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The Echad Nature of God
God is One (echad), an eternal, self‑existent, multi-dimensional being who created all that is apart from himself, seen and unseen. God manifests His existence and purposes in all realms and creations, simultaneously and in some cases by different manifestations or through agents, such as angels. This makes it very challenging to describe who or what sort of being God is in precise terms for being that do not have multi-dimensions perceptions. A self-existent singularity is beyond human beings' ability to conceptualize given our current limitations. It is also clear that not all manifestations are of God weild equal authority or posess unlimited power.
Our Faith Statement tries not to go beyond Scripture by assuming, for example, that all manifestations of God are co-equal, as we find no Scripture passage that specifically supports that assertion. In fact, just the opposite is inferred by Scripture in both the Old and New Testaments.
Names of God & Their Interpretations
Why does One (echad) God need more than one name? Different manifestations of "God-ness" are given different Names - some personal and some descriptive. For example, Yahweh (pronounced in different ways) is the personal name God revealed to man in the Scripture. However, in other appearances in Scripture, the being as God is sometimes the Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh), the Angel of Yahweh (Mal'akh Yahweh), the Son of God Yeshua HaMashiach (Messiah) and others.
Clearly comprehending "God-ness" therefore remains challenging for new Christians since more than one of these Names can appear in the same Scripture passage, suggesting the notion of God "separateness." For example, Yeshua, the Son, is on a throne next to His Father's (Yahweh's) throne.
Our lack of multidimensional spacetime invites us to see this as a conflict between echad-ness and separateness (agency) being manifest simultaneously.
Interestingly, this is not unlike Bertrand Russell's classical paradox — the set of all sets that do not contain themselves as members. Does that set contain itself? If it does, then by its own definition it shouldn't. If it doesn't, then by its own definition it should. Hence, the paradox.
Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory (ZFC) resolved this by restricting what counts as a valid set-building rule in the first place — you can't just say "the set of all X"; you need an axiom of restricted comprehension. Just as human logic itself hit a genuine limit when reasoning about self-referential wholes, human minds may be hitting a similar limit when reasoning about a being who is simultaneously one and multi-personal.
Clearly, Echad-ness versus Trinity (or more) persons of God is a similar mystery to created human beings whose limited earthly existence and dimensional perceptions have not resolved this apparent tension between God's echad nature and the distinctness of the Persons. A key question is: "Is it possible for human beings to comprehend what the 'essence' of God's echad nature is?" For most believers, the blunt answer is perhaps, "No." So far in the world's unfolding, echad God-ness remains, at its core, a mystery. We have opinions about God's nature, and when they are shared, please receive them as our opinions, not doctrinal or dogmatic statements.
Names as Descriptive Metadata Tags for Attributes
In contrast to personal Names, other names of God seem to be more like "metadata tags" meant to reveal specific "god" attributes. These include El Elyon, El Shaddai, Ruach Elohim, Immanuel, HaMashiach, El Gibbor, Sar Shalom, and many others.
God's nature clearly includes healing, omnipresence, provision, righteousness, holiness, light (orv) and several other aspects of His self-existent being.
Finally, there are substitute Names, so that God's (Holy) Personal Name does not have to be spoken by human beings. "Ha'shem (HaShem) is the most common of these, which means literally "the Name."
Creation, Humanity, and the Unseen Realm
Scripture says in Genesis, "In the beginning of" [(bereshit) בְּרֵאשִׁית] God creating the heavens and the earth. The original Hebrew has been mistranslated for centuries.
In Colossians 1:16: "For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible... all things were created through him and for him. That's pretty comprehensive. "The unseen realm is the Heavenly realm; the elohim (Heavenly beings He created) inhabit it, as well as the seen earthly realm and the human and other beings that inhabit it.
God’s Ontological Utterances
God's utterances are ontological and expand creation, e.g., the Words He speaks call what He describes into existence to fulfill His purpose(s). His Word is a manifestation of His echad essence. God's Word also (1) expands and (2) reshapes reality, in any realm, and (3) can direct and authorize angelic beings to act to accomplish God's intended purposes.
Therefore, God's Word is not merely descriptive; it is creative, authoritative, enabling and effectual. The Gospel of John goes as far as saying that God's Word is a Person who is of God's echad essence. This understanding is foundational to grasping the power and authority of Scripture (written Word), of prophecy (the Spoken Word), salvation and atonement through (the Living Word of God, Messiah), and the believer's authority of God in spiritual warfare when repeating His Word to empower and authorize God's "angels and agents" to act on His behalf in particular circumstances. Moses was one of God's agents over Egypt. Exodus 7:1 - "See, I (God) have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your Prophet."
Creation of the Realms
As previously stated, God created both the unseen (heavenly) realms and the seen earthly realms. These exist under His authority and are interconnected through gateways such as the Garden of Eden created by God, and gateways used by other Elohim beings (elsewhere described as the "Watcher" Elohim). Daniel 4:13, 17, 23 explicitly uses "watcher" (Aramaic עִיר, ir) for a class of holy heavenly beings ("a watcher, a holy one, came down from heaven").
Human sin plus the transgression of dimensions by the Watchers has caused great harm to mankind and to those beings. They stand condemned and sentenced to eternal punishment without the possibility of atonement and forgiveness. Psalm 82:7 - "elohim became subject to a death-sentence of judgment, as mortal men are."
All living beings in our earthly realm are not human, nor were they all created by human propagation. Yeshua, however, came and died only to redeem human beings, not Watchers, Nephilim or elohim. Hebrews 2:16 — "For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham."
Eden and God’s Presence
God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, where God regularly walked with them. The Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil stood at the center, representing eternal life and the moral responsibility to trust in and obey God's Word.
Elohim and Divine Delegation
God delegated aspects of earthly territorial oversight to certain of the Elohim beings (Deut. 32:8), some of whom rebelled and became corrupt spiritual powers influencing nations and, as a result, became mortal, subject to spiritual death, the same as mortal men (Psalm 82).
Humanity’s Design and Purpose
See 1 Corinthians 6:3 — "Do you not know that we are to judge angels?" Humans were intended to steward the Earth and reflect God’s righteousness in the visible realm, and ultimately to judge and replace some members of the Elohim Council described in Psalm 82 as having failed to reflect God's attributes to the nations they were overseeing.
Yeshua's Dual Nature as Son of God/Man
Yeshua pre‑existed physical birth as the Living Word of God in the unseen realm. He is a divine manifestation of God’s eternal nature and, after being "begotten" as human, of ideal human nature - the mystery of God, the Creator becoming a part of his own Creation. We cannot explain how; we accept what the Scriptures describe: that Jesus was what Adam was intended to become, and died as atonement for our sins.
Incarnation and Earthly Life
Yeshua was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Miriam, and lived as a Torah‑observant Jewish man until empowered by the Holy Spirit at His baptism. He became a Rabbi, called twelve Jewish disciples, and proclaimed the dawning of the Spiritual Kingdom of God throughout Galilee, Judah, and Samaria.
Ministry and Teaching
Yeshua taught in homes, streets, synagogues, and the Temple that the Kingdom of Yahweh was at hand and affirmed the Tanakh (the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings) of the Old Testament. He declared that the Torah remains in effect until heaven and earth pass away, and that He came to fulfill—not abolish—the Law. Yeshua proclaimed that righteousness flows from the heart (soul).
Death, Resurrection, and Ascension
Yeshua suffered and shed His blood in fulfillment of the Yom Kippur and Passover Festivals as the innocent, unblemished Lamb of God atoning for humanity's sin. God raised Him on the Feast of Firstfruits.
His atoning work provided remedies for sins that the Law of Moses offered no sacrificial remedy for, thus completing the Torah by resolving sins that it condemned but could never fully cover.
This was the basis of a New Covenant that does not abolish the Law of Moses but expands and completes its redemptive purpose of sacrifices.
Because Yeshua died for Jews and God-fearing Gentiles among them, He created a One New (spiritual) Man (Eph. 2:15), blurring the former distinction between Jews and Goyim. The Olive Tree of the Kingdom now contained both cultivated and wild Gentile branches grafted together (Rom. 11:17-24), so that not only Jews, but also Gentiles were united by the Messiah's work.
This unity held for almost 300 years after His death, until the Heresy of Replacement Theology caused Gentile believers to turn upon their Jewish brothers to placate Emperor Constantine, who formed an anti-Semitic, Gentile-only Christendom. This is something the Christian Church has rarely confessed and repented of, even to our day.
After His resurrection, Yeshua appeared to His apostles for forty days and then ascended to the Father's right hand from the Mount of Olives, so the promised Holy Spirit could be dispatched during Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks, which Christians today call Pentecost). The Holy Spirit fell upon and anointed His disciples waiting in Jerusalem, as Yeshua had instructed. They went forth joyfully proclaiming His salvation to the world.
The New Covenant
Through His suffering, shed blood, and sacrificial death, Yeshua established the New Covenant sealed in His blood — fulfilling Jeremiah's prophecy (Jer. 31:31-34). The Torah's sacrificial system had no ritual remedy for sins like murder, adultery, or dishonoring one's parents; those who committed them depended entirely on God's direct mercy, as David experienced (2 Sam. 12:13). Yeshua's atonement, settled in God's eternal purpose before it was carried out in history (1 Pet. 1:19-20), reaches backward as well as forward — providing, at last, a true and lasting remedy for exactly the sins the Law's sacrifices could never cover (Heb. 9:15).
Sin, Rebellion, and Consequences
The First Sin
Sin entered the world through unbelief and disobedience. The serpent (HaNachash) led Adam and Eve to doubt God's word and believe Him to be a liar regarding the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil — and on that doubt, they disobeyed His command not to eat from it. This assault on God's righteousness required banishment from His presence, from Eden's portal, and curses on creation itself, as explained below.
The Consequences of Sin
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Loss of direct fellowship with God;
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Spiritual death;
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Physical death;
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Curses on labor, childbirth, and upon the earth;
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Inherited predisposition to sin and weakness to evil;
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Corruption of the entire creation; and
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Exile from Eden to prevent everlasting death.
A Priesthood Before the Priesthood
Centuries before the Levitical priesthood existed, Abraham met Melchizedek — a king and priest of God Most High — and gave him a tenth of everything (Gen. 14:18-20).
Scripture later reveals this encounter was no accident: Psalm 110:4 prophesies of a coming King who would be "a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek," and Hebrews 7 identifies that King as Yeshua Himself. Unlike the Levitical priesthood — inherited by bloodline, limited to one tribe, and repeated endlessly because it could never fully deal with sin (Heb. 10:1-4) — the Melchizedek priesthood is eternal, without recorded beginning or end (Heb. 7:3), and belongs to one man alone: the Messiah.
Why the Sacrifices Couldn't Reach Everything
The Torah's sacrificial system provided real atonement for real sins — but by its own design, some sins had no offering that could cover them (Num. 15:30-31). When David committed adultery and murder, no sacrifice under the Law could have atoned for either. Yet when he repented, God forgave him outright (2 Sam. 12:13) — not through any ritual, but through mercy alone. Hebrews later explains how this was possible: Yeshua's death "redeems" people "from the transgressions committed under the first covenant" (Heb. 9:15) — His atonement reaches backward as well as forward, because it was settled in God's eternal purpose before it was ever carried out in history (1 Pet. 1:19-20).
Two Modes of Worship, One God
When David brought the Ark to Jerusalem, he didn't dismantle the Levitical system — the priests continued offering sacrifices exactly as commanded, at Gibeon, without interruption (1 Chron. 16:39-40). But before the Ark itself, David established something new: open, musical, continual worship, without the veil and once-a-year restriction that governed the Most Holy Place. It was a foretaste — a glimpse, centuries early, of unrestricted access to God's presence that would only fully open through Messiah (Heb. 10:19-22).
The Tabernacle of David, Restored
The prophet Amos foresaw a day when God would rebuild "the tabernacle of David that is fallen" so that "all the Gentiles who are called by my name" could seek the Lord (Amos 9:11-12). At the Jerusalem Council, James pointed to this very prophecy as the reason Gentile believers could be welcomed into the family of God without first becoming Jews (Acts 15:16-18) — the walls that once excluded them were coming down, not because Israel's calling had ended, but because it was expanding to embrace the nations exactly as promised.
The Human Condition
All humans inherit a predisposition to rebel and deceive, commit personal sins, fall short of God's righteousness, and require a Savior to be redeemed. Without redemption, humanity remains separated from God, even after physical death — awaiting final judgment (Luke 16:19-31; Rev. 20:11-15).
God's Word
Three Expressions of God's Word
• The Incarnate Word — Yeshua is the Living Word made flesh. He embodies God’s truth, righteousness, and creative authority. Everything written in Scripture ultimately points to Him.
• The Spoken Word — God’s creative utterance
• The Written Word — Scripture in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek to Hebrew followers of God and see them as: God‑breathed, Authoritative, Inspired by the Holy Spirit, and the only reliable source for understanding God’s character, expectations, and redemptive plan.
We distinguish Scripture from Bible translations, recognizing the value of earlier manuscripts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS), which preserve ancient readings that predate later Masoretic traditions, Greek Septuagint distortions, and early Bible translations adulterated to support the Constantinian Christian Church's heretical dogmas of Replacement Theology and Supersessionism, as well as expressing antisemitic perspectives.
We recognize and affirm that Scripture, understood in its original settings, was written to the Hebrews of their time, but can be interpreted by us today as eternal spiritual Truth.
Covenants: God's Eternal Commitments
Nature of Covenants
God's covenants are eternal, cumulative, and expansive. Later covenants build upon earlier ones, detailing the blessings that follow obedience and the curses that follow disobedience. Covenants are not canceled by human disobedience.
The party to whom a covenant belongs — the people God is in covenant with — is never reassigned or transferred to another people. This is distinct from the mechanism by which a covenant is administered, which Scripture itself says can change (Heb. 7:12) — as when the Levitical priesthood, made impossible to operate after the Temple's destruction, gave way to the eternal Melchizedekian priesthood of Messiah.
God's covenant people are followed by a small remnant of mankind, called "True Israel" or "Spiritual Israel." Messiah broadened salvation to include God-fearing Gentiles who attach themselves to Spiritual Israel.
The Covenant with Adam (Man)
Though Scripture doesn't use the word "covenant" until Noah, theologians identify humanity's earliest relationship with God — responsibility, consequences for disobedience, and the promise of a future Deliverer/Messiah (Gen. 3:15) — as a foundational covenant. When Adam and Eve violated it, spiritual and physical death entered the world as a consequence. Thereafter, mankind became consumed by sin and death — even creation itself was cursed as a result.
The Covenant with Noah
The next covenant was with Noah: God promised never again to destroy all life by flood, with the rainbow as its sign (Gen. 9:11-13). Noah's family was charged with repopulating the earth, so that a people God might have for Himself would be created.
The Covenant with Abraham
God promised Abraham land, descendants, and that his offspring would be a blessing to all nations. This covenant remains in ongoing fulfillment and in effect. This reflects a pattern of God: (1) dividing humans, (2) separating those divided, and (3) selecting a subset of those separated as His chosen people. He uses a marriage/family motif when interacting with His children.
The Covenant with Moses
God gave the Ten Commandments and Torah through Moses. This covenant defines holy living and, according to Yeshua, remains valid during the New Covenant, which expands — rather than cancels — it. It remains in force until God creates a new heaven and earth (Matt. 5:17-18).
The New Covenant Through Yeshua
Yeshua's blood established the New Covenant, providing atonement to restore fellowship with God — extending forgiveness beyond what the sacrifices available under the Law of Moses could reach. Kingdom followers are called to strive to comply with the Law of Moses as a sign of love and gratitude for Messiah's sacrifice.
The One New Man
The New Covenant formed a unified body of Jews and Gentiles — spiritual Israel, rooted in God's eternal covenants: a cultivated Olive Tree, into which the wild branches of Gentile believers were grafted, becoming one integrated Kingdom people. This is the basis of the Messianic Kingdom and Hebrew Roots ecclesias.
The Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh)
The Holy Spirit is the personal manifestation of God’s power and presence. He regenerates believers, produces spiritual fruit, distributes gifts, guides into truth, and empowers Kingdom work. Yeshua promised to send the Holy Spirit upon His return to the Father. He did so at Shavuot (Pentecost) to Jewish believers, as prophesied in the Book of Joel.
The Spirit indwells all submitted Kingdom believers, slowly transforming them to have the mind of the Messiah and enabling obedience to God’s commandments. His work is vast, including:
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Indwell believers and speak what He hears from the Father to them.
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Teach, remind, and declare what is to come.
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Guide believers into all Truth.
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Empower for witness.
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Convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment.
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Reveal and glorify Yeshua.
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Distribute and empower spiritual gifts.
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Produce spiritual fruit.
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Regenerate and renew.
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Seal believers for redemption.
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Lead God’s children.
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Glorify Yeshua.
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Declare things to come.
See John 14:16–17, John 14:26, John 15:26, John 16:7–11, John 16:13–15, Acts 1:8, Acts 2:1–4, Romans 8:9–16, 1 Corinthians 12:4–11, Galatians 5:16–25, Ephesians 1:13–14, and Titus 3:5.
One New Man Fellowships: “The Way”
Hebrew Foundations
While Yeshua spoke in the Temple, early Messianic believers met and worshipped primarily in synagogues or believers' homes. Synagogues had sprang up during and after the Babylonian exile when no priesthood and Temple system existed. Messianic believers honored the Sabbath, studied the Tanakh, and celebrated the Jewish Festivals as transformed by the Messiah. They saw themselves as a Jewish sect ("The Way") fulfilling God’s promises. "The Way" consisted of Essenes, some Pharisees, and the common Hebrew population who recognized the Messiah and the Kingdom of God He had manifested, as well as God-fearing Gentile believers who had attached themselves to spiritual Israel. At the time of Yeshua, only about 60-70% of those in or near Jerusalem attended the Temple; those further from Jerusalem more often attended the synagogue. Many of the doctrines of the Essenes and their "Teacher of Righteousness" were carried into the New Testament in the writings of Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles (and former Pharisee).
Hebrew–Gentile Unity
Jews and Gentile God‑fearers worshipped together, forming the One New Man union of Jews and God-fearing Gentiles described in Ephesians 2:15. Gentiles were dependent upon Jews to explain and teach them about the customs, festivals, songs, and the Law of Moses, which the Messiah stated were still in effect.
Historical Disruption
Constantine’s institutional church severed itself from Hebrew Roots, introduced pagan customs, promoted Replacement Theology, distorted the original Kingdom message and the fellowship of redeemed believers, and introduced a false gospel based on the traditions of male, gentile Christian church leaders.
Festivals and Prophetic Fulfillment
God’s Appointed Times
God’s prophetic festivals, which reveal His redemptive plan, were abolished by Emperor Constantine's rework of believers in Messiah, by favoring Gentiles over Jews, by continuing to persecute and interfere with Christianity, and by the introduction of the worship of the Unconquered Sun on December 25th, Zeus worship, and Aostre/Eostre/Ostara worship, and by the ending of Shabbat and God-ordained Festivals.
Yeshua's birthday was not in December. Based on Scriptural passages, Yeshua's birth is believed to have occurred in September or October, in the Hebrew month of Tishri. This contains the fall festivals of Trumpets (Yom Teruah), Atonement (Yom Kippur), and Tabernacles (Sukkot).
• Passover — His death.
• Unleavened Bread — His burial.
• First Fruits — His resurrection.
• Followed 50 days later by First Fruits (Shavuot) — The outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
To Be Fulfilled at His Return
• Yom Teruah — His return.
• Yom Kippur — Israel’s repentance.
• Defeat of Israel's Enemies.
• Sukkot — His millennial reign.
Hebrew Roots of Faith
Hebrew Foundations of Faith
Saving Faith involves trust, repentance, covenant loyalty, and obedience to God's laws as a means of expressing our love for Him and for our neighbors.
The Work of Messiah
Salvation requires recognizing sin, trusting in Yeshua’s atonement alone for salvation, accepting God’s forgiveness, sharing the full gospel, and living in obedience to His Torah as an expression of our love.
The Holy Spirit’s Role
The Spirit indwells believers, transforms them, produces fruit, and empowers Kingdom service.
Authority of Scripture
Saving Faith affirms the authority of both the Tanakh and the New Testament, as expressed in the most ancient versions in their original languages, and as validated by the Dead Sea Scroll versions where they exist.
The Kingdom of God vs. the Constantine Christian Church
Yeshua’s Message
Yeshua proclaimed the Kingdom of God, rooted in Israel’s covenants and uniting Jews and Gentiles. The Kingdom of God is at hand, and the Kingdom of God has come on earth, as it is in Heaven.
Institutional Drift
Over time, the church adopted traditions of men, distanced itself from Torah, and lost sight of the Jewish foundations of faith, rejected Jews, became antisemitic and adopted Replacement Theology.
The Bride of Messiah
Believers form the Bride of the Messiah, drawing on ancient Jewish wedding imagery. Preparation and covenant loyalty are essential.
End‑Time Readiness
Christianity is called to be awake, alert, and to exercise Faith, preparing believers for deception, tribulation, and the return of Yeshua.
Human Invitation to the Kingdom
Free Will and Accountability
Every person has the freedom to accept or reject Yeshua, submit to the transformation brought about by Holy Spirit, and to walk in obedience or rebellion, as a manifestation of their love of God.
Invitation to Relationship
All are invited to pursue an intimate relationship with Messiah Yeshua, to rediscover His Jewish identity, and live in humility, obedience with courage and trusting expectation.
Joining God’s Work
Believers are called to join the Holy Spirit’s work of salvation, healing, and restoration, relying on God’s grace and the finished work of Yeshua.