We understand that it matters not what we “believe” - as our belief does not make something true or false. It is only the opinion of Our Creator that matters. We understand that He does not require us to be in agreement with Him for Him to be right.
Therefore, the foundational statements below are based on what we see as His revelation alone. We understand that there is an adversary on this earth that seeks and works to twist the truth. As a result, there is much confusion and deception within religion today. We strive to only honor and follow that which is from the Source and not tainted by human or demonic hands as much as is within our ability to do so.
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The Bible, as commonly divided by the Old and the New Testaments, are both God's revelation – we refer to them as the 1st and 2nd Testaments - written by men, but authored by the inspiration and direction of God. As such, it represents His expressed will to each of us and the revelation of His plan for man. Because God is the author, it is infallible in its original writings and is the supreme and final authority and the source of all truth.
Scriptural Support:
2 Timothy 3:16; John 10:35; John 17:17; 2 Peter 1:20-21; Hebrews 11:6; Romans 10:17
The Bible reveals that there is one God, a spirit that exists eternally and referred to as “The Father” and also YHWH or Yehovah - a supreme being of utmost intelligence, knowledge, love, justice, beauty, power and authority. The bible reveals the Holy Spirit as the power of God that emanates from the Father, first to the Son, and then through the Son to redeemed mankind. The Holy Spirit is the power of Yehovah, not a separate entity or being.
Eternally existing with the Father, He created all the physical universe through the Word. The Holy Spirit from the Father fills the Word and the Word does the will of the Father. The Word then became flesh as Yeshua the Messiah, born of a virgin also through the power of the Holy Spirit to redeem mankind so that the Holy Spirit could then be given to man and expand the family of the Father and the Son - which is the kingdom of God.
Scriptural Support:
Ephesians 4:6; 1 Corinthians 8:6; John 1:1-4; Colossians 1:16; Ephesians 3:14-15 HNV; Deuteronomy 6:4; John 10:30; Matthew 23:9; John 14:6-9 HNV; John 15:26 DBY; Matthew 10:19-20; Hebrews 2:10; Acts 2:32-33 HNV
God is sovereign over His entire creation as ruler of all things. As sovereign ruler He rules with laws that are as eternal as He is. God stands as the ultimate righteous judge over those laws and His kingdom. As created beings that desire to be part of His kingdom, we are subject to the laws of the kingdom. God has provided grace for the punishment of breaking His laws through the sacrifice of His Son, but that sacrifice did not erase our responsibility to the laws themselves.
Scriptural Support:
Romans 3:31; Matthew 5:18; Colossians 2:14 HCSB; James 1:25; Matthew 7:21-23
The Bible reveals that human beings, both male and female where created by God in His image, each possessing different attributes of His nature. God formed humans from the dust of the earth as mortal beings, now subject to corruption and decay without eternal life, but the opportunity to receive it. God presented the first humans with a choice of life immortal if they would follow Him, or death if they rejected His ways. They were deceived into rejecting God and sin entered the world and all subsequent humans (except Christ) have also earned eternal death. The redeeming work of God is to give humans the opportunity to accept the gift of eternal life under the terms and conditions given in the word. Without the gift of eternal life by the Holy Spirit, every human that has sinned is destined for destruction with no eternal consciousness.
Scriptural Support:
Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:17; Genesis 2:24; 2 Peter 1:4; Hebrews 9:27; 1 Corinthians 15:22; Romans 5:12; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:23 HNV; Romans 8:16-17; Revelation 21:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:9
The Bible reveals that the ultimate destiny and purpose for God creating human beings is the creation of a divine Family. As children of the Father, we are to learn to obey Him, to live like Him, to develop righteous character, growing in grace and knowledge, preparing to eternally occupy a position in the Family of God. As a member of this spiritual “God Family”, with the Father and the Son at the head, mans ultimate destiny is to have dominion over and rule (which is to serve) the entire universe as kings and priests.
Scriptural Support:
Romans 4:16; Romans 6:15-16; Romans 9:7-8; Romans 8:14-18 DBY; Romans 8:30; Acts 2:39; 2 Peter 3:18 HNV; Revelation 1:6; Revelation 3:5; Revelation 5:10; John 1:12; 1 Corinthians 15:50-53
The Bible reveals that God has also created a multitude of spirit beings known as angels that minister and assist those that are responding to Gods calling. Within this angelic realm was a cherub named Lucifer, who rebelled against God and founded sin. He influenced one-third of the angels to sin as well and thus became evil demons under Satan’s rule. Satan works to also deceive mankind into rejecting God and His law and is the adversary of God and man.
Scriptural Support:
Ephesians 6:11-12; Matthew 4:1; Matthew 4:11; Luke 8:12; John 12:31; Leviticus 16:21-22; 2 Timothy 2:26; John 16:11; Revelation 12:4: Revelation 12:9; Revelation 20:1-3, Revelation 20:7; Revelation 20:10; 2 Corinthians 4:3-4; Ephesians 2:1-2; 2 Corinthians 11:13-14; Hebrews 1:13-14
The Bible describes the true church not to be any corporate organization of men, but rather a spiritual organism of believers that God has called into the body of Christ and in whom the Holy Spirit dwells. The Holy Spirit guides this body in “The Way” Christ walked as an example to mankind, outlined by the law and will of the Father. The church is to make disciples by being a loving educational and supportive resource for all that God calls and to be a witness to all the world of the gospel of the coming Kingdom of God.
Scriptural Support:
Luke 12:32; Acts 19:9; Acts 19:23; Acts 24:14; Romans 8:14; John 6:44; Ephesians 4:11-16; Acts 2:38-39; Acts 2:47; Acts 20:28; Romans 14:9; Ephesians 1:22-23; 1 Corinthians 1:2 HNV; 1 Corinthians 10:32; 1 Corinthians 11:16; 1 Corinthians 11:22; 1 Corinthians 12:27; 1 Corinthians 15:9; 2 Corinthians 5:18-20 HNV; Galatians 1:13; 1 Thessalonians 2:14 HNV; 2 Thessalonians 1:4; 1 Timothy 3:5; 1 Timothy 3:15; Matthew 24:14; John 6:44-45; John 17:11; John 17:16
The Bible describes God’s law to be the eternal reflection of His righteous character that has always existed and will never be done away. The law, like God, is eternal, holy, perfect, right and good. Sin is the transgression of the law and because the law reflects Gods character, sin is also the rejection of God – to reject the law is to reject God Himself. The 10 commandments are the revelation of His law to mankind and all happiness, joy and fulfillment come from living in accordance to them, while all misery, strife and unhappiness stem from transgressing them. They are not a burden; they are a guide to the liberty that comes from living the way God lives. The new covenant in Christ is based upon God writing those same 10 commandments on our hearts through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Scriptural Support:
1 John 4:8; Romans 13:10; 1 John 3:4; 1 John 5:3; Matthew 5:17-19; Matthew 19:17; James 2:10-12; Romans 7:12-14; Romans 6:23 HNV; Jeremiah 31:33; Romans 2:5-9
The Bible reveals that one of the manifestations of God’s love was to send His only Son to this earth to die as a redemptive sacrifice for the sins of humanity. Because Christ was the creator of all humanity and lived a sinless life, that life was of greater value than the sum total of all of mankind. Therefore, His voluntary death was the only payment that could pay the death penalty incurred by all sinners who would accept His sacrifice and follow Him as Lord and be reconciled to the Father. The law is eternal, so the sacrifice of Christ only erased the penalty of the transgression of the law for believers, not the law itself. This redemptive plan was set at the foundation of the world and revealed millennia before His human birth.
Scriptural Support:
Matthew 16:13-18; Genesis 3:15; Hebrews 10:12; Colossians 1:16-17; 1 John 2:2; 1 John 4:10; John 1:18; John 3:16; Hebrews 9:15; Colossians 1:22; Ephesians 1:11; Revelation 13:8; Hebrews 4:15; Revelation 5:9
The Bible describes that Christ fulfilled the one verbal sign that He gave that Christ was and is the prophesied Messiah. Christ said He would lay in the heart of the earth for 3 days and 3 nights and stated that duration would be the same as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish. That time period was 72 hours – 3 full days and 3 full nights and therefore could not have been from Friday afternoon to Sunday morning. The Sabbath that He was buried prior to was not a weekly Sabbath, but a Holy Day Sabbath that occurred earlier in the week. Christ laid in the grave for a full 3 days and 3 nights precisely fulfilling the prophecy and rose prior to the first day of the next week. There was not a "Sunday sunrise resurrection". When Sunday morning came, “He was risen”. Past tense. His resurrection made immortality possible for mortal man and He now sits at the right hand of the Father as our High Priest.
Scriptural Support:
Matthew 12:38-40; Jonah 1:17; 1 Peter 1:17-21; 1 Peter 3:22; 2 Timothy 1:10; John 20:17 HNV; Hebrews 12:2 HNV; Hebrews 2:10; 1 John 2:1 HNV; 1 Corinthians 15:53; Hebrews 8:1
The Bible reveals that true repentance is a gift from God enabled by Holy Spirit. Upon the acknowledgement of sin and the acceptance of the sacrifice of Christ as their Savior, this gift allows the believer to turn from sinful ways and fully surrender in willing obedience to God and His law. It is more that just being sorry or regretful about sin, but literally turning from it and replacing the sinful behavior with righteous behavior as defined by God and empowered by the Holy Spirit. This believer is then justified before God, forgiven of sin and pardoned by God’s grace from the death penalty they deserve.
Scriptural Support:
Ephesians 2:8; Acts 3:19; Romans 6:6; 2 Corinthians 7:10-11; Acts 5:29-32; Jeremiah 33:8; John 14:16-17; Acts 2:38; Revelation 3:19; Revelation 3:3; Revelation 2:5; Acts 17:30; Luke 13:3; Mark 6:12; Matthew 4:17 HNV
The Bible says that baptism is to be performed according to the literal definition of the word which is by immersion or submersion in water. Christ was baptized as an example for us and thereby declared its importance as a first act of obedience by a believer. Following baptism, through the laying on of hands and prayer, these obedient believers receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Being led by and remaining yielded to the Spirit, the believer continues in repentance, walking as a new creation approaching life in a Godly manner, continually turning from sin, and towards the liberty of the law and righteousness.
Scriptural Support:
Acts 2:38 HNV; Matthew 3:13 HNV; Matthew 3:16 HNV; Acts 19:5-6; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 4:21-24 HNV; John 3:23; Acts 8:14-17
The Bible establishes that God instituted a day of rest to be kept holy to God at creation on the seventh day of the week. God restored the knowledge of the Sabbath day to the Israelites prior to reaching Sinai and then later codified its observance in the 10 commandments. Christ, the apostles and the New Testament church observed the seventh-day Sabbath. Christ, the Lord of the Sabbath, knew the correct day on which to observe the Sabbath. The weekly cycle since the time of Christ has been preserved, therefore we are assured by biblical and historical record that the Sabbath is from Friday evening at sundown until Saturday evening at sundown. Observance of the true Sabbath day is an identifying sign of the covenant between God and His people.
Scriptural Support:
Mark 2:27-28; Exodus 31:13-17; Genesis 2:2-3; Exodus 20:8-11; Hebrews 4:4-5; Hebrews 4:9-10; Mark 1:21; Mark 6:2; Acts 13:42-44; Acts 17:2; Acts 18:4; Isaiah 66:22-23; 1 John 2:4-6; Leviticus 23:3; Isaiah 58:13; Luke 4:31; Ezekiel 20:12; Ezekiel 20:20
The Bible reveals that in addition to the weekly Sabbath, God has instituted additional annual Sabbaths to be observed with special worship assemblies. These annual Sabbaths are rich in meaning as they reveal the major steps in Gods plan of redemption for mankind. They were given to ancient Israel, kept by Christ, the apostles, the early New Testament church, and are prophesied to also be kept following the return of Christ and thus are to be kept today. As Sabbaths, they are commanded to be kept holy just as the weekly Sabbath is to be kept holy.
Scriptural Support:
Leviticus 23:2; Ezekiel 20:12; Ezekiel 20:20; Leviticus 19:30; Zechariah 14:16-21; Exodus 23:14-17; 1 Corinthians 5:8; 1 Corinthians 16:8; Luke 2:41-42; Luke 22:14-15; John 7:2, John 7:10-11; John 7:14 HNV; Acts 2:1; Acts 18:21; Acts 20:16
The bible reveals that Christ will return to this earth in a personal, visible, physical manner - yet without physical limitations and will establish complete rulership over the entire earth. He will bind Satan and the demons and thus separate mankind from their influence. His rule will be an actual earthly government with Him as King over all the world. He will rule with absolute justice and Godly wisdom that will create a time of peace, prosperity and unity that mankind has never before experienced. All of the world will be taught and follow the law and ways of God. This will continue for a 1,000 year period known as the Millennium. During this time, He will restore all things and establish the fullness of the Kingdom of God for all eternity.
Scriptural Support:
Daniel 7:14; Daniel 7:18; Daniel 7:27; Isaiah 9:6-7; Isaiah 40:10-12; Jeremiah 23:5; Matthew 24:30; Luke 1:32-33; Acts 1:11 HNV; Acts 3:20-21 HNV; Revelation 1:7; Revelation 11:15; Revelation 19:16; Revelation 20:4-6 HNV; Daniel 2:44; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-16 HNV; John 14:3; Acts 15:16
The bible reveals that man is created mortal, completely reliant upon physical sustenance and without eternal life. It’s accounted to all men once to die a physical death and the bible reveals three resurrections from death. The first one is a resurrection to eternal spirit life occurring at the return of Christ of all the faithful followers of God to serve in the government as Kings and Priests during the Millennium. The second will be a resurrection to physical life that will occur after the Millennium and give all those people their first and only opportunity to accept God’s ways. Should they make that choice, they too will be given eternal life. The third resurrection will occur at the time of final judgment where those that rejected God’s ways in their first life will join those that rejected it in the second resurrection and all of them, being physical on the earth, will suffer complete annihilation as the earth is burned up and all in it. The new throne of God and a new earth will come in its place.
Scriptural Support:
Genesis 3:3; Hebrews 9:27; 1 Corinthians 15:42; Romans 6:23; John 5:21-29; Romans 8:10-11 HNV; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; Ezekiel 37:1; Ezekiel 37:5-6; Ezekiel 37:14; Revelation 20:4-5; Revelation 20:11-15; 1 Corinthians 15:45-53; Acts 23:6; Matthew 25:46; John 3:16
The biblical command for tithing was given under the old covenant to fund the governmental and religious structure of the nation of Israel and the command for tithing ended with that covenant. However, the bible does declare that volunteer tithing is a way to honor God with what He has given us to be stewards over. Tithing opens up the giver to blessings from God that can not be contained and is to be done from the heart, not out of fear or intimidation. You can not out-give God. Tithing from the heart is a means by which the church is able to serve others, to preach and proclaim the gospel, to care for those in need, and to cover expenses necessary to carry out the keeping of the Sabbath and Holy Day assemblies in the manner directed by God.
Scriptural Support:
Malachi 3:8-10; 2 Corinthians 9:7; Proverbs 3:9-10