FAQ

Q: Do you have meetings? What distinguishes your meetings from others'?

A: We don't have "regular meetings" with others; when and if we do, we meet in houses. We can arrange one-on-one meetings, group studies, or Zoom meetings.

What to expect: we typically do Book studies--chapter-by-chapter, verse-by-verse. Occasionally, we'll deviate and focus on a specific topic. Children of all ages are welcome to sit in with the adults, but they're also allowed to quietly play in an adjacent room.

Q: Do I have to attend on Saturday to study with you?

A: While we would love for you to join us on Sabbath, we're willing to arrange other times to study in our effort to disciple all those who genuinely seek the truth. We just ask for "reasonable notice." There's no limit to how often the brethren can meet. We just recognize the Seventh Day is more solemn than others and have our main assembly then.

Q: What do you believe? 

A: We prefer to have these conversations in person because they can be nuanced, but we also understand not everyone is going to sift through all our posts and read them just to figure out what we believe. Here are the essentials of some major characteristics and beliefs.

Essential Truths of What We Believe:

• The Father alone is God, The Only Creator.
  

• Y'shua is the son of God. He was sent in the fullness of time as The Prophet like unto Moses as prophesied in Torah, Deuteronomy 18, to proclaim the one and only truth, which is the Gospel of the Kingdom and to set at liberty those who were captive and held by sin, both human and animal kind; that he was to die as a martyr like the servants before him and be bodily resurrected as our hope and as an example of what it means to "Follow The Way."
  

• The physical, bodily resurrection is a testimony to unbelievers that he was and is who he said he is, which is the only begotten (unique) son of God, the Messiah/ son of David. He isn't God in the flesh. He didn't preexist his conception and birth. He claimed to be The Anointed (The Messiah) and Son of God, not God Almighty.
  

• To understand The Gospel one must understand The Kingdom. You can't separate the two. To elaborate,
  

    Concerning The Gospel and Kingdom...

• The Kingdom of God and of Heaven is designed after the Edenic Paradise and is being lead by Yashua. This Kingdom was manifested and inaugurated in the Gospel preaching  Y'shua, who proclaimed, like his cousin the forerunner, "Repent and believe The Gospel. The time is fulfilled. The Kingdom of God and of Heaven is at hand." Here, we see in the opening of the Gospels that "The Gospel" or "Good News" is that "the time is fulfilled, that the Kingdom of God and Heaven is at hand" or "in the midst of" those who heard the preaching and saw the miracles. As he said, "If I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then is the Kingdom come nigh unto you." 

• From among many called, few were chosen and ordained to be the 12 inner-most disciples; these 12 men were promised 12 Thrones. One of them betrayed the Lord Y'shu and was replaced by Matthias. We reject the so-called "apostle" Paul. These 12 led the early assembly, which were known as Nazarines/ Ebionites/ Essenes/ "The Weak". They were commanded to take The Teachings of  Y'shua to the rest of the world as revealed many times, in Matthew 12:14-21, Matthew 28:18-20; and John 10:7-21. Thus, according to God's plan, Gentiles are to repent and follow The Teachings of Y'shua in order to enter The Kingdom. The Kingdom has a King and functions on Laws. These Laws are The Commandments that The Father gave to Y'shua.
  

• Y'shua's words are the end of the Father's inspiration. John 10. His words are the ultimate revelation of God's will for mankind; that by following  Y'shua's teachings and example, we follow the Restored and True Torah of God. We are commanded not to have any Master or Teacher besides him. We therefore recognize none other than Y'shua as "pastor," "shepherd," "teacher," "rabbi." We have no other Father on earth or in heaven other than The Creator.

• We interpret all things, including the "Torah and the Prophets," based on our Teacher's standard, which is expressed as "In the Beginning It Was Not So" and "But I Say..." These are the principles we use to discern the true from the false. We find that he didn't violate "God's" law but restored "Torah" back to the TRUE WILL of God. 
  

• All who who desire to have "age-during" or "ever"-lasting life are to repent of and forsake their sins, daily, and follow Y'shua. This requires we hear and obey his words, which are the Commands that The Father taught him. 
  

• That because we have a Kingdom and a King and serve The Creator, that it's impossible for disciples of Y'shua to serve as military/ police personnel; to serve as jurors; to swear oaths/ pledges of allegiance; to vote in local, state, and/ or federal elections. As mentioned many times and in diverse ways by our Teacher: "Be ye passersby"; "My Kingdom is not of this world or else my servants would fight"; "All they who live by the sword shall die by the sword"; "Love your enemies"; "Resist not evil"; "Turn to him the other cheek"; "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the Children of God"; "Put up again thy sword"; "Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of"; etc.

• In The Kingdom, men and women should be separate in appearance. Otherwise, Men and Women, yea everyone who enters The Kingdom by repentance, fasting, and immersion are equals in authority ("brothers and sisters") and have direction from, and fellowship with, the Spirit or Anointing of God.

• That the "Christian" holidays of Christmas and Easter, and other Catholic/ Protestant Feasts, are pagan and abominable--as are many of the other secular holydays.
  

• ALL People suffer The First Death, otherwise called "sleep" and rest in "hell", or "the grave." Therefore, ALL people are unconscious until the one, general resurrection at the time of judgment. This is because we are by nature mortal, not immortal. The Creator is the only essentially Immortal Being and Person; The Son is the first mortal to inherit immortality based on The Father's will and purpose. The judgment will include rewards and punishments, based on works, ranging in severity, up to and including either Inheritance of Immortality or, it seems, Total Annihilation (i.e. The Second Death) of all who are found to be worthy of such--only God knows. To be clear, the only person ever to be resurrected and granted Immortality is currently Y'shua, the FIRST BORN SON.  
  

Q: Wait...why do you reject the Apostle Paul? How can you even call yourself a Christian?

A: We never called ourselves Christian. There are several reasons to reject Apostate Paul. One of which is the fact he doesn't technically fit the qualifications for Apostle as they're related by Peter in Acts 1; second, his abominable doctrine of tolerance concerning meat sacrificed to idols (fornication/ adultery/ idolatry) and divorce/ remarriage (fornication/ adultery) contradict the decision of Yakob and The Apostles and Elders expressed in Acts 15:23-29. Y'shua specifically rebuked Paul's doctrines in Revelation 2 and called them the Depths of Satan, The Doctrine of Balaam and Jezebel; he said he hated the work of such Nicolaitans. 

 

DO YOU HAVE FURTHER QUESTIONS?

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We would be happy to discuss or debate these and other points.

We would love for you to join us for Sabbath study.

 

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