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“But this I do admit to you: I worship the God of our fathers in accordance with the Way

(which they call a sect).  I continue to believe everything that accords with the Torah

and everything written in the Prophets.  And I continue to have a hope in God - which

they too accept - that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

Indeed, it is because of this that I make a point of always having a clear conscience in the

sight of both God and man.”  (Acts 24:14-16)

 

Messianic Judaism is the sovereign move of the Ruach HaKodesh (The Holy Spirit).  It is the restorative movement that seeks to recover the “lost sheep” of the whole house of Israel while at the same time being the redemptive light to the Gentile nations.  It is a congregational movement in which those who hear and embrace the Besorah (Good News) of Yahshua, the Messiah, in a Hebraic context, continue in the customs and traditions after receiving the Messiah (2 Thessalonians 3:6-7).  Messianic Judaism is a prophetic, end-time phenomenon and acknowledges the fulfillment of the B’rit Chadashah (Renewed Covenant) between YHWH (God) and His people, that is, those that make up Israel as promised by the God of Israel through the prophet Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) in the Holy Scriptures (Jeremiah 31:31-34).

 

1. We believe in one God, YHWH, as He has revealed Himself in the Scriptures. “Hear, O Israel, YHWH our God, YHWH is One.” (D’varim [Deuteronomy] 6:4)

 

1. We believe that Yahshua is the Son of God, the true and only Messiah, the Eternal One in whom all the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form, and who is the Word who became flesh and dwelt among us, and whose glory we beheld, the glory of the uniquely begotten Son of God, full of grace and truth. (Yochanan [John] 1:1–14; Colossians 2:9)

 

1. We believe that the Ruach (Spirit) of YHWH comforts, teaches (reminds us what Messiah Yahshua taught), leads, indwells, and empowers all whom YHWH regenerates. (Acts 9:31; Yochanan Alef [1 John] 2:27; Yochanan [John] 14:26; 16:13; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 2 Timothy 1:7)

 

1. We believe that the Scriptures, both the Tanach (Torah and the Prophets) and the Renewed Covenant (New Covenant), are the only inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of YHWH. (Tehillim [Psalms) 19:7; Yochanan [John] 17:14-19; 2 Timothy 3:16–17)

 

1. We believe that all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23)

 

1. We believe that Messiah Yahshua’s death and resurrection accomplished the atonement for all (Jew and non-Jew) who place their faith in Him. Whoever trusts in YHWH, in His work alone, is made a new creation in Messiah Yahshua, indwelt by the Ruach HaKodesh (The Holy Spirit) is placed into the Kingdom of His Son the house of Yaakov (Israel). (Ephesians 2:8–9, Romans 5, 6, Yochanan [John] 1:30-33)

 

1. We believe in justification by faith through the grace of God alone, and not by human efforts. One cannot earn or merit this eternal salvation by his own efforts. A new creation is the work of YHWH alone. (Ephesians 2:8–10; Romans 8:29–39)

 

1. We believe in the spiritual unity and equality of all believers in Messiah Yahshua who are in the olive tree of Israel. (Yeshayahu [Isaiah] 56:3; Ephesians 2:11–22; Ephesians 3:1-13; Romans 11)

 

1. We believe in the continuity of YHWH’s covenants with the people of Israel (Yirmeyahu [Jeremiah] 31:35–36; Hebrews 8:6-12 and parallel passages). Part of the fulfillment of these covenants is the physical return of the people of Israel (both houses) to their promised inheritance, the Land of Israel. (B’resheet [Genesis] 17; D’varim [Deuteronomy] 30; Ezekiel 36 & 37; Galatians 3:28-29)

 

1. We believe that all true Gentiles who join YHWH by trusting in Messiah Yahshua are grafted into Israel and thus become Israel. They are full and equal participants in everything pertaining to Israel: 1) the covenants 2) the promises 3) the Holy Temple and 4) the Torah (Ephesians 2:12; Galatians 3:29; Romans 11:11–24; Yeshayahu [Isaiah] 56:3,6-7; Yirmeyahu [Jeremiah] 31:33; Yechezk’el [Ezekiel] 47:21-23)

 

1. We believe that Messiah Yahshua will reunite, by physically gathering both houses of Israel together at His Second Coming.  Being regathered, we forever become one nation under our King. (Yeshayahu [Isaiah] 11:12-16; Yechezk’el [Ezekiel] 37:15-22; 39:25-29; Yochanan [John] 10:11-16; Mattityahu [Matthew] 24:29-31)

 

1. We believe that the Torah is a gift from YHWH to His people, Israel, and is the revelation of righteousness which He demands and a description (along with the rest of Scripture) of the lifestyle of His redeemed community. (D’varim [Deuteronomy] 4:5-8; 6:23-25; Mattityahu [Matthew] 5:17–19; 2 Timothy 3:16–17)

 

1. We believe that as the Torah is the foundation of the Tanakh (Hebrew Scriptures), it also is the foundation of the Renewed Covenant (New Covenant) promised to be inaugurated by Messiah Yahshua to both houses of Israel. (Yirmeyahu [Jeremiah] 31:31-34; Hebrews 8:6-12)  

 

1. We believe in the literal, physical return of Messiah Yahshua to rule and reign upon the throne of David in Jerusalem over the entire world (Yeshayahu [Isaiah] 6-7; 2:2-4; Z’kharyah [Zechariah] 6:9-15; 14:1-21; Mattityahu [Matthew] 24:23-31; Luke 1:30-33; Revelation 19-20).

 

1. We believe that the “catching up” and the “Second Coming” are not two separate events as taught by Dispensationalist but are the same event. (See 1 Thessalonians 4:15. Rav Shaul [Apostle Paul] paraphrases in verses 16-17 on what “the Lord” [Messiah Yahshua] said in Mattityahu [Matthew] 24:30-31.  

 

1. We believe in a post-tribulation view of Messiah Yahshua’s Second Coming. (Z’kharyah [Zechariah] 14; Revelation 19–20)