Consider the following chapter and verse.
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.
1 John 1:5-10
John is calling anyone who claims they haven’t sinned to be a liar. Is he speaking of sin generically? No. He is being specific. He is claiming the entire spectrum of sin. And what is sin again but a transgression of the Torah? Follow along.
4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the Torah: for sin is the transgression of the Torah.
1 John 3:4
John is defining sin as a transgression of the Torah. And by the way, every writer of the Bible agrees with this definition, including Paul. John is saying that those who insist they are not sinning by doing away with the Torah are liars, and that the Truth is not in them. To break the Torah without regard to the Torah is being lawless. The lawless, or rather, the Torahless, will not inherit the kingdom of heaven. Join me in the most important journey of discovery as I take you through the entire Bible to show that Jesus taught Torah, the Apostles taught Torah, and Paul taught Torah.