Mat 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
>> “This eliminates every person ever born, except for those of us who were given the FREE GIFT of salvation in the church age.” <<
Nonsense!
Yeshua declared the Pharisees to be the least righteous people on Earth. His entire Earthly ministry was dedicated to demolishing Phariseeism, and their litany of false added commandments.
Each of Yeshua’s miracles was done to demolish one of the Pharisees’ Takanot. If you fail to grasp that very basic point, you will never understand a word that Yeshua uttered.
The Pharisees were the precursor model for the nicolaitans that would create “christianity” in the mid 4th century to replace Yeshua’s Netzerim.
The "Church Age" is a false age that is nowhere to be found in Yehova's word.
There is no "church," it is a mistranslation that should be "assembly," which began with Adam, and will continue to the Last Trump.
There is no New Covenant, but a renewed covenant with his ancient assembly, renewed in the perfect sacrifice to which his believing assembly looked forward for millennia.
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15 We ourselves are Jews by birth, and not gentile sinners, 16 yet we know that a person is not justified by doing what the Law requires, but rather by the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah. We, too, have believed in the Messiah Jesus so that we might be justified by the faithfulness of the Messiah and not by doing what the Law requires, for no human being will be justified by doing what the Law requires. 17 Now if we, while trying to be justified by the Messiah, have been found to be sinners, does that mean that the Messiah is serving the interests of sin? Of course not! 18 For if I rebuild something that I tore down, I demonstrate that I am a wrongdoer. 19 For through the Law I died to the Law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with the Messiah. 20 I no longer live, but the Messiah lives in me, and the life that I am now living in this body I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not misapply God’s grace, for if righteousness comes about by doing what the Law requires, then the Messiah died for nothing.3:1 You foolish Galatians! Who put you under a spell? Was not Jesus the Messiah clearly portrayed before your very eyes as having been crucified? 2 I want to learn only one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the actions of the Law or by believing what you heard? 3 Are you so foolish? Having started out with the Spirit, are you now ending up with the flesh? 4 Did you suffer so much for nothing? (If it really was for nothing!) 5 Does God supply you with the Spirit and work miracles among you because you do the actions of the Law or because you believe what you heard? 6 In the same way, Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
10 Certainly all who depend on the actions of the Law are under a curse. For it is written, “A curse on everyone who does not obey everything that is written in the Book of the Law!” 11 Now it is obvious that no one is justified in the sight of God by the Law, because “The righteous will live by faith.” 12 But the Law has nothing to do with faith. Instead, “The person who keeps the commandments will have life in them.” 13 The Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written, “A curse on everyone who is hung on a tree!” 14 This happened in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the gentiles through the Messiah Jesus, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
Luke 22:20
Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
Jeremiah 31:31
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Hebrews 8:8
For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Hebrews 8:13
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Hebrews 12:24
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.