Who we are

We are a group of Jewish and non-Jewish Israelis who meet on Sabbaths and during the week in order to worship the God of Israel and His Messiah, Jesus the Messiah.

We believe in the declaration: “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one.” We believe that God is eternal, without measure, and unchanging in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth. We believe in God who exists as a complex unity: God the Father, God the Son, who is the divine Word that became flesh and came down into the world to save mankind, and the Holy Spirit, who is the Shekhinah. Together these three entities form the one God who is not solitary.

We believe that the Word of God is the Bible: the Tanakh – Torah, Prophets, and Writings – and the New Testament, all of which were written under divine inspiration. They are true and remain valid to this day.

We meet on Sabbaths because we see the Sabbath day as a day that should be devoted to the God of Israel in prayer and in reading His Word. We celebrate the festivals of Israel and see in them a reflection of God’s wonders in the past, the present, and the future. In the festivals of Israel we find hints pointing to the Messiah of Israel, and therefore we also give them the prophetic meaning that they symbolize. This meaning is the existence of the Messiah of Israel as Redeemer, Deliverer, and Savior.

Our identity as Jews is important to us. We, as Messianic Jews, see ourselves as an inseparable part of the people of Israel and believe in the Lord’s promises to His people, both regarding the return to Zion and the establishment of a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

We see the important calling of our people to be a light to the nations and to awaken among the nations faith in the God of Israel and in His Messiah. Therefore, the partnership between us and people from the nations who believe in the God of Israel and in His Messiah seems natural to us and part of God’s plan. We see them as those who join the congregation of Israel, just as Ruth the Moabite did.

As believers, or as those who believe they have seen the light and found the truth, we believe that we should share our faith with the people of Israel out of love and point them to the Messiah of Israel.

We Believe

We believe with complete faith in the LORD, the God of Israel, the God of love and salvation, Creator of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible. He is one God and Father; from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. He rules over all, is present in all, and to Him be the glory forever.

The Holy Scriptures

We believe with complete faith that the Holy Scriptures now in our possession, the Tanakh and the New Testament, were written by the Holy Spirit under divine inspiration. They were given to make us wise, to guide us to salvation through faith in Messiah Jesus, and to direct us in the paths of righteousness. Therefore God has watched over the Scriptures in a supernatural way and has ensured that they have been preserved in their true form throughout the generations.

(2 Timothy 3:16–17; 2 Peter 1:20–21)

The Unity of God – Three Who Are One

We believe that the one true God eternally consists of three distinct yet united persons or beings: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The divinity of each is full and complete; each possesses the full nature and attributes of God and is entirely worthy of our worship and service.

(Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19; John 1:14; 10:30; 2 Corinthians 13:13)

God the Father

We believe that God the Father is the supreme being among the three persons of the Godhead and the sovereign ruler and sustainer of the universe. He is eternal, unchanging, all-powerful, all-knowing, characterized by supreme wisdom and love, absolute justice, and perfect holiness. In His holiness He remains hidden from man, as it is written:

“For no man may see Me and live.” (Exodus 33:20)

(Genesis 1:1; Isaiah 40:21–28; 43:10–13; 46:9–11)

The Son of God – The Word of God

We believe that Jesus the Messiah is the second person of the Godhead, the eternal and only Son of God the Father from before time. He is a full partner in creation (“Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness,” Genesis 1:26). He is the divine Word and the divine grace who came down into the world and took on flesh in order to reveal God to humanity.

We believe with complete faith that Messiah Jesus is the unique and beloved Son of His Father in heaven, whom God established as Redeemer and Savior of Israel according to the promise given to our fathers through the prophets. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of Mary the virgin (Isaiah 7:14), from the seed of the house of David.

For us human beings and for our salvation He came down from heaven and became man. He was tempted in every way as we are, yet lived a life without sin and without blemish. In His coming He glorified His Father in heaven, made known His name and His will to mankind, walked in the land doing kindness among the people of Israel, and bore great shame for the sins of humanity throughout all time. He was afflicted unto death for the atonement of our sins (Isaiah 53).

When Jesus took on flesh and became man, He did not lay aside His divine nature. His divinity is complete and His humanity is complete; God and man are united in Him in an inseparable way.

Therefore God exalted Him above all. On the third day after His death and burial God raised Him from the dead, revealed Him openly among His disciples, and afterward seated Him at His right hand in heaven as mediator between God and man, as advocate and intercessor for us. From there He will come again in glory to establish His kingdom, restore all things, and judge the living and the dead. He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.

(Isaiah 9:5–6; 52:13–15; Matthew 11:27–30; John 1:14–18; 3:16; 12:44–47, 49–50)

The Holy Spirit

We believe that the Holy Spirit is the third person, the Shekhinah, among the three persons of the Godhead. He was sent into the world at the Feast of Weeks following the resurrection of Jesus, in order to dwell within human beings, glorify the Messiah among them, and fulfill what was written through Jeremiah:

“I will put My law within them, and write it upon their hearts.”

The Holy Spirit awakens in a person the awareness of sin, gives the believer new spiritual life, and creates within him a new creation. The Holy Spirit is the advocate who dwells in the hearts of believers, sanctifying them and guiding them into truth. He gives them the desire and the power to bear fruit in their lives and to live lives no longer enslaved to sin.

We believe that the Holy Spirit also grants believers spiritual gifts for the purpose of building and strengthening the community according to what is written in the Scriptures.

When the Holy Spirit comes to dwell within a believer, He seals that person, thereby guaranteeing the security of the believer’s salvation until the day of redemption.

(John 14:26–27; 16:7–15; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 12:3–7; Romans 8:9, 14–16)

Humanity

We believe that humanity was created in the image of God by a direct act of creation, as written in Genesis chapter 1. Human beings were created to honor and glorify God, to serve Him, and to live in fellowship with Him, a life founded upon mutual love.

When man disobeyed God, he sinned and thereby brought upon himself both physical and spiritual death, which separated him from his God. His nature became corrupted; he was lost to himself, “dead in trespasses and sins.”

Man cannot save himself or restore a right relationship with God through deeds, observance of commandments, or personal effort. Salvation comes only through God’s saving work. Only through faith in the Messiah is a person justified before God, because love from a pure heart, which is the essence of the Messiah, is the goal of the entire Torah and its true fulfillment.

(Genesis 1:26; 2:16–17; 3:17–24; Isaiah 59:1–2; 1 Corinthians 14:1)

Salvation

Salvation is the restoration of the broken relationship between God and humanity.

According to the Word of God, this breach can be repaired only through the offering of a sacrifice before God, and it is the blood of the sacrifice that makes atonement for sin, as we learn from the Scriptures:

“Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.”
(Hebrews 9:22)

According to the prophets, even before the destruction of the Temple and the cessation of the sacrificial system, God in His love provided a way for salvation and forgiveness based on the same principle.

Therefore, according to God’s Word as revealed in both the Torah and the Prophets, God points to the Messiah as the one who would suffer and pay the price for the breach and sin between humanity and God. Throughout the Scriptures the Messiah is revealed as the one who would bear the sins of mankind:

“All we like sheep have gone astray; each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”
(Isaiah 53:6)

We believe that Jesus, the Son of David from Nazareth, is that suffering Messiah spoken of by the prophets. He was “a reproach of men and despised by the people” (Psalm 22:7), endured mockery (“All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads,” Psalm 22:8), and was willing to bear wounds upon His body and die the death of criminals as an atoning sacrifice for humanity.

This act of the suffering Messiah demonstrates the love and grace of God and provides the only basis for the forgiveness of sins and salvation.

In order for a person to receive salvation and forgiveness of sins, he must enter by faith into the covenant of the Messiah and believe that Jesus is the sacrifice for his sins.

(Isaiah 53:4–6; John 1:12–13; Romans 8:14–17, 31–39; Ephesians 1:13–14)