We are Messianic believers, that is to say, that we believe that the Fathers Laws, “Torah” given to the Israelite s through Moses are for us today. However, we differ from some of the Jews in that we believe the Messiah came and died for the world so that while we who believe in what He did, and acting upon His Commandments, shall be saved. We understand that most of the modern churches today teac
h we are not under the Law, and we fundamentally disagree with this teaching. We are under the Fathers Law or Torah, however, because of the actions provided by our Messiah and His death for our sins, we are no longer under the condemnation of the Law or Torah, and this is His Grace for us. What we are presenting is Scriptural, factual, and historically accurate. We are not saying that every Christian is wrong in what they believe, but you have to remember, if what we believe is only partially the truth, it is also partially a lie. Do we really want only part of the truth when it comes to serving the Father? In the following pages you will see that we have included all of the biblical and historical facts to back up what we are presenting. I would like to state, you should not EVER believe anything we teach, or for that matter, what anyone else teaches without them or us backing up and proving to you what they/we are saying is Scripturally correct and in context. The doctrines or what some may call our beliefs; are to only teach to the best of our ability, only the teachings that would have been taught by our first century fathers. Our goal is to only teach what they would have been teaching by way of trying to understand their culture and understanding the Torah as well the rest of the Scriptures as they would have. We need to understand “We” here in our modern American culture, are almost completely removed in our understanding of their culture, their understandings and their beliefs and in the Scriptures. The simple answer is that without understanding how they lived, the times in-which they lived, the demands placed on their lives, and some of the cultural rules and regulations which governed their lives, we cannot fully understand the purpose and reasons of what they wrote. We need to understand that words have meaning, however, even here in our culture; some words have different meanings and understanding depending on how they are used and also the location in this country in which they are used. Case and point, on the East coast of the US, many people refer to a Coke as “Pop” and here on the West coast, we refer to it as a “Soda”, and in different locations it may be referred to as a “Soda Pop”. I call my dad “Pop” and do not think of his as a Coke. I know from personal experiences while back East, when I was talking about my dad, and I called him “Pop”, I was asked what I meant by that. Here is another example; while talking to my aunt who lives in Kansas City Missouri, I referred to a topic that was overwhelming as something that was Heavy”. I said wow, that is heavy, using the slang terminology that most people here on the West coast would understand, but I only received a dumb founded response from her. I had to explain why I used that word and what it meant in the context in which I was speaking. Try to understand, we both are alive at the same time and lived in the same culture, and even still, we had an incomplete understanding of what we meant while speaking to each other. So, how much more removed do you think we could be from the people and their teaching of 2000 years ago and with the extreme differences in our culture? One of the deepest problems that the modern church employs is reading the Scriptures out of context. They tend to read only a verse or two without reading the WHOLE context or thought in the Scriptures they are reading from. Many times if they were to read the text prior to or after the verses they are using, they would come away with an entirely different understanding of the Scriptures. We endeavor not to do this. For those who may be new to this whole Messianic thing, we should explain some terminology we use which may be unfamiliar to you. When referring to “Jesus”, we use or say ‘Yeshua”, In place of “God”, We use “Elohim”, When you read “LORD”, we prefer to use “Yahweh, or Yahuah”. When we refer to what many call the “Law or Commandments”, you will hear us say “the Torah”, “Instructions or possibly the 10 Words”. In place of using the term Old Testament, we use “Tonach”, and think of it in 3 categories.
“The Torah”, the 1st five books or writings of Moses.
“The Writings” or History
And the “Prophets”.
