STATEMENT OF FAITH
THE MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
The LORD is one, and His name is One. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is the Maker of Heaven and Earth. He is perfectly just, totally sovereign, unbegotten, and singular (“He is God; there is no other besides Him,” Deut. 4:35). He inhabits eternity, dwells in unapproachable light, and has revealed Himself through His covenantal relationship with and through His formation of the people, nation, and land of Israel.
GENESIS 1:1; EXODUS 3:6; DEUTERONOMY 4:35; 6:4; ZECHARIAH 14:9; MATTHEW 22:32; 1 CORINTHIANS 8:6; EPHESIANS 4:4-6THE WORD OF GOD
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of man….And the Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” His name is Jesus.
JOHN 1:1-4, 15 NKJV; MATTHEW 1:1THE SPIRIT OF GOD
The Spirit of God comforts, teaches, leads, indwells, and empowers all whom God regenerates.
JOHN 16:13; ACTS 9:31; ROMANS 8:1-27; 1 CORINTHIANS 3:16; 2 TIMOTHY 1:7; 1 JOHN 2:27THE GODHEAD
We acknowledge, with awe, the plurality demonstrated in the Godhead—Father, Son, and Spirit —and affirm “the LORD is One, and His name is One.” God the Father receives worship. God the Son receives worship. Blasphemy against the Spirit of God is unforgivable. The revelation of God as Father, as Jesus, by His Spirit is a beautiful, monotheistic mystery.
PSALM 107:25; DANIEL 7:9-14; ZECHARIAH 14:9; MATTHEW 12:31-32; MARK 3:28-30; 4:35-41; LUKE 12:10; REVELATION 4:2-5:14THE SCRIPTURES
The Bible (Tanach and New Testament) is authoritative teaching from God. It is of divine origin, composed under prophetic inspiration of the Holy Spirit and validated by God-ordained authority. The whole Bible must be understood in its cultural and historical context as Jewish literature.
2 TIMOTHY 3:16-17; 2 PETER 3:14-18THE HUMAN RACE
The treason of Eden legally rests on Adam’s shoulders, and as such, every son and daughter of Adam is infected with the same curse of death. However, we are made in the Image of God and He wills that none should perish, and thus intervened as the promised Seed of Eve to “seek and save that which was lost” that all who confess Jesus is God and Messiah can be “with Him where He is” forever..
GENESIS 1:26-27; 3:1-24; LUKE 19:10; JOHN 17:24; ROMANS 5:12-21; 10:9-10; 2 PETER 3:9THE COVENANT
God’s redemptive “promise plan” to break the power of sin and death, resurrect the dead, and lead all of created order into the restoration of all things is anchored in the Everlasting Covenant, which Jesus shed His blood to legally secure. This covenant was first promised to Abram and cut by God Himself under the oak trees of Mamre and includes three sweeping provisions: seed (in order to redeem mankind), land (in order to redeem creation), and blessing (in order to reach all nations). This was further illuminated by Israel’s national covenant at Sinai and God’s covenant with David, but the Abrahamic covenant is the baseline for the “new” covenant promised through Jeremiah. This is the burden Jacob is elected to carry, which the Christian body must help him bear. The Lord will soon settle the “controversy of Zion” and lead us into the restoration of all things.
GENESIS 12:1-3; 15:1-21; EXODUS 19:1-24:18; 2 SAMUEL 7:1-28; ISAIAH 34:8; 51:3; JEREMIAH 31:31-36; HEBREWS 13:20; REVELATION 21:1-5THE COVENANTAL NATION
The Jewish people today, within and outside of Israel’s territorial boundaries, remain God’s covenantal, firstborn nation. His relationship with them, illuminated through the Scriptures, is distinct but demonstrates His character as the nations come to know Him. The Jews, as an ethnic religious people group (including those who convert into Judaism) are the stewards of the covenant and the Land of Israel. This responsibility carries both blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience. The coming Kingdom fulfillment of God’s promises includes “the restoration of the Kingdom to Israel,” from which the Son of David, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah who has overcome the world, will Himself reign as King over the whole world.
GENESIS 49:9; DEUTERONOMY 29:1-31:8; JEREMIAH 31:35-36; LUKE 1:30-33; 67-80; ACTS 1:1-11; ROMANS 1:16-17; 3:1-4:26; 9:1-11:36; REVELATION 5:5THE RECONCILIATION
The Cross of Jesus legally bound the Adamic curse to death, and leveraged Jesus’ death to defeat death forever. His blood shed on the Cross secured all provisions of the Everlasting Covenant (Abraham’s seed, land, and blessing to all nations) with such precise legal execution that God remains just while becoming the Justifier of all who confess that Jesus of Nazareth is God and Messiah.
GENESIS 22:8; ISAIAH 43:25-28; 53:1-12; JOHN 1:29; ACTS 3:13; GALATIANS 3:13; ROMANS 3:19-26; 5:6-11; 2 CORINTHIANS 5:21; HEBREWS 13:20“CHRIST-KILLERS”?
It is worth noting that Jesus laid His own life down, and no one had the power to take it from Him (John 10:18), but both Jew and Gentile participated in His death (i.e., all nations, all mankind). The religious authorities of Jerusalem turned Him over to Roman authorities, who arrested Him, legally condemned Him, and executed Him through their means of capital punishment: crucifixion. By “hanging on a tree,” He bound the curse to death. We renounce any antisemitic accusation that “the Jews are ‘Christ-killers’” and lament the terrible, deadly impact this ideology has had on the “one new man” in the centuries since it was popularized.
JOHN 10:18; MATTHEW 26:47-68; 27:1-47; GALATIANS 3:13; EPHESIANS 2:11-22THE COMMISSION
All disciples and bondservants of King Jesus are commissioned to carry “this Gospel of the Kingdom” to “all tribes, tongues, and nations,” “teaching them to obey everything [Jesus] has commanded” us to do. This requires an embodied declaration, an incarnate witness of the Incarnate Word, demonstrating the ethics of the Kingdom of God, “warning every man and teaching every man” to repent and believe that Jesus of Nazareth is both God and King, so as to be saved from the wrath to come.
ISAIAH 52:7; MATTHEW 24:14; 28:18-20; ROMANS 10:13-11:15; 15:17-21; 2 CORINTHIANS 5:9-21; COLOSSIANS 1:28THE COMMONWEALTH
All non-Jewish people who confess and obey the Lordship of Jesus are grafted into the Commonwealth of Covenantal Israel. This does not make them Jewish and the nations should not become Jewish. The Lord cares deeply about and is committed to preserving cultural and ethnolinguistic diversity throughout eternity. This Commonwealth allows for full and equal participation in the covenants of promise, but does not circumvent, replace, or divest the covenants of promise and transfer them onto Gentile believers.
JEREMIAH 31:33; EPHESIANS 2:11-22; ROMANS 11:11-24; REVELATION 7:9-10THE DAY OF THE LORD
This “present evil age” ends in climactic culmination of God’s redemptive purposes, the return of Jesus, the resurrection of the dead, and the final resolution of the “controversy of Zion.” The prophets referred to this hinge of history of the penultimate “Day of the LORD.” This catalytic Day introduces the Kingdom of God on earth, beginning with Jesus’ thousand-year reign leading to the union of Heaven and Earth as the New Jerusalem descends and God finally restores all things.
ISAIAH 2:12-22; 13:6-12; 34:2, 8; JEREMIAH 30:5-7; EZEKIEL 30:2-3; DANIEL 7:13-14; JOEL 2:1-3:21; AMOS 5:18; OBADIAH 1:15; 1 CORINTHIANS 15:5; GALATIANS 1:4; 1 THESSALONIANS 4:15-18; 2 PETER 3:1-18; REVELATION 19:1-22:21THE RETURN OF JESUS
The Son of Man came once to atone for sin and break the power of death; He is coming again to rule, reign, and restore all things. He will come on the clouds in power and glory; every eye will see Him and all the earth will mourn for Him. This event will not be hidden. His return is a one-time event catalyzing the first resurrection and leads to His coronation in Jerusalem, from which He will rule the entire earth in a global theocracy as He leads creation into the restoration of all things.
DANIEL 7:13-14; ZECHARIAH 12:1-14:3-9; ACTS 1:1-11; 1 THESSALONIANS 4:15-18; REVELATION 1:7; 11:15THE RESURRECTION
“Unless a grain of wheat that falls to the ground dies, it stays just a grain; but if it dies, it produces a big harvest” (John 12:24, CJB). All of creation bound under the curse must pass away in order to be resurrected—the palingenesia, or “re-genesis.” Through His own death and resurrection, Jesus demonstrated He is the “Lord of the Resurrection.” It is “appointed unto man to die once,” and the righteous will be resurrected to glory in Messiah when He comes on the clouds at His triumphant return, at the seventh trumpet. The wicked will be resurrected to judgment at the end of Jesus’ one thousand year reign and condemned to the lake of fire.
DANIEL 12:1-3, 13; MATTHEW 19:28-30; MARK 12:26; LUKE 20:37; JOHN 11:23-26; 12:24; 1 CORINTHIANS 15:1-58; 1 THESSALONIANS 4:13-18; 1 PETER 1:3; HEBREWS 9:24THE KINGDOM
The Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, is covenantally yoked to the people, nation, and land of Israel. As the apostles hoped and waited for “the restoration of the Kingdom to Israel,” so too do we. The inauguration of this Kingdom at Jesus’ Second Coming will launch a catalytic, literal thousand-year period wherein the resurrected saints work under the leadership of King Jesus to restore the earth from the carnage of sin and death. The devil and his angels will be chained through this period and released for a short time at its end. He will immediately be defeated by Jesus finally and forever, and cast into the lake of fire. The heavenly Jerusalem will descend from God out of heaven, knitting to the Jerusalem below. She will be called a praise in the whole earth. Thus will mark the day “all things [are made] new.”
PSALM 72:13; ISAIAH 11:4; 29:19; 35:5-6; 42:1; EZEKIEL 34:16; MICAH 4:6; ZEPHANIAH 3:19; MATTHEW 4:23; 9:35; ACTS 1:6-8; REVELATION 20:1-15; 21:1-5THE LAKE OF FIRE
Built for the devil and his angels, the Lake of Fire. It is the destiny of all wicked whose names are not found in the Lamb’s Book of Life on Judgment Day at the end of the thousand years.
MATTHEW 25:41; REVELATION 20:7-15THE RESTORATION
Jesus’ millennial reign from Jerusalem will disciple the nations into both obedience and restoration. Under His theocratic leadership, “the nations will learn war no more,” and He will inaugurate peace from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth. This restoration will be most pronounced in God’s relationship with Jerusalem and the Jewish nation: the millennial reign will begin with national recognition of “the One whom they pierced,” crying “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!” and culminate with the New Jerusalem descending from heaven, knit to the City of the Great King, and Heaven and Earth will be unified forever.
PSALM 48:2; ISAIAH 2:2-4; 54:1-17; JEREMIAH 30:8-31:14; 32:40-41; 33:9; ZECHARIAH 12:10; MICAH 4:1-5; MATTHEW 5:35; 23:37-39; ACTS 1:6-8; REVELATION 19:1-22:21