What you don't seem to ever understand is that NO ONE is saying not to follow them. We never have. We simply are repeating what He has said:
1. Matthew 5 - you would have to gouge out your eyes and cut off your hands to successfully follow them. That is why we need a savior.
2. Matthew 19 - even if you could follow them - it isn't enough and it is IMPOSSIBLE for man to be saved through the law.
Who is talking about salvation by works of the law??? The Law points out sin; powerless to save. Do we continue to sin? You know the answer to that one. Why do you always infer that keeping His commands is an attempt to earn salvation?
3. That if you love God and others above self you fulfill the law. That is what God Himself said to us so why do folks keep going around believing that they are capable of following a list of rules any other way except by loving others and God above self?
4. That scripture you quoted does not say they are not in heaven it said that they would be called LEAST in the kingdom. They are still there.
And the "least" is by your choice...to break or to observe and instruct? No brainer.
Not unless you live through the tribulation or are beheaded in it.
Everyone who dies before the tribulation will not be participating in the 1000 reign.
Revelation 20
The Thousand Years
1 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. 2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3 He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to
keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time. 4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They[
a] had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5 (
The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.