torah.rest

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What we believe

This page exists so that nobody is misled about who they are joining.

A man deciding whether to move his family near yours deserves to know exactly what you hold, including the parts that cost you readers. So this is the whole set, stated plainly. Nothing is buried and nothing is softened.

This is not the entry standard. What you must affirm to join the assembly is a much shorter list. See the standards. Disclosure and a test are two different things, and treating them as one would turn away most of the people this site exists to reach.

Every position below stands on the plain text. Where a claim rests on inference rather than on a direct statement, that is said so, in place.

1. One Elohim, the Father

There is one Elohim, the Father. Not three in one.

yet to us there is one Elohim, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Master, Yahusha Messiah, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

1 Corinthians 8:6

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true Elohim, and him whom you sent, Yahusha Messiah.

John 17:3

Hear, Israel: Yahuah is our Elohim. Yahuah is one.

Deuteronomy 6:4

The Trinity traces to Nicaea, a council of men. The hypostatic union traces to Chalcedon. Neither is in the text.

2. The identity of Yahusha

Yahusha is the Son of Yahuah, the Word and the Torah made flesh, the sole mediator. He is not the Father. He is not a second deity. He is not a mere prophet or an ordinary created man. Both errors are rejected.

The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:14

You heard how I told you, ‘I am going away, and I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

John 14:28

For there is one Elohim and one mediator between Elohim and men, the man Messiah Yahusha,

1 Timothy 2:5

Yahusha redirected all glory to the Father. That pattern is the key to every text raised against this.

3. Worship language

Honor is given to the Son as Son. Abad, the service that belongs to Elohim alone, belongs to the Father.

Proskuneo and shachah mean bowing and homage. Scripture gives both to kings and to men without sin. Yahusha received shachah. He never received abad.

On Revelation 5:13 and 14, the doxology of verse 13 is shared because the Father has enthroned the Son. The worship of verse 14 has a singular antecedent, the Father.

Stated honestly. That singular antecedent is an inference from the grammar. It is not something the text says outright. It is presented as the reading, not as a verse quotation.

4. Torah still binding

17 “Don’t think that I came to destroy the Torah or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. 18 For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the Torah, until all things are accomplished. 19 Therefore, whoever shall break one of these least commandments and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Matthew 5:17–19

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

1 John 3:4

If Torah is gone, sin has no definition.

21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Master, Master,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will tell me in that day, ‘Master, Master, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’ 23 Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Matthew 7:21–23

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear Elohim and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Ecclesiastes 12:13

3 This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. 4 One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

1 John 2:3–4

5. The Sabbath, evening to evening

The seventh day. Friday sunset to Saturday sunset. The day runs evening to evening. Dawn-to-dawn reckoning is rejected.

It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.

Leviticus 23:32

Elohim called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.

Genesis 1:5

The even-to-even count is the oldest in the Book. It is not a Babylonian import.

6. Dietary laws binding

Leviticus 11 gives the distinction between clean and unclean, and it stands.

Isaiah 66:17 places those eating swine’s flesh under judgment at the return. That is future, not abolished.

Mark 7 is about the handwashing tradition of the elders. The subject is unwashed hands, not food categories. Acts 10 is about people, and Peter says so himself in verse 28.

See Torah on the land for what this means for a homestead.

7. Hell is destruction

The wicked are destroyed. They are consumed. They cease. Eternal conscious torment is not the witness of Scripture.

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

Matthew 10:28

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of Elohim is eternal life in Messiah Yahusha our Master.

Romans 6:23

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

Revelation 20:14

Degrees of punishment are real. Luke 12:47 and 48. The punishment is measured, then the second death consumes. That is granted fully, not denied to win an argument.

8. Pagan holidays rejected

Christmas and Easter are pagan in origin and are not commanded. The appointed times of Leviticus 23 are the only sanctioned observances.

30 be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you, and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.” 31 You shall not do so to Yahuah your Elohim; for every abomination to Yahuah, which he hates, they have done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

Deuteronomy 12:30–31

9. The cross shift

Fulfilled and ended. Animal sacrifice. The Levitical priesthood. The earthly temple service. Physical circumcision as the covenant sign.

Remaining. The Sabbath. The dietary laws. The moral commands. The appointed times. The Name.

Hebrews is the authority for what ended. Matthew 5 is the authority for what remains. Neither cancels the other.

10. Historicist eschatology

Preterism and futurism are both rejected. Prophecy unfolds across history by the day-for-year principle. The 1,260 year tribulation ran 538 to 1798.

The rapture is not in Scripture. The doctrine was invented in the 1800s.

The falling away already happened. Mainstream Christianity is the apostasy.

11. The beast system

The first beast is the Papacy, a composite of the Daniel 7 beasts. The image of the beast is the papal office.

The wound dates are not settled and are not taught here. Two arrangements exist within this ministry and both cannot be canon. Until that is ruled, the beast identity is taught without hanging it on the wound dates. See where we were corrected.

12. The mark of the beast

The mark is spiritual allegiance. It is not a chip and not a physical implant.

Forehead is belief. Hand is action. It is the inversion of Deuteronomy 6:8 and Exodus 13:9, where the Word of Yahuah sits in those same two places.

Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahuah who sanctifies them.

Ezekiel 20:12

The issue is who you obey.

13. The daily. Tamid

The Hebrew is tamid, the continual. The word “sacrifice” is not in the text.

The tamid is the continual intercession of Yahusha and the believer’s direct access through Him. Its taking away is the insertion of another mediator where only Yahusha stands.

14. The two witnesses

Not two men. Revelation 1:20 defines lampstands as assemblies. Two houses, Judah and Israel. Two testimonies, Torah and the Prophets. Two olive trees.

15. Biblical cosmology

Fixed earth, firmament. This is the house position.

Genesis 1:6 to 8, the firmament. Isaiah 40:22, the circle of the earth and the stretched-out curtain. Psalm 93:1, the world is established that it cannot be moved.

A text that cuts against the framework, printed rather than hidden:

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

Job 26:7

Omitting a text because it is inconvenient is not Scripture-alone method. It is included and handled, not buried.

16. The Name

Yahuah and Yahusha. Elohim. Set-Apart Spirit.

Elohim said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘Yahuah, Elohim of your fathers, Elohim of Abraham, Elohim of Isaac, and Elohim of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.”

Exodus 3:15

Yeshua is acknowledged as a real post-exile form. Yahusha is preferred and used.

17. Scripture alone

No traditions. No denominations. No creeds. No church fathers. Scripture interpreting Scripture. Plain meaning first.

You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahuah your Elohim which I command you.

Deuteronomy 4:2

Turn to the Torah and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

Isaiah 8:20

If it contradicts Scripture it is wrong, however old the tradition, however many hold it, however good it feels.

The prophetic timeline is not taught on this site

The timeline work, the Solar Key, and the prophecy case live at messiah2027.com. Teaching, the restored Bible, and study material live at truthcarriers.com.

This site is the walk, the land, and the people. Prophecy is kept off it on purpose, because it eats everything it is allowed into.

If we are wrong, show us

If you can show us from the text that we are wrong, we will change it and publish the change. Bring it in writing with the passages. We will answer. If you are right, the teaching is corrected, the old one is marked retired with the date, and the correction is published on where we were corrected.

All glory to Yahuah, who refines through His Word.

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