The Gospel You’ve Heard Your Whole Life Isn’t What Jesus Preached

And here’s proof from His own words

Author

Daniel Macaraeg
June 04, 2025

You’ve heard this before:

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“Jesus died for your sins.”
“Just believe in Him and you’ll be saved.”
“The gospel is about going to heaven when you die.”

Sounds familiar?

There’s just one problem:

That’s not the gospel Jesus preached.

Wait… Jesus preached a different gospel?

Yes. He absolutely did.

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“Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.’”
—Mark 1:14–15

The true gospel is not about what happens when you die.
It’s about the coming Kingdom of God — a real government that will rule the earth.

That was the good news Jesus preached from the start.

So… what happened?

Satan counterfeited it.

He didn’t deny Jesus.
He redefined His message.

He replaced the gospel of the Kingdom with a gospel about the person of Christ.

It sounds holy. It feels right. It even uses Scripture.

But it’s missing the message Jesus actually proclaimed.

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“For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed… or if you accept a different gospel… you put up with it readily enough.”
—2 Corinthians 11:4 (ESV)

The gospel of the Kingdom is not just grace. It’s government.

Let’s break it down.

The gospel Jesus preached is about:

  • A literal Kingdom coming to earth

  • A real King — Yahshua (Jesus) — who will rule all nations

  • A divine law that will be enforced worldwide

  • A resurrection where the faithful will be born into God’s Family

  • A calling to repent, obey, and prepare to rule with Christ

That’s the gospel Jesus preached.

It’s good news because it means the end of war, injustice, corruption, and suffering — when God’s Kingdom finally replaces all human governments.

But the world never heard this for 1,900 years

It didn’t take long for the true gospel to be buried.

The apostles warned this would happen.

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“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine… they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.”
—2 Timothy 4:3–4

That time came.

By the 4th century, under Emperor Constantine, a new religion was born — Roman Christianity.

It kept Christ’s name but replaced His message:

  • Rejected the Kingdom on earth

  • Replaced Passover and Sabbaths with Easter and Sunday

  • Turned grace into license, and obedience into “legalism”

The gospel of the Kingdom was suppressed.

For 1,900 years… until God restored it in our time

In 1934, something extraordinary happened.

A man named Herbert W. Armstrong began proclaiming the same gospel Jesus preached: The good news of the coming Kingdom of God.

He didn’t invent a new message.
He recovered the original.

Radio. TV. Magazines. Worldwide literature.

That gospel — silenced for nearly two millennia — was once again preached to the world.

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“And this gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations, and then the end will come.”
—Matthew 24:14

So what gospel do you believe?

The gospel of Jesus Christ is not about going to heaven.

It’s about the Kingdom He will bring to earth.

If your church doesn’t preach:

  • The return of Christ to rule the world

  • The law of God as the standard of that Kingdom

  • The call to repent, obey, and be transformed into sons of God…

Then you haven’t heard the true gospel.

And if you haven’t heard the true gospel…
You haven’t been called to the true purpose.

Jesus isn’t returning for people who “just believe.”
He’s returning for people who believe Him.

Tomorrow: Truth #5 — No One Goes to Heaven When They Die
(The resurrection is the reward.)

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