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Be encouraged - your arrival is not an accident. God loves everyone he created. Being saved is not about what you know, how smart you are or the mysteries of His Kingdom; Rather, it's about having the faith to trust as a little child in the work done by Messiah Yeshua, and a heart that responds by living each day in surrendered obedience to God, He will save you because of what Yeshua did for you.  

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Additional menu items are being added, so check back often. One will focus on how Yeshua, by His Death, Resurrection and Ascension, created the One-New-Man, that blurs distinctions between spiritual Jews and Gentile Christians. It will also focus on Satan's work through Justin Martyr and Constantine to destroy the One New Man fellowships that Yeshua created. 

    Another new page will focus on the Hebrew Roots movement, and the remedy for the Gentile Christian betrayal of Jewish believers in Messiah Yeshua will be explored. Additionally, the impact of renouncing and repenting from the man-made doctrines of Replacement Theology and Supersessionism, which are widely embraced by many Gentile Christian churches, denominations, and synods today, will be examined. Our Statement of Faith will be included. 

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Caveat: No human being can comprehend the totality of God's being or creation. Therefore, please don't consider what is written here as being the absolute Truth, because it isn't and in regard to some subjects is only our informed speculation.

   Our understanding of God is limited and flawed, just like everyone else. As time passes, our knowledge and understanding of the seen world increase because the events described in Scripture have actually occurred, which sheds light and clarifies some passages of Scripture that were initially unclear. 

   Human understanding is based on the limitations of human mindset that explores Scripture. Scripture is an attempt to convey concepts of eternal scope of eternal unseen beings and spiritual realms to temporal human beings with a fixed physical brain and lifespan on earth. When in doubt, go to the Scripture and ask the Holy Spirit to open your mind to what He was trying to communicate. Here are some statements about God that are based on Scripture.  ​

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Search For Authoritative Sources of Information​​

To learn about God, you must find and rely upon authoritative sources.

     Authoritative sources reveal God's Names, Characteristics, and Patterns of operation.
    1) God knows the end of things from the beginning when He creates them and doesn't change in basic character or His expectations of those He selected and called to be His Kingdom people, as history plays out. This is a foundational characteristic of God.
    2) The essence of God hasn't changed. Another way of saying that is - God doesn't "hedge His Bets" - in case things don't go as expected after He creates them. In fact, the authoritative source states that God's Words do not return to Him void, e.g., without accomplishing the purposes for which they are spoken. 

    3) God's eternal Covenant last forever, not just a limited period of time. A Covenant is a special type of what lawyers today call "contracts."  Because God's contracts are everlasting, it means that they are NOT renegotiable. 

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"In the beginning, God..." 

God is all that existed before Creation happened. The Hebrew word for that is "Echad." A word we might use for that today is "Singularity."

    In the first act of creation, Godness had to distinction between itself and something else that was Not-God, making a "space" to contain new things to be created. Therefore, the notion of "distinction" is crucial to understanding Godness.

    God then spoke into the space that was not-God, and creation began. By God's nature, His declarations and decrees caused creation. Today, we might say God speaks ontologically and creatively.​  

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What's In A Letter, In A Name?

​​The Jews received a series of "Names" for God, as He choose to reveal Himself to them. One such name was Yahweh, a 'root' name. It wasn't spoken by Jews, who is often referred to Yahweh as simply "HaShem," which simply means 'The Name.' Yahweh is a Holy and Sacred word, which Jews do not generally speak. God, is not a name, so much as an idea or descriptive term associated with something in the unseen realm. 

    "Names" are generally descriptive of one or more of God's attributes. For example, Yahweh Shalom" means the "God who is our peace." Likewise, "Yahweh Shammah" means "God is there (everywhere)." These build on the root of God's being (Yahweh) and expand it to some of the attributes of His being.

     Yahweh, is so all encompassing that a single Word, inadequate describes him. Envision a huge mountain. like "Everest." Wherever you stand at its base and look at it, you only have 'one' view of the overall mountain. As you move around the base of it, different views are revealed. At one place you may simply see a slope, but on another side you may see a waterfall. From each new viewpoint, you learn something new about the mountain "Everest," that wasn't yet revealed from your previous viewpoint. "Viewpoint" therefore means "the place you stand to look from."

 

Importance of Words as Symbols 

Since all we know about God is what He chooses to reveal to us, and since He is the being we are trying to love and understand, we need to not misunderstand what He has chosen to reveal. For example, God is Holiness. Anything that isn't Holy that comes into His presence is either incinerated (totally destroyed) or eternally banished from His presence so that the "distinction" between "God, and Not-God" is maintained, and His Holiness isn't corrupted or violated, the words Holy Spirit used to inspire the writer's of the Scriptures with, are important to "getting the message God intended, correctly!"​​

    Words have no-meaning by themselves. Words are merely symbols that represent something else. A word becomes a means of conveying the "something else" and its properties or attributes, as mentioned above. Sometimes one-word is not sufficient to convey the "something else," so several words together are required. This is true in both our seen realm, and also in the unseen realm.  

    Hebrew is a strange language, overflowing with "meaning." We discuss this in other parts of theDanielPlace website, and in some videos. We encourage you to go there and absorb the content. That's why "translating" Hebrew or Aramaic into other languages is so difficult, and honest mistakes can be made. Hebrew has 22 letters, and 7 alternate forms if the letter comes at the end of a word. Each individual letter in Hebrew has more than one "concept" is it able to convey. That isn't true in English.

    Tell me, what does the English letter "c" by itself mean? You might answer, it's a trick question because a "c" by itself has no meaning until it's combined with another few letters.

    However, in Hebrew the first letter is aleph. It's symbol is "א". It can mean, powerful, strong, ox, divine, transcendence, wholeness, absolute, potential, crown, transformation, duality, self-realization - just by itself (without any other letter). So even a single letter in Hebrew can be translated into 12 different English words!

    Perhaps that helps you better understand the difficulty of translating Hebrew into English or any other modern language. It's compounded by Hebrew poetry, and Hebrew idioms, where literal translation misses completely what the actual Hebrew idiom was intended to mean. Check the Hebrew Language section of the site. This was just to whet your appetite to understand what God is trying to convey to the limited human mind and perception. 

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Scriptures

Since we are part of God's creation, we can only know about God what He chooses to reveal to us, and must find those sources of information. The closer to the early events we get, the more accurate the revelation is likely to be, so we conclude we are looking for ancient documents, since humans have been aware of God since ancient times. But what ancients documents reveal the truth the God of Creation?

    There were many ancient civilizations, who each acknowledge many different "gods," and have many names for the same gods. However, only one of them can be "the Creator" the singularity that existed before "creation." Since our Messiah is the bridge to God and comes from Judaism, we look to the ancient texts of Judaism, to learn about the Godness that existed before creation in the unseen spiritual realm.

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The Dead Sea Scrolls

    Fortunately, copies of these ancient Jewish documents (known as the Dead Sea Scrolls DSS) were rediscovered in 1947, only one year before the Israel was reborn as a nation in 1948. They carbon date back over 3,000 years to the period of King David. The DSS were written in ancient Hebrew and Aramaic, validate copies called the Masoretic texts which also still exist, but are 1,000 years newer. The DSS is the source used to validate the Old Testament Bible translations into modern English. Only English Bible translations published after 2012 contain updates based on the DSS, so take that into account when using older "favorite" translations.

    We have referred to DSS scholarship to clarify translations where there is a conflict, as in Deuteronomy 32:8, where the nations were divided by God according to the number of the Sons of God, rather the Sons of Israel, as this "correction" to the newer Masoretic text. If your favorite bible still mistranslates this as Sons of Israel, you need to update your English bible translation. This is exactly why it's important to differentiate between Scripture and Bible Translations, particularly for doctrinal accuracy. 

    ​Hereafter, we refer to the original documents in their original languages as "Scriptures" and the translations of those Scriptures in English (or any other language) as "Bible translations." Remember, only the Scriptures are authoritative, not necessarily their translations! On occasion, you will need to refer back to the original Hebrew, Aramaic Scriptures. Even the Orthodox Jewish Bible (1998) and the Complete Jewish Bibles (2002) still contains this mistake which the DSS clarified, since it has "bene elohim," clearly "sons of God", and not "bene Yisrael". This is also confirmed in Psalm 82, in God dialog with the Elohim Council, where he judges and downgrades "the other elohim" of mismanaging the nations they are assigned supervision of. Here again, it's necessary to look at the Hebrew, not the translations of it into English, in order to comprehend the meaning (of the term Elohim), which is not, by itself a reference to the one God who is Creator.​​​​

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Bible  "Translations" of the Scriptures? 

Given all the languages that the Scriptures have been translated into, we end up with over 900 translations of the same Hebrew and Aramaic texts, and they don't use the same words. Therefore, any translation can be unintentionally or intentionally misleading, and create confusion - particularly for the average Kingdom believer who has his "favorite" translation. A word of caution here, don't base your understanding of saving faith, and New testament understandings of God, since many translations are intentionally distorted to include the conclusions of men, along with the Word of God. These should not be mixed. In Hebrew the word for not being mixed is "Kilayim" and it's explained in Leviticus. The warning is that it offends God to improperly mix things, particularly His Law, and the doctrines of men, many of which become dogma, or traditions of specific denominations or branches of Christianity. See our video - 900 Bible Translations, and Christian Church Heresies.

    ​1)  Scripture claims to be (and is) an authoritative source. Note that it does not mean any particular Bible translation into English (or any other language) is authoritative; in fact, it could not have been since no bible translations existed when Scripture was written, nor did some of the languages it has been translated into.

    2)  Direct revelation from God given by His Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh) is authoritative. The issue here is that we must be sure we are hearing from God's Holy Spirit and not from some Spirit of Deception and Lies, who also speak to mankind. Differentiating these is called a gift Discernment. Discernment is based on a pattern, nothing the Spirit of God will tell you can be inconsistent with what the Spirit of God has revealed in the past. Why? Because...
"God is the same and does not change." Patterns are helpful in discernment. So is knowing and trusting in God's character. 

    3)  When Yeshua (called Jesus in English Translations) directly appears to you, consider it authoritative, as well as what He personally said in the New Testament. But, again be cautious, because we know that in our times, an antiChrist being or spirit will come, and will perform miracles that could influence the elect to believe lies, so we must be discerning even if beings from an unseen realm, appear to us in person. The same test applies, if what is said contradicts anything that God has declared in the past, the message and messenger who brought it, is questionable.    

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Scientific Collaboration

Often, modern Archeology, Science, Astronomy, Quantum Mechanics, and String Theory support Scripture written thousands of years ago.

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• Archeology brings us artifacts from the past.

• Science provides us with carbon dating to determine the age of historic artifacts, shedding light on the unseen realm and higher dimensions.

• Physics - Quantum Mechanics informs us about Fields, Particles, Forces, and Dimensions. For example, when asked about the number of dimensions in our world, most people would answer three. Yet, quantum mechanics informs us that our world has at least 10-dimensions, and String Theory argues for 11-dimensions - both of which are significantly more than the three dimensions the man-on-the-street perceives. Then there is space-time, the fabric of the universe which is a dimension of time. Time only exist to document "change", meaning the change from perfection to chaos, from life to death (which is an abomination to God, since he didn't create things to wear out, deteriorate and cease to function). 

• Astronomy provides information about planets and the visible Universe, substantiating the reality of "Dark Matter." 

 

Unreliable/Non-Authoritative Sources

There are two concepts that were part of Hebrew culture, that it's important for English-speakers today to understand. One was the word, "kilayim" (כלאים) - which meant "mixing together" which can lead to "confusion" in the world, earth or humanity."

    This notion or pattern of improper mixing together of unlike things results in confusion. These concepts are described in the Book of Leviticus, so those who skip over this book, aren't likely to understand the concept, which was applied to both physical things and spiritual things. It was even applied to threads in a piece of clothing, which prohibited making a single garment out of both linen threads and wool threads. In those days certain "clothes" had specific ceremonial purposes. The high priest wore clothes or one type most of the time, but for Yom Kippur, had to where a plain, while tunic made of linen when entering the Holy of Holies with the blood sin offering for Israel's atonement. Here are additional examples of things not to be mixed together.
    Yoked (Oxen and Donkeys), (crossbreeding of domesticated animals), cross-planting fields to be harvested, such as a field growing grapes with one growing wheat. In Yeshua's day when Paul says a (believer and an unbeliever should not be unequally yoked in marriage), it's an allusion to  improper "mixing." Mixing something (clean with something unclean) was also prohibited.  Another spiritual application is to standards or laws. The (Laws or principles of God, Torah, the Law of Moses, should not be mixed with the man-made teaching/rules and traditions of men (in this case Rabbis)). This had been ignored in Yeshua's time, and the traditions of men took preference over the Law of Moses, in one case cited by Yeshua.  ​

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1) Denominational Doctrines and Creeds that depart from or go beyond Scripture aren't authoritative. Gentile theologies invented by Justin Martyr and other men including 1) Supersessionism, and 2) Replacement Theology are now embraced by Catholics and some Orthodox churches, plus many Protestant Churches, are totally inconsistent with the existence of the Nation of Israel, and books in both the Old and New Testaments that prophesy about the End Times. Such false doctrines are misleading to new believers and dangerous to their salvation. When a person is diligently searching for God and truth, exposing them to false and misleading statements is not helpful. Teaching such theologies has consequences in God's eternal Kingdom. Clarity arises from understanding the original meanings of Hebrew (or Aramaic or Greek) words written two to four thousand years ago, as well as their contemporary significance and application. Inclusiveness of people with all beliefs isn't the Lord's goal for Kingdom people. Finding those who will follow Yeshua in Holy submission is who God is looking for. 

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2)   Pastoral Sermons that are inconsistent with Scripture are not authoritative. Pastors, like Teachers, are held to a higher standard of accountability than the congregation, because they can misdirect so easily by mixing the Pure, unadulterated Word of God with denominational traditions and the doctrines of man. A very common confusion is about the where, when, how of water baptism. Christian churches, come in all over the map about this topic, because they have mixed Scripture and the traditions of man together to establish "Tevel" (confusion) in the Kingdom of God. 

     A mature believer should know Scripture well enough to recognize false or mixtures of God's Word and the Traditions of Men. If you have a question, ask the pastor or evangelist to clarify it using Scripture alone, not denominational creeds and dogmas.

 

3) Bible translations - many believers make no distinction between Scripture (written in the original languages of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek) and Bible translations in English, Spanish or other languages. Language translations are a complex endeavor because they must not only convey the words themselves but also the cultural context that existed at the time they were written. Today's cultures are very different than the culture that existed over the 1,500 years the Scriptures were written.  ​​​​

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Truth About God​

 

​Scripture tells us that God is Light (Orv), Love, Truth, Righteousness, Holiness, Grace, Mercy, Constant, Impartial, Stability, Completeness - and that is just a part of His nature.

    When we embracing beliefs which are false, or committing acts that make one unclean, it causes God to distance Himself from us, making us more vulnerable to the lies and deceptions of Satan, the Antichrist or His spiritual minions.

    Regrettably, as a result of humanity's fall, sin became part of human nature, and only Yeshua's blood and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit can heal the fatal soul wound of sin. We know from Scripture that Satan seeks to lie, kill and destroy us, and draw us away from God's Light (Orv) and into Satan's darkness (Choshekh). Here are Five Deadly Deceptions we must avoid embracing:

 

Common Falsehoods Believed Today

1. No God exists (evolution explains everything),
2. Humans can't sin and are righteous. The world tells us that human nature is good by default, and since there is no God, there are no absolute standards of behavior, and we should include everything and everyone). Each person may do what seems right to them. Today's society would have us be "inclusive" of all others and their behaviors.
3. Sins committed (evil actions) don't count and won't be judged, because no Judge exists, and the Law of God, Law of Moses, or the Torah Law was fables or were negated by Yeshua, an inconsistency with what Scripture reveals. 
4. Life ends when your body dies; there is no eternal existence, or if there is, there is universal salvation via many paths. 

5. God doesn't love you and has left you in your sins, without recourse but only separation and punishment.

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What Scripture Claims is Truth

The TRUTH is the opposite of the above lies.

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1: - God does exist, and always existed (as echad) and will continue to exist, outside of time and perpetually beyond the end of time. Every person would be wise to acknowledge that God exists. God's eternal nature is beautifully captured in the term "The Ancient of Days," a title found in the Old Testament Book of Daniel. This title signifies God's eternal existence and unchanging nature. Jesus, the Son of God, echoes this sentiment about Himself, stating that He is "the same yesterday, today, and forever - see Numbers 23:19, Hebrews 13:8,  and James 1:17).

    God's revelation of Himself over 3,600 years ago to Abraham, and precedes Islam and their god named Allah 600 years after Yeshua, or Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church in 1829. Islam contradicts what the Bible says, and Mormonism adds to it. Both actions are forbidden, as noted in Revelations 22:18. Since Islam and Judo/Christianity each claim their God is the only true God, it is best to determine which religion is correct about this because Yahweh and Allah are not the same god. Masoretic Jews and Gentile Kingdom believers accept Yahweh based upon Old Testament Scriptures written 3,600 years ago and validated by the Dead Sea Scrolls. Both of these 'religions' are based on multiple "holy books" that have become "lost" except for the Quran and the book of Mormon, which are 'traditions of men.'

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2: - Humans are fatally stained by sin, from birth, and without redemption and transformation, will never be restore to a holy and righteous state able to be in God righteous presence. 

3: - All sins (even the unintentional ones) will be judged because they offend God's righteousness, but a remedy for even willful sins have been provided by God in Yeshua's blood.

4: - Life continues after physical (bodily) death in the spirit and soul in the unseen, spiritual realm. Thus, a human is a part of two separate realms - the physical (seen) realm and the unseen (spiritual realm). 

5: - In God's love for humans, He provided a very costly redemption, by the death of Yeshua (described as the spotless lamb of God) who died in our place, but it is not automatically afforded to us unless we surrender to and obey Him.  

 

Trusting and surrendering to Jesus is the only way to restore fellowship and be in God's "Orv" presence rather than be banished to the "Choshekh" of the Lake of Fire.

 

Break Free From Religion's Lies

    Believing any of these lies will affect your actions, because we respond and act based on our beliefs. Holding onto even one of the above false beliefs leads to life that can be unhappy, hopeless, painful, unfulfilled, and possibly cursed. 

   The truth is, God went overboard in offering Yeshua, who English translations call Jesus, His only son, as the only way for sinners to live in God's presence. Sin isn't a simple matter redeem.

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Note on Terminology: You may note we use Hebrew names and terms and wonder why. Because these were the terms that actually appeared in the Scriptures, and the "equivalents" found in English translations often do not convey the meaning of the original Hebrew words used. Also, because a single Hebrew word can convey several concepts, and English translations ADD English words to make the concept explicit. This often helps English speakers to understand the original messages being conveyed. For example, the meetings of "The Way" ekklesias were not "church meetings" in today's sense. Yeshua is the actual name of God's son born to Mary, not Jesus. Jesus is an English word that does not even exist in Hebrew. If one were trying to write to a Hebrew person about a Messiah name Jesus, they would have no idea that Jesus was the name  Yeshua, because Jesus doesn't exist in Hebrew. Sometimes we will comment on these words, and if not, https://www.biblehub.com, has a Hebrew concordance and any search engine can also help. If you feel becoming acquainted with Hebrew would be beneficial to you, then the Orthodox or the Complete Jewish Bible, is a good English translation to use, because it mixes English and Hebrew words - which can be a bit confusing at first.

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​Law of Moses and the Levitical Priesthood

God's justice system has several tiers, as described in Leviticus, Exodus and elsewhere in the Old Testament.

     Today, Yeshua our Messiah (Christ) has also become our High Priest under the Melchizedek Priesthood, of which He is now "High Priest."

     Certainly, if the church is the heir of God promises to Israel, it would be difficult to see how the Church would rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem, reconsecrate a new Levitical priesthood, recover the Arc of the Covenant, re-established animal sacrifices in the nation of Israel. Because this is a conflict with existing Scripture, it seems clear to us that it can't be true, and cannot be accepted as anything but fantasy. It is useful however to look into it, which we do under a different menu item. 

    We suggest people carefully read the first four chapters of the Book of Leviticus in the Old Testament and learn about the Olah (focus/relationship), Minchah (Tribute/access to the King), Shelamin/Zevah (Peace offering), and Hatta-at (Chatat) purification of the poisoned soul of a person who committed intentional sin, an offerings designed to save a soul from permanent corruption possibly death due to unintentional sin). Why do this? 

    Because, if you don't understand the Old Testament judgment system, it will be hard to truly appreciate what Yeshua did for you by his suffering, death, burial and resurrection and establishment of the New Covenant for intentional and unintentional sin. Willful sin after Yeshua's death is another matter altogether, which we Christians take very casually today by tolerating the shedding of innocent blood and taking of newly-conceived life.

     We can't count on your "fairly good" life since even "small" sins can lead to spiritual judgment against us and make us unclean or even defiled, and separate us from God, who is holy and righteous. Remember what God said, "Be Holy, for I AM Holy." Remember, attributes of God are Eternal and Unchanging.   

    Depend instead on the Righteousness of Jesus, which is provided for us, His suffering and death that God has accepted to quench His wrath about our sins based on your heart response to who Jesus is, and what He accomplished. Without Jesus' finished work, no one would be able to continue in God's presence, and Heaven would be an empty place.

   Satan almost succeeded in infecting the human race in the Garden through Adam and Eve, but by corrupting their nature of humanity. He caused a sin-nature to be passed on to everyone else. At theDanielPlace.org, we hope you will learn about the God who created you, what He intended you to be, what you became instead, and how not to depend upon your own "righteousness," but instead trust in what Yeshua has done for you.