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Proclamations & Declarations
1. There is only one true living God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
"Moreover He said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God." (Exodus 3:6)
2. God, The Word-Yeshua, came to earth and was born in the flesh
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
(John 1:1)
"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)
The "Word" (Logos: referring to the divine incarnation of God taking human form as
Lord Yeshua).
"And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist" (1 John 4:2-4)
3. Yeshua is the only begotten son of God
"the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth" (John 1:14)
"And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." (Matthew 17:5)
4. As followers, we are not of this kingdom, but of the kingdom of God
"Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence". (John 18:36)
"If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you."
(John 15:19)
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." (1 John 2:15)
5. Only Yeshua offers salvation
Faith in the "blood" shed for our sin that Lord Yeshua offers:
"Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;" (Romans 3:24–25)
"The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." (John 1:29)
6. Only Lord Yeshua takes away sin
"The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." (John 1:29)
7. Why we need Salvation only offered by Lord
Yeshua
"All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all". (Isaiah 53:6)
8. Saved by grace through faith in Lord Yeshua
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:
it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast". (Ephesians 2:8-9)
9. Salvation is for all, both Jew & Gentile
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" (Romans 3:23)
"To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Is He the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: (Romans 3:26-29)
10. God's word is forever
"Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away". (Mark 13:31)
11. Although NOT a requirement for "salvation",
we believe that the KJV is a good translation of God's Holy "written word", perhaps the best we have to date, although we also encourage a study of the ancient Hebrew and Greek.
12. In "written form" the Word of God is the sole authority on matters
“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2 Timothy 2:15)
"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;" (1 Timothy 4:1)
13. Obedience to what is written in the word of God is obedience "lived" in faith
“For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith" (Romans 1:7)
14. Some will "taste" the gift and "appear" saved, but are not truly born again
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;" (Romans 1:18)
Apostle Paul warns of those who know the truth (hold the truth), but continue to live in unrighteousness, and also warns of those who continue to seek the truth,
who may "appear" knowledgeable about God but have no personal relationship with God.
"Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth" (2 Timonthy 3:7)
15. Creation not Evolution
“For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse". (Romans 1:20)
"Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee." (Nehemiah 9:6)
16. Yeshua was raised from the dead
The testimonies of Yeshua's resurrection:
Testimony as documented in Matthew: "The angel said to the women, 'Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; He has risen, just as he said'. (Matthew 28:5-6)
Testimony as documented in Mark: "Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: He is risen; He is not here: behold the place where they laid Him." (Mark 16:6)
Testimony as documented in Luke: "And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen: remember how He spake unto you when He was yet in Galilee" (Luke 24:5-6)
Testimony as documented in John: "And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master. Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your
God" (John 20:14-17).
Confirmed elsewhere by people at the time in the New Testament
(either by eye witness or from other people's eye witness accounts)
""Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him." (Romans 6:9)
"he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you" (Romans 8:11)
"But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept." (1 Corinthians 15:20)
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead". (1 Peter 1:3)
17. We are awaiting Lord Yeshua's return
Lord Yeshua's return to earth will not require to be born in the flesh again as He did 2000 years ago, He will descend directly from heaven at His second coming:
"Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven" (Acts 1:11).
"Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen." (Revelation 1:7).
Lord Yeshua will return "immediately" AFTER the tribulation of those days:
"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other". (Matthew 24:29-31)
As such, we do not believe in a pre-tribulation rapture.
We believe that followers of Yeshua are raptured between the 5th and 6th seal
We oppose exact date-setting as we believe this is heretical.
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18. The Church has NOT replaced Israel
"God hath not cast away His people which He foreknew". (Romans 11:2)
"And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again" (Romans 11:23)
"For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in". (Romans 25-27)
"And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn". (Zechariah 12:10)
"In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness". (Zechariah 13:1)
"And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God". (Zechariah 13:9)
19. There will be a 1000 year reign of Lord Yeshua On earth from Jerusalem
"And His feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south." (Zechariah 14:4)
"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years". (Revelation 20:4)
20. Sin is what God says sin is
All sin that has not been dealt with by the Blood of Yeshua, will result in death and hell
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 6:23)
Anyone not covered by the Blood of the Lamb is marked for destruction and if unrepentant will be thrown into "hell" on the day of judgement.
Hell is an eternal torment
(Matthew 25:46, Mark 9:43, Revelation 14:11,
2 Thessalonians 1:9,Matthew 13:50)
As such we refute the heresy of "annihilationism".
The origin of sin
Sin entered into this world in the Garden of Eden, when God commanded Adam and Eve not to eat of the "Tree of Knowledge". God was disobeyed and as a result death entered into this world, destroying a "direct relationship" with God. Nevertheless,
we have a merciful God who offers a plan of salvation:
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16)
Types of sinning
"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past,that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." (Galatians 5:19-21)
Unnatural and unGodly affections are sinful
"For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error" (Romans 1:26-27)
"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination" (Leviticus 18:22).
Marriage is between one man and one woman
God sets out His blueprint for marriage as in the Garden of Eden when He created Adam and Eve. This is His intentional design for holy union in terms of marriage.
Throughout scripture God uses the symbol of "Bride and Bridegroom", and does not see any other relationship in terms of marriage outside one man and one woman joined together in holy matrimony as "natural", as He intended when He created humanity.
God sets us apart for Holy living
"Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy". (I Peter 1:16)