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Concerning IsraelWe believe that Israel has been elected by The PeopleWe believe that, although many individual Israelites
(many “myriads” — as much a third of the population, including many of the
kohenim) immediately received the Good News of Mashiach and became His
talmidim, corporate Israel (that is, the political nation of Israel, not
the Jewish people) fell from her exalted position among the nations of the
world because of her repeated idolatry and her corporate rejection of
Mashiach when He first appeared. Therefore, The CovenantsWe believe that The LandWe believe that HaShem owns all the land of the world, and that kings, potentates, and nations occupy that land only with HaShem's permission, and that He gives and revokes that permission according to His sovereign will. We believe that HaShem explicitly gave to Avraham, Yitzhak, Ya'akov, and to all their descendants forever an irrevocable land grand of all the territory from “the river of Egypt” (the Nile River) to the Euphrates River, and that land was then, as it is now, Israel’s irrevocable possession. We therefore believe almost of all of Eretz Yisra'el is being illegally occupied by the nations of Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. (Click here for more details.)
The Palestinian ConflictAs Israel owns all of the land from the Nile to the Euphrates, anyone besides Israel who lives on any part of that land is an illegal occupying force, and HaShem has given Israel both the right and the responsibility to drive them out. “I will drive them out before you little by little, until you become fruitful and take possession of the land. I will fix your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines {Mediterranian}, and from the wilderness to the River {Euphrates;} for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you. You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods. They shall not live in your land, because they will make you sin against Me; for {if} you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.” (Sh-mot [Exodus] 23:30-33) Any nation who resists Israel in their God-given responsibility of governing all of their land is not resisting Israel, but rather they are resisting the God of Israel! “Now ADONAI said to Avram, ‘Get yourself out of your country, away from your kinsmen and away from your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, I will bless you, and I will make your name great; and you are to be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, but I will curse anyone who curses you; and by you all the families of the earth will be blessed.’” (Genesis [B'resheet] 12:1-3) “How lovely are your tents, Ya'akov; your encampments, Isra'el! They spread out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like succulent aloes planted by ADONAI, like cedar trees next to the water. Water will flow from their branches, their seed will have water aplenty. Their king will be higher than Agag and his kingdom lifted high. [HaShem], who brought them out of Egypt, gives them the strength of a wild ox. They will devour the nations opposing them, break their bones, pierce them with their arrows. When they lie down they crouch like a lion, or like a lioness — who dares to rouse it? Blessed be all who bless you! Cursed be all who curse you!” (Numbers [B'midbar] 24:5-9) We believe that most of the natural disasters and calamities that have occurred in the United States over the past few decades have been the direct result of America’s actions against the sovereign State of Israel and the G-d of Israel. We believe that HaShem repays “measure for measure” (Exod 21:24; Lev 24:20; Deut 19:21 ; Matt 7:2; Luke 6:38). When America forces Israeli citizens off their land and into refugee camps, HaShem sends hurricanes to America to force American citizens off their land and into refugee camps. Measure for measure!
The Return of MessiahWe believe that the world will experience the seven years of strife and tribulation known as “Ya'akov’s Trouble” and that the return of Yeshua HaMashiach will be related to that strife. However, we are not convinced that Scripture clearly indicates whether His return will be before, during, or after that period. We believe in the literal and physical return of Adonai Yeshua HaMashiach to the earth just as He went, in Person and in the body in which He was crucified, now glorified, coming on the clouds of heaven, with all His Saints, and with power and great glory to establish His earthly Kingdom, to bind HaSatan and place him in the abyss, to lift the curse which now rests on the whole creation, to restore a united Israel to her own land and to give her the realization of every single element and every single provision of HaShem’s covenant promises, to bring the whole world to the personal knowledge of HaShem, and to personally and bodily reign over the whole earth for a thousand years from His throne in Jerusalem. We believe that when Messiah returns to rule from His throne in Jerusalem, Israel will resume her rightful place as an example of righteousness and a “light to the Goyim.” “Thus says the LORD
of Hosts: ‘In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages
of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt [literally, take hold of
the tzitziot (fringes) of the tallit (prayer shawl)] of him who is a
Yehudi, saying, “We will go with you, for we have heard that Additionally, when Mashiach returns to establish His earthly kingdom, all nations of the earth will be judged by the way they have treated corporate Israel (Matt. 25:31-46). We believe that both the Temple and the Aharonic Priesthood will be completely restored, that the sacrifices will be practiced as a memorial reminder that our redemption has come only through the shed Blood of the Lamb, and that all the nations of the world will come to the Temple in Jerusalem to observe the Feasts of HaShem (particularly Sukkot, which is Yeshua’s “birthday party”) under the tutelage of their teacher Israel. Further, we specifically believe that the advent of “Messianic Judaism,” which coincided with Israel’s liberation of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War in 1967, is the beginning of the process of the goyim placing themselves under that tutelage. We believe that King David, resurrected and glorified, will reign over Israel as Mashiach’s co-regent, and that Father Avraham, resurrected and glorified, will rule over all Eretz Yisra'el from the Nile River in the west to the Euphrates River in the east.
Israel and the “Jesus” of “the Church”To be broken off from the “Olive Tree” requires the rational act of unbelief. The natural branches who have not known or heard of the true Messiah of Israel are not “broken off.” Most Jewish people today have not yet heard about their Jewish Messiah Yeshua in truth. Rejection of a “Gentile Christian Jesus” who came to destroy HaShem’s Torah and who rejects his own Jewishness, who is at best only a crude and extremely inaccurate caricature of the historical Yeshua HaMashiach, is NOT a rejection of the true Messiah of Israel. Therefore, many Jewish people who “call on the name of Adonai” (Joel 2:32; Romans 10:13) remain in the covenant promises, even though they may be partially blinded to the truth of Messiah. Gentile Believers who do not realize this fact are themselves are partially blinded. Once the fullness of the Gentiles has come into Israel the blindness on all parts will be lifted, then all of Israel, Jews and non-Jews, will be saved together by the Deliverer, Yeshua HaMashiach. It is He Who has turned away unrighteousness from Israel. The truly righteous ones, both Jewish and non-Jewish, must accept their covenant place in Israel, given through Yeshua HaMashiach. If Adonai is echad (one), (Devarim [Deuteronomy] 6:4), and if Yeshua and Abba are echad (Yochanan [John] 10:30), and if “every tongue will confess that Yeshua HaMashiach is Adonai, to the glory of HaSham the Father” (Philippians 2:11), then it follows that Yeshua HaMashiach is Adonai. If Yeshua HaMashiach is Adonai, then Yeshua HaMashiach appeared to Avraham at Mamre (B'resheet [Genesis] 18); Yeshua HaMashiach made the covenant with Avraham (B'resheet [Genesis] 15:17); Yeshua HaMashiach spoke to Moshe from the burning bush (Sh'mot [Exodus] 3:2); Yeshua HaMashiach wrote the Torah in stone with His finger (Sh'mot [Exodus] 24:12; 31:18). And it is Yeshua HaMashiach Who today stands behind the Western Wall in Jerusalem and hears the prayers and receives the worship of His people Israel, who cannot see Him in the grossly distorted "Jesus" created by the Gentile "church."* For thus is is written: • “Whoever calls on the name of ADONAI will be saved” (Joel 2:32; Romans 10:13) • “Whoever believes in Him will not be disappointed” (Romans 10:11; Isaiah 28:16)
* The “Jesus” of “the Church” is a “different Yeshua” and the “Gospel” of “the Church” is a “different Gospel” the than the Yeshua HaMashiach and the Gospel that are presented in the Bible. The “Church” has much for which it must answer to HaShem. “For if someone comes and tells you about some other Yeshua than the one we told you about, or if you receive a spirit different from the one you received or accept some so-called ‘good news’ different from the Good News you already accepted, you bear with him well enough!” (2Cor 11:4) “I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Messiah, for a different gospel; which is really not another; only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Messiah. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed! As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!” (Galatians 1:6-9)
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