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July 7 / 2021
1. The Word of God
We believe that both the Old and New Testaments were the inspired Word of God for the times in which they were given—present-day truth for their audience then, as well as containing truths that apply to us today. Throughout history, even the educated and wise have sometimes missed the truth of God, and at times He has chosen to use the uneducated and seemingly foolish to accomplish His will and reveal His truth.
While academic training is valuable and worthy of honour, the Spirit of God can reveal His Word and make it known outside the boundaries of formal education, both for present-day truth and for insights that others may have overlooked in the past. Understanding the meanings of biblical typology—how Old Testament patterns foreshadow New Testament realities—comes by hearing what the Spirit is saying.
We must balance respect for the authoritative words of Scripture (including the study of Greek and Hebrew) with openness to the Spirit’s voice. Both logos and rhema are the Word of God: the former is God’s Word objectively recorded in the Bible, while the latter is God’s Word spoken to us in a specific moment. According to Watchman Nee, a passage of logos can become rhema when it is shown to apply directly to a specific individual.
Many things that were God’s will under the Old Covenant vanished with its passing. God’s Word often used imagery—whether descriptive, figurative, visionary, or symbolic—to reveal Christ. His complete prophetic redemption plan is most clearly portrayed in the Feasts of the Lord and Holy Convocation Days of Leviticus 23. The Word of God cannot be “chained” by the canonization of Scripture; the Spirit continues to speak present-day truth even after the writing of the Book of Revelation. We believe that many of the teachings in this ministry form a sequel to the Old and New Testaments, pointing toward the New Heaven & Earth Eschatology.
2. The Godhead and the Deity of Christ
We believe in the triune mystery of the Godhead—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—and in the deity of Christ, even if our understanding is incomplete. The most important doctrine in all of biblical revelation is the deity of Christ and the Trinity. John 17:5 clearly teaches the pre-existence and eternal begottenness of the Divine Son of God.
The deity of Christ is essential to salvation; we must believe that He is the Divine Son of God to be saved. Jesus Christ is God manifested in the flesh, yet His Spirit has always been the Son of the Father. They are one, and both are Spirit and Truth—the “I Am” from the beginning of time—and both are also one with the Holy Spirit. All three have distinct personalities and roles throughout the ages.
While Jesus lived on earth as God in the flesh, after His resurrection He became a life-giving Spirit and will remain so forever. We do not believe in a future physical return of Jesus Christ to fulfill prophecy, but we affirm that Christ is a Spirit-being who can manifest in many forms if God chooses. God is Spirit and Truth, Love, and a Consuming Fire.
1 Corinthians 15:44–45, 50
It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
And so it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
3. The Parousia of Christ
We believe that Jesus Christ returned in the unseen spiritual realm during the Parousia between AD 66 and AD 70, with the brightness of His glory revealed when the Temple was destroyed in AD 70. His return followed the Old Testament imagery of appearing “in the clouds of glory,” where God did not manifest in physical form but brought wrath and judgment upon Israel for disobedience.
In the Old Testament, “appearing in the clouds” was figurative speech for a spiritual appearing, as in AD 70 when God used the Roman armies to bring judgment on those who killed Jesus Christ and His saints. The Greek word parousia commonly means “presence” (2 Corinthians 10:10; Philippians 2:12), and more specifically “presence after absence” or “arrival” (1 Corinthians 16:17; 2 Corinthians 7:6–7; Philippians 1:26).
4. Salvation and Redemption
We believe that salvation was of the Jews, and that redemption from the curse of the Law came through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, who shed His blood on the cross. The first resurrection of the dead occurred three days later. The restoration of the Tabernacle of David was fulfilled, allowing the Gentiles to enter fellowship with God and share in salvation from the laws they had unto themselves.
Salvation was deliverance from the bondage of eating from the Tree of Knowledge, which affected all humanity. In the first century, God forgave and cleansed the personal sins of those who believed by faith alone in the gospel of Jesus Christ, unto the end of that age of corruption in AD 70—fulfilling the Feasts of the Lord and their Holy Convocation Days.
In the present New Creation worldview, we are still forgiven of any sins we commit when we confess them and ask for forgiveness, whether those sins are against the laws of the Spirit or against the conscience of our heart and mind, according to Hebrews 10:16-17
5. Salvation After AD70 and the Refining Fire
After all things were made new in AD 70, we believe that when a person comes to faith and belief in God, salvation is by the power and process of the refining fire—purifying us from works not of God, and ultimately from the Lake of Fire. Although prophecies, tongues, and knowledge ceased when all the things written by the prophets were fulfilled in AD 70 (because the perfect had come), this does not mean God will not perform miracles or give gifts today.
If or when He does, these will not be based on prophecies or knowledge from the former things, but according to His will, not ours. Any prophecy or knowledge after AD 70 is based on the New Heaven and Earth and reveals how things were fulfilled or hidden revelations for appointed times throughout eternity until all are unified in faith.
Rather than saying that post-AD 70 we are saved from the curse of the Old Covenant laws and Adam’s death, like the first century was, we believe we are saved from the second death—the Lake of Fire. Instead of being “born again” out of Adam’s death, we were made alive from birth, but live through the Parable of the Prodigal Son and the refining fire process until we abide and rest in Christ in the spiritual realm.
A new way to understand being born again is within the context of the Prodigal Son—not Adam’s death—because Adam’s death was cast into the Lake of Fire, and all people post-AD 70 start life born alive by Christ. Baptism in water after AD 70 would not represent Adam’s death as in the first century, but rather the death of the Prodigal Son when he left his Father and lived a life of sin.
6. Redemption Completed at AD 70
We believe full redemption was completed with the Fall-time Holy Convocation Days and Feasts fulfilled at the end of the Age in AD 70. The Holy Convocation Day of Blowing Trumpets came into effect when the Temple no longer stood. The second final resurrection of the just and the unjust took place after the first resurrection of the blessed was complete in AD66, when those believers who were alive were changed into their individual redemptive Spiritual bodies and were taken into the unseen realm in Heaven.
Shortly afterward, the Great White Throne Judgment occurred, fulfilling the Holy Convocation Day of Atonement. The Old Covenant came to a complete end when Adam’s sin and death were cast into the Lake of Fire, allowing the new to be fully established.
After that, the New Heaven and Earth began, symbolized by the marriage of the Bride and Groom and God dwelling with us—what the Feast of Tabernacles signifies. This marks the deliverance of all creation from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the children of God (Romans 8:19–23).
7. Baptism with the Latter Rain and Spiritual Accountability
We believe that not only believers in the first century who were baptized with the Former Rain of the Holy Spirit, but later the whole world was baptized with the Latter Rain of the Holy Spirit and with fire in AD 70 when the Temple no longer stood.
After a person is born physically, they choose where to spiritually dwell through their lifestyle—either in the Heavenly realm or in Outer Darkness, according to the imagery of the Parable of the Prodigal Son.
Until a child reaches an age of accountability (usually between 12 and 13), they are protected by the New Covenant in the Heavenly realm of God’s Kingdom, just as God’s angels are. After that, they become responsible for their own faith and actions. The Old Covenant times were a type of how this was: a child was born into the Old Covenant, but later in life, they could choose to either remain in it or leave it.
8. Typology of Old Covenant Israel and the New Age
We believe Old Covenant Israel was sanctified—set apart—by God to show the whole world, through typology and imagery, how things are in the unseen spiritual realm.
The antitype of this is how all nations of mankind can be blessed by Israel for the Age of the New Heaven and Earth, which we have been in since AD 70.
9. The Afterlife and Spiritual Realms
We believe that experimental Heavenly Places or Outer Darkness are spiritual places where our spirits dwell while alive on Earth, awaiting the afterlife. The Kingdom of Heaven is for those of faith who are spiritually alive and bring forth the fruits of the Kingdom by figuratively eating from the Tree of Life, having the fruits of the Spirit.
The second death has no power over them, and eternal life is present with them, continuing after their spirit returns to God upon physical death, while the body returns to the Earth and does not get resurrected.
The Lake of Fire is for those who reject the truth of the Gospel and have trodden on the blood of Jesus Christ—figuratively eating from the Tree of Knowledge and having the Mark of the Beast. These dwell in Outer Darkness while here on Earth, with the Lake of Fire awaiting them after their spirit returns to God upon physical death.
After physical death, everyone faces the Judgment Seat of Christ, analogous to the Great White Throne Judgment fulfilled in AD 70. This judgment sets the personal antitype for all after death.
Those worthy receive a new individual, immortal, spiritual, redemptive body that continues forever in the Kingdom of Heaven. The unjust will be raised and receive a mortal spiritual body, then judged and cast into the Lake of Fire, where both their spiritual body and soul will be consumed, but their spirit will be in eternal conscious torment forever.
10. The Church as the Bride and Spiritual Offspring
We believe the Church became the Bride of Christ in the first century, and no one after AD 70 will become part of the First Fruits who became the Bride of Christ.
Rather, we are all the spiritual offspring (children) of Christ, with Christ as our Everlasting Father. Each of us has a spiritual dwelling place in God’s Kingdom.
Those alive in AD 70 were not judged with the dead but were adopted as the offspring of Christ. Those born after AD 70 were born into the family of Christ, though many immediately became like the Prodigal Son.
11. Jesus’ Appearance in AD 66
We believe Jesus Christ appeared in the sky in AD 66 and met with the first-century saints, changing them into individual spiritual bodies without tasting physical death—similar to how Enoch was taken and Jesus ascended as a life-giving spirit.
12. The Kingdom of God’s Three Domains
We believe everyone on Earth is a member of the Kingdom of God, which has three domains where Jesus Christ—now known as Immanuel—is King of kings and Lord of lords.
Every knee shall bow to Him in Heaven at the judgment seat of Christ.
- The Heavenly Domain (the Kingdom of Heaven)
- The Earth, which we share, while undergoing the refining fire through the Holy Spirit. Jesus (Immanuel) rules over the nations with a rod of iron, with ministers as flames of fire who have overcome the world.
- The Under Earth, known as the Kingdom of Darkness, where Satan is king and was cast into the Lake of Fire in AD 70 at the end of the Age of Corruption.
13. Reconciliation and Judgment
We believe in individual reconciliation with God according to the Parable of the Prodigal Son.
We do not believe in universal reconciliation, especially in the afterlife, because the unjust will have their spiritual body and soul consumed. Without a soul, their will to repent would not exist.
We believe all were made alive in AD 70 for the Great White Throne Judgment and are not separated from God, but those who dwell in the Kingdom of Darkness are tormented in their spirit only by the presence of God.
14. Daniel’s 70 Weeks and the Messiah’s Ministry
We believe Daniel’s 70 Weeks began when King Cyrus gave the command to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple in 536 BC, according to Isaiah 44:28; this marked the start of the 62 Weeks of the 70 Weeks prophecy.
When the 62 Weeks (434 years) were completed, there was a gap of 117 years until Christ’s Seven Weeks began in AD 14—these were the Days of the Messiah.
We believe all seven of the following were fulfilled within the Days of the Messiah’s Seven Weeks and the last Week from AD 14 to AD 70. During the Seven Weeks (49 years), Jesus Christ built the New Jerusalem and the Temple, an antitype to the Temple that King Cyrus built. The Heavenly Temple was built of lively stones, with Jesus as the Cornerstone, accompanied by a royal priesthood of those with the first fruits of the Spirit.
Later, the 144,000 sealed that were raised from the dead in Matthew 27:51–53 appeared just before the Great Tribulation began in AD 66, in the middle of the 70th Week, when sacrifices and offerings ceased.
The seven fulfillments are:
- For sin to be ended
- To seal up transgressions
- To blot out iniquities
- To make atonement for iniquities
- To bring in everlasting righteousness
- To seal the vision and the prophet
- To anoint the Most Holy
Timeline:
- AD 14 to AD 63 — Christ’s Seven Weeks, known as the Days of the Messiah.
- AD 63 to AD 70 — 70th Week to confirm the Covenant for the Grand Ultimate Jubilee restoration of all things, resetting the New Heaven and Earth in the unseen spiritual realm when the elements of the Old Covenant were taken away according to Hebrews 10:9
Supporting Scriptures:
Hebrews 10:9
“Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second.
1 Peter 2:4–5
Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:46
However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual.
Daniel 9:25
62 Weeks for the natural by Cyrus the anointed one
7 Weeks for the Spiritual by Jesus Christ the anointed one
1 Week to confirm the New Covenant and Tenfold Grand Ultimate Jubilee that restored all things to be like the Garden of Eden.
Hebrews 9:8
The Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing.
Hebrews 9:28
So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.
Romans 8:18–25
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us… [and more about the hope and adoption of the sons of God.]
Closing:
The New Heaven & Earth Eschatology is founded within the Full Preterist Individual Body View-Rapture (IBV-R) Worldview.
Manifested Sons of God AD70 