1.) God
2.) Jesus Messiah
3.) Scriptures
4.) Scriptural Interpretation
5.) Plan Of
Redemption Of Israel
6.) The Sacred Name of
God
7.) Coming Of Our Lord
8.) The Kingdom
9.) The Millennial
10. Join With Us
God:
We believe the Scriptures to teach that there is
one God. By God we mean one Spirit. God is a Spirit. God revealed himself as the first
cause and the creator of all existent things. This one God is revealed as LORD. By LORD we
believe that he is the sole Ruler of the creation, and subsequently the affairs of man.
God is indivisible as to his being and nature. He is before all things.
Jesus Messiah:
We believe that as to his humanity, Jesus was the son of David,
being born of Mary of the tribe of Judah. As son of God (the incarnation), he hungered,
was tempted, experienced all the natures of man, but without sin. He was the heir of
David's throne. As to his nationality he was a true Israelite of the royal seed. We
believe in the deity of Jesus Messiah. By deity, we mean that he was truly God. We confess
and believe that as to his deity he was the Almighty God, and as to his humanity (body of
flesh) he was David's son. We believe the eternal God was manifest as the Messiah upon
David's throne (Psalms 132:11). We do not beleive he was only a man. We do not
believe that he is a second god of a family of three who came to earth as the Messiah.
We do not believe he was an angel. Therefore we reject that Jesus Messiah was
the second person in a trinity of gods. We believe in the one Monarchy of God and Messiah.
We believe the Scriptures to teach that the Father (God), was manifest or revealed
to the world in the Son (Mary's fleshly offspring), and as God Messiah. We belive he
is the Lord (Isaiah 25:9). The Messiah was then God come to earth in a human form
and no less God (1Tim 3:16). Accordingly, we believe Jesus Messiah was come or born in the
flesh, as God manifest. We therefore confess both the Father and the Son. We just do
not feel compelled to confess this according to other men's creeds or dogmas.
Because the Scriptures teach the fulness of the Godhead bodily was in Jesus, we
reject the trinity doctrine that there are three gods represented in three distinct
persons. The first followers of the Messianic Judaism of Jesus did not know of a
trinity doctrine. It was not formulated until 325AD and is therefore not a binding
Messianic doctrine of the New Testament Messianic faith. No true Jewish Messianic
believer in Jesus or a Messianic Gentile convert believes in a trinity of Gods.
Scriptures:
By Scriptures, we mean the 66 books of the Bible as they are
arranged in the King James Version. We also mean as they are additionally contained in the
Beth Jesus Version (which is scheduled for completion in the year 2000). We believe
that all original Scripture in their original autographs were given by God and written
down by men as they were inspired by the unction of the Spirit. These Scriptures are
profitable for instruction in Godly living, teaching the doctrines of Truth, and for
communication with God. We reject all Jewish perversions by Aquila and others.
We reject all Jewish and Catholic interpolations into the Vulgate by Jerome and his
Jewish aids in Bethlehem, Israel. And in this regard we turn to the Beth Jesus
Version for study, help, and understanding. We certainly reject all the translations
made form Aquila's perversion of the sacred text. Aquila was the apostate translator of
the Septuagint version used in the Synagogues after 129AD. We reject the decisions
of the Council of Jamia in 90AD.
The Scriptures are divided into two sections, the Old Testament (Old
Torah), and the New Testament (New Torah). By Old Torah, we mean the 39 books beginning
with Genesis and ending with Malachi. By New Torah, we mean the 27 books beginning with
Matthew and ending with Revelation. Because they do not meet the strict test of truth, the
books known as the apocrypha, added to the Greek version of the Jewish Bible, are
rejected. We do not hold as holy, such other books as the Koran, the Babylonian Talmud,
the Mishnah, the Cabala or Kabbalah, the book of Mormon, and the writings of the
Freemasons and Rosicrucians.
Scriptural
Interpretation:
Scripture
contains not only the historical account of the past, but principals of right and wrong,
good and evil, and rewards and punishments. The Messianic Brethren use their own liberty
to expound Scripture in teaching the revelation of Jesus Messiah, according to their
ability. These teachings include not only salvation and a standard of Godly living, but
declaring the predictions of God by the Prophets, of past, present, and future events.
It pleased our God to unveil his revelations in types, figures,
symbols, and prophecy. The Messianic Brethren believe that the entire body of Scripture
must be interpreted according to the revelation of the Prophets and the Messianic hope
Jesus fulfills.
A valid study of Scripture and eschatology, must have for its
foundation, the predestinated Messianic fulfillment in the Church, and not in natural
Israel. Since the revelation of Messiah begins in Genesis 1:1 and ends at Revelation
22:21, it is our belief that the entire Bible was given to reveal the Church, the Israel
of God, and Jesus Messiah as God. The hope of all mankind from Adam to the last child
born, is to find salvation in the blood of Messiah. He is the blood sacrifice to
replace all others.
Because of these truths, we hold that the New Torah contains the
fullness and only correct interpretation of all the types, figures, symbols, and prophecies
in the Old Torah. Therefore, the entire Bible is to be interpreted through the filter of
the teachings of Messiah and the Apostles. All other interpretations, including Jewish
ones, not in harmony with that revealed in the New Torah, are rejected as traditions of
men, spurious, error, interpolations, and false doctrine.
We totally reject that the Old Torah is the Messianic Faith. The New
Torah as replacement of the Old Torah, is the basis of our Faith. We do not interpret the
New Torah by the Old Torah, but vise-a-versa. The New Torah properly interpreted is the
everlasting Gospel. We hold that the Old Testament is a collection of holy writings
that we may use as a schoolmaster to teach and train us in the proper understanding of
religious principles that continue in the New Torah. We hold with faith that the Law
can not justify or bring righteousness (Gal 2:16, 21).
Plan
of Redemption of Israel
The prophecy of Isaiah quoted by the Apostle Peter from the ancient
Hebrew text before it was changed by Aquila, states that although the seed of Israel be as
the sand of the sea, only a remnant will be saved (Rom 9:27). Although the
redemption was provided for the whole nation, only a remnant would avail themselves of
that blessing. It was prophesied by Moses and quoted by Peter in Acts 3:23 that
those in Israel who rejected to hear the *replacement* of Moses would be destroyed from
among the people (Israel). There is then two Israel's: the large portion who would
reject Jesus the Messiah and eternally damn themselves, and the remnant according to the
election of grace who would replace them as the Israel of God in the Messianic Judaism of
Jesus Messiah. The New Torah plan of salvation (entry into the Messianic Kingdom),
was first explained by John the Baptist. He required conversion of all Jews to the
Messianic hope by passing through the waters of separation in baptism unto repentance.
Conversions were necessary for Jews from all of their many religious groups and
beliefs. There were no exceptions, all were required to be converted to the
Messiah's Kingdom or to be forever damned as unworthily to share in the Messianic hope.
It was John's firm conviction having been instructed by the Holy Spirit, that those
who were converted and who passed through the waters of separation in baptism by faith,
would also be baptized with the Holy Spirit as the witness of who God's sons and daughters
were, the instant the Kingdom of God came. The plan of Messianic salvation for entry into
the coming Kingdom, the Israel of God, Church, the converted remenant from the twelve
tribes, was to be by water and Spirit baptisms (John 3:3-5).
The pre-Kingdom prophecies by John were authenticated as accurate
statements by Jesus the Messiah: that no man could see or enter the Kingdom of God,
the new Israel, EXCEPT by the new birth of water [conversion baptism], and Spirit [Holy
Spirit baptism], John 3:3, 3:5. The Apostle Peter was in complete agreement as the
Messianic conversion is repeated in Acts 2:38 for the multitude of Jews on the day of
Pentecost. As the third witness of the plan of salvation, Peter reiterated for the Jews
and Gentile proselytes, that salvation was (1) by repentance and (2) remission of sins by
passing through the waters of separation in baptism in the name of Jesus Messiah and, (3)
receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit, God's seal of our conversion and new birth.
Therefore, our Messianic doctrine on the plan of conversion and salvation into the Kingdom
of God is Acts 2:38.
After initial Messianic conversion and salvation by faith, all
Messianians (Christians), have an obligation to continue in the new Torah of Messiah and
the Apostles. We may not return to Talmudic Phariseeism, Law keeping, or we may fall
from grace and be severed from the Messiah's Kingdom (Gal 5:4). To leave the new Torah to
go back under the old Torah to satisfy complaints by Talmudist, Noahides, or other Law
keepers, is to leave the Kingdom of God for fellowship with antichrist. No one may
return to Law keeping without becoming antichrist toward the full Messianic New Covenant
of Jesus Messiah. Salvation is by grace through faith and conditional upon remaining
in the body of Messiah and in the vine of the Messianic Israel (John 15:1-6). We may
not not go back to worship under the temple cult as those did who turned back unto
perdition in John 6:66. Please note that they who turned back
to the antichirst and walked no longer with Jesus are identified as *666*. The plan of
Messianic salvation has for its final purpose, the redemption of the remnant of Jews and
converted Gentiles to the Messianic Judaism of Jesus. There is no other salvation
now or in the future.
The
Sacred Name of God
We affirm that the last and greatest name of God revealed to man is
*Jesus*. God first revealed himself as deity to mankind with use of the word Elohim.
Several hundred years later, God gave to Abraham an exaltation of this name in the
form of *Elshaddai*, translated: *God
Almighty*. Four hundred and twenty five years later God appeared unto Moses
and revealed himself by yet another secret name: Ehyeh asher
Ehyeh, the meaning of which is: I
AM that I AM. This name was the name of deliverance for the Israelites from
Egypt and a name of Covenant and worship until the very birth of the Messiah. At
that time, the last and greatest name of God ever revealed to mankind was revealed to the
world. That name was Yehshus or Yehshua in Hebrew, Iesous translated into Greek, and
Jehsus in English. The *h* has been dropped from the spelling now for several
hundred years. Easily we may see that the name of JEH-shua or Jeh-sus contians a
contraction of the divine name as given to Moses at the burning bush. For this
reason there is no other name given among men under heaven whereby we all must be saved
(Acts 4:14, John 3:18).
In spite of these Messianic truths there are others today who deny
that the name of Jesus is a valid name for God. We will not argue over the use of
Yehshua, Yehshus, Iesous, Jehsus, or even Jesus. We believe the Lord Jesus Messiah
can adequately determine what is meant by these names and that he is the focus of the
faith. We do not believe there has to be a precise pronounciation for the name to be valid
or a person with a hair-lip or with some other language difficulty would be damned and
lost if they did not say it exactly like some feel it should be pronounced.
We Messianic Brothers and Sisters reject all guess names such as
Yahweh, Jehovah, Yahshua, and hold that all the true and temporary sacred names and titles
of God find their fulfillment and climax in the one name of Jesus Messiah. It is the
only name given under heaven whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:12). The Sacred name of our
God as fully revealing his Lordship as Deity is: Ehyeh Jesus Messiah (or as in the
KJV: Lord Jesus Christ). There is no greater name given under heaven among men.
Antichrist hate it, but we praise the name of EHYEH JESUS MESSIAH.
It has been asked if a person pronouncing the name of Jesus in
Hebrew as *Yehshua* is valid for baptism. The answer is yes. However,
the problem is, when those who baptize using the Hebrew pronunciation try to make it a
doctrinal law that to say the word Jesus as in English or as pronounced in Spanish or
German, are not valid. Let us not devour one another over this issue. Let us do all
things to the glory of Jesus Messiah.
Coming Of
Our Lord
We affirm that there are two comings of our Ehyeh Jesus Messiah. The
first was in Bethlehem. The second will be at the end of the tribulation at the last or
seventh trump. Therefore, we believe in the Post-Tribulation coming of Messiah as he
predicted and set forth in Matthew chapters 24 and Luke 21. Because of our Messianic view
of the Scriptures and that they find their fulfillment in the Kingdom of God, the new
Israel, we can not and do not accept the theories of dispensationalism or Talmudic Jewish
Zionism that there remains a special way of salvation for antichrist Jews and Gentiles
where they will not be required to accept Jesus as the Messiah and fulfill conversion
according to Acts 2:38.
Accordingly, we reject any idea that after Calvary, the Jews and
Gentiles remain two separate groups needing two different plans or Covenants of salvation.
The Messianic Gospel is to all nations, the Jews first. Since Calvary, the message is
GRACE not RACE. All must merge into the Messianic Kingdom of God, under the Throne of
Messiah and his blood Covenant, or be lost.
Although the Messianic believer will suffer persecution by Jewish
and Gentile antichrists, we are not appointed to the wrath of God. This does not mean a
secret rapture to avoid this wrath. We beleive as the elect of God we are the
Messianic Judaism to be protected through it. If we are prepared and obedient we may
avoid many persecutions and dangers. Tribulation is the Lord's wrath upon the antichrists
for their persecution and attack against Messiah's Kingdom and his elect Saints to
eradicate them from the earth. The wrath of God is against the antichrist. Several
who think to create safe havens for antichrist tribulation Jews will learn that these
places are needed for Messianic Jews for Jesus. This revelation will increase as we draw
nearer the end of the present age.
We do not hold to the mystical and spiritualist theories of
split-resurrections, split-raptures, and two last trumps, all designed to dodge facing
antichrist, persecution, and being tested for our Faith and the name of Jesus Messiah. We
do not believe the Kingdom will end in defeat. We do not believe God is shutting the
door on the Church and opening the door wide for cut off branches.
We do not believe that after a secret rapture, that seven years of
the Law dispensation, having been saved off the cross, will be reactivated for Jews who
missed the rapture and who can now be saved by Law keeping and animal sacrifices. We
do not believe Jews or Gentiles reject the final Messianic Ministry to all nations and the
witness of God's sons and daughters and they can be saved by a new temple, a new
priesthood, and the blood and ashes of a red heifer. There is only one coming of Messiah
remaining, and it behooves all Jews and Gentiles to be converted according to Acts 2:38
before that event or be damned forever. The second coming of Messiah unto his Kingdom,
ushers in the conclusion of the Kingdom of God which is the Millennial. The Kingdom of God
rightly spans the time from his first coming to the end of the Millennial. Scripture
correctly interpreted will support this Gospel of the Kingdom, first preached by Messiah.
Those who obey not the Messianic Gospel of Jesus will be destroyed at the appearance
of Messiah in the heavens (2Thes 1:8, 2:10).
The Kingdom
We believe the Scriptures to teach that the Kingdom of God replaced
old Israel and is now the true Davidic Israel. Jesus said in Mark 9:1 that many
standing there in his presence would not see death until the Kingdom of God should come
with POWER. We believe the Kingdom of God came on the Day of Pentecost. Therefore, we
reject all theories that the Kingdom was postponed because the Jews rejected Messiah and
were not ready to enter. Matthew 16:18-19 more than proves that the Ecclesia (Church) of
verse 18 is the Kingdom to which Peter was given the keys in verse 19.
Jesus told those in Mark 9, that the Kingdom would come with POWER.
Acts 1:8, the POWER was to come with the Holy Spirit Baptism. The Holy Spirit BAPTISM came
in Acts 2:4, therefore the Kingdom to which Apostle Peter had been given the keys, began
on the day of Pentecost.
It is our firm belief that the born again experience of John 3:3 and
3:5, points to New Testament salvation. Jesus gave as essential, being born of WATER and
SPIRIT to enter the KINGDOM OF GOD. Therefore, we Messianic Brethren are united in
doctrine and faith, that the new birth was not postponed [which of necessity must happen
if the Kingdom was postponed], but is preached to all nations beginning at Jerusalem. It
is our firm belief that prior to the second coming of the Lord, this GOSPEL of the KINGDOM
as was first preached by the Apostles, must again be preached to all nations and then
shall the end come [Matthew 24:14].
The Millennial
The Millennial properly speaking, means one thousand [1,000]. By
Millennial we refer to the 1,000 years mentioned in Revelation 20:4. Basically there are
two views. The first is that there is no actual Millennial, that the 1,000 years are
somehow merged into the Church age and concludes it.
The second view is, that the 1,000 years is a Post-Tribulational
event, after the present Kingdom age, and follows immediately after the first
resurrection. Those who follow the doctrine of the first group are called Amillennialist,
meaning no Millennial. The second group call themselves Post-Tribulational,
Premillennialist, meaning the 1,000 years follows the tribulation period and the end of
the first segment of the Kingdom. The Amillennialist group of necessity, must teach that a
first resurrection occurs 1,000 years before the end of the Church and a full resurrection
and the White Throne of Judgment at the end of it.
Their belief of necessity, must teach that the antichrist,
tribulation, mark of the beast, and the killing of Saints must occur 1,000 years before
the end of the Church. Another necessity, is that satan will be bound and this time period
begins 1,000 years before the end of the Church. Is all of this true? Is this a valid
interpretation of Scripture?
The Ministers promoting the Messianic Post-Trib doctrine of the
Lord's second coming, believe amillennialism is false. It is our doctrine that the 1,000
year Reign of Messiah on the earth, follows immediately the first resurrection of the
Saints. We believe the first resurrection of the Saints occurs AFTER THE TRIBULATION and
before the Millennial. Otherwise, there are dead resurrected saints walking around here
somewhere? For those killed for not taking the mark of the beast and worshiping his image,
are said to be resurrected and live and reign with Messiah ON EARTH during the time period
of the 1,000 years. The fact that they are not here, and have not been resurrected YET,
proves the Amillennialist view is just as false as dispensationalism, and the theory of
the Pre-Trib rapture.
The Messianic Brethren supporting the Messianic hope, believe the
antichrist [issuing the mark of the beast], is still future. We believe the great
tribulation is still future. We believe tribulation has been here with the Kingdom since
Calvary, but the wrap-up will be a final tribulation by antichrist (antimessiah). We
believe the mark of the beast is still future. We believe the great whore religion will
set up a new Temple in Jerusalem and is still future. We believe the second coming of
Messiah is still future. We believe the first resurrection is still future. We believe the
chaining and sealing of satan for 1,000 years is still future. All of this would be false
doctrine if amillennialism were true. Amillennialism is not Messianic doctrine, therefore,
in simplicity, we support the literal interpretation of Revelation 20:1-6 and that it is
still future.
We do not hold, that because the book of Revelation contains symbols
and metaphors, that special rules of spiritual mysticism must be applied to every word,
scripture, and event, to obtain the interpretation. To do so would err into a form of
Philo and Josephus Babylonian gnosticism. The consequences would result in an enormous
apostasy from the Faith [1Tim. 4:1]. We therefore believe and hold the Post-Tribulation
coming of the Lord, the Premillennial doctrine of the Kingdom of God, and the literal
Millennial Reign upon the earth.
Join With Us
What is different about the message we endtime Messianic disciples
are preaching? You have just read some of those differences. In addition, because we
reject dispensationalism and Talmudic Zionism, we are preaching that the Israel of God,
the Kingdom, will suffer violence, go through the tribulation, and will face the
antichrist made up of Jews and Gentiles. We shall overcome by the blood of Messiah and our
Messianic testimony in that day. We may suffer, but we will be victorious until
Messiah returns. We teach that the Jews DO NOT have another chance of salvation through
revived Torah keeping. We believe the Saints will suffer persecution and wrath directed
out of Jerusalem by a last ditch Jewish antichrist to take over the world and eradicate
Jesus Messianism from the earth. We believe all the world that wonders after this beast
[antichrist], will also persecute the Saints on a local and world-wide bases. We believe
that this body of believers, the elect, WILL NOT suffer the wrath of God. We preach the
Saints will be protected on earth during the wrath of God. We fully believe that all
denominations will be forced to compromise with the new world order of antichrist religion
out of Jerusalem, or be declared illegal.
We understand that now is the time for Messianic Saints and
Ministers, regardless of affiliation, to witness and preach the true revelation of the
Gospel of the Kingdom to all the world. We do not mean form another organization but a
fellowship and network of believers who truly have been called for the endtime hour of the
the last days.
Our purpose is to lift up Jesus Messiah and preach the Gospel of the
Kingdom to all nations. If you are a Messianic believer, you are welcome among us without
regard to race. There is no racism after Calvary. If you want to preach this
Messianic Gospel of the Kingdom we will be happy to assist you in being ordained.
Our focus is the world-wide preaching of the Messianic Gospel of the Kingdom to
usher in the second coming of the Messiah to his millennial Kingdom.
©Cohen
G. Reckart, Ph.D.
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