​The Nature of God

God is One (echad), eternal, self‑existent, and the Creator of all that is seen and unseen. He manifests His being in multiple personal expressions—Father (Yahweh, Adonai Elohim), Son (Yeshua), Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh), and at times the Angel of Yahweh as His authorized agent. These manifestations are not separate gods but unified expressions of the one God.

    God created the unseen heavenly realm and the elohim who inhabit it, as well as the seen earthly realm. His Names reveal His character and roles, including Yahweh, El Elyon, El Shaddai, Ruach Elohim, Immanuel, HaMashiach, El Gibbor, and Sar Shalom.

    God speaks ontologically—whatever He articulates comes into existence and fulfills His purpose. His Word shapes both the visible and invisible realms and directs angelic beings to accomplish His will.

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God’s Ontological Speech

We affirm that God speaks ontologically—meaning that whatever He articulates comes into existence and fulfills the purpose for which He spoke it. His Word is not merely descriptive; it is creative, authoritative, and effectual.

• When God speaks, creation and reality are conformed to His will.

• His Word initiates the activation of angelic beings.

• His decrees shape both the visible and invisible creations.

This understanding is foundational to grasping the power of Scripture, prophecy, and the spoken Word in spiritual warfare.

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Yeshua the Messiah

Yeshua pre‑existed creation as the Living Word of God. He is a divine manifestation of God’s eternal nature and is unified with the Father and the Holy Spirit.

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Incarnation and Earthly Life

Yeshua was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Miriam, and lived as a Torah‑observant Jew. He became a Rabbi, called twelve Jewish disciples, and proclaimed the Kingdom of God throughout Israel and Samaria.

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Ministry and Teaching

Yeshua taught in synagogues and the Temple that the Kingdom of God was at hand, affirming the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings. He declared that the Torah remains in effect until heaven and earth pass away and came to fulfill—not abolish—the Law. He proclaimed that righteousness flows from the heart (soul).

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Death, Resurrection, and Ascension

Yeshua died as the innocent, unblemished atoning sacrifice for humanity’s sin. God raised Him on the Feast of First Fruits. He appeared to His disciples for forty days and ascended to the Father’s right hand.

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The New Covenant

Through His blood, Yeshua established the New Covenant, providing atonement for sin and restoring fellowship with God. This covenant does not abolish the Law of Moses but fulfills its redemptive purpose. It forms the One New Man—Jews and Gentiles united in the Messiah.

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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 Pentecost to Jewish believers and subsequently, as described in the Book of Joel. 

    The Spirit indwells all Kingdom believers, transforming them into the likeness of Yeshua and enabling obedience to God’s commandments. His work is vast, including: 

• Indwell believers and speak what He hears from the Father to them.

• Teach, remind, and declare the things that are to come.

• Guide believers into all Truth.

• Empower for witness.

• Convict the world of sin, righteousness and judgment.

• Reveal and glorify Yeshua.

• Distribute and empower spiritual gifts.

• Produce spiritual fruit.

• Regenerate and renew.

• Seal believers for redemption.

• Lead God’s children.

• Glorify Yeshua.

• 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.

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The Word of God

Three Expressions of the 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 early manuscripts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, which preserve ancient readings predating later Masoretic traditions and Greek distortions introduced by adulterated translations that characterize it through later antisemitic or heretical Replacement Theology and Supersessionism lenses.​

    We recognize and affirm that Scripture, as described above, understood in its original settings, speaks to us today because the spiritual Truth it contains is Everlasting.

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Creation, Humanity, and the Unseen Realm

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Creation of the Realms

God created both the unseen heavenly realm and the seen earthly realm. Both exist under His authority and are interconnected.

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Humanity’s Design and Purpose

Humans were created male and female, in God’s image, with spirit, soul, body, and free will. They were intended to steward the Earth and reflect God’s righteousness in the visible realm.

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Elohim and Divine Delegation

God delegated aspects of earthly oversight to certain of the Elohim (Psalm 82), 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. 

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Eden and God’s Presence

God placed Adam and Eve in Eden, where He walked with them. The Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil stood at the center, representing life and moral responsibility.​

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Sin, Rebellion, and Consequences

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The First Sin

Sin entered the world when Adam and Eve believed the serpent (HaNachash), judged God to be a liar, and disobeyed His command. This was an assault and violation of God’s righteousness that required banishment from His presence and from the Eden portal that joined Earth with the unseen Spiritual realm where God and the mankind He created could previously fellowship.

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Consequences of Sin

• Loss of direct fellowship with God;

• Spiritual death;

• Physical death;

• Curses on labor, childbirth, and upon the earth;

• Inherit a predisposition to Sin and weakness to Evil;

• Corruption of the entire creation; and

• Exile from Eden to prevent everlasting death.

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The Human Condition

All humans inherit a predisposition to sin, commit personal sins, fall short of God’s righteousness, and require a Savior. Without redemption, humanity remains separated from God.

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Covenants: God’s Eternal Commitments

Nature of Covenants

God’s covenants are eternal, cumulative, expansive and never canceled. Later covenants build upon earlier ones. They outline and detail the blessings of obedience and the curses of disobedience. They are made up of Spiritual Israel and God-Fearing Gentiles who attach themselves to Spiritual Israel.

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The Covenant with Adam

The first covenant established humanity’s responsibility, consequences for disobedience, and the promise of a future Deliverer.

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The Covenant with Abraham

God promised Abraham land, descendants, and blessing to all nations through his offspring. This covenant remains partially fulfilled and in full effect.

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The Covenant with Moses

God gave the Ten Commandments and Torah through Moses. This covenant defines holy living and remains valid, as Yeshua affirmed in the New Covenant.

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The New Covenant Through Yeshua

Yeshua’s blood established the New Covenant, providing atonement and restoring fellowship with God, beyond what the Law of Moses could accomplish through Levitical animal sacrifices. It did not nullify any of the previous covenants. In this Covenant, there is a shift to the older Melchizedek Priesthood, and Yeshua becomes the High Priest, offering His own blood for the atonement and redemption of true believers. 

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The One New Man 

The New Covenant formed a unified body of Jews and Gentiles—spiritual Israel—rooted in God’s eternal covenants, and a cultivated Olive Tree, into which the wild branches of the Gentiles were carefully grafted.

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The Early Ecclesia: “The Way”

Jewish Foundations

While Yeshua spoke in the Temple, early Messianic believers met and worshipped in synagogues, honored the Sabbath, studied the Tanakh, and celebrated the festivals. They saw themselves as a Jewish sect ("The Way") fulfilling God’s promises. They 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.

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Hebrew–Gentile Unity

Jews and Gentile God‑fearers worshipped together, forming the One New Man described in Ephesians 2.

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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.​

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Festivals and Prophetic Fulfillment

God’s Appointed Times

God’s prophetic festivals, which reveal His redemptive plan, were abolished by Roman and Constantinian interference 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; it was in Tevet or Nisan, depending on the year.

    Based on Scriptural passages, Yeshua's birth is believed to have occurred in September or October, in the Hebrew month of Tishrei. 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 -

• Shavuot — The outpouring of the Holy Spirit.