​The Nature of God

God is One (echad), eternal, self‑existent, and the Creator of all that is seen and unseen. God 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. Sometimes more than one of these terms appears in the same scriptures, so "Trinity" would seem to be a bit of a misnomer in such cases. 

    God created the unseen heavenly realm and the elohim (Heavenly beings He created) who inhabit it, as well as the seen earthly realm. His Names reveal His character,  roles, and attributes - including Yahweh, El Elyon, El Shaddai, Ruach Elohim, Immanuel, HaMashiach, El Gibbor, and Sar Shalom, Yahweh Shammah, and others.

   

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God’s Ontological Utterances

God speaks ontologically, e.g., whatever He speaks comes into existence and to fulfill His purpose(s). His Word (1) expands and (2) reshapes reality, both the visible and invisible components, and (3) directs angelic beings to accomplish His will. His Word is not merely descriptive; it is creative, authoritative, and effectual.​ 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, after being "begotten", of ideal human nature - the mystery of God becoming a part of his own creation.

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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 dawning of the Kingdom of God throughout Judah and Samaria.

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Ministry and Teaching

Yeshua taught in homes, streets, synagogues and the Temple that the Kingdom of Yahweh 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 that he 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 suffered and shed His blood in fulfillment of the Yom Kippur and Passover Festivals as the innocent, unblemished atoning sacrifice for humanity’s sin. God raised Him on the Feast of First Fruits. In doing so, He provided New remedies for sins for which the Law of Moses offered no sacrificial remedy, thus completing the Torah. This was the basis of a New Covenant that does not abolish the Law of Moses but expands and completes its redemptive purpose. It forms the One New Man (Eph. 2:15) and the cultivated Olive Tree to which the Wild olive branches were grafted in (Rom. 11:17-24) so that not only Jews, but also Gentiles were united by the Messiah's work.

    After His resurrection, He appeared to His disciples for forty days and then ascended to the Father’s right hand, sending forth the Holy Spirit during the Festival of Shavout (Firstfruits - that Christians today refer to as Pentecost) to those of His disciples who were willing to trust, follow, and obey Him.

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The New Covenant

Through His suffering, shed blood and sacrificial death, Yeshua established the New Covenant, providing atonement for sin and restoring fellowship with God for those willing to make Him their Lord and Savior.

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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 Shavout (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 Messiah 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 what is 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 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, as described above, understood in its original settings, was written to the Hebrews of their time, but also speaks to us today because the eternal spiritual Truth is timeless when properly understood. 

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Creation, Humanity, and the Unseen Realm

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Creation of the Realms

God created both the unseen (heavenly) realms and the seen earthly realm. Both exist under His authority and are interconnected through gateways such as the Garden of Eden by God and other Elohim beings. Human sin and the transgression of Watchers and other Elohim beings have caused great harm to mankind. 

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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. Humans were intended to steward the Earth and reflect God’s righteousness in the visible realm, and ultimately to replace some members of the Elohim Council described in Psalm 82.

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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).

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Eden and God’s Presence

God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, where He 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 Moral responsibility to obedience and trusting in God's Word.​

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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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The 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. Covenants outline and detail the blessings that ensue from obedience and the curses that ensue from disobedience. They are followed by a small remnant of mankind, called "True Israel" or "Spiritual Israel," plus the God-Fearing Gentiles who attach themselves to Spiritual Israel. Covenants are not canceled by disobedience, nor by human beings who wish to exclude themselves from them. 

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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/Messiah.

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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, and how sacrifices can abate or atone for a subset of human sins. Messiah extended the Law of Moses, by His atoning death to cover all sins of mankind, who would obey and stive to comply with the Laws of Moses.

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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, Israel's Priesthood was changed from the Levitical Priesthood to the older Melchizedek Priesthood, and Yeshua became the High Priest of the Melchizedek Priesthood, 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”

Hebrew Foundations

While Yeshua spoke in the Temple, early Messianic believers met and worshipped primarily in synagogues that sprang up during and after the Babylonian exile. 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.   

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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.

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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 Emperor Constantine's rework of believers in Messiah, by favoring Gentiles over Jews, by continuing to persecuteinterference 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.