What We Believe (Continued)

Deity, Messiah, and the Resurrection

• We believe that God is Echad, as declared in the Shema, “a united one” or “compound unity,” eternally existent in three persons. (Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 48:16-17; 1 John 5:7-13) 
  • “‘Come close to me, and listen to this: since the beginning I have not spoken in secret, since the time things began to be, I have been there; and now Adonai ELOHIM has sent me and his Spirit.’ Thus says ADONAI, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Isra’el: ‘I am ADONAI, your God, who teaches you for your own good, who guides you on the path you should take.’” Isaiah 48:16-17
• We believe in the Deity of Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Messiah), that He is the “seed of the woman” as God promised, and that his virgin birth was to be a sign to Israel of His Messiahship. 
  • “Therefore Adonai himself will give you people a sign: the young woman will become pregnant, bear a son and name him ‘Immanu El [God is with us].” Isaiah 7:14
  • “For a child is born to us, a son is given to us; dominion will rest on his shoulders, and he will be given the name Pele-Yo’etz El Gibbor Avi-’Ad Sar-Shalom [Wonder of a Counselor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace], in order to extend the dominion and perpetuate the peace of the throne and kingdom of David, to secure it and sustain it through justice and righteousness henceforth and forever. The zeal of ADONAI-Tzva’ot will accomplish this.” Isaiah 9:6-7
  • “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1
  • “For in him, bodily, lives the fullness of all that God is.” Colossians 2:9
• We believe in Messiah Yeshua’s life and his miracles yesterday and today. His vicarious and sacrificial death as our atonement, His bodily resurrection, His future return for His followers, both living and dead, and His future establishment of His kingdom on Earth. (Isaiah 53:8; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Isaiah 9:6-7; 1 Corinthians 11:26; Zechariah 12:6-10; Zechariah 14:16-21) 
  • “After forcible arrest and sentencing, he was taken away; and none of his generation protested his being cut off from the land of the living for the crimes of my people, who deserved the punishment themselves.” Isaiah 53:8
• We believe in the resurrection of both saved and lost, the one to everlasting life and the other to eternal separation from God, the latter being consigned to a state of everlasting punishment. (Daniel 12:2; Matthew 25:46; Psalm 69:28; Revelation 20:12-15) 
  • “He is a tower of salvation for his king; he displays grace to his anointed, to David and his descendants forever.” II Samuel 22:51
  • “Many of those sleeping in the dust of the earth will awaken, some to everlasting life and some to everlasting shame and abhorrence.” Daniel 12:2

Bible

We believe that the Bible, composed of the Tanakh (Jewish Scriptures) or First Testament, and the Apostolic Writings of the New Covenant (B’rit Hadashah) or Second Testament, is God’s only infallible and authoritative Word. 

Prayer

House of Prayer

ADONAI tells us that HIS house will be called a house of prayer. Therefore, prayer is one of this ministry’s core values and is taken very seriously. This is why we always provide an open altar and an altar call at every meeting.

Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem / Intercessory Prayer

We have been called to “pray without ceasing” for Jerusalem, for the peace and protection of her gates.

Praying at the Altar / Laying on of Hands

There is always a guarantee that you will receive it if you ask for prayer. You will be prayed for when you approach the altar at our meetings. When one in the body is hurting, then we are all hurting. We believe in laying on hands when praying for someone, as the Spirit leads. If you are “overcome by the Spirit of God”, we will finish our prayer for you and move on to allow ADONAI to minister to you directly.

Gifts of the Ruach HaKodesh

We believe in the present ministry of Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit), whose indwelling enables the believer to live a godly life. (Jeremiah 31:31-34; John 14:15-17; Galatians 5:13-25)

At our meetings, you may often see these gifts in operation throughout the service. We invite the Ruach HaKodesh to our services. If you have not been in this environment before, be open and ready to receive what the Lord has for you!

There are nine supernatural gifts of the Ruach HaKodesh as expressed in I Corinthians 12:7-13: Word of Wisdom, Word of Knowledge, Faith (Faithfulness), Gifts of Healing, the Working of Miracles, Prophecy, the Ability to Judge Between Spirits, the Ability to Speak in Different Kinds of Tongues, and the Ability to Interpret Tongues. We believe in the moving of the Gifts of the Spirit in accordance with the scripture.

Here is a list of the definitions of the Gifts of the Spirit and biblical foundation to support our position:

1. Word of Wisdom: Ability to judge correctly and to follow the best course of action based on knowledge and understanding. This could manifest through the ability to explain the “mysteries of the gospel” or “say an uttering of grave sentences“.
   • “Y’hoshua the son of Nun was full of the Spirit of Wisdom, for Moshe had laid his hands on him, and the people of Isra’el heeded him and did what ADONAI had ordered Moshe.” Deuteronomy 34:9
   • “I have not stopped giving thanks for you. In my prayers I keep asking the God of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, the glorious Father, to give you a Spirit of Wisdom and revelation, so that you will have full knowledge of him.” Ephesians 1:16-17
2. Word of Knowledge: The truth of facts of life that a person acquires through experience or thought. This could be manifested through having “knowledge of mysteries of prophecies, types and histories of the Older Covenant” or having “a skill or readiness to give advice and counsel in perplexed cases.”
   • “The Spirit of ADONAI will rest on him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and power, the Spirit of knowledge and fearing ADONAI…” Isaiah 11:2
   • “My purpose is that they may be encouraged, that they may be joined together in love, and that they may have all the riches derived from being assured of understanding and fully knowing God’s secret truth, which is – the Messiah! It is in him that all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.” Colossians 2:2-3
3. Faith (Faithfulness): Faith or trust is a belief in or confident attitude toward God, involving commitment to His will for one’s life. To take it a step further, faithfulness is dependability, loyalty, and stability, particularly as it describes God in His relationship to human believers.
   • “ADONAI will give every person a reward suited to his uprightness and faithfulness. ADONAI put you in my power today, but I would not raise my hand against ADONAI’s anointed.” I Samuel 26:23
   • He responded, “Have the kind of trust (faith) that comes from God! Yes! I tell you that whoever does not doubt in his heart but trusts (has faith) that what he says will happen can say to this mountain, `Go and throw yourself into the sea!’ and it will be done for him. Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, trust (have faith) that you are receiving it, and it will be yours.” Mark 11:22-24
4. Gifts of Healing: To remove sin, anxiety, or the like; restore. That is, healing the sick by laying on of hands, anointing with oil, with a bare word, or with any combination of the above.
   • “A while later, the son of the woman whose house it was fell ill; his illness grew increasingly serious until his breathing stopped. She said to Eliyahu, ‘What do you have against me, you man of God? Did you come to me just to remind me how sinful I am by killing my son?’ ‘Give me your son,’ he said to her. Taking him from her lap, he carried him into the room upstairs where he was staying and laid him on his own bed. Then he cried out to ADONAI: ‘ADONAI my God! Have you brought also this misery on the widow I’m staying with by killing her son?’ He stretched himself out on the child three times and cried out to ADONAI: ‘ADONAI my God, please! Let this child’s soul come back into him!’ ADONAI heard Eliyahu’s cry, the child’s soul came back into him, and he revived. Eliyahu took the child, brought him down from the upstairs room into the house and gave him to his mother; and Eliyahu said, ‘See? Your son is alive.’” I Kings 17:17-23
   • “Yeshua went all over the Galil teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing people from every kind of disease and sickness.” Matthew 4:23
5. Working of Miracles: Historic events or natural phenomena that violate natural laws but reveal God to the eye of faith at the same time.
   • “ADONAI said to Moshe, ‘Here, I will cause bread to rain down from heaven for you. The people are to go out and gather a day’s ration every day. By this I will test whether they will observe my Torah or not. On the sixth day, when they prepare what they have brought in, it will turn out to be twice as much as they gather on the other days.’ Moshe added, ‘What I have said will happen when ADONAI gives you meat to eat this evening and your fill of bread tomorrow morning. ADONAI has listened to your complaints and grumblings against him – what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against ADONAI.’ That evening, quails came up and covered the camp; while in the morning there was a layer of dew all around the camp. When the dew had evaporated, there on the surface of the desert was a fine flaky substance, as fine as frost on the ground.” Exodus 16:4-5, 8, 13-14
   • “The festival of Shavu’ot arrived, and the believers all gathered together in one place. Suddenly there came a sound from the sky like the roar of a violent wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then they saw what looked like tongues of fire, which separated and came to rest on each one of them. They were all filled with the Ruach HaKodesh and began to talk in different languages, as the Spirit enabled them to speak.” Acts 2:1-4
6. Prophecy: The ability to foretell future events or explain scripture through a peculiar gift of the Spirit. Predictions about the future and the end-time are special messages from God, often uttered through human spokespeople, which indicate the divine will for humanity on earth and in heaven.
   • “He said, ‘Listen to what I say: when there is a prophet among you, I, ADONAI, make myself known to him in a vision, I speak with him in a dream.’” Numbers 12:6
   • “No, this is what was spoken about through the prophet Yo’el: ADONAI says: ‘In the Last Days, I will pour out from my Spirit upon everyone. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my slaves, both men and women, will I pour out from my Spirit in those days; and they will prophesy.’” Acts 2:16-18
7. Ability to Judge between Spirits (Discernment of Spirits): The power to see into the spirit realm and identify demons, distinguish between true and false prophets, discern the real and internal qualifications of any person for an office, or discover the inward workings of the mind by the Ruach HaKodesh.
   • “Once, when we were going to the place where the minyan gathered, we were met by a slave girl who had in her a snake-spirit that enabled her to predict the future. She earned a lot of money for her owners by telling fortunes. She kept this up day after day, until Sha’ul, greatly disturbed, turned and said to the spirit, “In the name of Yeshua the Messiah, I order you to come out of her!” And the spirit did come out, at that very moment.” Acts 16:16,18
8. Ability to Speak in Different Kinds of Tongues: The Spirit-given ability to speak in languages not known to the speaker or in an ecstatic language that the speaker or the hearers could not normally understand.
   • “Then they saw what looked like tongues of fire, which separated and came to rest on each one of them.” Acts 2:3
   • “All the believers from the Circumcision faction who had accompanied Kefa were amazed that the gift of the Ruach HaKodesh was also being poured out on the Goyim, for they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. Kefa’s response was, “Is anyone prepared to prohibit these people from being immersed in water? After all, they have received the Ruach HaKodesh, just as we did.” Acts 10:45-47
9. Ability to Interpret Tongues: The ability to render foreign languages readily and correctly into their language. This is not the same thing as translation.
   • “I wish you would all speak in tongues, but even more I wish you would all prophesy. The person who prophesies is greater than the person who speaks in tongues, unless someone gives an interpretation, so that the congregation can be edified. I Corinthians 14:5

Salvation

Cleansed by Grace

The only means of being cleansed from sin is by grace, through faith in the shed sacrificial blood of Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Messiah). Also, regeneration by the Spirit of God is essential for personal salvation.

Additional Scriptures: Romans 1:17; Habakkuk 2:4; John 3:3; Hebrews 11:6; Genesis 15:6

Resurrection

We believe in the resurrection of both saved and lost, the one to everlasting life and the other to eternal separation from God, the latter being consigned to a state of everlasting punishment.

Additional Scriptures: Psalm 69:28; Revelation 20:12-15

Middle Wall of Partition

The middle wall of partition, which in times past separated Jews and Gentiles, has been broken down; the enmity between them was eradicated by the Messiah Yeshua.

Additional Scripture: Acts 10:34

New Covenant Body

The New Covenant body of the Lord is composed of both Jews and Gentiles who have accepted Yeshua HaMashiach as the promised Redeemer, and now they are to worship TOGETHER in the House of God.

Additional Scriptures: Hebrews 10:25; Ephesians 10:6, 10-12; Psalm 133:1

Jewish Followers of Yeshua

As Jewish (either by birth or by being grafted in) followers of Yeshua, we are called to maintain our Jewish Biblical heritage and remain part of our people, as well as the universal body of believers. This is part of our identity and a witness to the faithfulness of God.

Additional Scriptures: I Corinthians 7:17-20; Acts 21:20-24

Sons and Daughters of Israel

The Jews, according to the flesh (descendants of Abraham through Isaac, whether through the bloodline of the mother or the father) who place their faith in Israel’s Messiah Yeshua, have not disowned or separated themselves from their race and Judaic Heritage but remain sons and daughters of Israel. Gentiles who place their faith in Israel’s Messiah, Yeshua, are also spiritual sons and daughters of Abraham.

Additional Scriptures: Romans 2:28-29; Genesis 15:6

Worship

We spell praise and worship F-R-E-E-D-O-M! We believe that praise and worship (Hallel and shachah) is a time of blessing ADONAI with our whole beings. This would include dancing, singing, playing an instrument, blowing a shofar, speaking in tongues, lying prostrate, kneeling, or even bowing before Him. Of course, order is always adhered to within the assembly.

We desire that services always be opened with the sound of the Shofar. It is a call to assembly. The Tanakh implies the sound of the Shofar is the Voice of God, “As the sound of the shofar grew louder and louder, Moshe spoke; and God answered him with a voice.” This is an instrument of ADONAI and we will most likely hear it when Yeshua returns! “With trumpets and the sound of the shofar, shout for joy before the king, ADONAI!” Psalm 98:6